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    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....

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    • The Coalwood Series, Book 1
    • By: Homer Hickam
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Series: Coalwood, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-11
    • Language: English
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    • The New York Times best-selling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir....

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    • The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
    • By: Katherine Johnson
    • Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The inspiring autobiography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, who helped launch Apollo 11....

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    • By: Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • A college dropout, Jobs took unconventional steps in his path to success and inspired the best and the brightest to come with him and "change the world"....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
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    • On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million people, proclaimed his step a giant leap for mankind....

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    • By: Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and developed techniques to grow crops better.

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    • A Chance at Life (Heroes of History)
    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • As a child growing up in Detroit, Ben Carson (1951-) has a dream of becoming a physician, a dream that rose out of struggles with poverty, racism, and poor grades. As Ben persevered and strove for academic excellence, his life became one of compassion and service....

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    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a problem anyone can relate to....

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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north....

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    • By: Margaret Frith
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope....

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    • By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Listeners of all ages will cherish this beautiful story about a real man whose discoveries changed the way the world saw snow....

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    • The Giants of Science Series, Book 5
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: The Giants of Science
    • Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Albert Einstein: His name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar - the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity....

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    • By: Kate Boehm Jerome
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. From her early years to her mysterious 1937 disappearance while attempting a flight around the world, listeners will find Amelia Earhart's life a fascinating story....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Patricia Brennan Demuth
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name - a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the 16th century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge....

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    • By: Jean Fritz
    • Narrated by: Jean Fritz
    • Length: 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • A new idea always in his mind, Ben Franklin's joy of living, his humor and ingenuity capture children's attention and spark their interest in American history....

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    • By: Megan Stine
    • Narrated by: Sarah Scott
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics....

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