February New Releases '24

Tender Beasts

By: Liselle Sambury
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

“I LOVE THIS BOOK! It was the perfect amount of scary and suspenseful. Sunny is on the hunt to solve a series of gruesome murders and prove her brother is innocent. She soon discovers that her family has more secrets than she ever suspected and they kept her clueless and in the dark all in the name of 'protecting' her. Will Sunny do what it... Read more

American Negra

A Memoir

By: Natasha S. Alford
Narrated by: Natasha S. Alford
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates... Read more

Lore of the Wilds

A Novel

The Lore of the Wilds Duology: Book #1

By: Analeigh Sbrana
Narrated by: Marcella Cox
Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

“Not only is the cover gorgeous, but the story is rich with characters of color and an unassuming young woman who ventures into the unknown with the fae known only to be enemies in search of power of her own to save the ones she loves. There’s romance, there’s a brooding handsome fae male, there’s a sweet protective fae guard, there’s secrets,... Read more

The American Daughters

A Novel

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“An enthralling tale of a secret resistance movement run by Black women in pre-Civil War New Orleans.”—Time

“Stirring . . . In telling this important, neglected history with imagination-fueled research, The American Daughters offers an inspiring story of people who show a way forward with their perseverance, bravery and love.”—The New York Times... Read more

The Partner Plot

The Greene Sisters: Book #2

By: Kristina Forest
Narrated by: Aure Nash & Benjamin Charles
Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance by Kristina Forest, author of The Neighbor Favor.

To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she’s thriving, but her personal life is in shambles.... Read more

No Better Time

A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion

By: Sheila Williams
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

“Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices.”—Shelf AwarenessThe acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict. In the wake of... Read more

River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta
Narrated by: Tymika Tafari
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: an exhilarating exploration of diasporic community and ancestral ties, and an homage to Jamaican storytelling by one of the most invigorating voices in today’s literature.Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her... Read more

Ours

A Novel

By: Phillip B. Williams
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 47 minutes

“I never expected a poet to deliver such a doorstop as a debut novel, and I never expected to be so engrossed by it. This broad cast of characters all play important roles, and are all brilliantly and tangibly real in their imbalance of good and evil. This is one of the most human novels I've encountered. Read more

The Loyal Wife

By: B. Love
Narrated by: Nola Vance & Gene Roberson
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

An emotionally charged psychological thriller that will leave fans breathless as they bear witness to the lengths a wife will go to honor her vows. An addictive page turner for fans of twisty plots in the same vein of Colleen Hoover’s Verity.Perfect wife … Perfect life … until you can’t remember either.The moment Dante Williams wakes up on the... Read more

Medgar and Myrlie

Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid
Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

#1 New York Times Bestseller“Medgar Evers deserves a place alongside Malcolm X and Dr. King in our historical memory. Evers, with Myrlie as his partner in activism and in life, was doing civil rights work in the single most hostile and dangerous environment in America.”—from Medgar and MyrlieBy MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of... Read more

Convergence Problems

By: Wole Talabi
Narrated by: Ben Arogundade
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric... Read more

Out of Body

By: Nia Davenport
Narrated by: Karen Malina White
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

A high-stakes, propulsive YA thriller with a body-swap twist thoughtfully exploring themes of friendship and identity, perfect for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson.Seventeen-year-old Megan Allen has been jumping from friend group to friend group in her high school, trying on identities like outfits. Nothing ever seems to fit—until she meets LC, the... Read more

Come Home Safe

A Novel

By: Brian G. Buckmire
Narrated by: Nile Bullock
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Dad, I just want to know how to not become a hashtag. In this gripping read, biracial siblings Reed and Olive hadn’t planned on navigating racial inequality or being roughed up by police on the subway, but as they face the truths and pains of being a person of color, they also lean into knowing their rights and fostering conversations about... Read more

Dysfunction Junction

By: Robin W. Pearson
Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Frances Mae Livingston’s firm grip of her family’s destructive history makes her hold her husband and four children even closer. But she’s losing bits of herself while proving to everybody and her mama that she’s enough. There’s no way she’ll repeat her mama’s mistakes, even if it kills her. Annabelle McMillan didn’t have trouble kicking the... Read more

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams
Narrated by: Mela Lee & Preston Butler
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

In this sexy modern-day fairytale from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician share a soul mate connection told through the history, art, and the magic of Harlem.

The daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, Ricki Wilde is the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. In her... Read more

Redwood Court (Reese's Book Club)

Fiction

By: DéLana R. A. Dameron
Narrated by: Ashley J. Hobbs, Robin Miles, De'Onna Prince, Aaron Goodson & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “[A] richly textured and deeply moving debut” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice) about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter’s coming of age in the 1990s.

“A triumph . . . Redwood Court is storytelling at its best: tender, vivid, and richly complicated.”—Jacqueline Woodson, New... Read more

Girls with Bad Reputations

The Lillys: Book #2

By: Xio Axelrod
Narrated by: Benjamin Charles & Tyla Collier
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter her demanding mother needed nearly broke Mikayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she’s been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her... Read more

The Gilded Ones #3: The Eternal Ones

The Gilded Ones: Book #3

By: Namina Forna
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become one?

Mere weeks after confronting the Gilded Ones—the false beings she once believed to be her family—Deka is on the hunt. In order to kill the gods, whose ravenous competition for power is... Read more

Black Girl You Are Atlas

By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Renée Watson
Length: 51 minutes

A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson.

In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes
about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender.

Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections... Read more

Speculation

By: Nisi Shawl
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

After Winna's little sister breaks her glasses, her grandfather gives her an old-timey pair of spectacles that belonged to her great-aunt Estelle. The specs are silver and perfectly circular, with tiny stars on the bridge and earpieces that curl all the way around her ears.



Best of all, they're magic.



Because when Winna makes a wish beginning with... Read more