BIPOC Authors

¡Vamos! Let's Go Read

By: Raúl The Third

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival that the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone.... Read more

Freeset

By: Sarina Dahlan

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Sequel to the #1 bestseller Reset, Freeset is an intricate sci-fi story about found family, building hope, and learning to trust your inner voice.Can true love break you free?When calamity destroyed most of humanity, the Four Cities survived by carefully predicting and meticulously controlling everything in the survivors’ lives—even love. As... Read more

Looking for Love in All the Haunted Places

By: Claire Kann

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Swoony and spooky.”—NPR

Love brings down the haunted house in this captivating romance from the acclaimed author of The Romantic Agenda.

Lucky Hart has a special affinity for the supernatural but almost no one takes parapsychology seriously. She’s estranged from her family, lost her friends, and has been rejected from graduate school. Twice.... Read more

Goddess of the River

By: Vaishnavi Patel

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son, from Vaishnavi Patel, author of the instant New York Times bestseller Kaikeyi.

A mother and a son. A goddess and a prince. A curse and an oath. A river whose course will change the fate of the world.

Ganga, joyful goddess of the river, serves as... Read more

Consecrated Ground

By: Virginia Black

Narrated by: Trei Taylor

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Consecrated Ground is a multiracial lesbian paranormal tour de force that will leave you wary of the shadows and absolutely breathless.



Like her father before her, Joan Matthews is a witch. For generations, their family of binder witches has protected Calvert, Oregon from vampires by strengthening the land with spellcraft. Pushing back against... Read more

How to Tell the Truth

By: Preston Perry

Narrated by: Preston Butler

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Preston Perry’s path toward God. A hope-filled apologetics and evangelism book written by the popular cohost of the podcast, With the Perrys. Includes a foreword by Jackie Hill Perry.

In this compelling and gripping book, Preston tells the story of how God chased him. The streets of Chicago were his home, and it was there that he... Read more

A Gamble at Sunset

By: Vanessa Riley

Narrated by: Bianca Drew

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the... Read more

The DIVA Principle

By: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Narrated by: McKinney Michelle Hammond

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Deep inside the heart of every woman is a diva just waiting to be released. It lies underneath all of the other things she has supposedly “learned” about herself—truth, fiction, deception, or just the superimposed bad feelings of others who’ve tried to smother the diva within. Although the word diva now evokes the image of a vain or... Read more

The Perilous Fight

By: Ben Carson, M.D.

Narrated by: Ben Carson & Candy Carson

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by Dr. Ben Carson.Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come.Does America no longer feel like home? Widespread divorce rates, the erosion of traditional... Read more

Seen Yet Unseen

By: Bärí A. Williams

Narrated by: Bärí A. Williams

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part searing revelation, Seen Yet Unseen takes readers behind the scenes of some of the world’s biggest tech companies and exposes the way their exclusion of and, at times, hostility toward Black women have lasting impacts on the technology we use every day.Over the years the products of big tech companies and Silicon Valley have... Read more

Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

Narrated by: Diontae Black

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Don't let the white man take the house." These are the last words King Solomon says to his son before he dies. Now the Solomon siblings must return to North Carolina to save the Kingdom, their ancestral home and 200 acres of land, from a development company, who has their sights set on turning the valuable waterfront property into a... Read more

Taken to Kor

By: Elizabeth Stephens

Narrated by: Joy Beharie & Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

I thought he liked me. He's been my only source of company for the past rotation that I've been held captive. But when he rejects me in front of everyone, I get the shrov out, determined to find humans on another satellite far far away from this mess that is my life. Except I don't exactly receive the warm homecoming I expect. Instead this... Read more

The City Beyond the Stars

By: Zohra Nabi

Narrated by: Aysha Kala

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The captivating sequel to The Kingdom Over the Sea—which is “perfect for fans of Philip Pullman and Tahereh Mafi” (Booklist)—follows Yara and her friends as they change the fate of the kingdom and their magic forever.

Yara may have stopped the magical plague spreading its way through her new home, but to do so, she had to leave her mother in the... Read more

Road to Ruin

By: Hana Lee

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying, gritty fantasy from debut author Hana Lee that takes a royal messenger on a high-speed chase across a climate-ravaged wasteland, featuring motorcycles, monsters, and magic.

Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She’s a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by... Read more

The Oath

By: T.M. Richardson

Narrated by: Lacy Laurel

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Miles, Deacon, and Cassidy are Franklin’s best friends, brothers in every sense of the word. When Franklin asks his brothers to do something unorthodox as his dying wish, the trio has some reservations. When they tell his widow about the oath that they were bound in brotherhood to uphold, will she run or embrace a new phase of her life that... Read more

The Dangerous Ones

By: Lauren Blackwood

Narrated by: Angel Pean & Jay Ben Markson

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"A perfect mix of MAGIC, VAMPIRES, STAR-CROSSED LOVE, and writing as SHARP AND DEADLY a spear." - Nisha J. Tuli, author of Trial of the Sun Queen

THE THRILLING ROMANTASY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAUREN BLACKWOOD!

One vampire to kill. Another to love.

War doesn’t scare Jerusalem. She’s a Saint. Thanks to powerful demigod-style... Read more

Finders Keepers

By: Sandra Kitt

Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As a charter-school director, Olivia Cameron is no stranger to everyday unexpected surprises. But when she finds money (and lots of it) hidden behind false walls in the home she inherited, an extremely unusual problem falls into her lap. Now, she's under the watchful eye of local FBI agent Sloan Kendrick as he investigates where the money came... Read more

The Third Perspective

By: Africa Brooke

Narrated by: Africa Brooke

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In our deeply divided, binary world, honest discussion is stressful for all sides. Entrepreneur and thought leader Africa Brooke charts a path for understanding in this groundbreaking guide for finding common ground.

In this manifesto, Africa teaches us how to return to critical thinking and reduce societal divides by opening our minds and being... Read more

Until I'm Yours

By: Kennedy Ryan

Narrated by: Jill Redfield & Connor Crais

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan delivers a scorching romance where one man must earn the trust of a woman with diamond-hard defenses in order to win her heart.

The world knows her face . . .

Mean girl. Goddess. Bitch. Supermodel Sofie Baston has earned those labels . . . yet they don't scratch the surface of who she really is. Before she... Read more

A Cloud Called Bhura

By: Bijal Vachharajani

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Bijal Vachharajani, A Cloud Called Bhura is a delightful middle-grade novel that tackles climate change through an inspiring lens of friendship, trust, and community.Amni wakes up one morning to find the sky taken over by a huge brown cloud. Even as she and her friends start to discover more, their city of Mumbai starts... Read more

The Hidden Story of Estie Noor

By: Nadine Aisha Jassat

Narrated by: Nikki Patel

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

No one wanted to hear Estie's side of the story. Now she's on a mission to make sure the truth is heard . . . A page-turning mystery novel in verse about identity, friendship and learning to use your voice, with accessible text and beautiful illustrations throughout.

When twelve-year-old Estie is expelled from school, she's sent to stay with her... Read more

If My Words Had Wings

By: Danielle Jawando

Narrated by: Kenton Thomas

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A life affirming story of rehabilitation and hope after prison. The third novel from multi-award-winning Danielle Jawando, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas and Elizabeth Acevedo.
 
‘Jawando’s writing is incredibly raw and real; I felt completely immersed’ Alice Oseman, author of the Heartstopper series
 
When fifteen-year-old Tyrell Forrester... Read more

Say Good

By: Ashlee Eiland

Narrated by: Ashlee Eiland

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Find your passion. Know your voice. Speak for good.

We know what it means to do good. But in today’s tense and complex world, when topics like political issues, theology, and current events so often divide us, how do we say good? God calls us to speak truth into our communities and relationships, but we all struggle to know when to speak up. We... Read more

Safiyyah's War

By: Hiba Noor Khan

Narrated by: Shala Nyx

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II, Hiba Noor Khan weaves a breathtaking tale of suspense, compassion, and courage, starring an extraordinary young heroine readers will never forget. Safiyyah loathes the brutal Nazi occupation of Paris, even though her Muslim... Read more