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Warhead
- The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
- By: Jeff Henigson
- Narrated by: Jeff Henigson
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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It's 1986, and Jeff is an average 15-year-old: he thinks a lot about dating and he's trying his hardest to get a car. Conversely, the world around him feels crazy: the United States and the Soviet Union are at glaring odds, with their leaders in a standoff, and that awful word, "nuclear", is on everyone's mind. Then, boom - Jeff learns that he has brain cancer and it's likely terminal. Well, that puts a damper on his summer plans and romantic prospects, doesn't it? Jeff's family rallies around him, but they are fiercely complicated - especially Jeff's father....
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Warhead
- The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World
- Narrated by: Jeff Henigson
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 02-07-2019
- 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: 29-06-2020
- Language: English
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The Suffragist Playbook
- Your Guide to Changing the World
- By: Lucinda Robb, Rebecca Boggs Roberts
- Narrated by: Tovah Ott
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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The women’s suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women’s right to vote. How did the suffragists do it? One hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows that some of their strategies seem oddly familiar. Women’s marches at inauguration time? Check. Publicity stunts, optics, and influencers? They practically invented them. Petitions, lobbying, speeches, raising money, and writing articles? All of that, too.
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The Suffragist Playbook
- Your Guide to Changing the World
- Narrated by: Tovah Ott
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 27-10-2020
- Language: English
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To Look a Nazi in the Eye
- A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial
- By: Kathy Kacer, Jordana Lebowitz - contributor
- Narrated by: Gabi Epstein
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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The true story of 19-year-old Jordana Lebowitz’s time at the trial of Oskar Groening, known as the bookkeeper of Auschwitz, a man charged with being complicit in the death of more than 300,000 Jews. A granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana was still not prepared for what she would see and hear.
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To Look a Nazi in the Eye
- A Teen’s Account of a War Criminal Trial
- Narrated by: Gabi Epstein
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2021
- Language: English
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The Color of Beauty
- The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
- By: Alina Mitchell, Audrey Smaltz - foreword
- Narrated by: LaQuita James
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
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Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first Black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage. Being the first black graduate of the Vogue Modeling School, she eventually became a powerful business mogul, an exuberant entrepreneur, and a respected leader in her field. Her story is unique because she redefined "beauty" in America. Throughout her life, she sought to prove to the world beauty could be found in every shade of color.
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The Color of Beauty
- The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
- Narrated by: LaQuita James
- Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 26-01-2021
- Language: English
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The Future of Science Is Female
- The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century
- By: Zara Stone
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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In The Future of Science Is Female, author and award-winning journalist Zara Stone shares the fascinating, complicated stories of how a diverse group of powerful women got started - from the perspective of those still working it out as they go along. Take 22-year-old Dominique Barnes, a female hero of the oceans. She was worried about all the dolphins and whales killed during shrimp farming, so the marine biologist created a tasty, affordable plant-based shrimp alternative. And she's just one of the sheroes you will discover in The Future of Science Is Female.
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The Future of Science Is Female
- The Brilliant Minds Shaping the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 29-09-2020
- Language: English
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You Too?
- 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories
- By: Janet Gurtler - Editor
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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A timely and heartfelt collection of essays inspired by the #MeToo movement, edited by acclaimed young adult and middle-grade author Janet Gurtler. Featuring Beth Revis, Mackenzi Lee, Ellen Hopkins, Saundra Mitchell, Jennifer Brown, Cheryl Rainfield, and many more.
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You Too?
- 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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Sabina
- In the Eye of the Storm
- By: Bella Kuligowska Zucker
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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This is the memoir written by Bella Kuligowska Zucker, the only person in her family to survive the Holocaust. In September 1939, Bella was a carefree teenager living in Poland when the German army struck. She was rounded up with her friends and family and sent to a series of grim Jewish ghettos. After loved ones were separated and lost through the war years, Bella survived by changing her identity. After finding the birth certificate of a Catholic girl five years her senior, she became Sabina Mazurek. Then she went into the eye of the storm, Germany.
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Sabina
- In the Eye of the Storm
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2019
- Language: English
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The Flying Tigers
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers - who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines - first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of the Chiang Kai-shek's China against Japan. Trained in the unconventional air-combat tactics of their maverick leader Claire Lee Chennault, they racked up some of the most impressive air victory records of World War II.
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The Flying Tigers
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- 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: 15-01-2020
- Language: English
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Skate for Your Life
- By: Leo Baker
- Narrated by: Leo Baker
- Length: 1 hr
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"Your authenticity is your superpower." That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the listener on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete.
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Skate for Your Life
- Narrated by: Leo Baker
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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Singled Out
- The True Story of Glenn Burke
- By: Andrew Maraniss
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Andrew Maraniss comes the remarkable true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player. Singled Out is the fascinating story of a trailblazer in sports - and the history and culture that shaped the world around him.
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Singled Out
- The True Story of Glenn Burke
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-03-2021
- Language: English
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Violet and Daisy
- The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins
- By: Sarah Miller
- Length: 6 hrs
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From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Violet and Daisy
- The Story of Vaudeville's Famous Conjoined Twins
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 27-04-2021
- Language: English
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Taking on the Plastics Crisis
- Pocket Change Collective
- By: Hannah Testa
- Narrated by: Hannah Testa
- Length: 1 hr
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In this personal, moving essay, youth activist Hannah Testa shares with listeners how she led a grassroots political campaign to successfully pass state legislation limiting single-use plastics and how she influenced global businesses to adopt more sustainable practices. Through her personal journey, listeners can learn how they, too, can follow in Hannah's footsteps and lower their carbon footprint by simply refusing single-use plastics.
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Taking on the Plastics Crisis
- Pocket Change Collective
- Narrated by: Hannah Testa
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 13-10-2020
- Language: English
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This Is What I Know About Art
- Pocket Change Collective
- By: Kimberly Drew
- Narrated by: Kimberly Drew
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, arts writer and co-editor of Black Futures Kimberly Drew shows us that art and protest are inextricably linked. Drawing on her personal experience through art toward activism, Drew challenges us to create space for the change that we want to see in the world. Because there really is so much more space than we think.
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This Is What I Know About Art
- Pocket Change Collective
- Narrated by: Kimberly Drew
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2020
- Language: English
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Jane Against the World
- Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
- By: Karen Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Tracing the path to the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade and the continuing battle for women's rights, Blumenthal examines, in a straightforward tone, the root causes of the current debate around abortion and repercussions that have affected generations of American women. This eye-opening audiobook is the perfect tool to facilitate difficult discussions and awareness of a topic that is rarely touched on in school but affects each and every young person. It's also perfect for fans of Steve Sheinkin and Deborah Heiligman.
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Jane Against the World
- Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-02-2020
- Language: English
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Strongman
- The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
- By: Kenneth C. Davis
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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What makes a country fall to a dictator? How are authoritarian leaders - strongmen - capable of killing millions acquire their power? How are they able to defeat the ideal of democracy? And what can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again? By profiling five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history - Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein - Kenneth C. Davis seeks to answer these questions, examining the forces in these strongmen's personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they'd become.
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Strongman
- The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 06-10-2020
- Language: English
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A Light in the Darkness
- Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
- By: Albert Marrin
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today". Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
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A Light in the Darkness
- Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-09-2019
- Language: English
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