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    • By: Lee Strobel
    • Narrated by: Lee Strobel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 542 ratings
    • Has modern scholarship debunked the traditional Christ? Has the church suppressed the truth about Jesus to advance its own agenda? What if the real Jesus is far different from the atoning Savior worshipped through the centuries? Listen to find out more....

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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • By: Jason Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
    • Length: 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds' rallying cry to the dreamers of the world....

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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • By: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 381 ratings
    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Born during the Industrial Revolution on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.

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    • Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Reproductive Rights
    • By: Karen Blumenthal
    • Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From award-winning author Karen Blumenthal comes a deep and passionate look at the riveting history of the fight for reproductive rights in the United States....

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    • A Nonpartisan Guide to the Issues That Matter
    • By: Jessamyn Conrad
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • What You Should Know About Politics...But Don't breaks it all down, issue by issue, explaining who stands for what, and why - whether it's the economy, income inequality, Obamacare, foreign policy, education, immigration, or climate change....

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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • By: Abby McCarthy
    • Narrated by: Maren McGuire
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • One look was all it took for 15-year-old June Withers to fall in love with Jake Daniels. One moment was all it took for the river’s current to take everything from them....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,607 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Learn about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau.

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 02-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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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 239 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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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class....

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    • A War Against The West
    • By: Fazle Chowdhury
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • "Chowdhury’s work stands out as a beacon of clarity... a testament to his dedication to making sense of the headlines and providing readers with ...

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