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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- By: Joy Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs
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Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they’ve been since life’s creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life’s Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who attempts to create an organizing system for the myriad forms of life on earth.
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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- Series: Discovering Life's Story, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 28-01-25
- Language: English
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Kemosha of the Caribbean
- By: Alex Wheatle
- Narrated by: Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Kemosha and her brother have lived their whole lives in slavery. Sold away to work in lawless Port Royal, Kemosha takes her chance to escape brutal treatment. With fortune on her side, Kemosha befriends Ravenhide, a man with a mysterious past who teaches her the art of sword fighting and introduces her to the beautiful runaway Isabella. Yet Kemosha's greatest test yet is upon the deck of the Satisfaction: the notorious Captain Morgan’s ship.
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Kemosa of the Caribbean
- By Andrew Fontenelle on 22-04-22
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Kemosha of the Caribbean
- Narrated by: Sara Novak
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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1493 for Young People
- From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
- By: Rebecca Stefoff, Charles Mann
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
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How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled silver mountain of 16th-century Bolivia fund economic development in the flood-prone plains of rural China and the wars of the Spanish Empire? Here is the story of how sometimes the greatest leaps also posed the greatest threats to human advancement.
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1493 for Young People
- From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-04-16
- Language: English
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The Strangeness That Is Wales
- Jack's Strange Tales, Book 3
- By: Jack Strange
- Narrated by: Tony Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Discover the strange legends, tales and history of Wales. Did the Welsh sail across the Atlantic in the 12th century? Was King Arthur Welsh? Included, are stories on ghosts - both real and fake - and the legend of King Arthur. Welsh animal lore, customs, monsters, and music are also examined. One of the strangest villages in the world gets a chapter to itself, as do witches, miners, and druids. The book is written in a personal, lighthearted style, with geographical references to help identify the places.
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- By Robmash on 22-01-20
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The Strangeness That Is Wales
- Jack's Strange Tales, Book 3
- Narrated by: Tony Walker
- Series: Jack's Strange Tales, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 14-08-19
- Language: English
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Ms. Gloria Steinem
- A Life
- By: Winifred Conkling
- Narrated by: Christine Kiphart
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age. Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental-health facilities. And when Gloria was only 10 years old, her father divorced her mother and left for California, unable to bear the stress of caring for Ruth any longer.
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Ms. Gloria Steinem
- A Life
- Narrated by: Christine Kiphart
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 30-06-20
- Language: English
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dramatized)
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: St. Charles Players
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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Cast off on a raft with a runaway slave down the great Mississippi and a boy who couldn't dream of a greater adventure. With each bend of the river, each town, comes a chance encounter, perhaps with a king or duke wrapped in the schemes of scoundrels or a young girl caught amidst a family feud. On a journey with a friend dreaming of freedom, it's full of mischief, full of fun, and the adventures of a lifetime.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Dramatized)
- Narrated by: St. Charles Players
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-09-05
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Garrick Hagon
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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This is the story of a boy's adventures growing up in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi river over 100 years ago. The cheerful, adventurous hero plays truant to form a pirate band and, together with his best friend, Huckleberry Finn, finds fun, excitement, and buried treasure along the shores of the great river.
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- By ashish on 29-07-13
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Narrated by: Garrick Hagon
- Series: Twain's Tom and Huck, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-05-08
- Language: English
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Spirit Sleuths
- How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
- By: Gail Jarrow
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the popularity of Spiritualism soared. Desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, the bereaved fell prey to extortion by fraudulent mediums and fortune-tellers. But magician Harry Houdini wasn't fooled. He recognized the scammers' methods as no more than conjurer's tricks. Angered by the way people were exploited, Houdini set out to expose the ghost hoaxes.
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Spirit Sleuths
- How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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Storm from the East
- Glass Alliance, Book 2
- By: Joanna Hathaway
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dan Bittner
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
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Led by Athan's father, the revolutionary Safire have launched a secret assault upon the last royal kingdom in the South, hoping to depose the king and seize a powerful foothold on the continent. Athan proves a star pilot among their ranks, struggling to justify the violence his family has unleashed as he fights his way to the capital - where, unbeknownst to him, Aurelia has lived since the war's onset.
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Storm from the East
- Glass Alliance, Book 2
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Dan Bittner
- Series: Glass Alliance, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 11-02-20
- Language: English
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Blythewood
- By: Carol Goodman
- Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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At seventeen, Avaline Hall has already buried her mother, survived a horrific factory fire, and escaped from an insane asylum. Now she's on her way to Blythewood Academy, the elite boarding school in New York's mist-shrouded Hudson Valley that her mother attended - and was expelled from. Though she's afraid her high society classmates won't accept a factory girl in their midst, Ava is desperate to unravel her family's murky past, discover the identity of the father she's never known, and perhaps finally understand her mother's abrupt suicide.
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Disappointing
- By Sermatt on 09-02-18
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Blythewood
- Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
- Series: Blythewood, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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An Unspeakable Crime
- The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
- By: Elaine Marie Alphin
- Narrated by: Kevin Orton
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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The prosecution of Leo Frank was front-page news for two years, and Frank's lynching is still one of the most controversial incidents of the twentieth century. It marks a turning point in the history of racial and religious hatred in America, leading directly to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and to the rebirth of the modern Ku Klux Klan. Relying on primary source documents and painstaking research, award-winning novelist Elaine Alphin tells the true story of justice undone in America.
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The title
- By Chantelle Melia on 18-08-24
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An Unspeakable Crime
- The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
- Narrated by: Kevin Orton
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-06-14
- 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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Beck
- By: Mal Peet, Meg Rosoff
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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Both harrowing and life-affirming, the final novel from Carnegie Medal-winning author Mal Peet is the sweeping coming-of-age adventure of a mixed race boy transported to North America. Born from a street liaison between a poor young woman and an African soldier in the 1900s, Beck is soon orphaned and sent to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. Shipped to work on a farm, his escape takes him across the continent in a search for belonging.
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a must read
- By Valerie on 28-11-21
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Beck
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 20-06-17
- Language: English
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
- By: Tiffany D. Jackson
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Nile Bullock, Adenrele Ojo, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph’s music lie forgotten under his bed after he’s murdered - not when his rhymes could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph’s younger sister, Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph’s music under a new rap name: the Architect. Soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When his demo catches the attention of a hotheaded music label rep, the trio must prove Steph’s talent from beyond the grave.
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Let Me Hear a Rhyme
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Nile Bullock, Adenrele Ojo, Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-05-19
- Language: English
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Guts
- The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
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Here are the real events that inspired Gary Paulsen to write Brian Robeson’s story in Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Return, and Brian's Hunt: a stint as a volunteer emergency worker; the death that became the pilot’s death in Hatchet; plane crashes he’s seen; and his own near misses. He takes listeners on his first hunting trips, showing the wonder and solace of nature along with his hilarious mishaps and mistakes. He shares special memories, such as the night he attracted every mosquito in the county, and how he met the moose who made it personal.
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Guts
- The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Series: Hatchet
- Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 19-10-12
- Language: English
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Lugares asombrosos [Amazing Places]
- Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer al mundo [Unusual Journeys and Other Strange Ways of Knowing the World]
- By: Luisito Comunica
- Narrated by: Luisito Comunica
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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En Lugares asombrosos. Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer el mundo podrás viajar -con Luisito como compañero y guía- a los lugares más recónditos de uno, dos y más continentes: a sitios abandonados que conservan la huella de un hecho inexplicable; espacios delineados por trazos y personajes místicos; habitáculos hechizados por almas que vagan entre dimensiones desconocidas; zonas marcadas por los errores de la historia y sus fantasmas, y pintorescas comisuras del orbe con el sello de una costumbre o un suceso perturbador.
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Luis el Chido
- By Ricardo Jose Ritrovato on 15-11-19
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Lugares asombrosos [Amazing Places]
- Travesías insólitas y otras maneras extrañas de conocer al mundo [Unusual Journeys and Other Strange Ways of Knowing the World]
- Narrated by: Luisito Comunica
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-11-19
- Language: Spanish
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Your Own, Sylvia
- By: Stephanie Hemphill
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive non-fiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow writers, etc. - as interpreted by Hemphill. Each poem is accompanied by an addendum that further explains the factual circumstances of that poem’s subject.
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Your Own, Sylvia
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-03-09
- Language: English
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The Harlem Renaissance Remembered
- Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance
- By: Jonathan Gross, 'Mack' Jay Jordan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Gross, 'Mack' Jay Jordan
- Length: 1 hr
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New York City, uptown, Harlem. In the 1920s it was the most exciting place in the world. Poets, writers, dancers, and musicians all came together and invented a new American culture - a dazzling and revolutionary African American culture of music and poetry and art. Everyone who was anyone wanted to come to Harlem and hear the music of jazz genius Duke Ellington, the rap-like stylings of Langston Hughes, and the classical lyricism of Countee Cullen.
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The Harlem Renaissance Remembered
- Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance
- Narrated by: Jonathan Gross, 'Mack' Jay Jordan
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 09-02-10
- Language: English
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A Little Princess
- By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Narrated by: Vanessa Maroney
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Living off crumbs in a dreary attic, Sara Crewe comforts herself with wondrous stories of adventure and fortune, and in the end the stories become true.
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Gripping and heartbreaking
- By Sarah Ellum on 04-03-15
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A Little Princess
- Narrated by: Vanessa Maroney
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 18-08-04
- Language: English
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The Duel
- The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- By: Judith St. George
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college - one at Princeton, the other at Columbia - and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and opprobrium for the other?
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The Duel
- The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-10-16
- Language: English
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