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Dorothy Dandridge
By: Donald Bogle
Narrated by: Donald Bogle & Matthew J. Turner
Length: 26 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer—the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award—who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement—a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it. “An ambitious, rigorously researched... Read more
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Alien Nation
By: Sofija Stefanovic
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Feodor Chin
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of 36 extraordinary stories originally told on stage, featuring work by writers, entertainers, thinkers, and community leaders. Spanning comedy and tragedy, Alien Nation brilliantly illuminates what it’s like to be an immigrant in America.
America would not be America without its immigrants. This anthology, adapted from storytelling... Read more
The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame
By: Joanna Kafarowski
Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
Length: 9 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The first comprehensive biography of Louise Arner Boyd—the intrepid American socialite who reinvented herself as the leading female polar explorer of the twentieth century.Born in the late 1880s to a gritty mining magnate who made his millions in the California Gold Rush and a well-bred mother descended from one of New York’s distinguished... Read more
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My Grandfather's Son
By: Clarence Thomas
Narrated by: Clarence Thomas
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his life he holds dear, detailing the suffering and injustices he has overcome, including the... Read more
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Concepcion
By: Albert Samaha
Narrated by: Albert Samaha
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
“If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s mother, it would already be wholly worthwhile. But she was one of eight children in the Concepcion family, whose ancestry Samaha traces in this. . . powerful book.” –The New York... Read more
The Harlan Ellison Hornbook and Other Works
By: Harlan Ellison
Narrated by: Luis Moreno & Mia Barron
Length: 18 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The Harlan Ellison HornbookThe Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author probes topics ranging from departed pets to Lenny Bruce and San Quentin in this provocative collection of essays.A major collection of Harlan Ellison’s incomparable, troublemaking, uncompromising, confrontational essays and newspaper columns, The Harlan Ellison Hornbook mines... Read more
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Unearthing The Secret Garden
By: Marta McDowell
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
“McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an ivy-covered door to new information about one of the world’s most famous authors.”—Angelica Shirley Carpenter, editor of In the GardenNew York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell has revealed the way that plants have stirred some of our most cherished authors, including Beatrix Potter, Emily Dickinson, and... Read more
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One Friday in April
By: Donald Antrim
Narrated by: Donald Antrim
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
As the sun lowered in the sky one Friday afternoon in April 2006, acclaimed author Donald Antrim found himself on the roof of his Brooklyn apartment building, afraid for his life. In this moving memoir, Antrim vividly recounts what led him to the roof and what happened after he came back down: two hospitalizations, weeks of fruitless clinical... Read more
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In Search of Emma
By: Armando Lucas Correa
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Revised and updated with a new introduction by the author—and available in English for the first time—the moving story of a man who always wanted to be a father and the long emotional road to making his dream come true.
Born in Cuba and raised in the USA, Armando Lucas Correa epitomized the American dream. He had everything he wanted: an... Read more
The Gilded Edge
By: Catherine Prendergast
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
“The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.”—Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art
Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey... Read more
I Dream He Talks to Me
By: Allison Moorer
Narrated by: Allison Moorer
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From a Grammy-nominated musician comes a lyrical testament to love and resilience through the lens of parenting her young son, who has nonverbal autism. When Allison’s son, John Henry, stopped using his growing vocabulary just before his second birthday, she knew in her bones that something was shifting. In the years since his autism diagnosis,... Read more
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Set the Night on Fire
By: Robby Krieger
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In his tell-all, legendary Doors guitarist, Robby Krieger, one of Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," opens up about his band's meteoric career, his own darkest moments, and the most famous black eye in rock 'n' roll.
Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has... Read more
Capote's Women
By: Laurence Leamer
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
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New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers—the dark secrets, tragic glamour,... Read more
All of the Marvels
By: Douglas Wolk
Narrated by: Douglas Wolk
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Comics-Related Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics’ interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the “epic of epics”—and to the past sixty years of American culture—from a beloved authority on the subject who read all 27,000+... Read more
Shoutin' in the Fire
By: Danté Stewart
Narrated by: Danté Stewart
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A stirring meditation of being Black and learning to love in a loveless, anti-Black world
“Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen. This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.”—Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets
In... Read more
Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die
By: Daniel Sloss
Narrated by: Daniel Sloss
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of this generation's hottest and boldest young comedians presents a transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of our dysfunctional relationships, and attempts to point us in the vague direction of sanity.
Daniel Sloss's stand-up comedy engages, enrages, offends, unsettles, educates, comforts, and gets audiences roaring with laughter—all at... Read more
The Night the Lights Went Out
By: Drew Magary
Narrated by: Drew Magary, Cassandra Campbell, Joseph Castill...
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A fascinating, darkly funny comeback story of learning to live with a broken mind after a near-fatal traumatic brain injury—from the acclaimed author of The Hike
“Drew Magary has produced a remarkable account of his journey, one that is filled with terror, tenderness, beauty, and grace.”—David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower... Read more
Known and Strange Things
By: Teju Cole
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Time • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • Kirkus
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and... Read more
The Lost Café Schindler
By: Meriel Schindler
Narrated by: Caitlin Cavannaugh
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family’s fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship but... Read more
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
By: Slavenka Drakulic
Narrated by: Lesa Lockford
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and feminist) classic, draws back the Iron Curtain for a glimpse at the lives of Eastern European women under Communist regimes. Provocative, often witty, and always intensely personal, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed cracks... Read more
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Facing the Fire
By: Kelvin J. Cochran
Narrated by: L. T. Chavis
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Kelvin Cochran overcame poverty, prejudice, and pain to fulfill a childhood dream of helping others, rising to the top of firefighting’s professional ladder in Atlanta, Georgia. At one time nationally recognized as “America’s fire chief,” Kelvin unexpectedly found himself caught in a fireball of controversy over his orthodox Christian beliefs,... Read more
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Washington at the Plow
By: Bruce A. Ragsdale
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
George Washington spent more of his working life farming than he did at war or in political office. For over forty years, he devoted himself to the improvement of agriculture.
Washington at the Plow depicts the "first farmer of America" as a leading practitioner of the New Husbandry, a transatlantic movement that spearheaded advancements in... Read more
The Loneliest Americans
By: Jay Caspian Kang
Narrated by: Intae Kim
Length: 7 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A “provocative and sweeping” (Time) blend of family history and original reportage that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world
“[Kang’s] exploration of class and identity among Asian Americans will be talked about for years to come.”—Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
ONE OF THE... Read more
Churchill's Shadow
By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 23 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British... Read more
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