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    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,573 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad....

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    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers....

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    • Twice Toward Justice
    • By: Phillip Hoose
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America....

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    • Growing Up on and off the Court
    • By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
    • Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....

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    • Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History...and Our Future!
    • By: Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet - but instead of "A is for apple", A is for Angela - as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist....

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    • Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When Charles Mulli was a child, his family repeatedly abandoned him, and he lived in fear of his abusive, alcoholic father. With an extraordinary will, the young Kenyan struggled to feed and educate himself and, encountering hope in the gospel, found a reason to live and to forgive....

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    • Standing Up for America's Bullied
    • By: Gabrielle Ford, Sarah Thomson
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The moving, true story of the young woman dubbed "The Voice of America's Bullied"; how her bond with her dog, Izzy, changed her life....

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    • By: Ben Brooks
    • Narrated by: Joshua Higgott, Thomas Judd
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • There is an ongoing crisis with regards to young men and mental health, with unhelpful gender stereotypes contributing to this malaise. Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different offers a welcome alternative narrative....

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    • By: Jehan Jones-Radgowski
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • How much do you know about Booker T. Washington? Find out the facts you need to know about this famous teacher and leader. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American.

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    • By: Ruby Bridges
    • Narrated by: Ruby Bridges
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Inspired by the recent wave of activism led by young people fighting for racial justice, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges - who, at the age of 6, was the first Black child to integrate an all-White elementary school in New Orleans - shares her story and offers a powerful call to action....

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    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
    • By: Patricia McCormick
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time....

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