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Books Good Enough for You
- The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
- Written by: Nancy Hudgins
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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A celebration of the life and work of Ursula Norstrom—the groundbreaking editor of classic children’s books like Charlotte’s Web and Where the Wild Things Are—and a powerful defense of a child’s right to read Legendary Harper & Row children’s book editor Ursula Nordstrom was a...
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Books Good Enough for You
- The Storied Life of Ursula Nordstrom, Editor of Extraordinary Children's Books
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
- Release Date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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The Beatles Couldn't Read Music
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- Written by: Dan Gutman
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett, Ariana Delawari
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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John Lennon’s mom called him “Stinker” because he farted so much! Paul McCartney’s car was wrecked by chickens! George Harrison once had his friend’s parent sign his bad report card! Ringo Starr’s grandma thought he was possessed by witches! Wait! What? Siblings Paige and Turner have collected the most unusual and surprising facts about these rock stars, from their childhoods and early days as musicians to the formation of the Beatles and their skyrocketing journey to become the greatest band in the world.
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The Beatles Couldn't Read Music
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- Narrated by: Torian Brackett, Ariana Delawari
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release Date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Lucille Ball Had No Eyebrows?
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- Written by: Dan Gutman
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett, Ariana Delawari
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Did you know that Lucille Ball could pick up radio signals through her teeth? Or that her career was almost destroyed because she was a registered Communist? Bet you didn’t know that, as a studio executive, she green-lit both Star Trek and Mission: Impossible! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the beloved actress, from her impoverished childhood and her first forays into the film industry to her marriage with Desi Arnaz and her rise to become both the most prominent actress in television and one of its most successful executives.
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Lucille Ball Had No Eyebrows?
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- Narrated by: Torian Brackett, Ariana Delawari
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release Date: 09-01-24
- Language: English
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Pitch Perfect and Persistent!
- The Musical Debut of Amy Cheney Beach
- Written by: Caitlin DeLems, Alison Jay
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 29 mins
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With perfect pitch and fierce persistence, Amy Beach always knew she had to make music. There was just one big problem. Her mother believed it was not proper or suitable for a young lady to draw attention to herself, let alone have a musical career. But give in or give up? Not Amy Beach. She demanded to play the piano. She demanded to have a real teacher. She demanded to perform.
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Pitch Perfect and Persistent!
- The Musical Debut of Amy Cheney Beach
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 29 mins
- Release Date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps
- Written by: Gretchen Woelfle, John O'Brien - illustrator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 51 mins
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Famous founding father Benjamin Franklin was a proud subject of the British Empire—until he wasn’t. It took nearly seventy years and seven not-so-easy steps to turn Benjamin Franklin from a loyal British subject to a British traitor—and a fired-up American revolutionary. In this light, whimsical narrative, young listeners learn how Franklin came to be a rebel, beginning with his childhood lesson in street smarts when he buys a whistle at an inflated price
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How Benjamin Franklin Became a Revolutionary in Seven (Not-So-Easy) Steps
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 51 mins
- Release Date: 28-11-23
- Language: English
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The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey
- Written by: Alexis O'Neill
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 18 mins
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Melvil Dewey loved order (Organize mother’s jelly jars), efficiency (Why spell his name Melville when Melvil has fewer letters and sounds the same?), and keeping records (Height! Weight! Earnings!). Melvil also loved books and numbers and decimals. When he realized every library organized their books differently (Size! Title! Color!), he wondered if he could invent a system all libraries could use to ORGANIZE them EFFICIENTLY.
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The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 18 mins
- Release Date: 27-06-23
- Language: English
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Saving Lady Liberty
- Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of Liberty
- Written by: Claudia Friddell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 21 mins
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Joseph Pulitzer always loved the word liberty. It’s no surprise that when he first saw Lady Liberty’s head in Paris, Pulitzer shared sculptor Auguste Bartholdi’s dream of seeing France’s gift of friendship stand in New York’s harbor. Frustrated that Americans, especially wealthy New Yorkers, were not interested in paying for the statue’s pedestal, Pulitzer used his newspaper, the World, to call on all Americans to contribute. This is the inspiring story of how one immigrant brought together young and old, rich and poor, to raise funds for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
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Saving Lady Liberty
- Joseph Pulitzer's Fight for the Statue of Liberty
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 21 mins
- Release Date: 20-06-23
- Language: English
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Sugar Pie Lullaby
- The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love
- Written by: Carole Boston Weatherford
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 2 mins
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Inspired by the legendary music of the Motown era, award-winning author Carole Boston Weatherford shares a heartwarming lullaby celebrating the powerful love families have for one another. Slip into this soulful dreamland filled with heart and a little musical history.
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Sugar Pie Lullaby
- The Soul of Motown in a Song of Love
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 2 mins
- Release Date: 07-06-23
- Language: English
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Jacob Riis's Camera
- Bringing Light to Tenement Children
- Written by: Alexis O'Neill
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 15 mins
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Jacob Riis was determined to improve the living conditions of the poor—to fill their dark, ramshackle places with sunlight and soft, green grass. Places where children could play. After immigrating to New York City and working as a news reporter, Jacob was deeply affected by the poverty surrounding him, especially in the tenements.
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Jacob Riis's Camera
- Bringing Light to Tenement Children
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey
- Length: 15 mins
- Release Date: 30-05-23
- Language: English
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The Flying Man
- Otto Lilienthal, the World's First Pilot
- Written by: Mike Downs
- Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
- Length: 14 mins
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In 1862, balloons were the only way to reach the sky. But 14-year-old Otto Lilienthal didn’t want to fly in balloons. He wanted to soar like a bird. Scientists, teachers, and news reporters everywhere said flying was impossible. Otto and his brother Gustav desperately wanted to prove them wrong, so they made their own wings and tried to take flight. The brothers quickly crashed, but this was just the beginning for Otto, who would spend the next 30 years of his life sketching, re-sketching, and building gliders.
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The Flying Man
- Otto Lilienthal, the World's First Pilot
- Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
- Length: 14 mins
- Release Date: 16-05-23
- Language: English
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The Snail
- Written by: Emily Hughes
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 12 mins
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Isamu Noguchi is one of the most important sculptors of all time. His Akari lamps changed the way modern buildings light their space. But before he was important, he was a kid. This is his story. Noguchi was a Japanese American artist who gave the world light. The world, however, was not always so giving in return. Growing up mixed-race, born in the United States but raised in Japan, Noguchi found himself perceived as an outsider who did not belong in either country
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The Snail
- Narrated by: Greg Watanabe
- Length: 12 mins
- Release Date: 28-04-23
- Language: English
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Wood, Wire, Wings
- Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
- Written by: Kirsten W. Larson
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 20 mins
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Emma Lilian Todd's mind was always soaring—she loved to solve problems. Lilian tinkered and fiddled with all sorts of objects, turning dreams into useful inventions. As a child, she took apart and reassembled clocks to figure out how they worked. As an adult, typing up patents at the U.S. Patent Office, Lilian built the inventions in her mind, including many designs for flying machines. However, they all seemed too impractical. Lilian knew she could design one that worked.
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Wood, Wire, Wings
- Emma Lilian Todd Invents an Airplane
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 20 mins
- Release Date: 19-04-23
- Language: English
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Dazzlin' Dolly
- The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton
- Written by: Suzanne Slade
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 15 mins
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Dolly Parton is a little girl with a great big voice. She loves singing for her corncob doll and friends at church. Music fills her heart so plumb full that young Dolly starts writing her own tunes. Unable to afford a guitar, she strings up a broken mandolin and plays for anyone she can corral—ducks, pigs, and her squallin’ brothers and sisters. But Dolly longs for a real live audience to see and hear her perform. When Dolly gets her first big break, she’s scared to perform in front of hundreds of people. Will she summon up her courage and step out onto the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville?
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Dazzlin' Dolly
- The Songwriting, Hit-Singing, Guitar-Picking Dolly Parton
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 15 mins
- Release Date: 19-04-23
- Language: English
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Mr. McCloskey's Marvelous Mallards
- The Making of Make Way for Ducklings
- Written by: Emma Bland Smith
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 13 mins
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As soon as artist Robert McCloskey saw the ducks in Boston Public Garden, he knew he had to write about them. But how? Studying stuffed birds didn’t help. Would inviting some into his apartment work? What? Was he quack-ers? For months ducklings slept on his sofa and swam in his bathtub, making incredible messes. Quack! Quack! His roommate was not amused and his neighbors complained, but Robert did not give up. As the ducklings grew, he got down on his hands and knees and followed them with pad and pencil.
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Mr. McCloskey's Marvelous Mallards
- The Making of Make Way for Ducklings
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 13 mins
- Release Date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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Only the Best
- The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe
- Written by: Kate Messner, Margaret E. Powell, Erin Robinson - illustrator
- Narrated by: Tracey Conyer Lee
- Length: 28 mins
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A careful snip, a delicate fold. Fabric the color of new petals. Skirts that flare like upside-down blossoms. A garden bursts into bloom! There is no "good enough." For Ann, only the best will do. Award-winning author Kate Messner and costume historian Margaret E. Powell tell the powerful story of the ground-breaking Ann Lowe, who grew up in a small Alabama dress shop and became the first nationally known African American fashion designer.
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Only the Best
- The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe
- Narrated by: Tracey Conyer Lee
- Length: 28 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-23
- Language: English
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Couldn't Drive?
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- Written by: Dan Gutman
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Jasmin Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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RBG failed her driving test five times! She could do twenty push-ups when she was eighty years old! She was a terrible cook! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the Supreme Court icon, from her childhood and school days to her rise through the United States legal system to become one of the most famous justices—and political figures—in history.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Couldn't Drive?
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- Narrated by: James Shippy, Jasmin Walker
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release Date: 20-12-22
- Language: English
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Carver
- A Life in Poems
- Written by: Marilyn Nelson
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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George Washington Carver was determined to help the people he loved. Born enslaved in Missouri, he left home in search of an education, eventually earning his master’s degree. When Booker T. Washington invited Carver to start the agricultural department at the all-Black-staffed Tuskegee Institute, Carver found his calling. He spent the rest of his life seeking solutions to poverty among landless Black farmers by developing new uses for soil-replenishing crops such as peanuts, cowpeas, and sweet potatoes.
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Carver
- A Life in Poems
- Narrated by: James Shippy, Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release Date: 13-12-22
- Language: English
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Blast Off!
- How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space
- Written by: Suzanne Slade
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 21 mins
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Growing up in the 1920s on a dirt-poor farm in North Dakota, Mary Sherman's life was filled with chores—until she finally began school and discovered she loved to learn. Mary excelled at science, especially chemistry, and leaped at the chance to work in a laboratory during World War II designing rocket fuels. And when the US decided to enter the space race, Mary was chosen over her male colleagues to create the fuel to launch a rocket carrying America's first satellite.
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Blast Off!
- How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America into Space
- Narrated by: Libby McKnight
- Length: 21 mins
- Release Date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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Becoming Billie Holiday
- Written by: Carole Boston Weatherford
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Eleanora's journey into legend took her through pain, poverty, and run-ins with the law. By the time she was fifteen, she knew she possessed something that could possibly change her life—a voice. Eleanora could sing. That remarkable voice led her to Harlem nightclubs, the Apollo Theater, and a place in the spotlight with some of the era's hottest big bands. Billie Holiday sang from somewhere inside her that made it seem as if she had lived each lyric, and in many ways she had. This unique talent is what made Billie Holiday more than a singer. She was an artist.
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Becoming Billie Holiday
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release Date: 30-09-22
- Language: English
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Jack Knight's Brave Flight
- Written by: Jill Esbaum
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 mins
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When Jack Knight takes off in his biplane from North Platte, Nebraska, in 1921, hundreds of people crowd the airstrip. Is Jack transporting a famous passenger? Is he ferrying medicine for a sick child? Nope—Jack has six sacks of mail. For the past few years, biplanes like Jack's have been flying the mail only during daylight hours. Flying after dark is risky and crashes are too common, so lawmakers decide to cut funding for the US Air Mail Service. Outraged officials and pilots want to prove that flying the mail is best, so they concoct a plan—a coast-to-coast race.
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Jack Knight's Brave Flight
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 12 mins
- Release Date: 13-09-22
- Language: English
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