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Author: Chelsea Clinton
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Author Chelsea Clinton
Narrator Chelsea Clinton
Duration 20m
Did you know that blue whales are the largest animals in the world? Or that sea otters wash their paws after every meal? The world is filled with millions of animal species, and all of them are unique and special. Many are on the path to extinction. In this audiobook, Chelsea Clinton introduces young readers to a selection of endangered animals, sh...
View BookAuthor: Eline Snel
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Author Eline Snel
Narrator Various
Duration 3h 44m
Mindfulness-the quality of attention that combines full awareness with acceptance of each moment, just as it is-is gaining broad acceptance among mental health professionals as an adjunct to treatment. This little book is a very appealing introduction to mindfulness meditation for children and their parents. In a simple and accessible way, it descr...
View BookAuthor: Sadie Robertson
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Author Sadie Robertson
Narrator Hayley Cresswell
Duration 4h 14m
Sadie Robertson, bestselling author and star of Dancing with the Stars, has an important message for her generation: you don't have to be held back by fear, anxiety, or loneliness anymore. In Live Fearless, Sadie takes you on a thrilling personal journey toward power, passion, and purpose as you live at the center of who God created you to be!...
View BookAuthor: Tom Olson
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Author Tom Olson
Narrator George Newbern
SeriesLost, Book 2
Duration 3h 25m
On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 space shuttle set off for the third intended American moon landing. Two days later and 200,000 miles from Earth, disaster struck when an oxygen tank exploded on board the spacecraft, leaving three astronauts with only one goal: to make it home alive. From "Houston, we've had a problem" to the final tense moments at...
View BookAuthor: Roberta Edwards
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Author Roberta Edwards
Narrator Kevin Pariseau
Duration 53m
Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was . . . ? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler, covering the story of the tomb's discovery, as well as myths and so-called mummy curses.
View BookAuthor: Pam Pollack
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Author Pam Pollack
Narrator Karyn O'Bryant
Duration 56m
Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country....
View BookAuthor: Gail Herman
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Author Gail Herman
Narrator Suzanne Elise Freeman
Duration 1h 20m
Learn more about what climate change means and how it's affecting our planet. The earth is definitely getting warmer. There's no argument about that, but who or what is the cause? And why has climate change become a political issue? Are humans at fault? Is this just a natural development? While the vast majority of scientists who study the environ...
View BookAuthor: Albert Marrin
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Author Albert Marrin
Narrator Jim Frangione
Duration 5h 45m
From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic-and the chances for another worldwide pandemic.In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a hig...
View BookAuthor: Steven Johnson
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Author Steven Johnson
Narrator Steven Johnson
Duration 2h 57m
Did you drink a glass of water today? Did you turn on a light? Did you think about how miraculous either one of those things is when you did it? Of course not-but you should, and New York Timesbestselling author Steven Johnson has. This adaptation of his adult book and popular PBS series explores the fascinating and interconnected stories of innova...
View BookErnest Hemingway: A Writer's Life
Author: Catherine Reef
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Author Catherine Reef
Narrator Jill Shellabarger
Duration 4h
Meet one of the most significant and notorious American writers of the 20th century. Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the greatest writers in modern history, and his novels and stories are read, studied, and imitated around the world. His concise prose style earned him both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize. His name conjures up vivid images: grand...
View BookAuthor: Stacy Mcanulty
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Author Stacy Mcanulty
Narrator Taylor Meskimen
SeriesOur Universe, Book 3
Duration 19m
From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the formation and history of the moon-told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock-she's Earth's rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her frie...
View BookAuthor: Claire Shipman
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Author Claire Shipman
Narrator Sandy Rustin
Duration 4h 35m
Girls can rule the world-all they need is confidence. This empowering, entertaining guide from the bestselling authors of The Confidence Code gives girls the essential yet elusive code to becoming bold, brave, and fearless. It's a paradox familiar to parents everywhere: girls are achieving like never before, yet they're consumed with doubt on the i...
View BookAuthor: Adrian Mccarthy
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Author Adrian Mccarthy
Narrator Ralph Lister
Duration 1h 4m
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is an extreme anxiety-related condition listed by the World Health Organization as one of the ten most debilitating illnesses in the world. Roughly 3% of people in the developed world suffer from OCD. In an attempt to get an understanding of OCD, the filmmakers speak to sufferers themselves. Featuring experts in the fi...
View BookShipwreck At the Bottom of the World
Author: Jennifer Armstrong
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Author Jennifer Armstrong
Narrator Taylor Mali
Duration 3h 47m
In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men sailed from England in an attempt to cross Antarctica from one side to the other. Their ship, Endurance, became icebound and sank, still one hundred miles from land. What follows is one of the most amazing stories of survival ever recorded. Over the next nineteen months, Shackleton led h...
View BookAuthor: Lesa Cline-Ransome
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Author Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 20m
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and comp...
View BookAuthor: Rose Brock
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Author Rose Brock
Narrator Various
Duration 7h 6m
We all experience moments when we struggle to understand the state of the world, when we feel powerless and-in some cases-even hopeless. The teens of today are the caretakers of tomorrow, and yet it's difficult for many to find joy or comfort in such a turbulent society. But in trying times, words are power. Some of today's most influential young...
View BookAuthor: Livia Bitton-Jackson
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Author Livia Bitton-Jackson
Narrator Christine Williams
Duration 6h 37m
Imagine being a thirteen-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. You can no longer attend school, have possessions, talk to your neighbors. One day your family has to leave your house behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where you lo...
View BookPsychology: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Gillian Butler, Freda McManus
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Author Gillian Butler, Freda McManus
Narrator Jan Jenkins
Duration 5h 40m
This audiobook provides an up-to-date overview of the main areas of psychology, translating complex psychological matters, such as perception, emotion and motivation, into understandable topics so as to make psychology accessible for new comers to the subject.
View BookHorrible Histories: The Terrible Tudors and the Vile Victorians
Author: Terry Deary
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Author Terry Deary
Narrator Full Cast
Duration 2h
THE TERRIBLE TUDORS: Horrible Histories brings you history with the nasty bits left in! So listen to the terrible tale of an awful axeman and find out why Henry VIII thought he'd married a horse! THE VILE VICTORIANS: If you want a gory and gruesome guide to vile Victorian deaths, this audiobook will tell you the kind of foul facts you'll never find...
View BookArtists In Their World: Georgia O'Keeffe
Author: Ruth Thomson
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Author Ruth Thomson
Narrator Karola Gajda
Duration 1h 18m
Georgia O'Keefe is perhaps most famous for her close-up paintings of flowers, and her near-abstract Mexican landscapes. She was born in 1887 in Wisconsin and this audio book traces the life and work of one of the most influential painters in 20th century American art.
View BookGCSE History: The American West & Medicine Through Time - the Revision Guide
Author: CGP Publications
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Author CGP Publications
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 4h 37m
This audiobook covers the AQA A, OCR A and Edexcel C courses for the American West and Medicine Through Time. Each module has its own section including all the facts, and plenty of hints and tips to help students stay one step ahead of the examiners! GCSE history courses are changing in 2010 - so this book's ideal for students taking their exams in...
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