Bestsellers
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My Lady Jane
- By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At 16, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne....
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Hysterical Alternate History
- By JGillSt on 06-17-16
By: Cynthia Hand, and others
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1776
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence....
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Front Seat on History
- By Mark on 10-22-05
By: David McCullough
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....
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First review I've written - Had to write it
- By Cynthianna on 12-21-10
By: Anne Frank
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Chain of Gold
- The Last Hours
- By: Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin....
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New Narrator Please!
- By ddavis.97 on 03-04-20
By: Cassandra Clare
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Prisoner B-3087
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face....
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Disturbing Good Story
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-08-17
By: Alan Gratz
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Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)
- An Olympian's Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive
- By: Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating young adult edition of her award-winning number one New York Times best seller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory....
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Great Audio Book for Parents & Kids In The Car
- By Auroramyst on 04-10-15
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My Lady Jane
- By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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At 16, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne....
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Hysterical Alternate History
- By JGillSt on 06-17-16
By: Cynthia Hand, and others
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1776
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: David McCullough
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence....
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Front Seat on History
- By Mark on 10-22-05
By: David McCullough
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
- The Definitive Edition
- By: Anne Frank
- Narrated by: Selma Blair
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic - a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit....
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First review I've written - Had to write it
- By Cynthianna on 12-21-10
By: Anne Frank
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Chain of Gold
- The Last Hours
- By: Cassandra Clare
- Narrated by: Finty Williams
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Cordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin....
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New Narrator Please!
- By ddavis.97 on 03-04-20
By: Cassandra Clare
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Prisoner B-3087
- By: Alan Gratz
- Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten concentration camps. Ten different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face....
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Disturbing Good Story
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-08-17
By: Alan Gratz
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Unbroken (The Young Adult Adaptation)
- An Olympian's Journey From Airman to Castaway to Captive
- By: Laura Hillenbrand
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In this captivating young adult edition of her award-winning number one New York Times best seller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian's courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory....
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Great Audio Book for Parents & Kids In The Car
- By Auroramyst on 04-10-15
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The Aeneid
- By: Virgil
- Narrated by: Simon Callow
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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With this stunning modern verse translation, Robert Fagles reintroduces Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation....
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Good but the chapters aren't IN ORDER
- By Maggie on 10-18-17
By: Virgil
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The Fountains of Silence
- By: Ruta Sepetys
- Narrated by: Ruta Sepetys, Maite Jáuregui, Richard Ferrone, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is 18-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon....
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Fantastic listen!
- By Jen on 04-07-20
By: Ruta Sepetys
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Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun
- By: Guillermo del Toro, Cornelia Funke
- Narrated by: Thom Rivera
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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This spellbinding tale takes listeners to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family....
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Wow. The movie was beautiful, the book, genius.
- By Rachael on 07-05-19
By: Guillermo del Toro, and others
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
- A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
- By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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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You can't fight what you don't know-Jason Reynolds
- By C. Owens on 06-14-20
By: Jason Reynolds, and others
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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This is an unforgettable narrative that captures the essence of heroism, the power of loyalty, and the way in which the unadorned truth is more stirring than legend itself....
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Outstanding
- By John on 04-17-04
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Chasing Lincoln's Killer
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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This fast-paced thriller tells the story of the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth and gives a day-by-day account of the wild chase to find this killer and his accomplices....
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Superb in Every Way
- By Lanna S. Seuret on 11-26-13
By: James L. Swanson
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Lovely War
- By: Julie Berry
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A critically acclaimed, multilayered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates - and the hearts - of four mortals in their hands....
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Wonderful WW1 Book
- By Jennifer on 05-11-19
By: Julie Berry
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The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler
- By: William L. Shirer
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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American journalist and author William L. Shirer was a war correspondent for six years in Nazi Germany, having a front-row seat to Hitler’s rise in influence and power....
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Shirer and Gardner--perfect together!
- By CD318 on 07-08-20
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American Royals
- By: Katharine McGee
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare....
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Rushed
- By Olivia Benson on 10-03-19
By: Katharine McGee
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Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer, Monique Gray Smith - adapter
- Narrated by: Monique Gray Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass....
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The way we all should live.
- By Robert G. Lavoie on 06-08-23
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer, and others
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Capturing the Devil
- By: Kerri Maniscalco
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Audrey Rose and Thomas are on the hunt for the depraved, elusive killer known as the White City Devil. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse has them fighting to stay one step ahead of the brilliant serial killer - or see their fateful romance cut short by unspeakable tragedy....
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Season 8 of Game of Thrones
- By Cheekyreviews on 12-10-19
By: Kerri Maniscalco
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No Summit out of Sight
- The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits
- By: Jordan Romero, Linda LeBlanc - contributor
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Jordan Romero climbed Mount Everest at age 13 - and he didn't stop there. In this inspiring young adult memoir, he tells how he achieved such great heights....
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Great book. Very inspiring for the youth of today.
- By Amazon Customer on 08-31-20
By: Jordan Romero, and others
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Hurdles in the Dark
- My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
- By: Elvira K. Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Elvira K. Gonzalez
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Educated meets Athlete A in this YA memoir about survival and strength by Elvira Gonzalez, a Mexican-American track star who found freedom from poverty and violence by becoming one of the top U.S. athletes.
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Honest & Brave
- By Lilyc on 06-10-24
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Enola Holmes and the Boy in Buttons
- By: Nancy Springer
- Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne
- Length: 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Nancy Springer's nationally best-selling series and breakout Netflix sensation is back! Enola Holmes is on the case, when a young porter - the boy in buttons - disappears without a trace....
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Not a book it is one chapter, don't bother
- By Cynthia Peterson on 10-23-21
By: Nancy Springer
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
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Awesome
- By Mike on 10-02-19
By: Gary Paulsen
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A Young People's History of the United States
- By: Rebecca Stefoff, Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in stories for young people....
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An Inclusive History for Young People
- By Susie on 03-17-14
By: Rebecca Stefoff, and others
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
- By: Mackenzi Lee
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s in this hilarious and swashbuckling stand-alone teen historical fiction novel....
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My absolute FAVORITE audio book ever
- By SarahBelle on 07-27-17
By: Mackenzi Lee
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The World's Best Short Stories
- 127 Funny Short Stories About Unbelievable Stuff that Actually Happened
- By: Bill O'Neill
- Narrated by: Robin LaRose
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The World's Best Short Stories is a compendium of crazy and oddly funny stories from different periods across human history. You’ll learn about pompous politicians, admirable animals, and some very strange oddballs....
By: Bill O'Neill
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The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
- By: Candace Fleming
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Eugene Alper, Mark Deakins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs - at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing....
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terrible narration
- By michael on 09-09-14
By: Candace Fleming
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Out of The Easy
- By: Ruta Sepetys
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, 17-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own....
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Easy to Love
- By FanB14 on 02-27-13
By: Ruta Sepetys
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Apple
- Skin to the Core
- By: Eric Gansworth
- Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....
By: Eric Gansworth
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Ghosts of the Shadow Market
- By: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and others
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel....
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Great wrap up
- By B on 06-11-19
By: Cassandra Clare, and others
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
- By: Antonio Iturbe, Lilit Thwaites - translator, Dita Kraus - prologue
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The Librarian of Auschwitz is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust....
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
- By Anne Swan on 05-31-18
By: Antonio Iturbe, and others
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- By: Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong - contributor
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Irene Gut was just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it....
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Gripping Memoir
- By Simone on 10-04-16
By: Irene Gut Opdyke, and others
Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction
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Beyond the Bright Sea
- By: Lauren Wolk
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Lauren Wolk
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family. Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
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Depth
- By Cherie N on 12-03-17
By: Lauren Wolk
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Dead End in Norvelt
- By: Jack Gantos
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town.
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Can't believe it won the Newberry...
- By Jan on 02-06-12
By: Jack Gantos
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Finding Langston
- By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and Langston is bullied at school. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.
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I loved it so much
- By Jessica Roman on 08-31-20
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One Crazy Summer
- By: Rita Williams-Garcia
- Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern travel to Oakland to meet their mother, Cecil, who abandoned their family years earlier. But even when Cecil gets them to her house, she shows no interest and seems to view them as nothing but a nuisance.
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Great family road trip book!
- By Iris J. Scott Love on 03-16-16
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The Green Glass Sea
- By: Ellen Klages
- Narrated by: Julie Dretzin
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This first novel from Nebula Award-winning short story writer Ellen Klages was picked as a Junior Library Guild selection and named a Book Sense Number-One Children's Pick. It follows a young girl named Dewey, whose father is part of a super-secret project in 1943 Los Alamos. Dewey, a gifted scientist herself, slowly realizes the implications of "the gadget" her father is working on. She and Suze, another Los Alamos child, find comfort in each other's friendship.
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Wonderful!
- By Rita on 12-08-08
By: Ellen Klages
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The Hired Girl
- By: Laura Amy Schlitz
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14-year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. But she has little freedom and less support from her family for her love of reading and blossoming interest in education.
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I loved this book! Recommend it to everyone!
- By Gail Hayes on 07-19-16
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Beyond the Bright Sea
- By: Lauren Wolk
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Lauren Wolk
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family. Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar.
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Depth
- By Cherie N on 12-03-17
By: Lauren Wolk
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Dead End in Norvelt
- By: Jack Gantos
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore—typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town.
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Can't believe it won the Newberry...
- By Jan on 02-06-12
By: Jack Gantos
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Finding Langston
- By: Lesa Cline-Ransome
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and Langston is bullied at school. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.
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I loved it so much
- By Jessica Roman on 08-31-20
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One Crazy Summer
- By: Rita Williams-Garcia
- Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern travel to Oakland to meet their mother, Cecil, who abandoned their family years earlier. But even when Cecil gets them to her house, she shows no interest and seems to view them as nothing but a nuisance.
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Great family road trip book!
- By Iris J. Scott Love on 03-16-16
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The Green Glass Sea
- By: Ellen Klages
- Narrated by: Julie Dretzin
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This first novel from Nebula Award-winning short story writer Ellen Klages was picked as a Junior Library Guild selection and named a Book Sense Number-One Children's Pick. It follows a young girl named Dewey, whose father is part of a super-secret project in 1943 Los Alamos. Dewey, a gifted scientist herself, slowly realizes the implications of "the gadget" her father is working on. She and Suze, another Los Alamos child, find comfort in each other's friendship.
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Wonderful!
- By Rita on 12-08-08
By: Ellen Klages
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The Hired Girl
- By: Laura Amy Schlitz
- Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since the untimely death of her mother, 14-year-old Joan Skraggs has been desperately unhappy. Under the thumb of her cruel father and three sullen brothers, Joan lives like a servant on their farm just outside of Lancaster, forever cooking, cleaning, and attending to the many demands of the home. But she has little freedom and less support from her family for her love of reading and blossoming interest in education.
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I loved this book! Recommend it to everyone!
- By Gail Hayes on 07-19-16
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Morning Girl
- By: Michael Dorris
- Narrated by: Eliza, Reilly Duggan
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Through the alternating voices of 12-year-old Morning Girl and her younger brother Star Boy, we step into the extraordinarily rich lives of an indigenous family on a Bahamian Island in 1492, just as their paradise is about to be discovered and a new world order begins to take shape.
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thoughtful and reflective
- By Laura H on 04-06-06
By: Michael Dorris
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Dash
- By: Kirby Larson
- Narrated by: Kathy Hsieh
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII. Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Mitsi never expects to lose her home - or her beloved dog, Dash. But, as World War II rages and people of Japanese descent are forced into incarceration camps, Mitsi is separated from Dash, her classmates, and life as she knows it.
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By: Kirby Larson
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Full of Beans
- By: Jennifer L. Holm
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne, Jennifer L. Holm
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows for sure. He and his gang know how to spot a whopper a mile away, because they are the savviest bunch of barefoot conchs (that means "locals") in all of Key West. Not that Beans really minds. It's 1934, the middle of the Great Depression. With no jobs on the island and no money anywhere, who can really blame the grown-ups for telling a few tales? Besides, Beans isn't anyone's fool. In fact he has plans. Big plans. And the consequences might surprise even Beans himself.
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- By Joane on 11-04-23
By: Jennifer L. Holm
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The Game of Silence
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. It is 1850 and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows.
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Beautiful book
- By Winona Nelson on 05-03-17
By: Louise Erdrich
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Jip, His Story
- By: Katherine Paterson
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 5 hrs
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They tell Jip he tumbled off the back of a wagon when he was small, and no one ever came back for him. He never had a reason to question this tale - but then a stranger shows up and begins asking about him around town. Who is this man, and could he possibly know something about Jip's past?
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Out of the Dust
- By: Karen Hesse
- Narrated by: Marika Mashburn
- Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
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Billie Jo has a great deal to forgive: Her father for causing the accident that killed her mother; her mother for leaving when Billie Jo needed her most; and herself for being the cause of her own sorrow. Daddy's too wrung out to help her, and there's no one else to care. So at 14, Billie Jo must heal herself - even if it means tearing up her roots and leaving behind everything she's ever known.
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Excellent story! Fast read!
- By Rebecca on 10-08-12
By: Karen Hesse
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Under the Blood-Red Sun
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- By: Graham Salisbury
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested. It’s a terrifying time to be Japanese in America. But one thing doesn’t change: the loyalty of Tomi’s buddies, the Rats.
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Great younger YA historical fiction
- By Jan on 09-12-14
By: Graham Salisbury
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The Art of Keeping Cool
- By: Janet Taylor Lisle
- Narrated by: Charles Carroll
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
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As Robert watches the townspeople's hostility toward the German Artist Hoffman build, he worries about his sensitive cousin Elliot's friendship with the artist. And he wonders more and more about the family secret everyone seems to be keeping from him - a secret involving Robert's father, a bomber pilot in Europe. Will Elliot's ability to detach himself from the turmoil around him be enough to sustain him when prejudice and suspicions erupt into violence? And can Robert find a way to deal with the truth about his family's past?
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Wonderful!
- By Carolynn on 03-11-13
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The Bomb
- By: Theodore Taylor
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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The winner of the Scott O’Dell Award, The Bomb is a powerful history lesson and a gripping tale of suspense that no listener will ever forget. In 1946, 16-year-old Sorry Rinamu watches as U.S. Navy warships appear off the coast of Bikini Island. The U.S. Government wants to test the deadly power of the atomic bomb—and Sorry’s island has been chosen as the test site. The young man knows he must stop the Americans from dropping the bomb—even if it means defying orders from the U.S. Government and risking his own life.
By: Theodore Taylor
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The Fighting Ground
- By: Avi
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Jonathan’s older brother is away fighting with General Washington in Pennsylvania. But at 13, Jonathan is too young to fight. Still too young. Then one morning, April 3, 1778, the tavern bell sounds, calling men to arms. Eager to prove his mettle, with blood pounding in his ears, Jonathan joins the gathering men at the tavern to hear the news. With a 12-pound, six-foot-long flintlock musket loaned to him by the tavern keeper, Jonathan finds a place in with the other men, marching to battle.
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Unbelievable events, dangerous ideas, ant-war
- By Susan M. "Suzy" Oliver on 09-11-14
By: Avi
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Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
- By: Harriette Gillem Robinet
- Narrated by: Andrea Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Twelve-year-old Pascal can hardly believe his ears. His older, run-away brother has returned to the plantation with an amazing story: President Lincoln has freed the slaves. Not only that, each newly-freed family can have 40 acres of land and maybe a mule, just for the asking. Now all Pascal and his brother have to do is sneak away from their angry master - and find out where the government is giving away farmland.
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Great book!
- By LM on 09-09-23
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Bull Run
- By: Paul Fleischman
- Narrated by: Paul Fleischman
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Bull Run was the site of the first battle of the Civil War. This book creates an intimate tapestry of stories from blacks and whites, adults and children, leaders and families from the North and South. Broken dreams and bloodshed take you back to the front lines of the Battle of Bull Run.
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Great book!
- By LaShanda on 07-04-16
By: Paul Fleischman
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