While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America audiobook runs 9.8 hours unabridged, narrated by René Ruiz (about 6.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
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What our data says
- At 9.8 hours, it runs longer than 68% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by René Ruiz
René Ruiz narrates 49 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 339 hours in all.
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
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- American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,795 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America is an audiobook by Eli Sanders: a 9.8-hour unabridged recording, read by René Ruiz, released February 2, 2016, on the Social Science and True Crime shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- René Ruiz
- Released
- February 2, 2016
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, True Crime, Mental Health & Psychology
- ISBN
- 9780147524560
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How long is the While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America audiobook?
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America runs 9.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.5 hours.
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Who narrates While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America?
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-Up Call for Mental Health Care in America is narrated by René Ruiz.