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  • Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons Audiobook by Jonathan Tarleton

    Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons Audiobook by Jonathan Tarleton
    2025/02/11
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    ID: 783548
    Title: Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
    Author: Jonathan Tarleton
    Narrator: Max Newland
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-11-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, World, Social Science, Public Policy

    Summary:
    A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant options for an affordable place to live. With home valued more than ever as a commodity, even social housing programs meant to insulate families from cut-throat markets are under threat—sometimes by residents themselves. In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept their homes affordable for decades or to cash out at great personal profit, thereby denying future generations the same opportunity to build thriving communities rooted in mutual care. With a deft hand for mapping personal histories atop the greater housing crisis, Tarleton explores housing as a public good, movements for tenant rights and Indigenous sovereignty, and questions of race and class to lay bare competing visions of what ownership means, what homes are for, and what neighbors owe each other.

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    6 時間
  • Perfect Rom-Com Audiobook by Melissa Ferguson

    Perfect Rom-Com Audiobook by Melissa Ferguson
    2025/02/11
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    ID: 797715
    Title: Perfect Rom-Com
    Author: Melissa Ferguson
    Narrator: Karissa Vacker
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:27:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-11-2025
    Publisher: Thomas Nelson
    Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome

    Summary:
    She's written dozens of smash hit romance novels. Too bad no one knows it. Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for The Bridge, her grandmother's financially struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. But after a disastrous pitch session, she stumbles into correcting another author's work in a last-ditch attempt to make a good impression with the agent. And she, as it turns out, is spot on. No one is more surprised than Bryony when the agent offers her the opportunity to be a ghostwriter for Amelia Benedict, popular rom-com novelist. Bryony agrees on one condition: she'll write books for this vain, demanding woman just as long as Jack Sterling, literary agent of the legendary Foundry Literary Agency, works to sell her own book too. What nobody predicted, however, was that Bryony's books would turn Amelia Benedict into the Amelia Benedict, household name and bestselling author with millions of copies sold around the world. And just like that, the Foundry Agency can't let her go. But on a personal note, Jack is realizing he can't either.

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    9 時間 27 分
  • Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop Audiobook by Alex Zamalin

    Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop Audiobook by Alex Zamalin
    2025/02/04
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    ID: 778638
    Title: Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
    Author: Alex Zamalin
    Narrator: Dan Levy
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 02-04-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science, History & Culture

    Summary:
    A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics—from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of counterculture and the interwoven relationship between each individual legacy. From Anarchism to the Harlem Renaissance, Alex Zamalin unveils the humanity behind these romanticized figures and popularized movements to capture revolutionary freedom in action. American counterculture, defined as a movement whose values are outside and oppositional to mainstream norms and whose practices fundamentally reject what is socially respectable, ultimately transformed the 20th century. With key players: - Emma Goldman - Billie Holiday - Allen Ginsberg - Amiri Baraka - Jean-Michel Basquiat And key movements: - Anarchism - Black Bohemia - The Harlem Renaissance - The Beat Generation - The Black Arts Movement - Hip-Hop Counterculture reaches new depths, tackling a wide range of historical, social, and political topics, and expanding contemporary understandings of American cultural tradition. At a time when counterculture was on the outskirts of American society, Alex Zamalin explores the reason why.

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    6 時間
  • No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference Audiobook by Cheryl L. Neely

    No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference Audiobook by Cheryl L. Neely
    2025/01/21
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    ID: 775551
    Title: No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference
    Author: Cheryl L. Neely
    Narrator: Karen Chilton
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-21-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

    Summary:
    An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” – “No Humans Involved.” Dehumanized and invisible to the public eye, they are rarely seen as victims. In the United States, Black women are killed at a higher rate than any other group of women, but their victimhood is not covered by the media and their cases do not receive an adequate level of urgency. Utilizing intensive historical research of cases in cities such as Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angles, Cheryl Neely calls attention to serial cases of Black female murder victims and a lack of police action. Neely approaches each case and story with detailed care. Instead of focusing solely on the killings and the murderers, she highlights the lives of the women and girls and their communities that never stopped fighting for justice. With media neglect and police indifference, Neely argues that because law enforcement is less likely to conduct serious investigations into the disappearances and homicides of Black women, they are particularly vulnerable to become victims. Diving deep into the unseen and unheard, Neely uses personal interviews, court records, media reports, and analytical data to understand how and why Black women are disproportionately more likely to die from homicide in comparison to their white counterpoints. Sounding an urgent alarm, No Human Involved contends that it is time for Black women’s lives to matter not only to their families and communities, but especially to those commissioned to protect them.

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    6 時間
  • Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present Audiobook by Mary Frances Berry

    Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present Audiobook by Mary Frances Berry
    2025/01/21
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    ID: 775552
    Title: Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present
    Author: Mary Frances Berry
    Narrator: Jasmin Walker
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 01-21-2025
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science

    Summary:
    An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In Slavery After Slavery, historian Mary Frances Berry traces the stories behind individual cases from southern supreme courts to demonstrate how formerly enslaved families and their descendants were systemically injured through white supremacist practices, perpetuated by the legal system. By filling in the family trees of formerly enslaved people to their descendants, Berry documents the intergenerational harm they experienced. The resulting damage of trafficking Black children through apprenticeship laws has been a largely overlooked source of inequality, yet these cases provide specific examples of the kind of economic and physical harm Black families have endured. Slavery After Slavery tells individual stories, but the fates of their descendants tell our collective American story—contributing powerfully to a case for reparations and restorative justice.

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    6 時間
  • Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2) Audiobook by Xiran Jay Zhao

    Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2) Audiobook by Xiran Jay Zhao
    2024/12/24
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    ID: 637358
    Title: Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, Book 2)
    Author: Xiran Jay Zhao
    Narrator: Rong Fu
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 0:00:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-24-2024
    Publisher: Tundra Books
    Genres: Fiction, Teen

    Summary:
    Zetian must balance dangerous politics with a new quest for vengeance in the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller Iron Widow. After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles one of her loved ones as a hostage force Zetian to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite their mutual dislike and distrust, the two must work together to take down their common enemy and stoke a revolution against the systems of exploitation that plague their world. However, power is not so easy to wield once seized, and a revolution is not so easy to control once unleashed. As Huaxia’s former elites strike back and the common people’s fervor for justice turns bloody and paranoid, can Zetian remain a fair and just ruler? Or will she be forced to rely on fear and violence and succumb to her darker instincts in her quest for vengeance and liberation?

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  • Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God through Your Everyday Routines Audiobook by Phylicia Masonheimer

    Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God through Your Everyday Routines Audiobook by Phylicia Masonheimer
    2024/12/17
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    ID: 778313
    Title: Every Home a Foundation: Experiencing God through Your Everyday Routines
    Author: Phylicia Masonheimer
    Narrator: Lisa Larsen
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 6:25:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 12-17-2024
    Publisher: Thomas Nelson
    Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Christianity, Parenting

    Summary:
    'The home is the “primary seat of discipleship” from which Christians can best serve God, according to this graceful guide...Masonheimer makes a creative, open-minded case that the domestic and the divine need not be mutually exclusive.' —Publisher’s Weekly What if our homes and the work that goes on inside them are not 'in the way' of our calling but are instead the way to live well and disciple effectively? Reimagine the Christian home as the firm foundation of a life filled with faith, joy, contentment, and belonging, even in the midst of everyday tasks. In Every Home a Foundation, Phylicia Masonheimer invites readers to reconsider their view of home. The Christian home is an image of both a coming spiritual reality and the existing spiritual reality of our family, the church. Through Christ, we can heal and build a home that brings joy to us and love to others. Every Home a Foundation will transform readers' view of home from a place of boredom to a place of purpose, train them to find joy in their daily tasks, and equip them to use their home to love others well by - focusing on healing our view of home and creating a culture of faith; - exploring the purpose in the mundane tasks of the home, including cooking, cleaning, laundry, mending, tending, and creating beauty; - and learning the importance of hospitality and creating a covenant home culture. Masonheimer offers a unique perspective on the importance of home in a modern world. Home is much more than a physical structure—it's a place of belonging and connection that has been strongly tied to God's mission from the beginning. God wants to build a home for His people, emphasizing the importance of homes as central for the Christian life. With an enthusiastic and friendly tone, Every Home a Foundation is sure to have readers reflecting on the importance of home in our lives and how we must strive to protect and honor it in all its forms. Sample schedules and book recommendations can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

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    6 時間 25 分
  • Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Audiobook by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Audiobook by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    2024/11/19
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    ID: 666297
    Title: Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
    Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    Format: Unabridged
    Length: 9:49:00
    Language: English
    Release date: 11-19-2024
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, North America, Social Science, Political Advocacy

    Summary:
    New York Times Bestseller This American Book Award winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history A New York Times Bestseller and the basis for the HBO docu-series Exterminate All the Brutes, directed by Raoul Peck, this 10th anniversary edition of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States includes both a new foreword by Peck and a new introduction by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Unflinchingly honest about the brutality of this nation’s founding and its legacy of settler-colonialism and genocide, the impact of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s 2014 book is profound. This classic is revisited with new material that takes an incisive look at the post-Obama era from the war in Afghanistan to Charlottesville’s white supremacy-fueled rallies, and from the onset of the pandemic to the election of President Biden. Writing from the perspective of the peoples displaced by Europeans and their white descendants, she centers Indigenous voices over the course of four centuries, tracing their perseverance against policies intended to obliterate them. Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. With a new foreword from Raoul Peck and a new introduction from Dunbar Ortiz, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. Big Concept Myths That America's founding was a revolution against colonial powers in pursuit of freedom from tyranny That Native people were passive, didn’t resist and no longer exist That the US is a “nation of immigrants” as opposed to having a racist settler colonial history

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    9 時間 49 分