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  • The Road to Delano

    by John DeSimone ...
    A high school senior, Jack Duncan, dreams of playing college baseball and escaping the political turmoil of the agricultural town of Delano. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died ten years earlier, he's suspected that his mother has been hiding the truth from him about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.With his family's property on the verge of a tax sale, Jack drives an old ... Read more

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    The Road to Delano

    by John DeSimone ...
    Narrated by Ramon De Ocampo ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 5 min

    Jack Duncan is a high school senior whose dream is to play baseball in college and beyond—as far away from Delano as possible. He longs to escape the political turmoil surrounding the labor struggles of the striking fieldworkers that infests his small ag town. Ever since his father, a grape grower, died under suspicious circumstances ten years earlier, he's had to be the sole emotional support of ... Read more

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  • Courage to Say No

    A Pakistani Female Doctor's Battle Against Sexual Exploitation

    by Raana Mahmood ...
    Sexual harassment is in the news almost every day. Countless women have been intimidated into silence or their careers and lives have been ruined because they refused to submit to unwanted sexual advances. Yet, sexual harassment coupled with corruption is not singularly an American affliction. It’s an ancient disease, a truly universal tale. Dr. Raana Mahmood's story, Courage to Stay No, is a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    The Intrepid Brotherhood

    Public Power, Corruption, and Whistleblowing in the Pacific Northwest

    Narrated by Brad Derry ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 23 min

    Deep corruption threatened to ruin jobs and harm lives. Intimidation, distrust, and secrecy becamethe norm among the executive management group of Chelan County Public Utility District.Even in a small and semirural American government, corrupt leaders aren’t simply dishonest and immoral.They’re dangerous.A board of directors should hold wrongdoers accountable, but sometimes that responsibility ... Read more

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    Strength and How to Obtain It (Unabridged)

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    3 hours 20 min

    In writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyone—man, woman, and child—wants to be strong. Without strength—and by strength I mean health, vitality, and a general sense of physical well-being—life is but a gloomy business. Wealth, talent, ambition, the love and affection of friends, the pleasure derived from doing good to those about one, all these things may afford some ... Read more

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  • Love Behind Bars

    The True Story of an American Prisoner's Wife

    The Powerful, Poignant Story of Love, Courage, and Redemption from Death Row, Where an Indomitable Woman Challenged Corruption in Order to Free her HusbandWhen TV reporter Jodie Sinclair went to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as the Death House at Angola, in 1981, she expected to report about the death penalty and leave. She never expected to fall in love. Billy Sinclair was an ... Read more

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