BIPOC Authors

Barbacoa, Bomba, and Betrayal

By: Raquel V. Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she’s called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings... Read more

A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

Narrated by: Michelle Porter, Jani Lauzon, Tara Sky, Tantoo ...

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.

Written like a crooked Métis jig, A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of women... Read more

Undisputed

By: Donovan Bailey

Narrated by: Donovan Bailey

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.

From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to... Read more

Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

Narrated by: Jen Zhao & Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want.

“Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female... Read more

Aster of Ceremonies

By: JJJJJerome Ellis

Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more

Juego de libertad

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Aunque se debate cuándo y dónde se originó exactamente la capoeira, una forma de arte que combina las artes marciales, la danza, las acrobacias, la música y la espiritualidad, una cosa es segura: a principios del siglo XX Brasil era el único país en el mundo en el que se jugaba a la capoeira, y era practicada principalmente por personas de... Read more

Thriving with Anxiety

By: David H. Rosmarin

Narrated by: Mark Smeby

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the founder of Center for Anxiety and Harvard associate professor David H. Rosmarin, PhD, a practical guide to transforming your anxiety from a burden to a benefit.Those of us who suffer from anxiety either exhaust ourselves trying to cure it or resign ourselves to a lifetime of fear and worry. What if, instead of fighting our anxiety, we... Read more

Mind Over Matter

By: Jordin Tootoo & Stephen Brunt

Narrated by: Jordin Tootoo

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marks his family, only to discover the source of all that trauma in his father's secret past.

For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it’s all over. But... Read more

One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

Narrated by: Siho Ellsmore

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“A powerhouse story, a powerhouse voice, that wrestles with intragenerational fractures and complicated entanglements. At the center of the book is an obsessive kind of love, a love that gives but also takes, but a love that only forms from bonds forged in fire.”—Weike Wang, award-winning author of Joan Is Okay and ChemistryFrom one of... Read more

Life in Two Worlds

By: Ted Nolan

Narrated by: James Malloch

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

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In 1997 Ted Nolan won the Jack Adams Award for best coach in the NHL. But he wouldn’t work in pro hockey again for almost a decade. What happened?

Growing up on a First Nation reserve, young Ted Nolan built his own backyard hockey rink and wore skates many sizes too big. But poverty wasn’t his biggest challenge. Playing the game... Read more

House Gone Quiet

By: Kelsey Norris

Narrated by: James Fouhey, Jade Wheeler, Machelle Williams &...

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence | Named a Best Book of 2023 by Library Journal and Debutiful

An eerie, irresistible debut story collection about the bonds and bounds of community and what it means to call a place home, “perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Carmen Maria Machado” (Booklist).

“A writer to watch if there ever... Read more

Separados no somos iguales

By: Duncan Tonatiuh

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Siete años antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Méndez luchó para acabar con la segregación en las escuelas de California. Descubre su increíble historia en este libro para niños del galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh. ¡Mención de Honor del Premio Pura Belpré al Ilustrador! Cuando su familia se mudó al pueblo de Westminster,... Read more

Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will ever be the same.Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man’s baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be... Read more

The Portal Keeper

By: David A. Robertson

Narrated by: Brefny Caribou

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Eli and Morgan experience life-changing revelations in this new adventure in the award-winning, Narnia-inspired Indigenous middle-grade fantasy series.

While exploring World’s End, an area in Aski they've just discovered, Morgan and Emily delight in their developing relationship, while Eli struggles to understand his new-found power: the ability... Read more

I Hope You Fail

By: Pinky Cole

Narrated by: Pinky Cole

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Pinky Cole—founder of the wildly successful restaurant chain Slutty Vegan—takes you back to your moments that seemed hopeless to help you discover how filled with possibility they really were.We've all been told we can't do it. That we're not enough. That we grew up in the wrong neighborhood or had the wrong parents or made... Read more

Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Sura Siu & Caroline Hewitt

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Recommended by The New York Times • Elle • Good Morning America • TIME • People • New York Post • Real Simple • Goodreads • LibraryReads • and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women—from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie... Read more

Just a Pinch of Magic

By: Alechia Dow

Narrated by: Renee Dorian & Amber Dekkers

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wini's family of enchanters runs a little bakery, but with the prices of magical ingredients skyrocketing, they're going under. Desperate to save her family's business, Wini takes a risk by casting a (sort of illegal) spell that would allow them to gather their own supply of their most needed magical ingredient: love. But the spell doesn't work.... Read more

Roommates

By: Ola Tundun

Narrated by: Savannah Davies

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ariella Mason has the perfect life. Perfect job? Check. Perfect home? Check. Perfect fiancé? Check. None of this is by accident. Ariella is a card-carrying perfectionist. On the other side of the city lives Ariella’s polar opposite. Caleb Black is an unrepentant smart-ass, seat-of-his-pants, arrogant party-boy getting through life on... Read more

Out of the Far North

By: Amir Tsarfati & Steve Yohn

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious at this interference in its control over the West, Russia demands that Israel stop its defensive military strikes against Iranian weapons transported into Syria. Weapons Israel knows are meant for the... Read more

Dirty Flowers

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Lacy Laurel & Tristan Josiah

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

As Emily and Kazimir navigate parenthood, darkness emerges to shatter their peace. The unspeakable has occurred, triggering the Lion to roar. Yet, when one thinks that the Lion and Mouse could never come back from the horror, they are empowered by not only their love, but also the undying support of their friends and family, who are just as... Read more

The Lion and Mouse, Books #1-3

By: Kenya Wright

Narrated by: Ellis Evans & Shari Peele

Length: 27 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Included in this bundle are the first three books in Kenya Wright's The Lion and Mouse series: Book 1: Dirty Kisses Steamy romance and mind-blowing suspense collide in this BWWM romance about a Russian mafia boss and the one street smart woman he can’t control. Book 2: Dirty Love In book two of The Lion and Mouse, there are hearts to protect,... Read more

The Girl with Special Shoes

By: Hilda Bih Muluh

Narrated by: Hilda Bih Muluh

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilda’s family didn’t know she had muscular dystrophy. They just knew their preschooler was losing her ability to walk. But they were determined to find a cure.

Being disabled in Cameroon meant not only obstacles to transport, but visits to diviners and evangelists, threats of sexual assault, discrimination, and a crisis of faith. Despite the... Read more

Forever Home

By: Anh Lin

Narrated by: Anh Lin

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Most of my childhood was spent in transition. . .Anh Lin knows something about displacement and belonging. When she was four, her family left their home in Vietnam and migrated to the United States where Anh experienced difficult, transient living situations, the inherited traumas of her parents, and—the summer before she... Read more