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    • The Definitive Edition
    • By: Anne Frank
    • Narrated by: Selma Blair
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,982 ratings
    • Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....

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    • The Secret Service, the FBI, a Would-Be Killer, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
    • By: Bill O'Reilly
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 06-21-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The year was 1981. Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was shot after leaving a speaking engagement in Washington, DC....

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    • Eight Proven 5-Minute Mindset Exercises for Kids and Teens Who Play Competitive Sports
    • By: Troy Horne, Moses Horne
    • Narrated by: Moses Horne
    • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • If you are reading this, you probably have a young athlete who struggles with in-game stress and maybe even sports performance anxiety....

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    • An Olympian's Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive
    • By: Laura Hillenbrand
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 978 ratings
    • In this captivating young adult edition of her award-winning number one New York Times best seller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory....

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    • A True Story of the Fight for Justice
    • By: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • In this very personal work, adapted from the original number one best seller, acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom....

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    • A Memoir-Manifesto
    • By: George M. Johnson
    • Narrated by: George M. Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,243 ratings
    • In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue explores their childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

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    • Growing Up on Methamphetamines
    • By: Nic Sheff
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,339 ratings
    • Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11....

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    • Memoirs of an American Soldier
    • By: Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. This is Howard Wasdin's story of beating the odds to become an elite American warrior....

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    • In the Eye of the Storm
    • By: Bella Kuligowska Zucker
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • 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. Rounded up with her friends and family, she survived by changing her identity....

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    • The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
    • By: Shyima Hall, Lisa Wysocky
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery...

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    • Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, taking listeners through the seasons. In Paulsen’s north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious....

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    • Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
    • By: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith - adapter
    • Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Elena Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease and a must-listen for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder....

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    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Will Patton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 590 ratings
    • This fast-paced thriller tells the story of the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth and gives a day-by-day account of the wild chase to find this killer and his accomplices....

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    • A Comedian's Guide to Life on the Spectrum
    • By: Michael McCreary
    • Narrated by: Michael McCreary
    • Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • Like many others on the autism spectrum, 20-something stand-up comic Michael McCreary has been told by more than a few well-meaning folks that he doesn’t “look” autistic. But, as he’s quick to point out in this memoir, autism “looks” different for just about everyone....

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    • A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • Packed with gripping first-person accounts, astonishing battle scenes, and shocking betrayals, this accessible biography proves that there's more than one side to every good story....

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    • A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • It is 1944. A teenager named Rudolf (Rudi) Vrba has made up his mind. After barely surviving nearly two years in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, he knows he must escape....

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