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    Under Six Flags (Unabridged)

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    by M. E. M. Davis ...
    Narrated by Leon Thrasher, Ashley Dantzler, Alice Warren, Ronald Suda ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 48 min

    A history of the of Texas from La Salle's Texas Settlement in 1685 to the dedication of the State Capitol building at Austin in 1888. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Olympic Pride, American Prejudice

    The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    by Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher ...
    Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    **In this “**must-read for anyone concerned with race, sports, and politics in America” (William C. Rhoden, New York Times bestselling author), the inspirational and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South.Set against the turbulent backdrop of a segregated ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Morningside

    The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul

    by Aran Shetterly ...
    Narrated by Leon Nixon ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 49 min

    An unflinching look at a shocking racial tragedy that divides a Southern city—comparable to the recent events in Charlottesville—and the activists who, in their tireless fight for justice, refuse to give up on America’s promised ideals, and pursue racial reconciliation with hope that their fractured city can heal.On November 3, 1979, as activist Nelson Johnson assembled people for a march adjacent ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    The Fight to Vote

    by Michael Waldman ...
    Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

    Unabridged

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    In The Second Amendment, Michael Waldman traces the ongoing argument on gun rights from the Bill of Rights to the current day. Now, in The Fight to Vote, Waldman takes a succinct and comprehensive look at an even more crucial struggle: the past and present effort to define and defend government based on "the consent of the governed." From the writing of the Constitution, and at every step along ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Rickey

    The Life and Legend of an American Original

    by Howard Bryant ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 37 min

    From the author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron comes the definitive biography of Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson, baseball’s epic leadoff hitter and base-stealer who also stole America’s heart over nearly five electric decades in the game.Few names in the history of baseball evoke the excellence and dynamism that Rickey Henderson’s does. He holds the record for the most stolen bases in a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Standing My Ground

    A Capitol Police Officer's Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th

    by Harry Dunn ...
    Narrated by Harry Dunn ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 31 min

    The stirring memoir of Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police Officer on duty January 6th, who has become one of the most prominent and essential voices regarding the truth of that day.Walking the halls of democracy as a Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn was a man slowly experiencing an awakening. It sparked after the election of our first Black president. It grew as his belief in the bravery and honor of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Lynching

    The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan

    by Laurence Leamer ...
    Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan.On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Crucible of Hell

    The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945

    by Saul David ...
    Narrated by Saul David, William Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 46 min

    From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who fought with tragic desperation to stop them.With Allied forces sweeping across Europe and into Germany in the spring of 1945, one ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    White Lies

    The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

    by A. J. Baime ...
    Narrated by Wayne Carr ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 57 min

    A New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put the NAACP on the map, and change the racial identity of America forever (Chicago Review of Books).Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early ... Read more

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    White Robes and Broken Badges

    Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

    by Joe Moore ...
    Narrated by Roger Wayne ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group’s structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal: inciting a second civil war by whatever violent means necessary.“We need you back.”It was a call FBI ... Read more

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    Infamy

    The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II

    by Richard Reeves ...
    Narrated by James Yaegashi ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEBestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II“Highly readable … [A] vivid and instructive reminder of what war and fear can do to civilized people.”—Evan... ... Read more

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    Medgar and Myrlie

    Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

    by Joy-Ann Reid ...
    Narrated by Joy-Ann Reid ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    #1 New York Times Bestseller | NAACP Image Award WinnerRead by Joy Ann ReidFrom Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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