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This book includes an introduction and a series of interviews with authors about their books that have been challenged or banned. He discusses with the authors their writing, the reasons books were challenged, and their reactions.

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I enjoyed this story of a Anna Essinger and the effort she put into protecting and educating her students. Early on she realized Hitler‘s rise to power would be a danger to her school, so she found a way to move it to England in 1933. Then she worked tirelessly to provide for students already in her care and to accept more as the war went on. Although not like we would today, she also supported the mental health needs of her students. ⬇️

I was happy to see this as a free download through the #AudiobookSync program a few weeks ago as I wasn‘t really sure where I would find this Chinese classic. It was interesting to listen to, and I enjoyed the narration. However, after a while it got a bit repetitive and predictable, and I don‘t think that the stories will stick with me.

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This was an great book. Through time travel it describes and explores aspects of slavery that I‘ve read about in history books from a much more personal perspective. I appreciated the focus on the women‘s stories and complexity of the characters.

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I‘ve been listening to this off and on today while working around the house. I‘ve heard so many great reviews of this book and so far it‘s living up to all of them.

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This nonfiction YA does a great job of telling all sides of an event involving one teenager lighting the clothes of another teenager on fire while on a bus in 2013. I didn‘t know the details of the event before starting the book, so it packed quite a punch. It details a crime, but the more important message is about developing understanding and accepting others different from yourself.

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2 free audiobooks weekly starting April 30—I‘ve been getting these for a few summers now, and they always have many great picks. Edit: they now use the Sora app for the downloads. #audiobooksync

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After finishing All the Pretty Horses, I just couldn‘t jump back into my current audio so I went looking for something else in my available listens. This story of a group of men who attempted to walk across the border from Mexico to the U.S. in 2001 seemed a perfect complement to the story I had just finished. It is a harrowing story of persistence, death, and the situation at the border in the early 2000s.

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