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King of the Blues

By: Daniel De Visé

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 17 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and... Read more

Chasing Me to My Grave

By: Winfred Rembert

Narrated by: Dion Graham & Karen Chilton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife.... Read more

Shelf Life

By: Nadia Wassef

Narrated by: Vaneh Assadourian

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The streets of Cairo make strange music: the echoing calls to prayer, the raging insults hurled between drivers, the steady crescendo of horns honking, the shouts of street vendors, the television sets and radios blaring from every sidewalk. Nadia Wassef knows this song by heart. In 2002, with her sister, Hind, and their friend, Nihal, she... Read more

Blind Man's Bluff

By: James Tate Hill

Narrated by: Curtis Armstrong

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high-school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, he used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact,... Read more

Always Another Country

By: Sisonke Msimang

Narrated by: Sisonke Msimang

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in exile, in Zambia, to a guerrilla father and a working mother, Sisonke Msimang is constantly on the move. Her parents, talented and highly educated, travel from Zambia to Kenya and Canada and beyond with their young family. Always the outsider, and against a backdrop of racism and xenophobia, Sisonke develops her keenly perceptive view of... Read more

Here, Right Matters

By: Alexander Vindman

Narrated by: Alexander Vindman & Jacques Roy

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the first time. Here, Right Matters is a stirring account of Vindman's childhood as an immigrant growing up in New York City, his... Read more

Eartha & Kitt

By: Kitt Shapiro & Patricia Weiss Levy

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique combination of African-American, music, and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars the world has ever seen—Eartha Kitt—as revealed by the person who knew her best, her daughter. Eartha, who was a mix of Black, Cherokee, and white, identified as Black, but Kitt, her biological daughter by a white man, is blonde... Read more

Steve Kerr

By: Scott Howard-Cooper

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive biography of Steve Kerr, the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State WarriorsFew individuals have had a career as storied, and improbable, as Steve Kerr. He has won eight NBA titles—five as a player and three as a coach—for three different franchises. He played alongside the best... Read more

The Natural Mother of the Child

By: Krys Malcolm Belc

Narrated by: Krys Malcolm Belc

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as the natural mother of the child. By considering how the experiences contained... Read more

The Queer Bible

By: Jack Guinness

Narrated by: Jack Guinness, Amelia Abraham, Paula Akpan, Mun...

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An O, The Oprah Magazine LGBTQ Book ""Changing the Literary Landscape""A gorgeously illustrated collection of essays written by today’s queer heroes—featuring contributions from Elton John, Tan France, Gus Kenworthy, Paris Lees, Russell Tovey, Munroe Bergdorf, and many others. The Queer Bible is a celebration of LGBTQ+ history and culture,... Read more

Cack-Handed

By: Gina Yashere

Narrated by: Gina Yashere

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill the dreams of her grandmother Patience. The powerful... Read more

My Place At The Table

By: Alexander Lobrano

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson’s, tells how he became one of Paris’s most influential food critics  

Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women’s Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An... Read more

Punch Me Up To The Gods

By: Brian Broome

Narrated by: Brian Broome, Yona Harvey & Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE • WINNER OF A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' PICK • STONEWALL HONOR BOOK • NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, LIBRARY JOURNAL, AMAZON AND APPLE BOOKS • TODAY SUMMER READING LIST PICK • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK •... Read more

The Happiest Man on Earth

By: Eddie Jaku

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerIn this uplifting memoir in the vein of The Last Lecture and Man’s Search for Meaning, a Holocaust survivor pays tribute to those who were lost by telling his story, sharing his wisdom, and living his best possible life.Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned... Read more

They Said This Would Be Fun

By: Eternity Martis

Narrated by: Eternity Martis

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A booksmart kid from Toronto, Eternity Martis was excited to move away to Western University for her undergraduate degree. But as one of the few Black students there, she soon discovered that the campus experiences she'd seen in movies were far more complex in reality. Over the next four years, Eternity learned more about what someone like her... Read more

Little Matches

By: Maryanne O'Hara

Narrated by: Maryanne O'Hara

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Gripping and true in all ways. This fine, affecting memoir will stay with me for a very long time.”—Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion“In this vividly written memoir novelist O’Hara shares a painful but ultimately beautiful account of her daughter Caitlin’s life with cystic fibrosis. . . . Her compelling story will resonate with... Read more

Beyond

By: Stephen Walker

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling….It is high definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched.”               (The Times, London, Front Page Lead Review)
“Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller, but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War, and... Read more

Winning in Reverse

By: Bill Lester & Jonathan Ingram

Narrated by: Cary Hite & Bill Lester

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NASCAR has traditionally been a southern white man’s sport, but it was knocked off its axis when Bill Lester entered the playing field. He had not grown up in the sport as so many other drivers had. Instead, he enjoyed racing as a side hobby while he worked as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard. Then, at age forty, while standing on the brink of... Read more

From the Darkness Cometh the Light

By: Lucy A. Delaney

Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

During the hardships of obtaining emancipation, two couples shared one home in Illinois. Residing with them was a young black girl named Polly Crocket. But after five years, Polly, along with the two couples, were abducted, placed into a canoe, and taken down south where they became slaves. Polly was then bought by a prior who, after a year,... Read more

The Bravest Voices

By: Ida Cook

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless memoir documents two sisters’ bravery leading up to WWII—a singular historical account that shines a light on one of humanity’s darkest hours.

Ida and Louise Cook are two ordinary Englishwomen, seemingly destined never to stray from their quiet London suburb and comfortable jobs—Ida as a budding romance novelist and Louise as a... Read more

American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale & Elissa Wald

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The sharp and surprising true story of a woman who finally sets out to understand her past, and the mother she had one day hoped to forget. Full of unexpected twists and unbelievable revelations, American Daughter is an immersive memoir that will have you on the edge of your seat to the very last page.
For years, Stephanie Plymale, successful CEO... Read more

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By: Sojourner Truth

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally... Read more

Mozart

By: Jan Swafford

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

Length: 30 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

At the earliest ages it was apparent that Wolfgang Mozart’s singular imagination was at work in every direction. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and through his life he... Read more

Think Black

By: Clyde W. Ford

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful memoir. . .Ford’s thought-provoking narrative tells the story of African-American pride and perseverance.”–Publisher’s Weekly (Starred)“A masterful storyteller, Ford interweaves his personal story with the backdrop of the social movements unfolding at that time, providing a revealing insider’s view of the tech industry. . .... Read more