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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • Written by: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2020-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • Written by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • Written by: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • Written by: Tania Therien
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-10-08
    • Language: English
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    • Thomas Edison first developed direct current for New York City, but was challenged by Nikola Tesla, who believed his alternating current was a better solution.

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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • Written by: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

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    • 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
    • Written by: Christopher Phillips
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States.

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    • From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
    • Written by: Rebecca Stefoff, Charles Mann
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-07
    • Language: English
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    • 1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the 15th century to the present....

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    • Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2013-01-18
    • Language: English
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    • With painstaking research and her unique narrative style, award-winning author Ann Bausum makes the history of immigration in America come alive for young people....

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    • Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Natalia Payne
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2013-08-23
    • Language: English
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    • This book chronicles the long history of the fight for women's voting rights....

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    • Written by: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • Written by: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
    • Written by: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-10
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau.

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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • Written by: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy
    • Written by: Kenneth C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Terrence Kidd, Kenneth C. Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the best-selling author of the Don't Know Much About books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritarianism, and the reigns of five of history's deadliest dictators....

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    • Written by: Ella Burakowski
    • Narrated by: Theresa Tova
    • Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • When Poland is invaded in WWII, the Gold family sticks together in horrific conditions to survive....

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    • How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
    • Written by: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-18
    • Language: English
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    • Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

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    • Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
    • Written by: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away....

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