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Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights

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Address by Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Woman's Rights in 1848

From the House of Yemanjá

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Poem by Audre Lorde.

How to Write the Great American Indian Novel

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Poem by Sherman Alexie.

Hope, Despair and Memory

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The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 11, 1986 by Elie Wiesel.

Hamlet

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In this recording, actor Frank Muller reads Hamlet with all stage directions and speaker indications providing a more complete text to audio experience. This is not a dramatized production, but a more accurate reading of the play itself.

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Hamlet

Why Genocide?

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Article from thehumanist.com by Fred Edwords in December 2008.

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

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The best-selling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the 21st century. "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma.

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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

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Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence.

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860L
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11:55
The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

It's Kind of a Funny Story

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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Most people think 15-year-old Charlie is a freak. But then seniors Patrick and his beautiful stepsister Sam take Charlie under their wings and introduce him to their eclectic, open-minded, hard-partying friends. It is from these older kids that Charlie learns to live and love.

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720L
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06:20
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Old Yeller

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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn or The Yearling comes along, it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the response it evokes in the reader. Such a tale is Old Yeller; to listen to this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience.

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910L
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03:30
Old Yeller

The Green Mile

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Hear this history-making serial novel - from cliffhanger to cliffhanger - in its entirety. When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's The Green Mile was an unprecedented publishing triumph; all six volumes ended up on the New York Times best seller list - simultaneously - and delighted millions of fans the world over.

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The Green Mile

The Breadwinner

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Imagine living in a country in which women and girls are not allowed to leave the house without a man. Imagine having to wear clothes that cover every part of your body, including your face, whenever you go out.

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The Breadwinner

Son

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"They called her Water Claire."

When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen.

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Speak

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From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast.

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