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Spirit Sleuths
- How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
- By: Gail Jarrow
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
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After millions of people died during World War I and from the 1918 influenza pandemic, the popularity of Spiritualism soared. Desperate to communicate with their dead loved ones, the bereaved fell prey to extortion by fraudulent mediums and fortune-tellers. But magician Harry Houdini wasn't fooled. He recognized the scammers' methods as no more than conjurer's tricks. Angered by the way people were exploited, Houdini set out to expose the ghost hoaxes.
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Spirit Sleuths
- How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes
- Narrated by: Mia Barron
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)
- By: Jonathan Eig, Yohuru Williams - adapter, Michael G. Long - adapter
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
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Often regarded as more of a myth and legend than man, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was many things throughout his storied life: student, activist, preacher, dreamer, father, husband. From his Atlanta childhood centered in the historically Black neighborhood of Sweet Auburn to his precipitous rise as a civil rights leader on the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Montgomery, Dr. King would go on to become one of the most recognizable, influential, and controversial persons of the twentieth century.
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King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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Death in the Jungle
- Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
- By: Candace Fleming
- Length: 8 hrs
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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
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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Discovering Life's Story: Biology's Beginning
- By: Joy Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs
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hen did we start learning the scientific secrets of life? Step back to the Islamic Golden Age, when scholars ask questions about life science and medicine that will establish those fields. Chart a path through the Renaissance, as Leonardo da Vinci dissects cadavers by candlelight to learn human anatomy firsthand. In this first of four volumes spanning hundreds of years of scientific innovation and discovery, follow the evolution of life science up to the late 1800s, when a Dutch biologist finds a tiny infectious particle destroying tobacco crops and gives this particle a new name: virus.
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Discovering Life's Story: Biology's Beginning
- Series: Discovering Life's Story, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 01-28-25
- Language: English
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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- By: Joy Hakim
- Length: 4 hrs
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Can species change? Or go extinct? In the eighteenth century, most people answer no to both questions. But in the century that follows, that certainty gets challenged as some people in Europe question the common belief that all creatures are the same as they’ve been since life’s creation. The Evolution of an Idea, the second volume of Discovering Life’s Story, opens with the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus, who attempts to create an organizing system for the myriad forms of life on earth.
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Discovering Life's Story: The Evolution of an Idea
- Series: Discovering Life's Story, Book 2
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 01-28-25
- Language: English
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A Most Perilous World
- The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery
- By: Kristina R. Gaddy
- Length: 7 hrs
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The stories of the four teenage children of prominent abolitionists before and during the Civil War combine to form a surprisingly familiar tapestry of struggle, disappointment, and ultimately hope.
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A Most Perilous World
- The True Story of the Young Abolitionists and Their Crusade Against Slavery
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-06-25
- Language: English
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Who Owns the Moon?
- And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
- By: Cynthia Levinson, Jennifer Swanson
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 5 hrs
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For teens who are space fans, this book is loaded with fascinating facts, great stories, and new ways of thinking about the challenges of space. It covers topics on the science of space and developments in technology (e.g., satellites behaving like spacecraft), and it also considers the laws that have been drafted for space travel and space etiquette—the agreed upon norms of behavior that allow humans to explore without conflict. The book discusses the problem of space debris, and the growth of space tourism.
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Who Owns the Moon?
- And Other Conundrums of Exploring and Using Space
- Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
- Length: 5 hrs
- Release date: 01-07-25
- Language: English
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults)
- Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
- By: Karen Valby
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
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At the peak of the civil rights movement, Lydia Abarca was the first ballerina in a Black ballet company to grace the cover of Dance magazine. Alongside founding members Shelia Rohan and Gayle McKinney-Griffith and first-generation dancers Karlya Shelton and Marcia Sells, Abarca invited a bright light to shine on Black professional classical dancers. Grit, determination, and exquisite artistry propelled these swans of Harlem to dizzying heights as they performed around the world for audiences that included celebrities, dignitaries, and royalty.
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults)
- Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-14-25
- Language: English
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