New Arrivals

The Upcycled Self

A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are

By: Tariq Trotter
Narrated by: Tariq Trotter, Rhett Samuel Price & Allyson Johnson
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of hip-hop’s greatest MCs, unpacking his harrowing, remarkable journey in his own words, with enough insights for two lifetimes.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning songwriter, producer, director, and creator of In the Heights and Hamilton
 
From one of our generation’s most powerful artists and incisive... Read more

The Risk it Takes to Bloom

On Life and Liberation

By: Raquel Willis
Narrated by: Raquel Willis
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.
In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the... Read more

Body Rites

A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma

By: Shena J. Young, PsyD
Narrated by: Machelle Williams
Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

A written companion and workbook for listeners seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma.



Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centers remembering as a means of... Read more

The Way of Chai

Recipes for a Meaningful Life

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Kevin Wilson
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

In this celebration of the comfort and community to be found in a warm, well-made cup of chai, Kevin Wilson offers readers his famous chai recipes alongside meditations on how to live a simple yet full life.

Dubbed “the CEO of Chai” by Bon Appétit magazine, Kevin Wilson is an expert on all things chai. When Wilson was a teenager, his family in... Read more

The New Naturals

By: Gabriel Bump
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia.

An abandoned restaurant on a hill off the highway in Western Massachusetts doesn't look like much. But to Rio, a young Black woman bereft after the loss of her... Read more

The Death of a Jaybird

Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

By: Jodi M. Savage
Narrated by: Deanna Anthony
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author’s ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood.Jodi M. Savage was raised in... Read more

Plot Twist

The Hollywood Series: Book #2

By: Erin La Rosa
Narrated by: Mela Lee
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

“This was thoroughly enjoyable and Erin La Rosa excels at representation in all the best ways. A delightful, sexy friends to lovers book with found family and characters facing real-life obstacles. Read more

Pritty

Pritty: Book #1

By: Keith F. Miller, Jr.
Narrated by: Landon Woodson & Eric B. Anthony
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

“This book feels like the best kind of hug, one that gives you both strength and comfort. Its protagonists are Black boys living in Savannah, Georgia, taking care of each other as they take on high school, GEDs, living through and after trauma, first love, racist systems, skate competitions, entrepreneurship, friendship and more. The boys are... Read more

Artifacts of an Ex

By: Jennifer Chen
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

When Chloe Chang gets dumped via USPS after moving across the country from New York City to Los Angeles, her first instinct is to throw her box of memories in the garbage. Instead, she starts buying other teenagers’ breakup boxes to create an art exhibit, Heartifacts. Opening night is going great, until she spots Daniel Kwak illicitly filming... Read more

The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus & Jordan Waunch
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

“This was one of my favorites of 2024! Read more