Social Housing

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    • Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....

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    • A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
    • By: Steve Lehto
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass, but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,252 ratings
    • This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of the 2008-2009 financial crisis....

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    • The End of Juvenile Prison
    • By: Nell Bernstein
    • Narrated by: Joana Garcia
    • Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • One in three American children will be arrested by the time they are 23, and many will spend time locked inside horrific detention centers that defy everything we know about what motivates young people to change. Nell Bernstein argues that there is no right way to lock up a child....

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    • The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
    • By: Curtis Wilkie
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622 ratings
    • In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....

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    • How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    • By: Jim Al-Khalili
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance....

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    • The Civil War and the Social Revolution That Transformed the South
    • By: Bruce Levine
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Drawing upon a treasure trove of diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and government documents, Bruce Levine offers a unique perspective on the old South's demise....

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    • By: Kate Milford
    • Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
    • Series: Greenglass House, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 913 ratings
    • The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and 12-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his holidays relaxing....

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    • The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits
    • By: Terry Alford
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In the Houses of Their Dead is the first book of the many thousands written about Lincoln to focus on the president's fascination with Spiritualism, and to demonstrate how it linked him, uncannily, to the man who would kill him....

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    • The Journey to Liberated Faith
    • By: D. Danyelle Thomas
    • Narrated by: D. Danyelle Thomas
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Day God Saw Me as Black is a genre-defying, cultural critique of white supremacy in the Black Pentecostal religious experience through the lenses of race, gender, sexual expression, and class analyses.

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    • By: Disney Books
    • Narrated by: Disney Publishing Worldwide
    • Length: 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Adventure is in the air when Professor Von Drake stops by the Clubhouse with a Super-Maker Machine that turns Mickey and his friends into superheroes! And just in time: Power-Pants Pete and Megamort have a shrink ray, and they won't stop until everything is miniature—including Mickey....

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    • By: Kate Milford
    • Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
    • Series: Greenglass House, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 302 ratings
    • Welcome back to the irresistible world of Greenglass House, where 13-year-old Milo is, once again, spending the winter holidays stuck in a house full of strange guests....

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    • Black Women, Faith, and the Stories We Inherit
    • By: Yolanda Pierce
    • Narrated by: Yolanda Pierce
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • A grandmother's theology carries wisdom strong enough for future generations. The Divine has been showing up at the kitchen tables of Black women for a long time. It's time to get to know that God....

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    • The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
    • By: Max Podemski
    • Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing.

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    • The Secret Life of a Restaurant
    • By: Scott Haas
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Food writer and clinical psychologist Scott Haas wanted to know what went on inside the mind of a top chef....

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    • The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built....

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    • By: Jane Addams
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Jane Addams's memoir of her experience running a settlement house on Chicago's West Side includes portraits of people in need....

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    • The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
    • By: David Brooks
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,715 ratings
    • With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live....

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