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  • I Will Always Write Back Audiobook By Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch cover art

    • I Will Always Write Back

    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,568 ratings

    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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  • Who Is Malala Yousafzai? Audiobook By Dinah Brown, Who HQ cover art

    • Who Is Malala Yousafzai?

    • Who Was?
    • By: Dinah Brown, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change....

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  • Who Is Billie Jean King? Audiobook By Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ cover art

    • Who Is Billie Jean King?

    • By: Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Koren Paul
    • Series: What-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the amazing life of the former world No. 1 tennis player who fought for gender equality in sports! Billie Jean King's legacy as a tennis star, a feminist, and an LGBTQ+ trailblazer shines through in this addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling Series....

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  • Harriet Tubman: Freedombound Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

    • Harriet Tubman: Freedombound

    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings

    • At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad....

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  • Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History Audiobook By Vashti Harrison cover art

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  • Who Was John Lewis? Audiobook By Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ cover art

    • Who Was John Lewis?

    • Who Was?
    • By: Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series....

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  • Who Was Helen Keller? Audiobook By Gare Thompson cover art

    • Who Was Helen Keller?

    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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  • Rad American Women A-Z Audiobook By Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl cover art

    • Rad American Women A-Z

    • Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History...and Our Future!
    • By: Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Like all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet - but instead of "A is for apple", A is for Angela - as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist....

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  • This Promise of Change Audiobook By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy cover art

    • This Promise of Change

    • One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality
    • By: Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
    • Narrated by: Donna Allen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, 14-year-old Jo Ann Allen was one of 12 African American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee....

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  • The Plot to Kill Hitler Audiobook By Patricia McCormick cover art

    • The Plot to Kill Hitler

    • Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
    • By: Patricia McCormick
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • It was April 5, 1943, and the Gestapo would arrive any minute. Dietrich Bonhoeffer had been expecting this day for a long time....

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  • George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

    • George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist

    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings

    • Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers....

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  • She Persisted: Dolores Huerta Audiobook By Monica Brown, Chelsea Clinton - introduction cover art

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  • I Am Rosa Parks Audiobook By Brad Meltzer cover art

    • I Am Rosa Parks

    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Each book in the series focuses on a particular character trait that made that role model heroic. For example, Rosa Parks dared to stand up for herself and other African Americans by staying seated, and helped end public bus segregation and launch the country’s Civil Rights Movement....

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  • Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: Volume Two Audiobook By Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines cover art

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  • Becoming Kareem Audiobook By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld cover art

    • Becoming Kareem

    • Growing Up on and off the Court
    • By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
    • Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....

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  • Who Was Gandhi? Audiobook By Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ cover art

    • Who Was Gandhi?

    • By: Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Gandhi spent the later part of his life working to make India independent. Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, he led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the world. Gandhi is recognized internationally as a symbol of hope, peace, and freedom....

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  • Call Him Jack Audiobook By Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long cover art

    • Call Him Jack

    • The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
    • By: Yohuru Williams, Michael G. Long
    • Narrated by: Torian Brackett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • From two prominent Robinson scholars comes an enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights....

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  • Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Audiobook By Bonnie Bader cover art

    • Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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  • Elizabeth Fry: Angel of Newgate Audiobook By Janet Benge, Geoff Benge cover art

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  • Rolling Warrior Audiobook By Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner cover art

    • Rolling Warrior

    • The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for fans of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong....

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