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And Sometimes I Wonder About You
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his East Coast foil to his immortal L.A.-based detective Easy Rawlins. As the Boston Globe raved, "A poignantly real character, [McGill is] not only the newest of the great fictional detectives, but also an incisive and insightful commentator on the American scene."
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Pleasantville
By: Attica Locke
Narrated by: JD Jackson
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are... Read more
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The Light of the World
By: Elizabeth Alexander
Narrated by: Elizabeth Alexander
Length: 3 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A deeply resonant memoir for anyone who has loved and lost, from acclaimed poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander.
In The Light of the World, Elizabeth Alexander finds herself at an existential crossroads after the sudden death of her husband. Channeling her poetic sensibilities into a rich, lucid price, Alexander tells a love... Read more
My Journey with Maya
By: Tavis Smiley
Narrated by: Tavis Smiley
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage.
When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music,... Read more
Delicious Foods
By: James Hannaham
Narrated by: James Hannaham
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.
Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband.... Read more
The Secret Game
By: Scott Ellsworth
Narrated by: Scott Ellsworth
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened -- and of a nation on the brink of monumental change.
In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James... Read more
On a Clear Day
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Visionary. This book should be in every reader's hands." –JACQUELINE WOODSON, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming
Young heroes decide that they are not too young or too powerless to change their world in this gripping, futuristic young adult novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Printz Award–winning... Read more
Death of a King
By: Tavis Smiley
Narrated by: Tavis Smiley
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis... Read more
Brown Girl Dreaming
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner
Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of Another Brooklyn, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African... Read more
When I Was the Greatest
By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: JB Adkins
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
In Bed Stuy, New York, a small misunderstanding can escalate into having a price on your head—even if you’re totally clean. This gritty, triumphant debut captures the heart and the hardship of life for an urban teen.
A lot of the stuff that gives my neighborhood a bad name, I don’t really mess with. The guns and drugs and all that, not really my... Read more
Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: "Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana") is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in... Read more
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The Family Business 2
By: Carl Weber & Treasure Hernandez
Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Diana Luke, Lisa Smith, Adam Alexa...
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In his typical jaw-dro In his typical jaw-dropping fashion, Carl Weber returns with part two of his New York Times bestselling Family Business series. He's brought along a friend in bestselling author Treasure Hernandez, and together they've added more drama and new family members to the mix. to the world of Duncans. By day they are upstanding... Read more
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H.N.I.C.
By: Albert “Prodigy” Johnson
Narrated by: Cary Hite & Kim Johnson
Length: 2 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Pappy tries to break out of the game before the head of his crew, Black, gets them all killed. Against his better judgment Pappy agrees to do one last job, but only because it's the price of his freedom. He knows Black can't be trusted. He knows his "brother" would rather see him dead than let him walk away. Yet he still agrees to do the job... Read more
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Discovering Wes Moore (The Young Adult Adaptation)
By: Wes Moore
Narrated by: Wes Moore
Length: 4 hours
Abridged: No
From the governor-elect of Maryland comes a story of two fatherless boys from Baltimore, both named Wes Moore. One is in prison, serving a life sentence for murder. The other is a Rhodes Scholar, an army veteran, and an author whose book is being turned into a movie produced by Oprah Winfrey.
The story of “the other Wes Moore” is one that the... Read more
Intellectuals and Race
By: Thomas Sowell
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense—one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.Intellectuals have played a major role in racial issues throughout the centuries. Though their... Read more
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Twelve Years a Slave
By: Solomon Northup
Narrated by: Louis Gossett
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
In this riveting landmark autobiography that reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color.Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate... Read more
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Help Me to Find My People
By: Heather Andrea Williams
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide listeners back to devastating moments of family separation... Read more
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The Family Business
By: Carl Weber & Eric Pete
Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Patricia R. Floyd, Michael Early, ...
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times best-selling author Carl Weber and award-winning novelist Eric Pete team up to deliver the first in a much-anticipated new trilogy. The Family Business features two times the heat, two times the fun, and two times the drama as the members of an unforgettable family (not to mention lovers and hangers-on) find their way in and out... Read more
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The Mighty Miss Malone
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story.
“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in... Read more
Brendan Buckley's Sixth-Grade Experiment
By: Sundee T. Frazier
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Read about Brendan, a biracial boy who loves science, and his middle school adventures in this sequel to the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It.
Brendan Buckley is headed to middle school on a whole new adventure. When his alternative energy idea gets him paired with... Read more
Playground
By: 50 Cent
Narrated by: Dwayne Clark & 50 Cent
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Thirteen-year-old Butterball doesn't have much going for him. He's teased about his weight. He hates the Long Island suburb his mom moved them to so she could go to nursing school and start her life over. He wishes he still lived with his dad in New York City - where there's always something happening, even if his dad doesn't have much time for... Read more
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Long Walk to Freedom
By: Nelson Mandela
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 27 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post).
Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight... Read more
The Other Half of My Heart
By: Sundee T. Frazier
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The story of biracial twin sisters—one black, one white—and the summer that tests their strong bond, from the author of Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award-winner Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It.
When Minerva and Keira King were born, they made headlines: Keira is black like Mama, but Minni is white like... Read more
Of Thee I Sing
By: Barack Obama
Narrated by: Andre Braugher
Length: 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Barack Obama delivers a tender, beautiful letter to his daughters in this powerful picture book illustrated by award-winner Loren Long that's made to be treasured!
In this poignant letter to his daughters, Barack Obama has written a moving tribute to thirteen groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation. From the... Read more
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