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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
- A Memoir
- By: Chris Packham
- Narrated by: Chris Packham
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham was only at home in the fields and woods around his suburban home....
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The Call of the Wild
- By Rachel Redford on 13-06-16
By: Chris Packham
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Billy's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 6
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure....
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Billy’s story
- By terrie on 09-07-23
By: Louise Allen
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home....
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Finally a raw and honest portrayal of foster care.
- By MissD on 25-01-23
By: Louise Allen
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Never Let Go
- How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
- By: Suzanne Alderson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Alderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery....
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Wonderful- the book I have needed for so long
- By Kate S. on 12-06-23
By: Suzanne Alderson
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Face to Face with Serial Killers
- My Conversations with the World's Most Evil Men
- By: Christopher Berry-Dee
- Narrated by: Geoff Barham
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We've all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people....
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I should like it. But I don't
- By Herman Amanda Langland on 15-11-19
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The Silent Twins
- By: Marjorie Wallace
- Narrated by: Jodhi May
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three, they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society....
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Beautifully written and narrated
- By Lucy on 29-01-24
By: Marjorie Wallace
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Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
- A Memoir
- By: Chris Packham
- Narrated by: Chris Packham
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham was only at home in the fields and woods around his suburban home....
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The Call of the Wild
- By Rachel Redford on 13-06-16
By: Chris Packham
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Billy's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 6
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure....
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Billy’s story
- By terrie on 09-07-23
By: Louise Allen
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Sky's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 5
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no other. Raised by unhinged parents who hoarded compulsively, creating horrific conditions no child should live in, the two girls arrived at foster carer Louise's home....
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Finally a raw and honest portrayal of foster care.
- By MissD on 25-01-23
By: Louise Allen
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Never Let Go
- How to Parent Your Child Through Mental Illness
- By: Suzanne Alderson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Alderson
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Never Let Go is a supportive and practical guide for parents looking after a child with a mental illness. Suzanne Alderson understands the agonising struggle of bringing a child back from the brink of suicide, having spent three years supporting her own daughter through recovery....
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Wonderful- the book I have needed for so long
- By Kate S. on 12-06-23
By: Suzanne Alderson
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Face to Face with Serial Killers
- My Conversations with the World's Most Evil Men
- By: Christopher Berry-Dee
- Narrated by: Geoff Barham
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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We've all heard so much about the killers who grab the front pages, the ones whose crimes are so appalling that they exert a strange fascination on many people....
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I should like it. But I don't
- By Herman Amanda Langland on 15-11-19
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The Silent Twins
- By: Marjorie Wallace
- Narrated by: Jodhi May
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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When identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons were three, they began to reject communication with anyone but each other, and so began a childhood bound together in a strange and secret world. As they grew up, love, hate and genius united to push them to the extreme margins of society....
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Beautifully written and narrated
- By Lucy on 29-01-24
By: Marjorie Wallace
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Conquered
- The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
- By: Eleanor Parker
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
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The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England – so what happened to the children this conflict left behind....
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Indispensable
- By Bee-nocchio on 13-09-23
By: Eleanor Parker
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Montessori
- The Science Behind the Genius
- By: Angeline Stoll Lillard
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
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One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn....
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So, so, so dry
- By Anonymous User on 12-12-23
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I Miss Mummy: The true story of a frightened young girl who is desperate to go home
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: Denica Fairman
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In her new book, Cathy Glass, the number one best-selling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother....
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Such a tragic story
- By Susan Inglis on 10-01-17
By: Cathy Glass
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Max and Mia's Story
- Thrown Away Children, Book 7
- By: Louise Allen
- Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care....
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Love Louise Allen’s foster care memoirs
- By Mrs Keely Short on 22-04-23
By: Louise Allen
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Cruel to Be Kind
- Saying No Can Save a Child's Life
- By: Cathy Glass
- Narrated by: DeNica Fairman
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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Cruel to Be Kind is the true story of Max, age six. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes....
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Good
- By suzanne on 05-04-18
By: Cathy Glass
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Baby X
- Britain's Child Abusers Brought to Justice
- By: Harry Keeble, Kris Hollington
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Baby X is a shocking and unforgettable story of how some of the UK's most disadvantaged children escaped their tormentors....
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Oooookay
- By DianeF on 26-02-15
By: Harry Keeble, and others
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Generation Z Unfiltered
- Facing Nine Hidden Challenges of the Most Anxious Population
- By: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
- Narrated by: Tim Elmore, Andrew McPeak
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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This generation of students who have grown up in the 21st century are the most social, the most empowered, and also the most anxious youth population in human history. If you are struggling to connect with and lead them, you are not alone....
By: Tim Elmore, and others
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Girls on the Edge
- Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed - and What Parents Can Do
- By: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Andrew Colford
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self....
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Fantastic book
- By Mr. Rupert A. Oldham on 14-09-23
By: Leonard Sax
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Lessons Will Be Learned
- Transforming Safeguarding in Education
- By: Martin Baker, Mike Glanville
- Narrated by: Michael Taibi
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The safeguarding and child protection challenges in education have never been more complex, nor the legal duties on schools and colleges more stringent....
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Brilliant
- By Xx on 12-11-23
By: Martin Baker, and others
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The Jews of Summer
- Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
- By: Sandra Fox
- Narrated by: Sharon Freedman
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
By: Sandra Fox
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Teach Your Children Well
- Parenting for Authentic Success
- By: Madeline Levine PhD
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Research and clinical experience explodes once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame....
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Interesting overall
- By M. Martinez on 02-07-23
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The Invention of Childhood
- By: Hugh Cunningham
- Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
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The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout the ages....
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Excellent
- By Flint on 29-04-15
By: Hugh Cunningham
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Boys Adrift
- The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
- By: Leonard Sax
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago....
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Why man fall behind
- By bilal on 04-11-19
By: Leonard Sax
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American Girls
- Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
- By: Nancy Jo Sales
- Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer, Nancy Jo Sales
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of Nancy Jo Sales' American Girls....
By: Nancy Jo Sales
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Raising the Nation
- How to Build a Better Future for Our Children (and Everyone Else)
- By: Paul Lindley
- Narrated by: Richard Pryal, Ali Vowles, Lissa Berry, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Raising the Nation builds a compelling case showing why we must nurture smart, strong and kind children to one day inherit the stewardship of society....
By: Paul Lindley
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How Children Succeed
- Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
- By: Paul Tough
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in How Children Succeed, Paul Tough argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character....
By: Paul Tough
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How the Onion Got Its Layers
- By: Sudha Murty
- Narrated by: Neha Karen, Sagarika Shazneen, Shalini Vikrant
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you noticed how the onion has so many layers? And have you seen your mother's eyes water when she cuts an onion? Here is a remarkable story to tell you why....
By: Sudha Murty
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Sois jeune et tais-toi
- Réponse à ceux qui critiquent la jeunesse
- By: Salomé Saqué
- Narrated by: Salomé Saqué
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Changer de regard sur la jeunesse. Les jeunes seraient « paresseux », « incultes », voire « égoïstes et individualistes ». J’ai entendu mille fois ces...
By: Salomé Saqué
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Family Unfriendly
- How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
- By: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?
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Solito, Solita
- Crossing Borders with Youth Refugees from Central America
- By: Jonathan Freedman - editor, Steven Mayers - editor
- Narrated by: Tim Pabon, Inés del Castillo, Frankie Corzo, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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They are a mass migration of thousands, yet each one travels alone. Solito, Solita is a collection of oral histories that tells the story of young refugees fleeing countries in Central America and traveling for hundreds of miles to seek safety and protection in the United States....
By: Jonathan Freedman - editor, and others
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Them Before Us
- Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement
- By: Katy Faust, Stacy Manning
- Narrated by: Katy Faust
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Them Before Us blazes a new trail through the difficult terrain of marriage and family issues. It’s the only book that filters the complexities of marriage, familial relationships, and reproductive technologies....
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Amazing!
- By Esther on 27-01-23
By: Katy Faust, and others
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The Woman Who Saved the Children
- By: Clare Mulley
- Narrated by: Joely Richardson, Clare Mulley - introduction and foreword
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is an unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb moved from drawing rooms to war zones, often defying expectation and at times breaking the law. Although not fond of individual children, she founded Save the Children....
By: Clare Mulley
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The Nurture Effect
- How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
- By: Anthony Biglan
- Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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If you want to know how you can help create a better world, listen to this book....
By: Anthony Biglan
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Growing Up Human
- The Evolution of Childhood
- By: Brenna Hassett
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Brenna Hassett explores how our evolutionary history has shaped a phenomenon every reader will have experienced—childhood....
By: Brenna Hassett
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Young Lives, Big Ambitions
- Transforming Life Chances for Vulnerable Children and Teens
- By: Anne Longfield
- Narrated by: Rachel Capell
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A difficult home life. A missed diagnosis. A disrupted education. Falling in with the wrong crowd. Every year thousands of children fall through the cracks in our society and become victims of a destructive cycle that ends in exploitation, violence, and lost life chances. As Commissioner for Children in England, Anne Longfield CBE witnessed the devastating effects of this cycle as vulnerable young people were failed by systems too underfunded and overstretched to protect them. Young Lives, Big Ambitions is a plan to fix our broken system and give every young person the chance to succeed.
By: Anne Longfield
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The Jews of Summer
- Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
- By: Sandra Fox
- Narrated by: Sharon Freedman
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
By: Sandra Fox
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Family Unfriendly
- How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
- By: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother. How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- By: Jessica Pryce
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families.
By: Jessica Pryce
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A Very Private School
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, describing the pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.
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Interesting retelling of a terrible experience.
- By Carmel on 13-03-24
By: Charles Spencer
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How to Teach Kids Empathy
- A Parent’s Guide to Raise Compassionate Humans; Build Connection with Your Kids
- By: Ann Hester
- Narrated by: Kristin Ford
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn the building blocks of empathy and emotional intelligence so you can foster perspective-taking, kindness, conflict resolution, and celebrating diversity. Let this book be your roadmap to instilling empathy in your kids—one of the most important skills in becoming compassionate contributors to a kinder, more connected world.
By: Ann Hester
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Young Lives, Big Ambitions
- Transforming Life Chances for Vulnerable Children and Teens
- By: Anne Longfield
- Narrated by: Rachel Capell
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A difficult home life. A missed diagnosis. A disrupted education. Falling in with the wrong crowd. Every year thousands of children fall through the cracks in our society and become victims of a destructive cycle that ends in exploitation, violence, and lost life chances. As Commissioner for Children in England, Anne Longfield CBE witnessed the devastating effects of this cycle as vulnerable young people were failed by systems too underfunded and overstretched to protect them. Young Lives, Big Ambitions is a plan to fix our broken system and give every young person the chance to succeed.
By: Anne Longfield
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The Jews of Summer
- Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America
- By: Sandra Fox
- Narrated by: Sharon Freedman
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
By: Sandra Fox
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Family Unfriendly
- How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder than It Needs to Be
- By: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrated by: Timothy P. Carney
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother. How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.
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Broken
- Transforming Child Protective Services—Notes of a Former Caseworker
- By: Jessica Pryce
- Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system—from foster care to incarceration—that exposes the deep-rooted biases shaping the system, witnessed through the lives of several Black families.
By: Jessica Pryce
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A Very Private School
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school. A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects on the hopelessness and abandonment he felt aged eight, describing the pain of homesickness and the appalling inescapability of it all.
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Interesting retelling of a terrible experience.
- By Carmel on 13-03-24
By: Charles Spencer
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How to Teach Kids Empathy
- A Parent’s Guide to Raise Compassionate Humans; Build Connection with Your Kids
- By: Ann Hester
- Narrated by: Kristin Ford
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Learn the building blocks of empathy and emotional intelligence so you can foster perspective-taking, kindness, conflict resolution, and celebrating diversity. Let this book be your roadmap to instilling empathy in your kids—one of the most important skills in becoming compassionate contributors to a kinder, more connected world.
By: Ann Hester