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    • A Japanese American World War II Story
    • By: George Takei
    • Narrated by: George Takei
    • Length: 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • February 19, 1942. George Takei is four years old when his world changes forever. Two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares anyone of Japanese descent an enemy of the United States....

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    • A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
    • By: Richard Ovenden
    • Narrated by: Simon Slater
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo....

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    • By: Elisa Carbone
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders—but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her.

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    • The Quest for Freedom of the Spirit in Modern Psychology and the Wisdom of the East
    • By: Alan Watts
    • Narrated by: Kern Schmidt
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • Here, in Alan Watts’s groundbreaking third book (originally published in 1940), he offers a more challenging thesis: authentic happiness comes from embracing life as a whole in all its contradictions and paradoxes, an attitude that Watts calls the “way of acceptance"....

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    • The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
    • By: Monica Edinger, Lesley Younge
    • Narrated by: Clifford Samuel, Henriette Zoutomou
    • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
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    • Millions of Africans were enslaved during the transatlantic slave trade, but few recorded their personal experiences. Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is perhaps the most well known of the autobiographies that exist....

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    • By: New York Public Library, Edmund White
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White....

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    • By: Julia Alvarez
    • Narrated by: Julia Alvarez
    • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family....

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    • American Girl: Historical Character (TM): Addy, Book 1
    • By: Connie Porter
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Series: Addy, Book 1
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • But before they can leave, the most terrible thing Addy can imagine happens—her Poppa and her brother, Sam, are sold! Addy and her Momma decide they must head out on their own....

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    • By: Delia Sherman
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Set against the burgeoning Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and then just before the outbreak of the Civil War, The Freedom Maze explores both political and personal liberation....

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    • The Dove Chronicles, Book 2
    • By: Karen Bao
    • Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest
    • Series: Dove Chronicles, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, she’s been taught to fear the “Earthbound”....

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    • By: Becky Allen
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Jae is a slave in a dying desert world. Once verdant with water from a magical Well, the land is drying up, and no one remembers the magic needed to keep the water flowing....

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    • American Girl
    • By: Tonya Leslie
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Series: Step Into Reading: American Girl
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
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    • Addy Walker escapes a Southern plantation during the turbulent Civil War. Meet Addy as she and her mother make a daring journey from slavery to freedom in 1864. Addy's story is sure to engage young girls as they learn what it was like to be a girl during the Civil War in this book....

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    • By: Julius Lester
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. Julius Lester has written a story that places each of us squarely inside the skin of both slave and slave owner. It will capture the heart of every listener....

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    • By: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
    • Narrated by: Sharon Dennis Wyeth
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
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    • On June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, a group of enslaved men, women, and children in Texas gathered. Order Number 3 was read, proclaiming that they were no longer enslaved—they were free....

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    • By: Gayle Brandeis
    • Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • "My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln." Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated.....

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