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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
Formats: Audio Download ($15.27) | Audio CD ($18.40)
An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.
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Dreams from My Father
by Barack Obama
Formats: Audio Download ($17.26)
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American....
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Martin Luther King Jr.: We Shall Overcome
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Formats: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($15.95)
Encompasses the most moving moments in American social history with the extraordinary civil rights leader.
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As Nature Made Him
by John Colapinto
Formats: Audio Download ($15.95)
In 1967, after a baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment.
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Undaunted Courage
by Stephen Ambrose
Formats: Audio Download ($15.95)
Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West...
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Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson
Formats: Audio Download ($17.95)
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of Steve Jobs.
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Co. Aytch
by Sam R. Watkins
Formats: Audio Download ($19.95)
In 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment.
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Born on a Blue Day
by Daniel Tammet
Formats: Audio Download ($16.99)
One of the world's fifty living autistic savants is the first and only to tell his compelling and inspiring life story-and explain how his incredible mind works.
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The Man Called Cash
by Steve Turner
Formats: Audio Download ($11.95)
Johnny Cash is one of the most influential figures in music and American popular culture today....
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The Story of My Life
by Farah Ahmedi
Formats: Audio Download ($17.95)
When ABC News' Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing true-life experiences, the network never imagined receiving more than 20,000 pages of inspiring stories....
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