Never Fall Down: A Boy Soldier's Story of Survival

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• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Patricia McCormick
• Narrated By Justine Eyre

Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.

Challenger Deep

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Neal Shusterman
• Narrated By Michael Curran-Dorsano
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Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior.

Night

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Elie Wiesel
• Narrated By George Guidall
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Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the Congressional Gold Medal, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel offers an unforgettable account of Hitler's horrific reign of terror in Night. This definitive edition features a new translation from the original French by Wiesel's wife and frequent translator, Marion Wiesel.

Purple Heart

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 25 mins)
• By Patricia McCormick
• Narrated By Adam Verner
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When Private Matt Duffy wakes up in an army hospital in Iraq, he's honored with a Purple Heart. But he doesn't feel like a hero. There's a memory that haunts him: an image of a young Iraqi boy as a bullet hits his chest. Matt can't shake the feeling that he was somehow involved in his death. But because of a head injury he sustained just moments after the boy was shot, Matt can't quite put all the pieces together.

The Outsiders

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 12 mins)
• By S.E. Hinton
• Narrated By Jim Fyfe
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Ponyboy can count on his brothers. And on his friends. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers" like Ponyboy. At least he knows what to expect, until the night someone takes things too far.

One of Us Is Lying

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Karen M. McManus
• Narrated By Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus, and others

Pay close attention, and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention, Simon's dead.

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 31 mins)
• By Blaine Harden
• Narrated By Blaine Harden
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North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political prison camps, which have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. Very few born and raised in these camps have escaped - but Shin Dong-hyuk did.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Ishmael Beah
• Narrated By Ishmael Beah
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This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than 50 violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived. In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now 26 years old, tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of 12, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.

Little Boy Lost

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 8 mins)
• By J. D. Trafford
• Narrated By JD Jackson
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Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.

Unwind

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Neal Shusterman
• Narrated By Luke Daniels
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Conner's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance.

The Kite Runner

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Khaled Hosseini
• Narrated By Khaled Hosseini

Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.

Everything We Keep: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Kerry Lonsdale
• Narrated By Amy Landon
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Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on their wedding day, Aimee is at James's funeral - a funeral that leaves her more unsettled than at peace.

Ghost

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Jason Reynolds
• Narrated By Guy Lockard
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Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team - a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves.

The Sun Is Also a Star

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Nicola Yoon
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, Raymond Lee, Dominic Hoffman
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I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is 12 hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story.

Monster

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 37 mins)
• By Walter Dean Myers
• Narrated By full cast

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me: Monster.

Animal Farm

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 13 mins)
• By George Orwell
• Narrated By Ralph Cosham
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George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture, quoted so often that we tend to forget who wrote the original words! This must-read is also a must-listen!

Uglies: Uglies, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Scott Westerfeld
• Narrated By Emily Tremaine
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Tally lives in a world where your 16th birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation that erases all your flaws, transforming you from an "Ugly" into a "Pretty". She is on the eve of this important event and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets Shay, who is also 15 - but with a very different outlook on life.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs)
• By John Boyne
• Narrated By Michael Maloney
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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some information about the audiobook, but in this case we think that would spoil the listening. We think it's important that you start to listen without knowing what it is about.

To Kill a Mockingbird

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Harper Lee
• Narrated By Sissy Spacek
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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.

A Long Walk to Water

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Linda Sue Park
• Narrated By David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
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In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle. When Salva's village is attacked, he must embark on a harrowing journey that will propel him through horror and heartbreak, across a harsh desert, and into a strange new life. Years later, in contemporary South Sudan, a girl named Nya must walk eight hours a day to fetch water. The walk is grueling, but there is unexpected hope.

Lilac Girls: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Martha Hall Kelly
• Narrated By Cassandra Campbell, Kathleen Gati, Kathrin Kana, and others
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New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline's world is forever changed when Hitler's army invades Poland in September 1939 - and then sets its sights on France. An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Sherman Alexie
• Narrated By Sherman Alexie

Junior, a budding cartoonist, grows up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, he leaves his troubled school to attend an all-white high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

Inside Out and Back Again

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Thanhha Lai
• Narrated By Doan Ly
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Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall to the communists, 10-year-old Hà, her mother, and brothers are forced to flee their beloved city and head to the United States. But living in a new country isn’t easy for Hà, and she finds adapting to its strange customs ever challenging.

The Wright Brothers

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 2 mins)
• By David McCullough
• Narrated By David McCullough

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story behind the story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly: Wilbur and Orville Wright.

On December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Flyer became the first powered, heavier-than-air machine to achieve controlled, sustained flight with a pilot aboard. The Age of Flight had begun. How did they do it? And why?