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    • By: Heather E. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Taylor Swift went from singing karaoke in a roadhouse to being a best-selling country star. Her love for her fans and her family keeps her grounded in a world of Hollywood A-listers. Learn how this young singer has become a powerhouse in the music industry....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Whitney Stewart
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • Walt Disney always loved to entertain people. Often it got him into trouble. Once he painted pictures with tar on the side of his family's white house. His family was poor, and the happiest time of his childhood was spent living on a farm in Missouri....

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    • By: Geoff Edgers
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Elvis could not have come from humbler origins: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Depression, he grew up with the blues music of the rural South, the gospel music of local churches, and the country-western classics. Listen to learn more about Elvis....

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    • By: Tui T. Sutherland
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? Listen to learn more....

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    • The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker
    • By: Patricia Hruby Powell
    • Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In exuberant verse, Patricia Hruby Powell creates an extraordinary portrait of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker....

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    • By: True Kelley
    • Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Born in a little cabin in Tennessee, Dolly Parton always dreamed big, and she was right to! She wrote her first song at age five and became a country music star....

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    • By: Randy L Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Judy Pancoast
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Discover how the "little girl with the big voice" transitioned from vaudeville to movie stardom and landed the role of a lifetime. The world fell in love with her as Dorothy....

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    • Influential People
    • By: Martha London
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • Millie Bobby Brown rose to fame playing the character Eleven on the Netflix TV show Stranger Things. Now she's using her fame to try to make the world a better place. Learn more about Millie's acting and activism!

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    • The Life of the Great Escape Artist (American Graphic)
    • By: Agnieszka Biskup
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Harry Houdini never met a lock he didn’t like. Handcuffs, leg irons, and thumbscrews were child’s play for the world’s greatest escape artist. During his stunning career he invented some of the most mind-boggling escapes of all time....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Jim Gigliotti
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Bruce Lee was a Chinese American action film star, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and philosopher....

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    • By: Catherine Gourley
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, Maria Tallchief rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina....

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    • By: Stephanie Sabol
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Bruce Springsteen grew up in a blue-collar New Jersey town where his parents struggled to make ends meet. Bruce didn't fit in at school but found solace in rock and roll....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Corinne Melançon
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Clue: A former journalist who became the beloved host of America's favorite game show and quiz competition. Answer: Who Was Alex Trebek?, the latest title in the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series....

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    • By: Ria Thundercloud
    • Narrated by: Ria Thundercloud
    • Length: 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • At four years old, Ria Thundercloud was brought into the powwow circle, ready to dance in the special jingle dress her mother made for her. As she grew up, she danced with her brothers all over Indian country....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Pamela D. Pollack, Meg Belviso
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • As a child his passions were comics and cars, but George Lucas grew up to be one of the most successful filmmakers of all time. He is a producer, screenwriter, director, and entrepreneur whose company Lucasfilms pioneered the movie effects that changed the world of animation....

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