The before and the after of the Berlin Wall speak to you in this week’s free AudiobookSYNC selections!
In one title, a fictional family divided in 1961 by the Wall echoes the plight of thousands of Germans during the Cold War, while a nonfiction examination of the Cold War’s end and the fall of the Wall shows long-awaited reunions.
Choose one, choose both! Just be sure to download before Wednesday 29 May 2019 so you can read with your ears as long as you retain the audio file on your device.
Big thanks to the publishers for making each week’s pair of professionally produced audiobooks available to us – free!
A Night Divided, by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Read by Kate Simses.
Published by Scholastic Audiobooks
Suddenly, her father and brother are on the western side of the new wall dividing Berlin! The guns of East German soldiers threaten Gerta, Fritz, and their mother constantly as hope of reunion dims and even neighbors cannot be trusted. There is just one chance for freedom – Gerta and Fritz must tunnel under the Wall!
Tear Down This Wall: A City, A President, and the Speech That Ended the Cold War, by Romesh Ratnesar
Read by Wes Bleed. Published by Oasis Audio
President Ronald Reagan’s provocative 1987 speech in West Berlin called on Mikhail Gorbachev of Russia to tear down the Wall, which fell just two years later. This book uses information from Western and Soviet sources to chronicle the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
What literal or figurative walls have you seen change in your lifetime?
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