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    • Vincent & Theo

    • The Van Gogh Brothers
    • By: Deborah Heiligman
    • Narrated by: Phil Fox
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh defined both brothers' lives....

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    • Tweak

    • Growing Up on Methamphetamines
    • By: Nic Sheff
    • Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 19-02-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11....

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    • Samurai Rising

    • The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
    • By: Pamela S. Turner
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai Japanese history....

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    • Elena Vanishing

    • A Memoir
    • By: Elena Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle
    • Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease and a must-listen for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder....

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    • Father Water, Mother Woods

    • Essays on Fishing and Hunting in the North Woods
    • By: Gary Paulsen
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • These essays recount his adventures alone and with friends, taking listeners through the seasons. In Paulsen’s north country, every expedition is a major one, and often hilarious....

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    • Downstairs at the White House

    • The Story of a Teenager, an Oval Office, and a Ringside Seat to Watergate
    • By: Donald M. Stinson
    • Narrated by: Donald M. Stinson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • At the age of 17, Don Stinson accidentally landed a job in the White House during Watergate, the largest political scandal in American history. A truly insignificant member of the Nixon White House staff, he frequently loitered outside of the Oval Office to watch it unfold....

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  • Claiming My Place: Coming of Age in the Shadow of the Holocaust cover art

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    • The Chimpanzee & Me

    • By: Ben Garrod
    • Narrated by: Ben Garrod
    • Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • For over a decade, Ben Garrod has studied chimpanzees to find ways to protect and conserve them. We join Ben on a journey that has taken him around the world, studying eastern chimps in the humid forests of Uganda and the critically endangered western chimps of Liberia....

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    • Every Falling Star

    • 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: 13-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 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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    • Soul Surfer

    • A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
    • By: Bethany Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge
    • Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • She lost her arm in a shark attack and nearly died, but she never lost her faith....

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    • The Cat I Never Named

    • A True Story of Love, War and Survival
    • By: Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Laura L. Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Leila Buck
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • It is 1992, and Bihac, Amra's hometown, is a multicultural city with Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. But when tensions escalate, the Serbs turn on their Bosnian neighbors. The Serbs control the army, and now they have peaceful Bihac surrounded....

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    • A Light in the Darkness

    • Janusz Korczak, His Orphans, and the Holocaust
    • By: Albert Marrin
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • From National Book Award Finalist Albert Marrin comes the moving story of Janusz Korczak, the heroic Polish Jewish doctor who devoted his life to children, perishing with them in the Holocaust....

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    • I Have Lived a Thousand Years

    • Growing Up in the Holocaust
    • By: Livia Bitton-Jackson
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 160 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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    • Before I Had the Words

    • On Being a Transgender Young Adult
    • By: Skylar Kergil
    • Narrated by: Skylar Kergil
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Revealing entries from the author’s personal journals as well as interviews with members of his family lend depth to Skylar’s story. A chronicle of change, loss, discovery, pain, and relief, Before I Had the Words brings new meaning to the phrase “formative years”....

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    • Malcolm X

    • By Any Means Necessary
    • By: Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • As a 14-year-old, he was Malcolm Little, the president of his class and a top student. . At 19, he was back in Boston, leading a gang of burglars. At 20, he was in prison. It was in prison that Malcolm Little started the journey that would lead him to adopt the name Malcolm X....

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    • Beyond the Gender Binary

    • Pocket Change Collective
    • By: Alok Vaid-Menon
    • Narrated by: Alok Vaid-Menon
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings

    • In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary....

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    • Billie Eilish

    • From E-Girl to Icon
    • By: Adrian Besley
    • Narrated by: Angie Kane
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • With a number-one album in multiple countries and more than 53 million Instagram followers, Billie Eilish is a global star. She has collaborated with Justin Bieber and Khalid, headlined at Glastonbury and Coachella, and has appeared in Calvin Klein ad campaigns....

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