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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
    • By: Elaine Marie Alphin
    • Narrated by: Kevin Orton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Relying on primary source documents and painstaking research, award-winning novelist Elaine Alphin tells the true story of justice undone in America....

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    • American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap....

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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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    • 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: George M. Johnson
    • Narrated by: George M. Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • 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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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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