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Emily's Fortune
By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Narrated by: Lee Adams
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From Newbery Award winner Phyllis Reynolds Naylor comes a witty tale of the Wild West filled with comical cliffhangers and featuring a cast of plucky orphans and dastardly villains. Emily Wiggins is poor and timid, without a drop of self-confidence. When she is unexpectedly orphaned, she is left all alone except for her turtle, Rufus. What in... Read more
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The Concise King - Abridged
By: Clayborne Carson
Narrated by: Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Dr....
Length: 2 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For the first time, an edition of Martin Luther King's most important speeches and selected sermons are assembled and available on CD as a value-priced edition. Hachette Audio believes that the timeless message of King, in his own words and voice, are essential listening for any American and for any world citizen interested in American history,... Read more
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Riot
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Various
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
During a long, hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the recent... Read more
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Invisible Life
By: E. Lynn Harris
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS
Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough... Read more
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
By: author
Narrated by: Desmond Tutu, Alan Rickman, Whoopi Goldberg, Ma...
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an extraordinary audiobook featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo,... Read more
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Faith, Hope, and Ivy June
By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
When push comes to shove, two Kentucky girls find strength in each other.
Ivy June Mosely and Catherine Combs, two girls from different parts of Kentucky, are participating in the first seventh-grade student exchange program between their schools. The girls will stay at each other’s homes, attend school together, and record their experience in... Read more
Another Country
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable... Read more
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Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
By: Z. Z. Packer
Narrated by: Shirley Jordan
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Audie® Award Finalist!
A remarkable debut short-story collection by a fresh and captivating new voice in American literature. Read more
Elijah of Buxton
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Mirron Willis
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleven-year-old Elijah is the first child born into freedom in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves just over the border from Detroit. He’s best known in his hometown as the boy who made a memorable impression on Frederick Douglass. But things change when a former slave steals money from Elijah’s friend, who has been saving to buy his... Read more
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The Broken Bike Boy and the Queen of 33rd Street
By: Sharon G. Flake
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Queen is a royal pain in the neck. Her Highness treats everyone as though they were her loyal subjects: her classmates, her teacher, even her parents! When a new kid comes to Queen’s school, riding a broken bike and wearing run-over shoes, he immediately becomes the butt of everyone’s jokes. Queen’s parents insist she be nice to Leroy, but Queen... Read more
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Monster
By: Walter Dean Myers
Narrated by: Full Cast
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
BONUS FEATURE: Afterword read by the author
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I’ll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. Monster.
FADE IN: INTERIOR COURT. A guard sits at a desk behind... Read more
The Measure of a Man
By: Sidney Poitier
Narrated by: Sidney Poitier
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and... Read more
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Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Joe Holt
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Steven and his best friend Russell are back!
When Russell's dog, Rodney Rodent, jumps into a mural to chase a demonic-looking gnome and disappears, the Flint Future Detectives are on the case. With the secret password (Bow-wow-wow yippee yo yippee yay!) Steven, Richelle, and Russell enter the mural too, only to find the mysterious Mr. Chickee on... Read more
Bang!
By: Sharon G. Flake
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Mann lost his younger brother, Jason, two years ago–an innocent bystander in a shooting on his own porch. These murders are a frequent occurrence in Mann’s neighborhood. They’re so common, in fact, that he and his best friend, Kee-lee, keep a running tally of all the deceased, since no one else seems to be paying attention. Even that is not... Read more
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I've Been to the Mountaintop
By: Clayborne Carson & Kris Shepard
Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the... Read more
Mr. Chickee's Funny Money
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Joe Holt
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Mr. Chickee, the genial blind man in the neighborhood, gives 9-year-old Steven a mysterious bill with 15 zeros on it and the image of a familiar but startling face. Could it be a quadrillion dollar bill? Could it be real? Well, Agent Fondoo of the U.S. Treasury Department and his team of Secret Government Agents are determined to get that money... Read more
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen & Jacqueline Woodson
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning masterpiece with an introduction written and read by Jacqueline Woodson, just in time for its 40th Anniversary!
Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice.... Read more
47
By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Ossie Davis
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
47 is the first young adult novel to be written by bestselling author Walter Mosley. A master storyteller, Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring novel. Set in a plantation, 47 (a young slave boy) is growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed, until he meets the mysterious... Read more
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The Cay
By: Theodore Taylor
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins comes Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner, The Cay.
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to... Read more
Bucking the Sarge
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Luther T. Farrell has got to get out of Flint, Michigan.
As his best friend Sparky says, “Flint’s nothing but the Titanic.”
And his mother, a.k.a. the Sarge, says, “Take my advice and stay off the sucker path.”
The Sarge milked the system to build an empire of slum housing and group homes. Luther’s just one of the many people trapped in the Sarge’s... Read more
The Land
By: Mildred D. Taylor
Narrated by: Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
This searing and inspiring prequel to ROLL OF THUNDER, HEAR MY CRY is the story of Cassie Logan's grandfather. Paul-Edward is the son of a white father and a half-black, half-Indian mother. His father raises him almost as if he were white, but when it counts, he's treated as a black man with racist spite and hatred. He cannot fit into either the... Read more
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Bud, Not Buddy
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: James Avery
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Hit the road with Bud in this Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy on a journey to find his father—from Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
It’s 1936, in Flint Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a... Read more
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Narrated by: LeVar Burton
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
During one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
When the Watson family—ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little... Read more
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