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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
    • By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2024
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 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 Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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    • By: Tania Therien
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-2024
    • 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 True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 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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    • My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
    • By: Jere Van Dyk
    • Narrated by: Jere Van Dyk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book. For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses....

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    • By: Adam Eli
    • Narrated by: Adam Eli
    • Length: 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In The New Queer Conscience, LGBTQIA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility - that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2022
    • 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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    • Twice Toward Justice
    • By: Phillip Hoose
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-2009
    • Language: English
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    • On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama....

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    • 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
    • By: Christopher Phillips
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-2024
    • 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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    • A Quiz Across 18 Topics Including Dinosaurs, Sports, Space and History
    • By: Aldous Williams
    • Narrated by: Matthew Greene
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Welcome to our collection of 725 multiple choice trivia questions across 18 topics, from oceans to music. Questions are grouped into topics, and each has four possible multiple-choice answers. At the end of each question, you'll hear the right answer....

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    • By: Kerry Drewery, Natsko Seki
    • Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek, Rina Takasaki
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima....

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    • Life in Native America
    • By: David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was 100 years ago....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Born during the Industrial Revolution on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.

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    • The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse
    • By: Jerome M. Segal
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The Olive Branch from Palestine provides a new narrative of the Palestinian effort to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and offers a bold plan for ending this conflict today....

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    • A Life
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christine Kiphart
    • Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 30-06-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Gloria Steinem was no stranger to injustice even from a young age. Her mother, Ruth, having suffered a nervous breakdown at only 34, spent much of Gloria's childhood in and out of mental-health facilities....

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