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    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,568 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Dinah Brown, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad....

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    • By: Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Koren Paul
    • Series: What-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the amazing life of the former world No. 1 tennis player who fought for gender equality in sports! Billie Jean King's legacy as a tennis star, a feminist, and an LGBTQ+ trailblazer shines through in this addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series....

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    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers....

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    • Fighting for Justice
    • By: Laura Atkins, Stan Yogi
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii, Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The story of Fred Korematsu’s fight against discrimination explores the life of one courageous person who made the United States a fairer place for all Americans, and it encourages all of us to speak up for justice....

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    • Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History...and Our Future!
    • By: Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet - but instead of "A is for apple", A is for Angela - as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist....

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    • One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
    • By: Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
    • Narrated by: Donna Allen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, 14-year-old Jo Ann Allen was one of 12 African American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee....

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    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
    • By: Patricia McCormick
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Each book in the series focuses on a particular character trait that made that role model heroic. For example, Rosa Parks dared to stand up for herself and other African Americans by staying seated, and helped end public bus segregation and launch the country’s Civil Rights Movement....

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    • Fannie Lou Hamer - Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Carole Boston Weatherford
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • When Helen Keller was very young, she got a rare disease that made her deaf and blind. Suddenly, she couldn't see or hear at all, and it was hard for her to communicate with anyone. But when she was six years old, she met someone who changed her life forever: her teacher, Annie Sullivan....

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    • Fifty LGBTQ+ People Who Made History
    • By: Sarah Prager
    • Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
    • Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused LGBTQ+ biography collection takes listeners on an eye-opening journey through the lives of 50 influential queer figures who have made a mark on every century of human existence....

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    • How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
    • By: Robert H. Mayer, Leslie-Burl McLemore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder....

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