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Social Services & Welfare Audiobooks

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    Paris: The Memoir

    by Paris Hilton ...
    Narrated by Paris Hilton ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAMEHeiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created.The labels attached to Paris Hilton.Founder. Entrepreneur. Pop Culture Maker. Innovator. Survivor. Activist. Daughter. Sister. Wife. Mother.The roles Paris embraces as a fully realized woman.Paris rose to prominence as an heiress to the Hilton hotel empire but cultivated ... Read more

    $41.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Care Work

    Dreaming Disability Justice

    by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...
    Narrated by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    GO BIG

    How To Fix Our World

    by Ed Miliband ...
    Narrated by Ed Miliband ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.** INCLUDES BONUS CHAPTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF LLOYD ***A Guardian, Evening Standard and New Statesman Book to Look Out for in 2021*'GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world' Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind______**Good news: the solutions to our problems alread... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Torn Apart

    The Heartbreaking Story of a Childhood Lost

    by James Patterson ...
    Narrated by Kevin T Collins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 8 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Cory Friedman was an ordinary fun-loving little boy. But one fateful March morning in 1989, the course of Cory's life changed dramatically. It started with an irresistible urge to shake his head; before long, overtaken by physical urges, tics and compulsions, his body became a volatile, explosive and unpredictable force.Cory had developed a rare combination of Tourette's ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Keeping Your Head in the Game

    Untold Stories of the Highs and Lows of a Life in Sport

    by Gary Bloom ...
    Narrated by Gary Bloom ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 42 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Elite athletes play out their lives in the most public of arenas. Everything they do is analysed in real time and then picked apart in the pub and in the press afterwards. 'Why did they miss that penalty?', 'What made them fall at the first jump?', 'That press conference was a bit weird.' We can all speculate, but what's really going on?Gary Bloom is a sports ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Letters to Gil

    by Malik Al Nasir ...
    Narrated by Malik Al Nasir, Gil Scott-Heron, Benjamin Zephania ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 38 min

    ‘A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure’ IRENOSEN OKOJIEExclusive content in this audio edition includes interviews between Malik and Benjamin Zephaniah, Jalal Munsur Nuriddin, and Rod Youngs as well as musical and lyrical performances from Gil and Malik.Letters to Gil is Malik Al Nasir’s profound coming of age ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices

    by Casper Ter Kuile ...
    Narrated by Casper Ter Kuile ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 54 min

    ‘The rare book that really might change your life. It has certainly changed mine.’ – John Green, Author of The Fault in Our StarsCasper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices―yoga, reading, walking the dog―into sacred rituals that can heal our ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    You Should Probably Listen to This: Bullets and Butterflies

    by Karl Lokko ...
    Narrated by Karl Lokko ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 14 min

    From one of the most potent and inspiring young voices in the country, Bullets and Butterflies is an audio original like no other.Karl Lokko is the man who should be dead. A former gang leader, by the age of 16 he had been cut in the face, stabbed, and shot at more times than he'd had birthday parties. In Bullets and Butterflies, Karl shares how he rejected the shocking violence in his past to ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Shattered Bonds

    The Color of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Narrated by Dorothy Roberts, Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 7 min

    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tender

    The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud

    by Penny Wincer ...
    Narrated by Brigid Lohrey ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    A personal, positive and essential book for the many carers among us.'A wonderful book: compassionate, honest, carefully-reasoned and genuinely helpful... This will benefit many people.' KATHERINE MAY, author of WINTERING'An invaluable tool for any invisible carers or anyone who wants to learn how to better support their loved ones... we ALL have many, many things to learn from Penny's beautiful, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Sygeplejersken - En af Danmarkshistoriens mest spektakulære drabssager

    by Kristian Corfixen ...
    Narrated by Morten Rønnelund ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 46 min

    En tidlig morgen i marts 2015 modtager politiet et opkald fra en sygeplejerske på Nykøbing Falster Sygehus. Hun mistænker sin nære kollega for bevidst at dræbe patienter og frygter, at det netop er sket igen. Snart ruller en drabssag, som aldrig før er set i dansk retshistorie. Flere fortæller nu politiet, at også de mistænker sygeplejersken for at forgifte patienterne, og nogle endda at de har ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Uncle Sam's Plantation

    How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It

    by Star Parker ...
    Narrated by Tyra Kennedy ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    Uncle Sam’s Plantation is an incisive look at how government manipulates, controls, and ultimately devastates the lives of the poor—and what Americans must do to stop it. Once a hustler and welfare addict who was chewed up and spit out by the ruthless welfare system, Star Parker sheds much needed light on the bungled bureaucratic attempts to end poverty and reveals the insidious deceptions ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Sad Janet

    ‘A whip-smart, biting tragicomedy’ HuffPost

    by Lucie Britsch ...
    Narrated by Kristen Sieh ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Meet Janet. Janet is sad. Not about her life, about the world. Have you seen it? That's why she works at a dog shelter in the woods, where she can wear a giant coat and avoid human contact.The thing is, she's not out to make anyone else sad. She's not turning up to weddings shouting that most marriages end in divorce. She can still be (kind of) normal when she wants to, she just doesn't want to, ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Bare det holder min tid ud

    by Michael Valentin ...
    Narrated by Mikkel Schou ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 7 min

    I starten af 00’erne stod den danske fagbevægelse ved en skillevej. Samfundet havde ændret sig markant siden bevægelsens opståen, og nu var spørgsmålet, om den var i stand til at forandre sig nok til at forblive relevant, eller om den hørte et andet århundrede til.Michael Valentin, der har siddet på vigtige poster i både LO og HK Danmark, giver i sin bog fra 2002 sit bud på, hvor fagbevægelsen er ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home

    by Cathy Glass ...
    Narrated by Denica Fairman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother.Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally ill, but desperate to keep hold of her daughter, Alice's mother snatches her from her parents' house and ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Public Option

    How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality

    by Ganesh Sitaraman, Anne L. Alstott ...
    Narrated by Christopher Grove ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    Whenever you go to your local public library, send mail via the post office, or visit Yosemite, you are taking advantage of a longstanding American tradition: the public option. Some of the most useful and beloved institutions in American life are public options-yet they are seldom celebrated as such. These government-supported opportunities coexist peaceably alongside private options, ensuring ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Moderne Idéer: Hvordan kan vi bekæmpe social ulighed, igen?

    by Erik Jørgen Hansen ...
    Narrated by Jesper Bøllehuus ...
    Audiobook 5 - Moderne Idéer

    Unabridged

    1 hour 50 min

    "Når begrebet klassesamfund alligevel er gået af mode, er en del af forklaringen, at klasserne nu optræder i nye forklædninger. Vi har fået en ny herskende klasse af højtuddannede, som har tilegnet sig monopol på den historisk og kollektivt producerede kulturelle kapital. Det er lykkedes den veluddannede klasse at skabe almindelig konsensus om et ulige aflønningssystem, som ikke gavner andre end ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind

    by Francisco Garcia ...
    Narrated by Francisco Garcia ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 1 min

    ‘One of the non-fiction books of the year.’ Andrew O’ HaganA powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world of missing peopleWhen Francisco Garcia was just seven years old, his father, Christobal, left his family. Unemployed, addicted to drink and drugs, and adrift in life, Christobal decided he would rather disappear altogether than carry on dealing with the problems in front of ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Han fik morderne til at tilstå

    by Tom Christensen ...
    Narrated by Ole Rabendorf ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 3 min

    En fortælling om kampen mellem det gode og det onde.Vi kommer ind i afhøringslokalet sammen med forbryderne og Tom Christensen, en af landets mest erfarne afhørere. Herfra skal vi forsøge at forstå, hvordan man får mennesker til at røbe deres allerinderste hemmeligheder og blive klogere på, hvad der adskiller en ikke-morder fra en morder.Gennem 29 år på Rejseholdet har Tom Christensen fået mordere ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Invierte en ti

    Cómo organizar tu economía en 11 pasos para vivir mejor

    by Natalia de Santiago, Natalia de Santiago ...
    Narrated by Georgia Tancabel ...
    series No Ficción

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    « Si tu banco te habla en chino, este es tu libro. Con una buena dosis de humor y un enfoque muy práctico, Natalia te da las claves para que no te la den con queso y aprendas a ahorrar como los ricos.» Marián García, «Boticaria García»¿Por qué nos cuesta tanto ahorrar? ¿Alquilar es tirar el dinero? ¿Cómo podemos elegir el banco que más nos conviene? ¿Toda la deuda es mala? ¿Qué cosas hay que saber ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Giving Back

    How to Do Good, Better

    by Derek A. Bardowell ...
    Narrated by Clifford Samuel, Jessica Hayles ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Do you wish you could do more to change the world but don't know how? Do you ever look around at the many charities asking for donations and feel overwhelmed? This inspiring and uplifting book explores the effectiveness of charity and calls for more radical giving if we want to contribute to a better world.During a period when British society seems more divided than ever, and our decision makers ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Art of the Steal

    How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America’s #1 Crime

    by Frank W. Abagnale ...
    Narrated by Barrett Whitener ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 19 min

    While technology may make it easier to track down criminals, cyberspace has spawned a skyrocketing number of ways to commit crime, much of it untraceable. In fact, punishment for fraud, much less recovery of stolen funds, is a rare occurrence. Prevention is the best form of protection.Frank Abagnale, former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me If You Can, reveals the mind-boggling tricks ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Tæt på, men udenfor

    Råd og viden om livet som pårørende til et menneske med en psykisk lidelse

    by Anna Bridgwater, Jens Einar Jansen ...
    Narrated by Morten Rønnelund ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    Omkring hver tredje dansker bliver på et tidspunkt i livet ramt af en psykisk lidelse. Og de har pårørende, hvis tilværelse også bliver kraftigt påvirket. Mange pårørende oplever, at de er tæt på lidelsen, men alligevel står udenfor – de føler sig typisk forvirrede, magtesløse, vrede, angste og triste. Midt i kaosset, afmagten og sorgen er der en vej – også for de pårørende.Tæt på, men udenfor ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Right from Wrong: My Story of Guilt and Redemption

    by Jacob Dunne ...
    Narrated by Jacob Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 18 min

    ‘Engaging… Dunne argues cogently, coherently and from experience that to have choices in life you also have to have chances.’ The Observer, Book of the Day‘A much-needed burst of light in the dark meadow of time.’ Lemn SissayIn 2011 Jacob Dunne threw a single punch that ended another man’s life. Sentenced to prison for manslaughter, he served fourteen months of a custodial sentence. On his release ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial