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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
- By: Amy Brashear
- Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Arkansas, 1984: The town of Griffin Flat is known for almost nothing other than its nuclear missile silos. MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - is a fear every local lives with and tries to ignore. Unfortunately that’s impossible now that film moguls have picked Griffin Flat as the location for a new nuclear holocaust movie, aptly titled The Eve of Destruction. When 16-year-old Laura Ratliff wins a walk-on role (with a plus-one!) thanks to a radio call-in contest, she is more relieved than excited.
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The Incredible True Story of the Making of the Eve of Destruction
- Narrated by: Amielynn Abellera
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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In Search of Safety
- Voices of Refugees
- By: Susan Kuklin
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Josh Bloomberg, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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An Iraqi woman who survived capture by ISIS. A Sudanese teen growing up in civil war and famine. An Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army living under threat of a fatwa. They are among the five refugees who share their stories in award-winning author and photographer Susan Kuklin's latest masterfully crafted narrative. The five, originally from Afghanistan, Myanmar, South Sudan, Iraq, and Burundi, give gripping first-person testimonies about what it is like to flee war, face violent threats, grow up in a refugee camp, be sold into slavery, and resettle in America.
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In Search of Safety
- Voices of Refugees
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny, Josh Bloomberg, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 29-06-20
- Language: English
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We Are Here to Stay
- Voice of Undocumented Young Adults
- By: Susan Kuklin
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Scott Merriman, Timothy Andrés Pabon, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows.
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We Are Here to Stay
- Voice of Undocumented Young Adults
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, Scott Merriman, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Frankie Corzo, Marcus Stewart, Lauren Ezzo, Emily Woo Zeller, JD Jackson, Laura Jennings
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-01-19
- Language: English
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The Dark Game
- True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles
- By: Paul B. Janeczko
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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Ever since George Washington used them to help topple the British, spies and their networks have helped and hurt America at key moments in history. In this fascinating collection, Paul B. Janeczko probes such stories as that of Elizabeth Van Lew, an aristocrat whose hatred of slavery drove her to be one of the most successful spies in the Civil War; the "Choctaw code talkers," Native Americans who were instrumental in sending secret messages during World War I; and more.
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The Dark Game
- True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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Vote!
- Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box
- By: Coral Celeste Frazer
- Narrated by: Anne Cross
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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August 18, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, which prohibited states and the US government from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. This book reveals how the 70-year-long fight for women's suffrage was hard-won by leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and others.
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Vote!
- Women's Fight for Access to the Ballot Box
- Narrated by: Anne Cross
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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Attucks!
- How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
- By: Phillip M. Hoose
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament.
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Attucks!
- How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World
- Narrated by: Brad Sanders
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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Stolen Justice
- The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
- By: Lawrence Goldstone
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
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Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In this vivid portrait of the systematic suppression of the African-American vote, critically acclaimed author Lawrence Goldstone traces the injustices of the post-Reconstruction era through the eyes of incredible individuals, both heroic and barbaric, and examines the legal cases that made the Supreme Court a partner of white supremacists in the rise of Jim Crow.
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Stolen Justice
- The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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Traitor
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Amanda McCrina
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwów from Germany, the city remains a battleground between resistance fighters and insurgent armies, its loyalties torn between Poland and Ukraine. Seventeen-year-old Tolya Korolenko is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and he joined the Soviet Red Army to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his unit's political officer in the street, he's rescued by a squad of Ukrainian freedom fighters. They might have saved him, but Tolya doesn't trust them.
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Traitor
- A Novel of World War II
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-08-20
- Language: English
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Eventide
- By: Sarah Goodman
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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When her father descends into madness, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves uprooted from New York, on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. In Wheeler, Lilah is quickly adopted by the town’s beloved schoolteacher - but Verity is not. Willing to do anything to stay close, she pawns herself off as a farmhand, but even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can’t completely distract her from the sense that something is not quite right in this little town.
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Eventide
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers, Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, Barrier-Breaking Activists and Afro-Futurists
- The Book of Awesome Series, Book 2
- By: Monique L. Jones
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Black Americans who have shaped their country and beyond: We are familiar with a handful of African Americans who are mentioned in American history books, but there are also countless others who do not get recognized in mainstream media. Their actions may not have appeared to shake the world, but their contributions to shifting American culture were just as groundbreaking.
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The Book of Awesome Black Americans: Scientific Pioneers, Trailblazing Entrepreneurs, Barrier-Breaking Activists and Afro-Futurists
- The Book of Awesome Series, Book 2
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 15-01-20
- Language: English
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Nemesis and the Swan
- By: Lindsay K. Bandy
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Despite her world of privilege, Hélène is inspired early on by the radical ideas of her progressive governess. Though her family tries to intervene, the seeds of revolution have already been planted in Hélène’s heart, as are the seeds of love from an unlikely friendship with a young jeweler’s apprentice. Hélène’s determination to find true love is as revolutionary as her attempt to unravel the truth behind the concealed murder that tore her family apart.
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Nemesis and the Swan
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 27-10-20
- Language: English
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Bootleg
- Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
- By: Karen Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Filled with anecdotes and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating audiobook by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition. It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places.
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Bootleg
- Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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Tommy
- The Gun That Changed America
- By: Karen Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver 100 bullets in a matter of seconds - but didn't find a market in the US military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade - and 80 years before the mass shootings of our own time - Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control.
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Tommy
- The Gun That Changed America
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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Feminism Is...
- By: DK
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Feminism is... tackles more than 50 intriguing and relevant topics, such as 'Are all people equal?', 'Do boys and girls learn the same things?' and 'Can men be feminists?' Find out what equality for women really means, get a short history of feminism and take a look at the issues that affect women at work, in the home and around sex and identity.
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Feminism Is...
- Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-03-20
- Language: English
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Beautiful Wild
- By: Anna Godbersen
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded “Millionaire’s Ship of the West,” she’ll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. But Vida didn’t plan on Fitz’s best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under her skin. Nor did she anticipate a hurricane dashing their ship to pieces, along with her dreams. Stranded on an island with both Fitz and Sal, Vida is torn between the life she’s always planned for, and a future she’s never dared to want.
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Beautiful Wild
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-11-20
- Language: English
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The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie
- Infinite Identities Around the World (Queer History Project)
- By: Lee Wind
- Narrated by: Diontae Black
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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In the second book of the Queer History Project, The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie: Infinite Identities around the World, author Lee Wind uses historical evidence and primary sources—poetry, ancient burial sites, firsthand accounts, and news stories—to explore gender roles and identities.
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The Gender Binary Is a Big Lie
- Infinite Identities Around the World (Queer History Project)
- Narrated by: Diontae Black
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- Discovering Life's Story, Book 2
- By: Joy Hakim
- Narrated by: Erin Tripp
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they’ve been since life’s creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life’s Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who attempts to create an organizing system for the myriad forms of life on earth.
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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- Discovering Life's Story, Book 2
- Narrated by: Erin Tripp
- Series: Discovering Life's Story, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Death in the Jungle
- Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
- By: Candace Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs
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Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s humble origins as a child of the Depression… to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers… to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.
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Death in the Jungle
- Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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The Making of an Eagle
- By: David L. Cain
- Narrated by: Thomas A. Penny
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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A true account of a group of African American men from Detroit who sought to change the life trajectory of young African American boys from something negative to something positive. Faced with the problem statement of "what life lessons would you teach a young boy about life survival in America if you only had one weekend?", the group of men set out on a course to make a difference.
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The Making of an Eagle
- Narrated by: Thomas A. Penny
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 25-07-24
- Language: English
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Ghosts of War
- By: Ryan Smithson
- Narrated by: Ryan Smithson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was 17. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.
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Ghosts of War
- Narrated by: Ryan Smithson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-04-09
- Language: English
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