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    • A Journey Through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea, and Japan
    • By: Michael Booth
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other....

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    • How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War
    • By: Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. Putin and the Return of History examines difficult questions in the context of Russia’s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Vladimir Putin’s politics of aggression....

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    • The Thrills, Chills, Screams, and Occasional Blackouts of an Extraordinary Presidency
    • By: Major Garrett
    • Narrated by: Major Garrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • A chronicle of the Trump administration from the inside perspective of a White House press correspondent.....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • By: Tania Therien
    • Narrated by: Dan Schoeneberg
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Thomas Edison first developed direct current for New York City, but was challenged by Nikola Tesla, who believed his alternating current was a better solution.

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

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    • 10 Conflicts That Explain the New Middle East
    • By: Christopher Phillips
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 25-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Christopher Phillips explores geopolitical rivalries in the Middle East, and the major external powers vying for influence: Russia, China, the European Union, and the United States.

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    • By: George M. Johnson
    • Narrated by: George M. Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the War of the Currents and the Life of Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Born during the Industrial Revolution on different continents but connected by similar interests, two men indelibly marked their generation and those that followed with their genius and foresight. This audiobook covers the war of currents and the individual lives of Tesla and Edison.

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    • By: Kerry Drewery, Natsko Seki
    • Narrated by: Bruno Roubicek, Rina Takasaki
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • We are taken to 1945, Hiroshima, and Mizuki's grandfather as a teenage boy chatting at home with his friend Hiro. Moments later the horrific nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima....

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    • From Columbus's Voyage to Globalization
    • By: Rebecca Stefoff, Charles Mann
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the 15th century to the present....

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    • A Musical History of Modern Black Britain in 28 Songs
    • By: Jeffrey Boakye, Ngadi Smart - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey Boakye
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lord Kitchener, Neneh Cherry, Smiley Culture, Stormzy.... Groundbreaking musicians whose songs have changed the world. This exhilarating playlist tracks some of the key shifts in modern British history and explores the emotional impact of 28 songs and the artists who performed them....

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    • The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the electrifying and continuing fight for voting rights—and discover your place in it—in this dramatic exploration of American democracy, from renowned thought leader Michael Eric Dyson and widely celebrated author Marc Favreau.

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    • Twice Toward Justice
    • By: Phillip Hoose
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama....

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    • My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
    • By: Jere Van Dyk
    • Narrated by: Jere Van Dyk
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan....

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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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