The Thing About Home
A Lowcountry Novel
By: Rhonda McKnight
Narrated by: Yinka Ladeinde
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
From the author of Bitter and Sweet, an emotional love story about a woman who returns to the South to find her roots that combines the "vivid low country history" (Publisher's Weekly) of the Lowcountry with a story of love and family.Home is not a place--it's a feeling.Casey Black needs an escape. When her picture-perfect vow renewal ceremony... Read more
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A Novel
By: Ashton Lattimore
Narrated by: Shayna Small & Ashton Lattimore
Length: 12 hours 44 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This is my kind of book! I love historical fiction that makes me want to befriend some characters and fight others. There are so many historically accurate elements throughout and a tiny bit of romance. Such a great listen! No swearing. No sex. Some violence of the times. Read more
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A Novel
By: Wanda M. Morris
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt & Lynnette R. Freeman
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Award-winning author Wanda Morris returns with a powerful, haunting thriller following a lawyer who after the mysterious disappearance of a local landowner and the death of his sister just months before, uncovers a conspiracy that dates back to Reconstruction and persists in half the United States today.Deena Wood’s life has fallen apart in the... Read more
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By: Kim Johnson
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Kim Johnson
Length: 8 hours
In 1955, a Black family passes for white and moves to a “Whites Only” town in the suburbs. Caught between two worlds, a teen boy puts his family at risk as he uncovers racist secrets about his suburb. A new social justice thriller from the acclaimed author of This Is My America!
A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE... Read more
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By: Victoria Christopher Murray
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
“A gripping narrative, don't miss this historical fiction about the woman who kicked off the Harlem Renaissance.”—People Magazine
“A page turner and history lesson at once, Harlem Rhapsody reminds us that our stories are our generational wealth.”—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club Pick)
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How a Color Tells the Story of My People
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, USA Today, People, AARP, Today.com, BookRiot, Bustle, LitHub, BookPage, Our Culture, and VultureA surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani PerryThroughout history, the concept of Blackness has been... Read more
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A Novel
By: Sarai Johnson
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 14 hours 4 minutes
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year“This is a tender, deeply perceptive tale of what kin owes kin, and how we might work to mend old wounds together.”—ElleIn this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and daughterhood, generational trauma and the deeply ingrained tensions and wounds that divide them... Read more
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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
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The Roots of the Black Working Class
By: Blair L.M. Kelley
Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM... Read more
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Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Zora Neale Hurston’s (Their Eyes Were Watching God, Barracoon) body of work continues to grow and impress. In Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick, 21 short stories, including several “lost” pieces depicting the Great Migration to northern cities and Harlem’s educated New Negro middle class, offer an updated perspective of Hurston’s... Read more
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A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
Narrated by: Imani Perry
Length: 16 hours 32 minutes
“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsAn essential, surprising journey... Read more
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New Visions
By: bell hooks
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
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A Novel
By: Tracy Brown
Narrated by: Patryce Williams
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Hold You Down is an edgy novel from rising star Tracy Brown about the perils of love and the ties that bind…
New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s.
Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of Harlem with an absentee mother meant that they had to have each other's backs. Now young, smart mothers they... Read more
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By: Octavia E. Butler
Narrated by: Kim Staunton
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“The novel is narrated by Dana, a Black writer is transported from 1976 back to a slave plantation in the Antebellum South, where she meets two of her ancestors: the White son of the slave owner, and a young free Black woman, who is eventually trapped, enslaved and made his concubine. Dana struggles to survive in this hostile world, and has to... Read more
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By: J. California Cooper
Narrated by: Donna Bailey, Peter Jay Fernandez, Kim Staunton, Susan Spain & Starla Benford
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Critics have compared her work to that of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but J. California Cooper has a warm, witty style that's definitely her own. Each of her short stories is a gem of downhome wisdom, polished with a bit of gossip, some heartbreak, and lots of humor. In "Funny Valentines" a "simple" woman draws one heart on... Read more
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A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes
Bloomsbury presents Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, read by January LaVoy.
Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review and New York Magazine
The two-time National Book Award winner and author of Salvage the Bones and Let Us Descend, contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a Black man in... Read more
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Skyland: Book #1
By: Kennedy Ryan
Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan & Jakobi Diem
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes
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By: Jas Hammonds
Narrated by: Tamika Katon-Donegal
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
What's more important: knowing the truth or keeping the peace?
When her family moves to Bardell, Georgia, on the cusp of her senior year, Avery
Anderson is uprooted from DC and thrust into the hostile home of her terminally
ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty
makes for a frosty arrival and reveals a... Read more
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By: Sadeqa Johnson
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis & Sadeqa Johnson
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
“Amazing…I was completely surprised by the ending of this beautifully told and written book.” —Reese Witherspoon
“A triumph of historical fiction” (The Washington Post), an instant New York Times bestseller, and a Reese’s Book Club pick, set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how... Read more
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By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This book is a masterpiece. Zora Neale Hurston explores stages in a woman’s life so powerfully. Ruby Dee’s audiobook narration is the best audiobook narration I’ve ever heard. She expresses so much emotion and personality. She brings the characters to life and she savors every perfectly chosen word of the text. Read more
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