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The Beautiful Struggle
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Hayden McLean
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980s in Baltimore, known back then as the murder capital of the United States. With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam vet and Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming-of-age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner city, and the author's experience as a young Black person in it.
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Beautifully written with stellar narration.
- By Renx on 23-09-21
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The Beautiful Struggle
- Narrated by: Hayden McLean
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Heart of Darkness
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo is superbly narrated by the gifted Ralph Cosham. Also included is "The Lagoon", a story of courage and love in the South Pacific.
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Deeply thought-provoking and beautifully read
- By Clare on 28-07-08
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Heart of Darkness
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-09-02
- Language: English
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Sterling Point Books
- Stampede for Gold: The Story of the Klondike Rush
- By: Pierre Berton
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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The Klondike gold rush, which occurred between 1896 and 1899, was one of the strangest outbreaks of "gold fever" ever to take place. With news of California's rush still fresh in their minds, thousands of men with get-rich-quick dreams hurried to stake out claims in the Yukon. But they did not count on the murderous weather...or the severe mountain passes that protected the gold.
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Sterling Point Books
- Stampede for Gold: The Story of the Klondike Rush
- Narrated by: Andy Caploe
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-07-09
- Language: English
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The Barbary Pirates
- The Barbary Pirates
- By: C. S. Forester
- Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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C.S. Forester, creator of the beloved Horatio Hornblower series, takes young readers on an exciting adventure to the shores of Tripoli in North Africa. That's where, more than 200 years ago, the United States was threatened by "pirates" who snatched American merchant ships and imprisoned sailors - and the country's young, untested navy took on the task of fighting the pirates in their home waters.
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The Barbary Pirates
- The Barbary Pirates
- Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 20-04-09
- Language: English
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No Way, They Were Gay?
- Hidden Lives and Secret Loves (Queer History Project)
- By: Lee Wind
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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"History" sounds really official. Like it's all fact. Like it's definitely what happened. But that's not necessarily true. History was crafted by the people who recorded it. And sometimes, those historians were biased against, didn't see, or couldn't even imagine anyone different from themselves. That means that history has often left out the stories of LGBTQIA+ people: men who loved men, women who loved women, people who loved without regard to gender, and people who lived outside gender boundaries.
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No Way, They Were Gay?
- Hidden Lives and Secret Loves (Queer History Project)
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- By: Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong - contributor
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.
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Astounding
- By Holly on 11-07-19
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 19-05-15
- Language: English
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Live Like a Goddess
- Life Lessons from Legends and Lore
- By: Jean Menzies
- Narrated by: Jean Menzies
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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Cultures around the world celebrate tales and myths of daring and brave goddesses. These legendary ladies were tenacious, smart and strong. Meet Osun, the Yoruba goddess of love who refuses to be dismissed because of her gender and stands up to those who believe women are less important than men; Rhiannon, the Welsh queen of fairies who won't let anyone make decisions for her and instead follows her heart and Freyja, the Norse goddess of love and death who doesn't give into pressure, sets boundaries and is comfortable with being a single independent woman.
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Live Like a Goddess
- Life Lessons from Legends and Lore
- Narrated by: Jean Menzies
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 28-09-23
- Language: English
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
- By: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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On a bitter cold day in January 1741, Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country's greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America's first action hero. But his thirst for recognition would ultimately be his undoing.
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Intriguing read
- By Olly88 on 06-03-23
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-07-12
- Language: English
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Socrates
- A Life Worth Living (Philosophy for Young People)
- By: Devra Lehmann
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this way we could become a society that knows the difference between truth and falsehood, and find what makes a life worthwhile.
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Socrates
- A Life Worth Living (Philosophy for Young People)
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
- By: Ken Setterington
- Narrated by: Bill Marchant
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
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When the Nazis came to power in Europe, the lives of homosexuals came to be ruled by fear as raids, arrests, prison sentences, and expulsions became the daily reality. When the concentration camps were built, homosexuals were imprisoned along with Jews. The pink triangle, sewn onto prison uniforms, became the symbol of their persecution. Branded by the Pink Triangle combines historical research with first-person accounts and individual stories to bring this history to life for listeners.
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Branded by the Pink Triangle
- Narrated by: Bill Marchant
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 06-07-20
- Language: English
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Blood Countess (Lady Slayers)
- By: Lana Popovic
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mudge
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Báthory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess’s spell - and the Countess takes full advantage.
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Blood Countess (Lady Slayers)
- Narrated by: Jennifer Mudge
- Series: Lady Slayers, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-01-20
- Language: English
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
- By: Albert Marrin
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself.
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Dreadful indeed
- By jeremy on 13-04-18
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Very, Very, Very Dreadful
- The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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Prisoner B-3087
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis, who have taken over. Everything he has and everyone he loves have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner - his arm tattooed with the words Prisoner B-3087.
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wow, this is a powerful listen
- By col on 21-06-22
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Prisoner B-3087
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 01-09-15
- Language: English
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Killing November
- By: Adriana Mather
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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At Academy Absconditi, classes include everything from knife-throwing and poisons to the art of deception. The other students are all children of the world's most elite strategists, in training to become assassins, spies, and master manipulators. November Adley doesn't know why she's been sent to this place, but she'll quickly discover that allies are few in a school where competition is everything. When another student is murdered, all eyes turn to November, who must figure out exactly how she fits in before she is found guilty of the crime...or becomes the killer's next victim.
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another best seller
- By Dawn on 26-06-19
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Killing November
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-03-19
- Language: English
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London Calling
- By: Edward Bloor
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Martin Conway comes from a family filled with heroes and disgraces. His grandfather was a statesman who worked at the US Embassy in London during WWII. His father is an alcoholic who left his family. His sister is an overachieving Ivy League graduate. And Martin? Martin is stuck in between—floundering. But during the summer after 7th grade, Martin meets a boy who will change his life forever. Jimmy Harker appears one night with a deceptively simple question: Will you help?
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Nostalgic and Stimulating Yarn
- By Cliff on 22-02-13
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London Calling
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 20-09-06
- Language: English
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Impossible Escape
- A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
- By: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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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. Even if death is more likely. Rudi has learned the terrible secret hidden behind the heavily guarded fences of concentration camps across Nazi-occupied Europe: the methodical mass killing of Jewish prisoners. As trains full of people arrive daily, Rudi knows that the murders won’t stop until he reveals the truth to the world―and that each day that passes means more lives are lost.
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Impossible Escape
- A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-10-23
- Language: English
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28 Days
- A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
- By: David Safier
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Warsaw, 1942. Sixteen-year old Mira smuggles food into the ghetto to keep herself and her family alive. When she discovers that the entire ghetto is to be "liquidated" - killed or "resettled" to concentration camps - she desperately tries to find a way to save her family. She meets a group of young people who are planning the unthinkable: an uprising against the occupying forces. Mira joins the resistance fighters who, with minimal supplies and weapons, end up holding out for 28 days, longer than anyone had thought possible.
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28 Days
- A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 28-04-20
- Language: English
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This Light Between Us
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Andrew Fukuda
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet, Greg Chun
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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In 1935, 10-year-old Alex Maki from Bainbridge Island, Washington, is disgusted when he’s forced to become pen pals with Charlie Lévy of Paris, France - a girl. He thought she was a boy. In spite of Alex’s reluctance, their letters continue to fly across the Atlantic - and along with them, the shared hopes and dreams of friendship. Until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the growing Nazi persecution of Jews force them to confront the darkest aspects of human nature.
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This Light Between Us
- A Novel of World War II
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet, Greg Chun
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 07-01-20
- Language: English
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They Called Themselves the KKK
- By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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"Boys, let us get up a club." Six restless young men raided the linens at a friend's mansion, pulled pillowcases over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee. The six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan, and, all too quickly, their club grew into the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire with secret dens spread across the South. This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America's democracy.
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Interesting, but...
- By Rachel on 27-04-11
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They Called Themselves the KKK
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 23-08-10
- Language: English
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
- Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- By: Phillip Hoose
- Narrated by: Phillip Hoose, Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.
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Engrossing
- By M. Keegan-Phipps on 09-07-23
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler
- Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
- Narrated by: Phillip Hoose, Michael Braun
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 13-05-15
- Language: English
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