Non-Fiction Audiobooks

Kwanzaa

Black, red, and green. These are the colors of Kwanzaa, the celebration of African-American culture. Black represents African heritage. And red and green stand for the hard times of the past and hope for the future. Beginning readers will learn some Swahili as they read about the seven days of Kwanzaa.

Rachel Grack (Author), Dana Fleming (Narrator)

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Collared Lemmings

Burrowing deep under the snow, collared lemmings use their shovel-like claws to create a secret world of tunnels hidden from predators. These small rodents put on their white winter coat each fall to blend in with their snowy home. Early readers will love digging through the pages of this fun, fact-filled read about the adaptations of collared lemmings.

Rebecca Pettiford (Author), Dana Fleming (Narrator)

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Chinese New Year

You could say the best is saved for last when it comes to Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival stands as the holiday’s grand finale. Dragon and lion puppets dance by day. At night, glowing lanterns float on water and across sky. This introduction to China’s most famous celebration will mesmerize beginning readers.

Rachel Grack (Author), Dana Fleming (Narrator)

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Rescue

The risks are high, and the probabilities of success are low, but soldiers on rescue missions lay their lives on the line to save others. Every year people are rescued from natural disasters, accidents, and casualties of war. Get inspired by the selfless soldiers of daring rescue missions in this low-level title for young readers!

Nel Yomtov (Author), Dana Fleming (Narrator)

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Shannen and the Dream for a School

All children have the right to a school... This is the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since the late 1970s when a fuel leak contaminated their original school building. It is 2008, and thirteen-year-old Shannen and the other students at J.R. Nakogee Elementary are tired of attending class in portables that smell and don't keep out the freezing cold winter air. They make a YouTube video describing the poor conditions, and their plea for a decent school gains them attention and support from community leaders and children across the country. Inspired, the students decide to turn their grade-eight class trip into a visit to Ottawa to speak to the Canadian government. Once there, Shannen speaks passionately to the politicians about the need to give Native children the opportunity to succeed. The following summer, Shannen is nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize. Her passion and that of the other students makes politicians stand up and take notice, and becomes a rallying point for the community and for the country. Shannen will never see her dream fulfilled. Tragically, she was killed in a car crash in 2010. Her family, friends, and supporters are continuing to fight and to honor her memory as they work for equality for children in communities everywhere.

Janet Wilson (Author), Pamela Matthews (Narrator)

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How To Coach Olympic Weightlifting: 7 Steps to Coaching Olympic Weightlifting

This short book is a response to the increased popularity of Olympic weightlifting and the problems that have come with it: the quality of coaching in the sport has been diluted in the English-speaking world by increased demand. This book aims to provide a basic description of how to coach weightlifting effectively, based on some very simple principles and approaches that should be developed. This will also help the new athlete seeking a coach understand the why of her/his training as well as the how. This will develop existing weightlifters into coaches with a very solid understanding of the basics, or allow those who coach other sports, or strength and conditioning, to improve their skillset. This book will cover the main areas of coaching for Olympic weightlifting, and how they should be applied to provide the best coaching service and the best athlete success: • The basics of weightlifting and coaching • The pre-requisites of a good coach • Dealing with General Physical Preparation • Strength: its role and developing it • Technique: on-the-ground coaching • Programming: developing the athlete • Working with people: the role of interpersonal skills in coaching By the end of this book, anyone should be able to understand the very basics of what it takes to be an effective coach – with suggested readings to continue the coaching education process – and be set on the right path to achieving their potential in the field. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert, Liam Rodgers (Author), Kane Power (Narrator)

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How to Use Pro Tools 10: Your Step by Step Guide to Using Pro Tools 10

How to Use Pro Tools 10 is a detailed step-by-step guide which will help anybody get a better comprehension of how to enhance their digital audio workflow successfully and creatively. For anybody who is new to Pro Tools 10, this guide will help to explain dynamic processing, studio effects, and audio track plug-ins that help bring your mix to a professional sound quality level. Popular techniques that have been used in digital recording studios are now found in software programs like Pro Tools. This guide includes such important topics as getting started with Pro Tools 10, understanding the distinction between the edit and mix windows, creating audio tracks, editing your audio, creating memory locations, and combining these processes to understand the way music is recorded, edited, and processed into a final audio product for listening playback. In addition, a vast number of musicians now want to learn how to record and edit their own music without paying for expensive studio fees. With this guide, they can learn secret trained studio skills, without needing enough funds to create a professional recording studio environment. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Howexpert, Mitch Meier (Author), Cody J. Johnson (Narrator)

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Year of the Weeds

'Sometimes, Korok, it is best if the Sorkar forgets you.' Korok lives in a small Gond village in western Odisha. His life is in the garden which he tends every day. Anchita lives in the house which has a garden and is an artist. Then one day, the government tells the Gonds they have to leave the village because a company is going to mine the sacred hill next to it for aluminium ore. The Gonds oppose it, but the mighty government, led by police officer Sorkari Patnaik is determined to win. Korok knows a lot about wildflowers​ and nothing much about the rest of the world, though the two friends are not going to give up. But how long will the Gond resistance last, when everybody, from politicians to activists and even Maoists turn up at the little village? What can a lone gardener and a girl with a computer do against the most powerful people in the land?

Siddhartha Sharma (Author), Shiv Kanungo (Narrator)

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Anne Frank

Graphic novels aren’t just for superheroes! Anne Frank has been plucked from history books and her life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels. The subject's birth, childhood, education, and holocaust experience have been skillfully told with detailed art. Further reading lists, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles useful in classroom discussion.

Joe Dunn (Author), Robert Rance (Narrator)

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Barack Obama: 44th U.S. President

This title examines the remarkable life of Barack Obama. Readers will learn about his childhood, education, community organizer work, and law career. Obama’s entry into politics is discussed in detail, including his rise from state senator to the first African-American president of the United States. Obama’s family life and societal contributions are also covered. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.

Tom Robinson (Author), Christopher Hopkins Ward (Narrator)

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185 Tips on World Building

From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All three books are represented in the topics covered: Creating Life - analogues, species/races, gods, monsters, word figures, plants, animals, and undead. Creating Places - planets, continents, land features, sovereign powers, settlements, land travel, water travel, space travel, time and history, places of interest, and drawing maps. Cultures and Beyond - cultures, organizations, armed forces, religions, the supernatural, systems of magic, items, languages, names, and more.

Randy Ellefson (Author), Randy Ellefson (Narrator)

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Intermittent Fasting and Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to perform the 8:16 intermittent fasting diet properly and successfully. Have you ever seen Hugh Jackman’s impressive physique in Wolverine? Will you believe me if I tell you that you can have Wolverine-like body, too? This diet will help you achieve the body you want without making yourself feel extremely hungry for days. You can achieve steady weight loss with intermittent fasting and still have enough energy to perform the things you love and enjoy life. Intermittent fasting is not an entirely modern invention. Our ancestors have been doing this. We have been performing this unknowingly. We have done IF at some point in our lives but we are unaware of it. This book will give you all there is to know about IF. Moreover, you will also learn how to perform the 8:16 IF diet properly to achieve your best form and healthiest status.   In this book, you will find: - Recipes for detox and weight loss - Recipes for better skin health - Benefits of ACV - How to make apple cider vinegar at home This book will also teach you how this wonderful vinegar can help make you healthier, look younger and feel better. From now on, you will no longer throw your apple peels and cores as you can turn them into something wonderful and important.

Greenleatherr (Author), Russell Newton (Narrator)

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