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    A Brief Guide to the World

    Narrated by Nicholas Crane ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 4 min

    One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our actions and the state of the planet that we all share. We need a new myth, a new narrative that restores the connections between humanity and the Earth.We are being confronted by a daily barrage of ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

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    Oliver Burkeman’s Inconvenient Truth

    A BBC Radio 4 Series

    Narrated by Oliver Burkeman ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    Oliver Burkeman examines the insidious way in which convenience has warped our existenceBestselling author Oliver Burkeman is well known for his books and radio programmes exploring how we can lead meaningful and productive lives in an age of overwhelm. This time, he brings his keen sense of the ridiculous to bear on our obsession with convenience, looking at the hidden pitfalls of a life of ease ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Summary of Conor Dougherty's Golden Gates

    by Everest Media ...
    Narrated by AI Marcus ...

    Abridged

    50 min

    Please note:This audiobook has been generated using AI Voice. This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The study of psychological trauma is to come face to face with human vulnerability in the natural world, and with the capacity for evil in human nature. To study psychological trauma means to bear witness to horrible events, and when the events are of human ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

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    En antikvarboghandlers erindringer

    by Jørn Riel ...
    Narrated by Peter Milling ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 32 min

    "En antikvarboghandlers erindringer" er en humoristisk fortælling om antikvaren og særlingen R. Hansen og hans gøren og laden på Vesterbro. En bydel som han elsker og kender, som sin egen højre hånd og lidet gerne forlader.Bogen er en humørfyldt historie spækket med finurlige figurer og sjove sidehistorier, der trækker i smilebåndene i den helt rigtige retning - nemlig opad."En antikvarboghandlers ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    Summary of Donovan Ramsey's When Crack Was King

    Narrated by Digital Voice Maxwell G ...

    Abridged

    51 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Listen to the Summary of Donovan Ramsey's When Crack Was King in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "When Crack Was King" by Donovan Ramsey offers a multifaceted exploration of the crack epidemic's impact on the Black community. Through personal stories, Ramsey illustrates the profound effects of the drug on individuals ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Los Angeles Killing Fields

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Los Angeles has turned former urban battlegrounds into common grounds for communities in an effort to stomp out gun violence. What looks like a regular block party is a program that brings gang members, police officers and other neighbors together. Ray Suarez examines how the Summer Night Lights event is making the city safer. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Die schönsten Sagen aus unserem Quedlinburg

    Narrated by Paul Behrens ...

    Unabridged

    36 min

    Oft liegt eine dicke Schicht Staub auf den Werken über Stadt, Land und Leute, die einst von Quedlinburgern verfasst worden, in der Absicht altes Wissen und denkwürdige Begebenheiten zu bewahren. Doch Sagen wollen nicht nur bewahrt, sondern verbreitet werden. Sie sollen uns einladen, die Geschichte zu erleben, in den Alltag und den Glauben unserer Vorfahren einzutauchen. Freilich ist nicht alles an ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine

    by Carl Barat ...
    Narrated by Carl Barat ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.READ BY CARL BARAT!READ BY CARL BARAT. From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of one of Britain's most revered bands, Carl Barat has gone through the glass darkly as bands fell apart around him, friendships faltered and egos and ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    This City Is Killing Me

    Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America

    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy track. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While helping poor patients from the south side and west side of Chicago, he realized that individual therapy could not take into account the importance of unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    We Speak for Ourselves

    A Word from Forgotten Black America

    by D. Watkins ...
    Narrated by D. Watkins ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    From the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the systematic injustice threaded within our society. Honest and eye-opening, the pages of We Speak for Ourselves “are abundant with wisdom and wit; integrity and love, not to mention enough laughs for a ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

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    THUG LIFE

    A LUST FOR DESTRUCTION

    Narrated by Charles Lovjoy ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - stay focused! stay productive! stay motivated!

    Unabridged

    40 min

    Lust for Destruction is Inside All of Us...Or is It? Find Out How the World and Society are being Destroyed by Hatred and Violence.The world has become engulfed in hate, violence, and destructive behavior. It seems that every human being has a lust for destruction buried deep inside them – and it can present itself either through the destruction of others or even self-destruction.Just think about ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Stop Doing That Sh*t

    Narrated by Gary John Bishop ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life.In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was time to stop making excuses– to recognize and take responsibility for the negative self-talk holding us back.In Stop Doing That Sh*t, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Eugenics, Sterilization and Planned Parenthood

    by Xavier James ...
    Narrated by Coby Allen ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    Their mission was to destroy Black Americans using government-sanctioned sterilization. What damage did eugenics programs do to society? Is there really a superior race? Does anybody have the right to play God with your life? Explore the origins and key players in this fascinating study. What you need to know about eugenics - just the facts! ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    مجتمعي الذي أرى

    Unabridged

    59 min

    نحن لا نتهم مجتمعاً بأسره ونسيئ له وإنما معاناة ووجهةُ نظر كل بسيطٍ أو نقي، في مجتمعٍ لا نستطيع أن نولد فيه من جديد مهما حاولنا او كافحنا واستسلمنا ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

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    Thomas Sweatt: Inside the Mind of D.C.'s Most Notorious Arsonist

    Narrated by Sam Graham ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 7 min

    Between 1980 and 2005, a serial arsonist terrorized neighborhoods throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. In 2005, Thomas Sweatt was arrested and eventually confessed to over 340 arson-set fires that killed 4 people. Investigators named him the "most prolific and dangerous serial arsonist in American history." Dozens of authors, TV producers, and movie producers tried to contact Thomas ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Unknown History of Black Newspapers in America

    by Julius Kane ...
    Narrated by Rosie O Toole ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    The Black Press made a huge difference when it came to reporting to black Americans what was going on in black America. All the lynching's, court cases and protests that were ignored by the mainstream white media, black media outlets reported everything relative to blacks in society. . This needed overview shines a light on a forgotten part of black history. ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    New York Movies (Close-Ups, Book 3)

    Narrated by John Moraitis ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Close-Ups

    Unabridged

    3 hours 35 min

    The indispensable pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach.ALSO AVAILABLE:Close-Ups: Wes AndersonClose-Ups: Vampire MoviesNew York has always been one of the world’s most filmed cities, with its apartments housing tenants like Rosemary's baby and the Royal Tenenbaums, its skyscrapers scaled by the likes of King Kong and graffiti ar... ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

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    Feet on the Street

    Rambles Around New Orleans

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

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    We Hold Our Breath

    A Journey to Texas Between Storms

    by Micah Fields ...
    Narrated by Micah Fields ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    Developed as the commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries, Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas. When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, Fields set off from his home in Iowa ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Rebuilding a Chicago neighborhood by forging connections to the Muslim community

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    6 min

    The South Side of Chicago has long been plagued with some of the highest crime rates in the nation, but a man of faith is trying to transform the area by focusing on the everyday needs of those who live there. Jeffrey Brown visits the neighborhood with Rami Nashashibi, founder of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network, to see how his efforts are improving health and well-being. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Feet on the Street:

    Rambles Around New Orleans

    Narrated by Roy Blount Jr. ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 55 min

    “Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

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    Chicas muertas

    by Selva Almada ...
    Narrated by Luciana Falcón ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 50 min

    Una no ficción atípica que combina percepciones y recuerdos personales con la investigación de tres femicidios en el interior de la Argentina durante la década del 80 y que revelan, de modo sutil, la ferocidad del machismo y la indefensión de las mujeres pobres.«Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los años ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuando todavía, en nuestro país, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

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    Wes Moore: The Other Wes moore

    by PBS NewsHour ...
    Narrated by PBS NewsHour ...

    Unabridged

    7 min

    Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, The Other Wes Moore which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An Other Kingdom

    Departing the Consumer Culture

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    Our seduction into beliefs in competition, scarcity, and acquisition are producing too many casualties. We need to depart a kingdom that creates isolation, polarized debate, an exhausted planet, and violence that comes with the will to empire. The abbreviation of this empire is called a consumer culture. We think the free-market ideology that surrounds us is true and inevitable and represents ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD