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Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): First-Person Stories for Today
Disabled young people will be proud to see themselves reflected in this hopeful, compelling, and insightful essay collection, adapted for young adults from the critically acclaimed adult book, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century that 'sheds light on the experience of life as an individual with disabilities, as told by none other than authors with these life experiences.' --Chicago Tribune, 'Best books published in summer 2020' (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday edition). The eye-opening essays in Disability Visibility, all written by disabled people, offer keen insight into the complex and rich disability experience, examining life's ableism and inequality, its challenges and losses, and celebrating its wisdom, passion, and joy. The accounts in this collection, adapted for audio, ask readers to think about disabled people not as individuals who need to be "fixed," but as members of a community with its own history, culture, and movements. They offer diverse perspectives that speak to past, present, and future generations. It is essential listening for all. This audiobook contains unabridged selections from Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults). Audiobook Table of Contents: If You Can't Fast, Give by Maysoon Zayid There's a Mathematical Equation That Proves I'm Ugly-or So I Learned in My Seventh-Grade Art Class by Ariel Henley When You Are Waiting to Be Healed by June Eric-Udorie The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison by Jeremy Woody, as told to Christie Thompson We Can't Go Back by Ricardo T. Thornton Sr. Guide Dogs Don't Lead Blind People. We Wander as One. by Haben Girma Canfei to Canji: The Freedom of Being Loud by Sandy Ho Nurturing Black Disabled Joy by Keah Brown Selma Blair Became a Disabled Icon Overnight by Zipporah Arielle So. Not. Broken. by Alice Sheppard Incontinence Is a Public Health Issue-and We Need to Talk About It by Mari Ramsawakh Falling/Burning: Being a Bipolar Creator by Shoshana Kessock Gaining Power Through Communication Access by Lateef McLeod The Fearless Benjamin Lay: Activist, Abolitionist, Dwarf Person by Eugene Grant On the Ancestral Plane: Crip Hand-Me-Downs and the Legacy of Our Movements by Stacey Milbern The Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People by s.e. smith
Alice Wong, Tba (Author), Alice Wong, Anthony Michael Lopez, Sarah Ann Masse (Narrator)
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The Book of Awesome Girls: Why the Future is Female
Celebrate the awesome power of girls Female empowerment is more accessible than you think. In The Book of Awesome Girls, celebrate the women and girls who have shaped, and continue to shape, our future. Now is the time for girl power! At seventeen, Malala Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Days after her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank began writing one of the most poignant glimpses of Nazi occupation. Throughout history, feminists of all ages have changed society and inspired future generations. The Book of Awesome Girls is packed with mini biographies of sheroes, highlighting these and so many other women and girls who changed the game. Artists, athletes, and every occupation in between-The Book of Awesome Girls showcases a plethora of passions and skillsets. Their true stories reveal that real change comes from standing up and working hard. Inside, you'll find captivating chapters such as: Tiny Philanthropists: Young Girls Who Put Others First Little Entrepreneurs: Girls with Vision Amazing Writers: Fighting Battles with Words And more!
Becca Anderson (Author), Catherine Ho (Narrator)
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A Rebel in Auschwitz: The True Story of the Resistance Hero Who Fought the Nazis' Greatest Crime fro
Occupied Warsaw, Summer 1940: Witold Pilecki, a Polish underground operative, accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands interned at a new concentration camp, report on Nazi crimes, raise a secret army, and stage an uprising. The name of the camp -- Auschwitz. Over the next two and half years, and under the cruellest of conditions, Pilecki's underground sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so meant attempting the impossible -- but first he would have to escape from Auschwitz itself...
Jack Fairweather (Author), Betsy Meiman (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison tiers Ta-Nehisi Coates grew up in the tumultuous 1980's in Baltimore known, back then as the murder capital of the United States. With seven siblings, four mothers, and one highly unconventional father: Paul Coates, a larger-than-life Vietnam Vet, Black Panther, Ta-Nehisi's coming of age story is gripping and lays bare the troubled, often violent life of the inner-city, and the author's experience as a young black person in it With candor, Ta-Nehisi Coates details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances. 'Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation' Walter Mosley © Ta-Nehisi Coates 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Author), Hayden Mclean (Narrator)
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Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall
Code Name Verity meets Inglourious Basterds in this riotous, spirited biography of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall. When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler's henchmen. Did this shero have second thoughts after a terrible accident left her needing a wooden leg? Please. Virginia Hall was the baddest broad in any room she walked into. When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys' club that wouldn't allow her in, she gave the finger to society's expectations of women and became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her. But, hey—Virginia's classmates didn't call her the Fighting Blade for nothing. So how does a girl who was a pirate in the school play, spent her childhood summers milking goats, and rocked it on the hockey field end up becoming the Gestapo's most wanted spy? Audacious, irreverent, and fiercely feminist, Code Name Badass is for anyone who doesn't take no for an answer.
Heather Demetrios (Author), Nikki Massoud (Narrator)
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They Better Call Me Sugar: My Journey from the Hood to the Hardwood
In unflinchingly honest prose, Sugar Rodgers shares her inspiring story of overcoming tremendous odds to become an all-star in the WNBA. Growing up in dire poverty in Suffolk, Virginia, Sugar (born Ta'Shauna) Rodgers never imagined that she would become an all-star player in the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association). Both of her siblings were in and out of prison throughout much of her childhood and shootings in her neighborhood were commonplace. For Sugar this was just a fact of life. While academics wasn't a high priority for Sugar and many of her friends, athletics always played a prominent role. She mastered her three-point shot on a net her brother put up just outside their home, eventually becoming so good that she could hustle local drug dealers out of money in one-on-one contests. With the love and support of her family and friends, Sugar's performance on her high school basketball team led to her recruitment by the Georgetown Hoyas, and her eventual draft into the WNBA in 2013 by the Minnesota Lynx (who won the WNBA Finals in Sugar's first year). The first of her family to attend college, Sugar speaks of her struggles both academically and as an athlete with raw honesty. Sugar's road to a successful career as a professional basketball player is fraught with sadness and death-including her mother's death when she's fourteen, which leaves Sugar essentially homeless. Throughout it all, Sugar clings to basketball as a way to keep herself focused and sane. And now Sugar shares her story as a message of hope and inspiration for young girls and boys everywhere, but especially those growing up in economically challenging conditions. Never sugarcoating her life experiences, she delivers a powerful message of discipline, perseverance, and always believing in oneself.
Sugar Rodgers (Author), Sugar Rodgers (Narrator)
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Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me (Adapted for Young Adults)
The inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson-one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century-adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson biographer "As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this." -Paul Robeson Paul Robeson was destined for greatness. The son of an ex-slave who upon his college graduation ranked first in his class, Robeson was proclaimed the future "leader of the colored race in America." Although a graduate of Columbia Law School, he abandoned his law career (and the racism he encountered there) and began a hugely successful career as an internationally celebrated actor and singer. The predictions seemed to have been correct-Paul Robeson's triumphs on the stage earned him esteem among white and Black Americans across the country, although his daring and principled activism eventually made him an outcast from the entertainment industry, and his radical views made many consider him a public enemy. With the original biography lavishly praised in the Washington Post as "enthralling ... a marvelous story marvelously told," this will be a thrilling new addition to the young adult canon. Featuring a foreword by multiple award-winning author Jason Reynolds, Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me will introduce listeners in middle and high school to the inspiring and complicated life of one of America's most fascinating figures, whose story of artistry, heroism, conviction, and conflict is newly relevant today.
Martin Duberman (Author), Cary Hite (Narrator)
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Geschichte Deutschlands Basiswissen - Damals bis heute. Ereignisse, Personen, Zusammenhänge (Ungekür
Geschichte Deutschlands - Von der Kleinstaaterei zum Exportweltmeister. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Zeitreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zur Geschichte Deutschlands. Mit der Schlacht um 9 nach Christus im Teutoburger Wald erheben sich die Germanen unter Führung von Hermann dem Cherusker, Arminius genannt, gegen die römischen Besatzer, die feste Behausungen und Straßen bauen. Das Imperium der Römer geht im 3. Jahrhundert unter, völliges Chaos herrscht. Völkerwanderungen marodierender, germanischer Stämme beginnen, die erst Kaiser Karl um 800 stoppt. Er schafft ein gemeinsames Reich mit der christlichen Kirche als Ordnungsmacht. 843 entsteht das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation. Klöster werden gegründet, reiche Zünfte prägen die wachsenden Städte, zügig ändert sich das mittelalterliche Leben. 1534 beendet Martin Luther seine Übersetzung der Bibel ins Deutsche und leitet damit die Reformation ein. Ab 1618 führt der Dreißigjährige Krieg zur Religionsfreiheit, aber ebenso zur Zerstörung und Verarmung der deutschen Länder. Frankreich wird das mächtigste Land in Europa. Erst unter dem Preußenkönig Friedrich dem Großen aus dem Hause der Hohenzollern steigt Deutschland um 1750 zur europäischen Großmacht auf. 1815 ist das Ende der deutschen Kleinstaaten mit dem Beginn des Deutschen Bundes besiegelt. Zuvor wird Napoleon besiegt und in Paris Frieden geschlossen. Wilhelm I. gründet 1871 das Deutsche Reich. 1914-1918 findet der I. Weltkrieg statt, nach dessen Ende das Deutsche Reich erhebliche Reparationen zahlen muss. Mit Beginn der Weimarer Republik 1918 hat Deutschland die erste demokratische Verfassung. Um 1930 erlebt Deutschland mit Weltwirtschaftskrise, Arbeitslosigkeit und politischem Chaos schwere Jahre. 1933 ergreifen die Nationalsozialisten die Macht, schalten binnen weniger Monate sämtliche demokratischen Systeme aus und etablieren eine brutale, antisemitische Diktatur. Adolf Hitler treibt Deutschland in den verheerenden II. Weltkrieg. Nazi-Deutschland wird 1945 durch alliierte Siegermächte geteilt. 1949 werden die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) und die Deutschen Demokratische Republik (DDR) gegründet. In der BRD folgt in den 50er Jahren ein Wirtschaftswunder. Die DDR baut 1961 die Berliner Mauer, die erst 1989 friedlich fällt. 1990 tritt die DDR der BRD bei, Deutschland wird unter Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl wiedervereinigt, neue Hauptstadt ist Berlin. Der Aufbau-Ost beginnt. Der Euro wird ab 1999 als gemeinsame europäische Währung in 12 Staaten eingeführt. Angela Merkel wird 2005 erste Bundeskanzlerin. Deutschland wird 2014 Fußball- und ist bereits Exportweltmeister. Das Hörbuch liest der erfahrene Sprecher René Wagner mit gewohnt angenehmer Stimme.
Bert Alexander Petzold (Author), René Wagner (Narrator)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) Basiswissen - Leben, Werk, Bedeutung (Ungekürzt)
Meister des Kubismus. Das vielseitige Schaffen von Pablo Picasso, der sich im Laufe seines erfüllten Lebens immer wieder neu erfand, steht wie kein Zweites für die Kunst der Klassischen Moderne. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen. Mit seinen ausdrucksstarken Gemälden und Werken gilt Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) bis heute als Genie und Inbegriff eines modernen Künstlers. Seine überbordende Kreativität ließ ein unüberschaubares Gesamtwerk von schätzungsweise 50.000 Arbeiten entstehen, in welchem er verschiedenste Techniken und künstlerische Ausdrucksformen erprobte. So schuf Picasso neben zahllosen Gemälden, Collagen und Grafiken auch opulente Skulpturen und Keramiken. Dabei entwickelte er teilweise ganz eigene, neue stilistische Mittel wie den Kubismus, welche aufgrund ihrer Einzigartigkeit die Kunstgeschichte nachhaltig beeinflussten und bis heute fortlaufend zahlreiche andere Künstlerinnen und Künstler inspirieren. Seine begehrten Kunstwerke sind auf der ganzen Welt in großen Sammlungen und Museen präsent und prominent vertreten. Das Hörbuch liest die erfahrene Sprecherin Cora Hillekamp mit gewohnt ausdrucksstarker Stimme.
Bert Alexander Petzold (Author), Cora Hillekamp (Narrator)
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Adventures in Time: The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Brought to you by Penguin. Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME* series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true 'Winter has come; and in a far distant land, a warrior queen is expecting a child...' Step through these pages into the Tudor world: a dangerous place, where one miss-step could cost your life. Through the eyes of Henry VIII's six very different queens, from a brave Spanish princess to a wise English widow, historian Dominic Sandbrook takes us on a thrilling journey through the twists and turns of a dramatic age. For no one is safe from the wheel of fortune: it can take you from a golden throne to the Tower of London... The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children. These stories are every bit as exciting as those of Harry Potter or Matilda Wormwood. The only difference is they actually happened... *(Perfect for all readers who enjoy tales of heroes, villains, jousting, beheadings and fat tyrants) © Dominic Sandbrook 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Dominic Sandbrook (Author), Dominic Sandbrook (Narrator)
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Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. 'Wow! Leo's vulnerability and authenticity allowed me to experience his pain and triumph. A great testament to the positive power of skateboarding and the dangers of gender.' --Elissa Steamer (skateboarding pioneer) 'In Skate for Your Life, Leo Baker invites us on the intimate journey toward self-realization. Leo's deep passion for skateboarding is beautifully communicated while bringing to light the difficult reality of breaking the mold on a public stage. This book synthesizes what so many LGBTQIA people can relate to--the lifelong journey of seeking out spaces where we fit in, and when we don't find them, making new ones.' --JD Samson (musician, producer, and songwriter) In this moving, personal story, professional skateboarder Leo Baker shares their journey within the sport and the importance of authenticity and allyship as a non-binary athlete. Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. 'Your authenticity is your superpower.' That's the motto that professional skateboarder Leo Baker lives by and champions. But like any hero's journey, learning about their power didn't come easy. In this installment of the Pocket Change Collective, Baker takes the reader on a complicated, powerful journey through the world of skate and competitive sport as a non-binary athlete.
Leo Baker (Author), Em Grosland (Narrator)
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Kole Miller is the best writer at the prestigious Crystal Lake High. But no one knows it-not her creative-writing classmates, or even her academic arch nemesis Colin (aka Mr. Valedictorian). That's because Kole's best work is a secret fanfic based on The Space Game, her favorite show. When Kole's fanfic wins a major contest, her readership skyrockets. Suddenly, Kole finds herself stuck in the heated ship wars, as her new readers pair characters from the show together as romantic couples. Worse yet, Kole's classmates discover that she's the fanfic's author. Now it isn't just The Space Game everyone is arguing about: they start shipping Kole with her classmates. With her romantic life in shambles and her anxiety through the roof, Kole must face both her inner demons and the ones at her school. She has one chance to reclaim her fanfic-and the guy that Kole now realizes she's shipped herself with since episode one of the school year.
Katie Kingman (Author), Julia Atwood (Narrator)
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