Poverty & Homelessness

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  • Poor cover art

    • Poor

    • By: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 886 ratings

    • As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....

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    • HMP Manchester Prison Officer, Part 3

    • I Survived Terrorists, Murderers, Rapists and Freemason Officer Attacks in Strangeways and Wormwood Scrubs (UK Prison Officer)
    • By: John Sutton
    • Narrated by: Alan Turton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Drugs. Riots. Shanks. Dirty Protests. Violent Freemason guards. Self-mutilation and suicides. Welcome to the brutal truth about life as a prison officer.

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    • A Knock at the Door

    • By: Rob Parsons
    • Narrated by: Rob Parsons
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Christmas 1975 and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is riding high in the charts. In a residential street just outside Cardiff a loud knocking breaks the stillness of the evening. When Rob Parsons, a young lawyer, opens his door, he finds a homeless man, clutching a bag of belongings and a frozen chicken.

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    • London Labour and the London Poor

    • By: Henry Mayhew
    • Narrated by: David Timson
    • Length: 27 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society....

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    • Poor Economics

    • A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
    • By: Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world’s poor....

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    • The Social Distance Between Us

    • How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain
    • By: Darren McGarvey
    • Narrated by: Darren McGarvey
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 16-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings

    • From poverty and policing, homelessness and overrun prisons to Grenfell and hostile environments, Britain has long been failing those who need our help the most....

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    • Damnation Island

    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • The Corner

    • A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    • By: David Simon, Edward Burns
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

    • The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....

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    • Anti-Social

    • The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer
    • By: Nick Pettigrew
    • Narrated by: Nick Pettigrew
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings

    • Anti-Social is the diary of a council worker whose job is to keep his community happy, or at least away from each other’s throats....

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    • Grand Central Winter, Expanded Second Edition

    • Stories from the Street
    • By: Lee Stringer
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 22-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the underground tunnels below Grand Central Terminal, Lee Stringer - homeless and drug-addicted for 11 years - found a pencil to run through his crack pipe. One day he used it to write....

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    • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-12
    • Language: English
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    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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    • Gaffs

    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • 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.....

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    • Vagabonds

    • Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
    • By: Oskar Jensen
    • Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.

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    • The Mole People

    • Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
    • By: Jennifer Toth
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people....

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    • The Nurture Effect

    • How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
    • By: Anthony Biglan
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....

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    • Wealth and Poverty

    • A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
    • By: George F. Gilder
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 21-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Hailed as "the guide to capitalism", the New York Times best seller Wealth and Poverty is one of the most influential economics books of all time....

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    • Under the Hornbeams

    • A True Story of Life in the Open
    • By: Emma Tarlo
    • Narrated by: Emma Tarlo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Nick and Pascal live and sleep outside in central London. They are an unusual duo: Nick is an avid reader of history and philosophy able to converse on any topic; Pascal is quiet, spending much of his time lying still, communicating silently with birds and animals....

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    • Alienated America

    • Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
    • By: Timothy P. Carney
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • This hard-hitting analysis identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: It is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life....

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