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The Freedom Writers Diary
- How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
- Written by: The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Bahni Turpin, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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In 1994, an idealistic first-year teacher in Long Beach, California, named Erin Gruwell confronted a room of “unteachable, at-risk” students. She had intercepted a note with an ugly racial caricature and angrily declared that this was precisely the sort of thing that led to the Holocaust. She was met by uncomprehending looks - none of her students had heard of one of the defining moments of the 20th century. So she rebooted her entire curriculum, using treasured books such as Anne Frank’s diary as her guide to combat intolerance and misunderstanding.
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Great book!
- By drmann30 on 2021-12-15
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The Freedom Writers Diary
- How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman, Bahni Turpin, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2006-01-20
- Language: English
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- Written by: Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong - contributor
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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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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Loved this book
- By 2 TOLLERS on 2023-09-11
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
- Narrated by: Hope Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 2015-05-19
- Language: English
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As Fast as Her
- Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success
- Written by: Kendall Coyne
- Narrated by: Estelle Laure, Kendall Coyne
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
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In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination it took to break down barriers and achieve her dreams against tremendous odds, encouraging young people to follow their passions and never give up.
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Every athlete should listen to this
- By Mel on 2023-03-22
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As Fast as Her
- Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success
- Narrated by: Estelle Laure, Kendall Coyne
- Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-18
- Language: English
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We All Fall Down
- Living with Addiction
- Written by: Nic Sheff
- Narrated by: Charles Carroll
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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In this powerful and immensely engaging follow-up to his first memoir, Sheff picks up where he left off and reveals his first-person account of stints at in-patient rehabilitation facilities, devastating relapses with alcohol and marijuana, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young adult living with addiction.
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Bipolar
- By Krystian on 2023-03-19
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We All Fall Down
- Living with Addiction
- Narrated by: Charles Carroll
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2012-04-13
- Language: English
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Laughing at My Nightmare
- Written by: Shane Burcaw
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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With acerbic wit and a hilarious voice, Shane Burcaw's Laughing at My Nightmare describes the challenges he faces as a 21-year-old with spinal muscular atrophy. From awkward handshakes to having a girlfriend and everything in between, Shane handles his situation with humor and a "you-only-live-once" perspective on life. While he does talk about everyday issues that are relatable to teens, he also offers an eye-opening perspective on what it is like to have a life threatening disease
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Made me feel better!
- By Timothy Stewart on 2019-03-04
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Laughing at My Nightmare
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 2014-10-14
- Language: English
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Failing Up
- How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
- Written by: Leslie Odom Jr.
- Narrated by: Leslie Odom Jr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
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Leslie Odom Jr. burst on the scene in 2015, originating the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton. Since then he has performed for sold-out audiences, sung for the Obamas at the White House, and won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. But before he landed the role of a lifetime in one of the biggest musicals of all time, Odom put in years of hard work as a singer and an actor.
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Inspiring
- By MDT on 2020-09-13
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Failing Up
- How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
- Narrated by: Leslie Odom Jr.
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2018-04-10
- Language: English
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Unfiltered
- No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me
- Written by: Lily Collins
- Narrated by: Lily Collins
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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In her groundbreaking debut essay collection, actress Lily Collins—Golden Globe-nominated star of Rules Don’t Apply, Mortal Instruments, and To the Bone—is opening a poignant, honest conversation about the things young women struggle with: body image, self-confidence, relationships, family, dating, and so much more. Lily shares her life and her own deepest secrets, underlining that every single one of us experiences pain and heartbreak. We all understand what it’s like to live in the light and in the dark. For Lily, it’s about making it through to the other side, where you love what you see in the mirror and where you embrace yourself just as you are. She's learned that all it takes is one person standing up and saying something for everyone else to realize they’re not alone. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Lily’s honest voice will inspire you to be who you are and say what you feel. It’s time to claim your voice! It’s time to live your life unfiltered.
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Unfiltered
- No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me
- Narrated by: Lily Collins
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-07
- Language: English
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years
- Growing Up in the Holocaust
- Written by: Livia Bitton-Jackson
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family - life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details she recounts what it was like.
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- By Janine ellis on 2022-09-12
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I Have Lived a Thousand Years
- Growing Up in the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 2013-05-14
- Language: English
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Hole in My Life
- Written by: Jack Gantos
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
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This prizewinning author of over thirty books for young people confronts the period of struggle and confinement that marked the end of his own youth. On the surface, the narrative tumbles from one crazed moment to the next as Gantos pieces together the story of his restless final year of high school, his short-lived career as a criminal, and his time in prison.
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Hole in My Life
- Narrated by: Jack Gantos
- Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 2003-11-07
- Language: English
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Taking Flight
- From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
- Written by: Elaine DePrince, Michaela DePrince
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
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Michaela DePrince was known as girl no. 27 at the orphanage where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a "devil child" for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life. At the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes.
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Taking Flight
- From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2015-10-13
- Language: English
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Death in the Jungle
- Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
- Written by: Candace Fleming
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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Using riveting first-person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming reveals the makings of a monster: from Jones’s humble origins as a child of the Depression… to his founding of a group whose idealistic promises of equality and justice attracted thousands of followers… to his relocation of Temple headquarters from California to an unsettled territory in Guyana, South America, which he dubbed "Jonestown”… to his transformation of Peoples Temple into a nefarious experiment in mind-control.
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Death in the Jungle
- Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2025-04-29
- Language: English
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Shout
- Written by: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
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Best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about and advocates for survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published 20 years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless.
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Shout
- Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2019-03-12
- Language: English
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The Maddie Diaries
- A Memoir
- Written by: Maddie Ziegler
- Narrated by: Maddie Ziegler
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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Maddie Ziegler had hoped to become a star - she just didn't know how soon that day would come. At just eight years old, she was cast on Lifetime's hit reality show Dance Moms and quickly won the hearts of fans everywhere with her natural talent and determination. Soon she was catching eyes all over - including those of pop superstar Sia, who handpicked her to star in the incredibly popular music video "Chandelier". The rest, as they say, was history.
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The Maddie Diaries
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Maddie Ziegler
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2017-03-07
- Language: English
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Samurai Rising
- The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Written by: Pamela S. Turner
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family - and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his surviving half-brother banished. Yoshitsune was sent away to live in a monastery. Skinny, small, and unskilled in the warrior arts, he nevertheless escaped and learned the ways of the samurai.
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Engaging treatment of historical material
- By A. Gottfred on 2024-02-23
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Samurai Rising
- The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2016-08-17
- Language: English
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This Star Won't Go Out
- The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
- Written by: Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl, and others
- Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio, Nick Podehl, John Green, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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A collection of the journals, fiction, and letters of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.
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This Star Won't Go Out
- The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
- Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio, Nick Podehl, John Green, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl, Amy McFadden, Luke Daniels, Joyce Bean, Kate Rudd, Tanya Eby
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2014-01-28
- Language: English
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Hidden Girl
- The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
- Written by: Shyima Hall, Lisa Wysocky
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery. Shyima then moved two hours away to Egypt's capitol city of Cairo to live with a wealthy family and serve them eighteen hours a day, seven days a week. When she was ten, her captors moved to Orange County, California, and smuggled Shyima with them. Two years later, an anonymous call from a neighbor brought about the end of Shyima's servitude - but her journey to true freedom was far from over.
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Hidden Girl
- The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
- Narrated by: Robin Eller
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2014-06-25
- Language: English
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I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior
- Memoirs of an American Soldier
- Written by: Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior is the dramatic tale of how Howard Wasdin overcame a tough childhood to live his dream and enter the exciting and dangerous world of US Navy SEALs and Special Forces snipers. This is Howard Wasdin's story of overcoming abuse and beating the odds to become an elite American warrior.
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I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior
- Memoirs of an American Soldier
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2022-03-29
- Language: English
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Beyond the Board
- The Untold Story of the World's Most Daring Big Wave Surfer
- Written by: Maya Gabeira
- Narrated by: Maya Gabeira
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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In this YA memoir, pro surfer Maya Gabeira tells the awe-inspiring true story of her journey from unstoppable teenager to the Guinness World Record–holding legend she is today.
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Beyond the Board
- The Untold Story of the World's Most Daring Big Wave Surfer
- Narrated by: Maya Gabeira
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 2025-06-10
- Language: English
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The Upside of Hunger
- A True Tale
- Written by: Roxi Harms
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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He fled his village in eastern Hungary to escape his father's iron fist. But now, fighting for the SS, he's facing starvation on the Eastern Front as the deluge of enemy fire from the Russian army comes closer every hour.
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The Upside of Hunger
- A True Tale
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2024-05-31
- Language: English
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Facing the Lion
- Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
- Written by: Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton, Herman Viola
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton is a Maasai tribesman of Kenya. In this fascinating autobiography, he shares stories about growing up in his nomadic tribe - from licking sweat off cows’ noses to survive a drought, to facing down a lion at age 14, to playing soccer for the president of Kenya. The only member of his family to receive a formal education, Joseph sometimes lived as much as 40 miles away from school. While at school, he learned about Western culture and traditions.
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Facing the Lion
- Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 2013-02-27
- Language: English
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