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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 6,968 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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    • 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 106 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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    • From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
    • By: Elaine DePrince, Michaela DePrince
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage where she was abandoned at a young age....

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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 2,333 ratings
    • Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11....

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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 13 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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    • 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 975 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 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 1,233 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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    • 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 477 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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    • A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance
    • By: Simone Biles
    • Narrated by: Imani Parks
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her faith, family, passion, and perseverance against tremendous odds made her one of the top athletes and record-breaking gymnasts....

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    • An American Journey
    • By: Kamala Harris
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Now adapted for young listeners, Vice President Kamala Harris' empowering memoir about the values and inspirations that guided her life....

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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 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 539 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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    • My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
    • By: Elvira K. Gonzalez
    • Narrated by: Elvira K. Gonzalez
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Educated meets Athlete A in this YA memoir about survival and strength by Elvira Gonzalez, a Mexican-American track star who found freedom from poverty and violence by becoming one of the top U.S. athletes.

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    • My Tale of Training Canines for Combat
    • By: Mike Ritland
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 453 ratings
    • This is the tale of how Ritland discovered his passion and grew up to train these elite dogs....

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    • Growing Up in the Holocaust
    • By: Livia Bitton-Jackson
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,317 ratings
    • This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of the Auschwitz concentration camp....

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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 48 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 How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • By: Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • A New York Times best seller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson....

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