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    • By: Maggie Nelson
    • Narrated by: Maggie Nelson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers and listeners with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human - via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical and philosophical, on the color blue....

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    • By: Ellie Terry
    • Narrated by: Heather Costa, Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different....

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    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Series: The Crossover [Alexander], Book 0
    • Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author Kwame Alexander comes Rebound, the dynamic prequel to his Newbery Award-winning novel in verse, The Crossover....

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    • By: Karma Wilson
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Series: The Bear Books
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • What better way for Bear to say thanks, than to have a big dinner with all his friends! Bear has come up with the perfect way to say thanks - a nice big dinner....

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    • 25 Years of Prison Writing
    • By: Bell Gale Chevigny - editor
    • Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Shay Moore
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Doing Time: For the prison writers whose work is included in this anthology, it means more than "serving a sentence"; it means staying alive and sane, preserving dignity, reinventing oneself....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 578 ratings
    • Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of essays that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives....

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    • Poems
    • By: William Blake
    • Narrated by: Nicol Williamson
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • William Blake's highly personal messages of humanity and social conscience are as relevant today as in 18th-century London....

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    • By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
    • Narrated by: Billy-Ray Belcourt
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future....

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    • By: Bertrand Russell
    • Narrated by: Peter Bishop
    • Length: 1 hr and 54 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Russell sets forth the idea that political ideals must be based upon the ideals that best benefit the individual to create the best life possible....

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    • 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life
    • By: Kwame Alexander
    • Narrated by: Ruffin Prentiss
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • A companion book to his best-selling and Newbery winning book The Crossover, The Playbook is Kwame Alexander's dynamic, sports-infused guide to life....

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter....

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    • By: Helen Frost
    • Narrated by: Michael Crouch
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A novel in verse about a young deaf boy during World War II, the sister who loves him, and the conscientious objector who helps him. Inspired by true events....

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    • By: Katherine Applegate
    • Narrated by: Imani Parks
    • Series: One and Only Ivan, Book 3
    • Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob....

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    • By: Nikki Grimes
    • Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Planet Middle School, 12-year-old Joylin Johnson is satisfied with her life. Everything seems pretty simple: a nice, relaxed game of basketball with the boys is all she needs to keep her happy....

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    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Eve L. Ewing
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event....

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    • By: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to fans of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids listening through it to find a poem that's just for them....

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    • The Greek Myths Reimagined
    • By: Stephen Fry
    • Narrated by: Stephen Fry
    • Series: Mythos, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,043 ratings
    • In this brilliant conclusion to his best-selling Mythos trilogy, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War....

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    • A Story of Friendship in a Time of War
    • By: Helen Frost
    • Narrated by: Tom Picasso, Michael Bakkensen, Tandy Cronyn
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Anikwa and James, 12 years old in 1812, spend their days fishing, trapping, and exploring together in the forests of the Indiana Territory....

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