BIPOC Authors

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

Narrated by: Amir Abdullah

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett



I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.



Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more

Vlad, el vampirito fabuloso

By: Flavia Z. Drago

Narrated by: Marisa Blake

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

¡A Vlad le fascina un atuendo estupendo! Y como a sus vampíricos amigos, le encanta vestirse de negro de pies a cabeza. Pero, a diferencia de todos los demás vampiros, Vlad tiene un par de mejillas rosas que lo hacen lucir horripilantemente vivo. ¿Cómo le hará para encajar con las demás criaturas paranormales? Vlad, siempre a la moda, intenta... Read more

The Bodies Keep Coming

By: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Narrated by: Dr. Brian H. Williams

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Trauma surgeon Dr. Brian H. Williams has seen it all—gunshot wounds, stabbings, traumatic brain injuries—and ushers us into the trauma bay, where the wounds of a national emergency amass. As a Harvard-trained physician, he learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow rage when patients told him to... Read more

Lucky Girl

By: Scout Bassett

Narrated by: Scout Bassett

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sprinter, long jumper, and Paralympian Scout Bassett shares the lessons she’s learned battling the toughest challenges facing young women today.
 
As an infant in China, Scout Bassett survived a fire that took her right leg. She spent the next seven years in an orphanage before being adopted and whisked away to the United States, where she felt... Read more

Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior

By: Carole Lindstrom

Narrated by: Carole Lindstrom

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From New York Times bestselling author Carole Lindstrom comes Autumn Peltier, Water Warrior, an inspiring biography about two Indigenous Rights Activists, Josephine Mandamin and Autumn Peltier.

The seventh generation is creating
A sea of change.

It was a soft voice, at first.
Like a ripple.
But with practice it... Read more

All Hope is Found

By: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Narrated by: Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Hope is not a wish waiting to come true. It's not an external desire waiting to be realized. Hope is an ever-present reality regardless of how dire a situation may seem.
Undoubtedly, there are moments when hope is obscure. That's because hope has many hiding places. It hides behind heartbreak, camouflages in stress, and... Read more

Viper's Dream

By: Jake Lamar

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Harlem, 1936. Clyde “The Viper” Morton boards a train from Alabama to Harlem to chase his dreams of being a jazz musician. When his talent fails him, he becomes caught up in the dangerous underbelly of Harlem’s drug trade, leaving him to decide what he's willing to give up and what he wants to fight for. A heartbreaking and fast-paced story... Read more

The Garden Within

By: Dr. Anita Phillips

Narrated by: Anita Phillips & Sarah Jakes Roberts

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERFeatured on SUPER SOUL PODCAST hosted by Oprah Winfrey.  Read by the author.Too often we’ve been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn’t true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You... Read more

May We Meet in the Heavenly World

By: Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Through both the biographical essay and the selections from Lemuel Haynes’s writings, readers are sure to perceive an Edwardsian sense of spirituality that ever lived in view of eternity. Well acquainted with difficulties, suffering, and death, Haynes’s ministry was infused with the unfailing hope of heaven. Read more

Everything is Everything

By: Clive Myrie

Narrated by: Clive Myrie

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR, NOW UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL

Readers LOVE Everything is Everything:
'Clive Myrie is one heck of an author' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Well written and thought provoking. One to come back to again' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Thoughtful, analytical, deeply caring and, at times, very funny' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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As a Bolton teenager with a paper... Read more

Knowing the Spirit

By: Costi W. Hinn

Narrated by: Costi W. Hinn

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Explore what the Bible really says about the Holy Spirit and what it means to see the power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life.Whether intentionally or not, many Christians today seek health, wealth, and happiness by summoning the Holy Spirit like a genie to grant their wishes. When things don't go the way they think they... Read more

Pilgrim

By: Ruth Chou Simons

Narrated by: Ruth Chou Simons

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

As a follower of Christ, you live each day as a pilgrim, traveling the path Jesus sets before you. Though the road may be rocky, God provides reminders along the way to show you that He writes your story, paves your path, and walks with you always. From bestselling author and artist Ruth Chou Simons comes this uplifting meditation on the... Read more

Chinese Menu

By: Grace Lin

Narrated by: Lisa Ling

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery and Caldecott honoree and New York Times bestselling author Grace Lin delivers a groundbreaking, lushly illustrated, and beautifully written full-color book that explores the whimsical myths and stories behind your favorite American Chinese food.

From fried dumplings to fortune cookies, here are the tales behind your favorite foods. Do... Read more

Everything There Is

By: M.G. Vassanji

Narrated by: Vik Sahay & Leslie Ann Sheppard

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, one of Canada’s finest and most celebrated writers, comes a brilliant new novel that vividly examines the seemingly incongruous worlds of science, religion and desire.

Nurul Islam is a world-renowned physicist, professor at Imperial College, London, and one half of the Islam-Rosenfeld... Read more

Wednesday's Child

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Yiyun Li

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author and includes an audio-only bonus story, Call Me Ishmael's Mother.

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the award-winning, and inimitable, author of The Book of Goose.

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she’s lost. Elsewhere, a professor... Read more

The Light on Halsey Street

By: Vanessa Miller

Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans decades.In the summer of 1985, Lisa Whitaker is a church kid headed to college on a scholarship while her best friend, Dana, is floundering in the wake of her mother’s... Read more

Avenue of Champions

By: Conor Kerr

Narrated by: Jani Lauzon & Shane Ghostkeeper

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel is a young Métis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peopls to the... Read more

In Bloom

By: Eva Verde

Narrated by: Ayesha Antoine

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine...

A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of... Read more

The Adversity of Diversity

By: Carol M. Swain & Mike Towle

Narrated by: Carol M. Swain & Freddy Richardson

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring Affirmative Action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace... Read more

Where There Was Fire

By: John Manuel Arias

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias’ multigenerational saga." —Booklist

A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias

Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s... Read more

Grit Don't Quit

By: Bianca Juarez Olthoff

Narrated by: Bianca Juarez Olthoff

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.Whether by choice or circumstances out of our control, we will have moments where we feel like we've been punched out, dragged down, or knocked out. What do we do in those situations? You must learn to persevere.Perseverance requires a deep sense of hope, and thought leader, pastor, and podcaster, Bianca Juárez Olthoff, knows... Read more

It Stops Here

By: Rueben George & Michael Simpson

Narrated by: Rueben George

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an... Read more

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

Narrated by: Kristolyn Lloyd

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From debut author Jamison Shea comes this slow-burn horror novel that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit from exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back. This program is read by Grammy- and Emmy-award-winning-actor Kristolyn Lloyd.

There will be blood.

Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this... Read more

The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle

By: T. L. Huchu

Narrated by: Kimberly Mandindo

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Duels, magic, and plenty of ghosts await in The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle, the third book of T. L. Huchu's USA Today bestselling Edinburgh Nights series.

Everyone’s favorite fifteen-year-old ghostalker, Ropa, arrives at the worldwide Society of Skeptical Enquirers’ biennial conference just in time to be tied into a mystery—a locked room mystery,... Read more