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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons Audiobook by Jonathan Tarleton

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free [https://hotaudiobook.com/free] ID: 783548 Title: Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons Author: Jonathan Tarleton Narrator: Max Newland Format: Unabridged Length: 6:00:00 Language: English Release date: 02-11-25 Publisher: Beacon Press Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, World, Social Science, Public Policy Summary: A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant options for an affordable place to live. With home valued more than ever as a commodity, even social housing programs meant to insulate families from cut-throat markets are under threat—sometimes by residents themselves. In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept their homes affordable for decades or to cash out at great personal profit, thereby denying future generations the same opportunity to build thriving communities rooted in mutual care. With a deft hand for mapping personal histories atop the greater housing crisis, Tarleton explores housing as a public good, movements for tenant rights and Indigenous sovereignty, and questions of race and class to lay bare competing visions of what ownership means, what homes are for, and what neighbors owe each other. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Perfect Rom-Com Audiobook by Melissa Ferguson

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free [https://hotaudiobook.com/free] ID: 797715 Title: Perfect Rom-Com Author: Melissa Ferguson Narrator: Karissa Vacker Format: Unabridged Length: 9:27:00 Language: English Release date: 02-11-25 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Genres: Romance, Rom-Com, Contemporary, Clean & Wholesome Summary: She's written dozens of smash hit romance novels. Too bad no one knows it. Aspiring author Bryony Page attends her first writers conference bursting with optimism and ready to sell her manuscript with long-shot dreams of raising awareness for The Bridge, her grandmother's financially struggling organization where she teaches ESL full-time. But after a disastrous pitch session, she stumbles into correcting another author's work in a last-ditch attempt to make a good impression with the agent. And she, as it turns out, is spot on. No one is more surprised than Bryony when the agent offers her the opportunity to be a ghostwriter for Amelia Benedict, popular rom-com novelist. Bryony agrees on one condition: she'll write books for this vain, demanding woman just as long as Jack Sterling, literary agent of the legendary Foundry Literary Agency, works to sell her own book too. What nobody predicted, however, was that Bryony's books would turn Amelia Benedict into the Amelia Benedict, household name and bestselling author with millions of copies sold around the world. And just like that, the Foundry Agency can't let her go. But on a personal note, Jack is realizing he can't either. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop Audiobook by Alex Zamalin

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free [https://hotaudiobook.com/free] ID: 778638 Title: Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop Author: Alex Zamalin Narrator: Dan Levy Format: Unabridged Length: 6:00:00 Language: English Release date: 02-04-25 Publisher: Beacon Press Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science, History & Culture Summary: A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics—from The Beat Generation to Basquiat This entertaining, intellectual history fulfills the growing appetite for marginalized narratives. Counterculture brilliantly interrogates the diversity of counterculture and the interwoven relationship between each individual legacy. From Anarchism to the Harlem Renaissance, Alex Zamalin unveils the humanity behind these romanticized figures and popularized movements to capture revolutionary freedom in action. American counterculture, defined as a movement whose values are outside and oppositional to mainstream norms and whose practices fundamentally reject what is socially respectable, ultimately transformed the 20th century. With key players: - Emma Goldman - Billie Holiday - Allen Ginsberg - Amiri Baraka - Jean-Michel Basquiat And key movements: - Anarchism - Black Bohemia - The Harlem Renaissance - The Beat Generation - The Black Arts Movement - Hip-Hop Counterculture reaches new depths, tackling a wide range of historical, social, and political topics, and expanding contemporary understandings of American cultural tradition. At a time when counterculture was on the outskirts of American society, Alex Zamalin explores the reason why. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present Audiobook by Mary Frances Berry

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free [https://hotaudiobook.com/free] ID: 775552 Title: Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the Present Author: Mary Frances Berry Narrator: Jasmin Walker Format: Unabridged Length: 6:00:00 Language: English Release date: 01-21-25 Publisher: Beacon Press Genres: History, Non-Fiction, North America, Social Science Summary: An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped Black children and their families, leading to undue hardships for generations to come. In Slavery After Slavery, historian Mary Frances Berry traces the stories behind individual cases from southern supreme courts to demonstrate how formerly enslaved families and their descendants were systemically injured through white supremacist practices, perpetuated by the legal system. By filling in the family trees of formerly enslaved people to their descendants, Berry documents the intergenerational harm they experienced. The resulting damage of trafficking Black children through apprenticeship laws has been a largely overlooked source of inequality, yet these cases provide specific examples of the kind of economic and physical harm Black families have endured. Slavery After Slavery tells individual stories, but the fates of their descendants tell our collective American story—contributing powerfully to a case for reparations and restorative justice. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com

No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference Audiobook by Cheryl L. Neely

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free [https://hotaudiobook.com/free] ID: 775551 Title: No Human Involved: The Serial Murder of Black Women and Girls and the Deadly Cost of Police Indifference Author: Cheryl L. Neely Narrator: Karen Chilton Format: Unabridged Length: 6:00:00 Language: English Release date: 01-21-25 Publisher: Beacon Press Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science Summary: An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage When Black women and girls are targeted and murdered their cases are often categorized by police officers as “N.H.I.” – “No Humans Involved.” Dehumanized and invisible to the public eye, they are rarely seen as victims. In the United States, Black women are killed at a higher rate than any other group of women, but their victimhood is not covered by the media and their cases do not receive an adequate level of urgency. Utilizing intensive historical research of cases in cities such as Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angles, Cheryl Neely calls attention to serial cases of Black female murder victims and a lack of police action. Neely approaches each case and story with detailed care. Instead of focusing solely on the killings and the murderers, she highlights the lives of the women and girls and their communities that never stopped fighting for justice. With media neglect and police indifference, Neely argues that because law enforcement is less likely to conduct serious investigations into the disappearances and homicides of Black women, they are particularly vulnerable to become victims. Diving deep into the unseen and unheard, Neely uses personal interviews, court records, media reports, and analytical data to understand how and why Black women are disproportionately more likely to die from homicide in comparison to their white counterpoints. Sounding an urgent alarm, No Human Involved contends that it is time for Black women’s lives to matter not only to their families and communities, but especially to those commissioned to protect them. Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com