Showing results by publisher "Listening Library" in Biographies
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
- My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
- Written by: Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley
- Narrated by: Damaras Obi
- Length: 1 hr
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As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed nine times before her 15th birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr., for the rights of African Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young listeners what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history.
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Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
- My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
- Narrated by: Damaras Obi
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 2017-05-02
- Language: English
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The Poet Slave of Cuba
- A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
- Written by: Margarita Engle
- Narrated by: Yesenia Cabrero, Chris Nunez, Ozzie Rodriguez, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
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Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty.
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The Poet Slave of Cuba
- A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
- Narrated by: Yesenia Cabrero, Chris Nunez, Ozzie Rodriguez, Roberto Santana
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2009-05-12
- Language: English
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The Duel
- The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Written by: Judith St. George
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college - one at Princeton, the other at Columbia - and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and opprobrium for the other?
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The Duel
- The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2016-10-04
- Language: English
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Leaving Glorytown
- One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
- Written by: Eduardo Calcines
- Narrated by: Eduardo Calcines
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castros Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was 10, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his schoolmates and even his teachers for being a traitor to his country. But even worse, his father was sent to an agricultural reform camp to do hard labor as punishment for daring to want to leave Cuba.
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Leaving Glorytown
- One Boy's Struggle Under Castro
- Narrated by: Eduardo Calcines
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2010-04-06
- Language: English
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Your Own, Sylvia
- Written by: Stephanie Hemphill
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Your Own, Sylvia draws on Plath’s writing and extensive non-fiction sources, chronicling Hemphill’s interpretation of Plath’s life from infancy to her death by suicide at age 30. The poems are arranged chronologically and each conveys an experience in Plath’s life told via the voice and perspective of family members, friends, doctors, fellow writers, etc. - as interpreted by Hemphill. Each poem is accompanied by an addendum that further explains the factual circumstances of that poem’s subject.
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Your Own, Sylvia
- Narrated by: uncredited
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2009-03-03
- Language: English
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
- Written by: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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On a bitter cold day in January 1741, Benedict Arnold was born. Little did anyone know that he would grow up to become the most infamous villain in American history. But first, he would be one of the country's greatest war heroes. Fearless in the line of fire, a genius at strategy and motivating his men, General Arnold was America's first action hero. But his thirst for recognition would ultimately be his undoing.
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold
- A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2012-07-10
- Language: English
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Discovering Wes Moore (The Young Adult Adaptation)
- Written by: Wes Moore
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
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Through the telling of events from his own life, Wes Moore (author of the best-selling adult title The Other Wes Moore) explores the issues that separate success and failure. He also counterpoints his story with another man, someone who shared the same name, was almost the same age, grew up fatherless in a similar Baltimore neighborhood, but is serving a life sentence for murder. Compelled to write to the other Wes, the author was surprised to receive a reply. And so began a friendship, as letters turned into visits and the two men got to know one another.
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Discovering Wes Moore (The Young Adult Adaptation)
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2013-06-11
- Language: English
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Pieces of a Girl
- Written by: Stephanie Kuehnert
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kuehnert
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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A raw and bold memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of expression and community that helped Stephanie Kuehnert, the author of Ballads of Suburbia and regular Rookie contributor, survive and thrive. Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the memoir of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to become a strong young woman after years and years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape.
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Pieces of a Girl
- Narrated by: Stephanie Kuehnert
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2024-03-26
- Language: English
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Queer Power!
- Icons, Activists & Game Changers from Across the Rainbow
- Written by: Dom&Ink
- Narrated by: Nicky Endres
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
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In a follow-up to Free to Be Me, DOM&INK returns with a collection of essays that highlight modern-day LGBTQIA+ pioneers who have changed the world—from well-known public figures and allies to up-and-comers you'll wish you'd heard of earlier.
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Queer Power!
- Icons, Activists & Game Changers from Across the Rainbow
- Narrated by: Nicky Endres
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 2023-04-18
- Language: English
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Spinoza
- The Outcast Thinker (Philosophy for Young People)
- Written by: Devra Lehmann
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs
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A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza⏤formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza⏤quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those ideas prove so scandalous to his own Jewish community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their communal life. The scandal shows no sign of waning as his ideas spread throughout Europe. At the center of the storm, he lives the simplest of lives, quietly devoted to his work as a lens grinder and to his steadfast search for truth, striving to embody a philosophy of tolerance and benevolence.
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Spinoza
- The Outcast Thinker (Philosophy for Young People)
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 6 hrs
- Release date: 2023-08-15
- Language: English
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Socrates
- A Life Worth Living (Philosophy for Young People)
- Written by: Devra Lehmann
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of Athens, but his most important contribution was to challenge the people around him to test their ideas and beliefs in conversation with each other, in the belief that in this way we could become a society that knows the difference between truth and falsehood, and find what makes a life worthwhile.
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Socrates
- A Life Worth Living (Philosophy for Young People)
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2022-12-13
- Language: English
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