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Gaffs
- Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
- By: Rory Hearne
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The book that has been waiting to be written – how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their parents. Trapped in a game of rental roulette...
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Well written and highlighted the real problems with housing in Ireland
- By wendy courtney on 02-02-23
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Gaffs
- Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 29-09-22
- Language: English
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Sick Society
- Reimagining How We Live Well Together
- By: Andy Knox
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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As we recover through the reality of a global pandemic, we face into a severe cost of living crisis. We live in a time of great uncertainty. More people are being pushed into poverty. The gap between the richest and poorest is growing wider. We are, perhaps, more divided than we have ever been. Our public services are overwhelmed. Citizens are fed up.Our society is sick. What can we do? We must allow ourselves to feel the pain of our reality, be outraged, challenge the inevitability of the status quo and create moral alternative economies of a reimagined future.
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Sick Society
- Reimagining How We Live Well Together
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 19-07-24
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Girls
- A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
- By: Monica Potts
- Narrated by: Monica Potts
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up gifted and working-class in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of learning as they navigated the challenges of their declining town and tumultuous family lives - broken marriages, shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them, vowing to escape. In the end, Monica left Clinton for university and fulfilled her dreams. Darci, along with many in their circle of friends, did not.
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Absolutely loved it
- By Amazon Customer on 25-07-23
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The Forgotten Girls
- A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
- Narrated by: Monica Potts
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- By: Muhammad Yunus
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Muhammad Yunus, the practical visionary who pioneered microcredit and won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his world-changing efforts, here develops his revolutionary new concept that promises to redeem the failed promise of free enterprise: social business.
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MBA stuff
- By mtkelvin on 18-11-22
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Building Social Business
- The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-05-10
- Language: English
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Poppy the Street Dog
- How an Extraordinary Dog Helped Bring Hope to the Homeless
- By: Michelle Clark
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Michelle Clark has loved animals all her life, filling her home with a menagerie of stray cats and abandoned dogs. But when her outreach work with London's homeless community leads to a chance meeting with a desperate man, and a quest to find a missing Staffie named Poppy, she has no idea that her life will be transformed forever.
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First book ever to make me cry!
- By Lesley Goodman on 27-10-20
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Poppy the Street Dog
- How an Extraordinary Dog Helped Bring Hope to the Homeless
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 22-10-20
- Language: English
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- By: Emily Guendelsberger
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-wage labor. "Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age" —Salon After the local newspaper where she worked as a reporter closed, Emily Guendelsberger took a pre-Christmas job at an Amazon...
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Excellent
- By Suke on 22-06-23
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On the Clock
- What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- By: Robert Verkaik
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse workers living in tents, nurses turning to foodbanks, London firemen commuting hundreds of miles to work. Even those higher up the ladder are losing their grip on the life they were promised.
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Essential reading
- By Mary Mercy on 10-05-24
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Why You Won't Get Rich
- How Capitalism Broke Its Contract with Hard Work
- Narrated by: Chris Clarkson
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-06-21
- Language: English
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The Club on the Edge of Town
- A Pandemic Memoir
- By: Alan Lane
- Narrated by: Alan Lane
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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"There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons, no one gets opera. That’s what I believe." A deeply moving memoir of how a group of artists fed their local community during the COVID pandemic. When crisis hits and audiences stay home, what’s the most useful thing a theater company can do? The answer was to become a food bank and one-stop help shop for those in need. In 15 months, Slung Low would go on to deliver over 15,000 food parcels.
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Powerfully Hopeful
- By Beth Gallagher on 14-02-25
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The Club on the Edge of Town
- A Pandemic Memoir
- Narrated by: Alan Lane
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 09-08-22
- Language: English
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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
- Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
- By: Jay S. Levy
- Narrated by: Lisa Negrón
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults. Chapters explore policy and research accompanied by narratives that trace a person's journey from homelessness to housing and beyond. The interrelationship between Homeless Outreach and Housing First is examined in detail to inform program development and hands-on practice.
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Pretreatment Guide for Homeless Outreach & Housing First
- Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
- Narrated by: Lisa Negrón
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-12-19
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- By: Timothy Noah
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a rhetorical club to be wielded in ideological battles. But this Great Divergence may be the most important change in this country during our lifetimes.
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-03-13
- Language: English
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Child X
- A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
- By: Jamie Mustard
- Narrated by: Jamie Mustard
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Jamie Mustard was born into one of the most influential fringe movements in the 1970s: Scientology. Raised on a mythos of spaceships and made to believe that it was his life’s purpose to help save the world, he was determined to survive—not only unsurvivable neglect but also the impossible physical and psychological gauntlet of extreme poverty and illiteracy. Child X is a dark existential journey into a deepest hole of human existence and the road back.
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Devastating and inspiring. Dark but full of light .deeply moving.
- By Anonymous on 30-07-25
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Child X
- A Memoir of Slavery, Poverty, Celebrity, and Scientology
- Narrated by: Jamie Mustard
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 29-07-25
- Language: English
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The Saturday Place
- By: Alice Peterson
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Holly's husband died, and she's lonely. She needs to do something to save herself, quickly. Next thing she knows she's interviewing for a voluntary cooking job, surprised to be ambushed by a scruffy man who looks like he has a past. Angus has messed up. He's lost the respect of his family and has none for himself. If it weren't for his brother and friend who run the café, he'd be sleeping on the streets. Angus is about ready to give up—until he meets Holly, who sparks something in him. Then Lauren arrives from the homeless shelter.
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The Saturday Place
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- By: Mark Robert Rank
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The paradox of poverty amidst plenty has plagued the United States throughout the twenty-first century—why should the wealthiest country in the world also have the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations? Based on his decades-long research and scholarship, one of the nation's leading authorities provides the answer. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Robert Rank develops his unique perspective for understanding this puzzle.
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The Poverty Paradox
- Understanding Economic Hardship Amid American Prosperity
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 25-04-23
- Language: English
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- By: Dave Zirin
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In this compelling new book, relying on original reporting from the most dangerous corners of Rio to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Dave Zirin examines how sports and politics are colliding in remarkable fashion in Brazil, opening up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports.
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Brazil’s Dance with the Devil
- The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy
- Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 21-10-14
- Language: English
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- By: Henry George
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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This landmark treatise by the great economist Henry George was first published in 1879. George's work became the seminal analysis of the political economy which inspired most, if not all, the prominent thinkers of the Progressive Movement and many others of great influence: Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Hayek, H. G. Wells, Clarence Darrow, and Leo Tolstoy, to name but a few. His analyses and proposals are referred to as "Georgism".
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Progress and Poverty Vol. I Unabridged
- Why Poverty Accompanies Economic and Technological Progress
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 28-06-22
- Language: English
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Part social reportage, part socialist polemic, The Road to Wigan Pier sets out a hellish vision of a broken Britain before delivering a meditation on how we can create a more egalitarian society. Having travelled to the industrial north of England on assignment from his editor, Orwell's confronting, stark descriptions of the social injustice, cramped slum housing, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment he encounters are written with unblinking honesty, anger and humanity.
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The Road to Wigan Pier
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 20-12-21
- Language: English
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Will You Care If I Die?
- The international bestseller
- By: Nicolas Lunabba, Henning Koch - translator
- Narrated by: Nikolas Salmon
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A raw, intimate story of trust and betrayal' - A. L. Kennedy, The Guardian 'It's heartbreaking. It's scary. It's beautiful' – Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove Will You Care If I Die? is a powerful memoir about social class, race, friendship and...
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Will You Care If I Die?
- The international bestseller
- Narrated by: Nikolas Salmon
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 22-02-24
- Language: English
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- By: Jake Bittle
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted” (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement...
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 21-02-23
- Language: English
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The Shame Game
- Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
- By: Mary O'Hara
- Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This misleading account has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about, and treated.
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She understands it
- By Anonymous on 28-12-24
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The Shame Game
- Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative
- Narrated by: Mary O'Hara
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-02-21
- Language: English
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I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth
- By: Paul London
- Narrated by: Paul London
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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When it comes to Skinheads, I see a lot of people these days re-writing history, whitewashing the youth cult or bending the truth to suit their political narrative. I spent over ten years of my young life as a London Bootboy and became one of the most famous Skinheads in the world. Being a Skinhead had a profound effect on me. Even though I walked away from that life, and left it in the last century, I still feel the shockwaves of my experience and still find people with nefarious agendas trying to tell their version of my story.
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I Am Skinhead: Reflections on an 80s Youth
- Narrated by: Paul London
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 17-06-24
- Language: English
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