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Bestsellers
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Unmasking Autism
- Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
- By: Devon Price PhD
- Narrated by: Devon Price PhD
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares their personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking....
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Disappointing
- By Debra M. Givin on 11-12-22
By: Devon Price PhD
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Self-Care for Black Men
- 100 Ways to Heal and Liberate
- By: Jor-El Caraballo
- Narrated by: Jor-El Caraballo
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A self-care guidebook full of activities for Black men everywhere pursuing joy, creating connections, confronting racism, and working through intergenerational trauma....
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Gumbo for the soul
- By Amazon Customer on 02-25-24
By: Jor-El Caraballo
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Audible Masterpiece
- By Phoenician on 09-10-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present....
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
By: Rebecca Skloot
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Unmasking Autism
- Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
- By: Devon Price PhD
- Narrated by: Devon Price PhD
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price shares their personal experience with masking and blends history, social science research, prescriptions, and personal profiles to tell a story of neurodivergence that has thus far been dominated by those on the outside looking....
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Disappointing
- By Debra M. Givin on 11-12-22
By: Devon Price PhD
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Self-Care for Black Men
- 100 Ways to Heal and Liberate
- By: Jor-El Caraballo
- Narrated by: Jor-El Caraballo
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A self-care guidebook full of activities for Black men everywhere pursuing joy, creating connections, confronting racism, and working through intergenerational trauma....
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Gumbo for the soul
- By Amazon Customer on 02-25-24
By: Jor-El Caraballo
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- By: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....
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Superior non-fiction
- By Lila on 05-20-11
By: Isabel Wilkerson
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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Audible Masterpiece
- By Phoenician on 09-10-20
By: Malcolm X, and others
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, and others
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present....
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Comprehensive and Cutting
- By Thomas Ray on 12-30-21
By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- By: Rebecca Skloot
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....
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The Secret Life of an American Cancer Cell
- By Cynthia on 08-10-13
By: Rebecca Skloot
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....
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Awesome
- By Michael on 05-30-17
By: James McBride
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
- By: Judith Butler
- Narrated by: Judith Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The aim of Who’s Afraid of Gender? is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how “gender” has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists....
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You afraid?
- By Akira on 05-15-24
By: Judith Butler
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King: A Life
- By: Jonathan Eig
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files....
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My Time
- By Susan on 06-18-23
By: Jonathan Eig
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Self-Care for Black Women
- 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
- By: Oludara Adeeyo
- Narrated by: Angel Pean
- Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Prioritize your well-being with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate....
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Great book for mental health
- By Madame Butterflyy on 06-15-22
By: Oludara Adeeyo
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There's Always This Year
- On Basketball and Ascension
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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There’s Always This Year is a poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America....
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Interesting Read
- By Michael D. Taylor on 05-06-24
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
- By: Emmanuel Acho
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Acho
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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“You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states....
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Enlightening!
- By Kiley on 11-11-20
By: Emmanuel Acho
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NeuroTribes
- The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- By: Steve Silberman
- Narrated by: William Hughes
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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What is autism: a lifelong disability or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth it is both of these things and more....
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The long hard road to proper identity on the Autistic spectrum.
- By Lorijorn on 10-29-15
By: Steve Silberman
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Call Me by Your Name
- A Novel
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Armie Hammer
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera....
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Amazing.
- By Nico L. on 10-07-17
By: André Aciman
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The Fire Next Time
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
- Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....
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Sad and moving and powerful and beautiful
- By Darwin8u on 09-17-15
By: James Baldwin
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The Invisible Ache
- Black Men Identifying Their Pain and Reclaiming Their Power
- By: Courtney B. Vance, Dr. Robin L. Smith
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Dr. Robin L. Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A moving combination of memoir, psychology, and practical tools, this book offers Black men guidance and support for reclaiming mental well-being and finding whole, full-hearted living....
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Winderful
- By T Lee on 11-11-23
By: Courtney B. Vance, and others
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Dear Black Girls
- How to Be True to You
- By: A'ja Wilson
- Narrated by: A'ja Wilson
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Dear Black Girls is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today—and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere....
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Spoke to My Black Girl Heart
- By J. Horton on 05-17-24
By: A'ja Wilson
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The Audacity of Hope
- Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- By: Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Barack Obama
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Abridged
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In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....
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My Fellow Conservatives, Give This A Listen
- By Dallas D.L. on 02-12-15
By: Barack Obama
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
- By: Carter Goodwin Woodson
- Narrated by: Anthony Stewart
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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An unapologetic look into the factors that have caused so many Blacks to think and act in the negative way they do towards themselves and others....
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A Classic and Unexpected Delight
- By Theo Horesh on 02-28-13
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Disability Intimacy
- Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
- By: Alice Wong
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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From the author of the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility comes another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms....
By: Alice Wong
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Visual Thinking
- The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
- By: Temple Grandin PhD
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, Temple Grandin PhD
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A quarter of a century after her memoir, Thinking in Pictures, forever changed how the world understood autism, Temple Grandin—the “anthropologist from Mars,” as Oliver Sacks dubbed her—transforms our awareness of the different ways our brains are wired....
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Too much focus on productivity and capitalist return; a lot of “I’m better” undertones
- By William on 01-02-23
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Hidden Figures
- The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....
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Great Story of a History Obscured
- By Cynthia on 09-18-16
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Life Sentence
- The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison....
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Good book, but needs to be re-cast.
- By Carey Chiaia on 06-08-23
By: Mark Bowden
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The Other Wes Moore
- One Name, Two Fates
- By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship....
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Insightful lesson in self-determination
- By Aneesah on 02-04-13
By: Wes Moore, and others
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The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health
- Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve
- By: Rheeda Walker PhD, Na'im Akbar PhD - foreword
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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An unapologetic exploration of the Black mental health crisis - and a comprehensive road map to getting the care you deserve in an unequal system....
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Great Read
- By J on 06-12-21
By: Rheeda Walker PhD, and others
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The Black Box
- Writing the Race
- By: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way....
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The Best Book I listened to in 2024
- By Kindle Customer on 04-30-24
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All Secure
- A Special Operations Soldier's Fight to Survive on the Battlefield and the Homefront
- By: Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson
- Narrated by: Tom Satterly
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the most highly regarded Tier One Delta Force operators in American military history shares his war stories and personal battle with PTSD....
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- One of those books that truly make a difference
- By henry on 12-21-19
By: Tom Satterly, and others
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Punished for Dreaming
- How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal
- By: Bettina L. Love
- Narrated by: Bettina L. Love, Karen Chilton
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives....
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Wow!!!
- By TKL on 10-20-23
By: Bettina L. Love
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We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For
- By: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Narrated by: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Length: 5 hrs
- Unabridged
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In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For, one of the nation's preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics.
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How the Word Is Passed
- A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
- By: Clint Smith
- Narrated by: Clint Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the listener on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's history.
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Sincerely grateful read
- By Kelvin Dixon on 06-08-21
By: Clint Smith
New releases
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Against the Christian Oppression of Individuals on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Identity
- Unstoppable Beloved Community
- By: Thomas H. York
- Narrated by: Angela Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas York challenges evangelical doctrines on homosexuality and advocates for a more humane, Jesus centered approach to sexual and gender identity. This study includes an analysis of ethical concepts in the New Testament by frequency of use and an examination of biblical passages and theological arguments often cited in relation to homosexuality and the church.
By: Thomas H. York
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Feel It All
- A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
- By: Casey Tanner
- Narrated by: Casey Tanner
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As an AASECT certified sex therapist and founder of @queersextherapy, Casey Tanner has received hundreds of intimacy-related questions, both from couples in their practice and from followers who are desperate for advice. At the root of all of these insecurities is a single truth: we've received a sex miseducation. Our sex lives - Tanner argues - are a microcosm for everything we have been taught to believe and internalized about gender, sex, and relationships. In Sex Therapy, Tanner will provide a comprehensive guide to uncovering your own expansive approach to sexuality and relationships.
By: Casey Tanner
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In the Shadow of Green Man
- My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope
- By: Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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“My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.” And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming which uplifts people, and the wandering fable of the Green Man. The result is an immensely readable, enjoyable journey that informs as it entertains and enlightens. Witnessing firsthand the ...
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Hollywood Pride
- A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film
- By: Alonso Duralde
- Narrated by: Alonso Duralde
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve the 20th century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays the violin. It’s only a few minutes long, but this cornerstone of early cinema captures a queer moment on film. It would not be the last. Hollywood Pride is a tale spanning from “pansy craze” of the 1930s to the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, all the way up to today.
By: Alonso Duralde
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
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But You Look So Normal
- Lost and Found in a Hearing World
- By: Claudia Marseille
- Narrated by: Becky Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected, but not defined, by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.
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Against the Christian Oppression of Individuals on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Identity
- Unstoppable Beloved Community
- By: Thomas H. York
- Narrated by: Angela Clark
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Thomas York challenges evangelical doctrines on homosexuality and advocates for a more humane, Jesus centered approach to sexual and gender identity. This study includes an analysis of ethical concepts in the New Testament by frequency of use and an examination of biblical passages and theological arguments often cited in relation to homosexuality and the church.
By: Thomas H. York
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Feel It All
- A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex
- By: Casey Tanner
- Narrated by: Casey Tanner
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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As an AASECT certified sex therapist and founder of @queersextherapy, Casey Tanner has received hundreds of intimacy-related questions, both from couples in their practice and from followers who are desperate for advice. At the root of all of these insecurities is a single truth: we've received a sex miseducation. Our sex lives - Tanner argues - are a microcosm for everything we have been taught to believe and internalized about gender, sex, and relationships. In Sex Therapy, Tanner will provide a comprehensive guide to uncovering your own expansive approach to sexuality and relationships.
By: Casey Tanner
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In the Shadow of Green Man
- My Journey from Poverty and Hunger to Food Security and Hope
- By: Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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“My parents couldn’t read or write, we barely had clothes to wear. All we had were stories. We listened and absorbed them, and found our own place in the narrative.” And what a narrative it is. Join the wonderfully colorful and poetic Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, or Regi, as he weaves together stories from his upbringing in revolution-torn Guatemala, the vision of a regenerative form of farming which uplifts people, and the wandering fable of the Green Man. The result is an immensely readable, enjoyable journey that informs as it entertains and enlightens. Witnessing firsthand the ...
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Hollywood Pride
- A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film
- By: Alonso Duralde
- Narrated by: Alonso Duralde
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve the 20th century, in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, one of the earliest attempts at a sound film depicted two men dancing together as a third plays the violin. It’s only a few minutes long, but this cornerstone of early cinema captures a queer moment on film. It would not be the last. Hollywood Pride is a tale spanning from “pansy craze” of the 1930s to the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, all the way up to today.
By: Alonso Duralde
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Magical/Realism
- Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
- By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Narrated by: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon becoming a new mother, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal was called to Mexico to reconnect with her ancestors and recover her grandmother’s story, only to return to the sudden loss of her marriage, home, and reality. In Magical/Realism, Villarreal crosses into the erasure of memory and self, fragmented by migration, borders, and colonial and intimate violence, reconstructing her story with pieces of American pop culture, and the music, video games, and fantasy that have helped her make sense of it all.
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But You Look So Normal
- Lost and Found in a Hearing World
- By: Claudia Marseille
- Narrated by: Becky Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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But You Look So Normal is the inspiring story of a life affected, but not defined, by an invisible disability. It is a journey through family, loss, shame, identity, love, and healing as Claudia finally, joyfully, finds her place in the world.
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The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration
- By: Frank Abe, Floyd Cheung - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Frank Abe, Keone Young, Ren Hanami, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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This anthology presents a new vision that recovers and reframes the literature produced by the people targeted by the actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress to deny Americans of Japanese ancestry any individual hearings or other due process after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. From nearly seventy selections of fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, and letters emerges a shared story of the struggle to retain personal integrity in the face of increasing dehumanization—all anchored by the key government documents that incite the action.
By: Frank Abe, and others
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Embracing Queer Family
- Learning to Live Authentically in Our Families and Communities
- By: Nia Chiaramonte, Katie J. Chiaramonte
- Narrated by: Patricia Shade
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Nia Chiaramonte came out as a trans woman to her wife Katie, she knew she would be met with a loving response. But she was less sure where this would leave their relationship, their marriage, and their family. Even murkier was what would happen when they began to bring their extended family, friends, and broader community alongside them on their journey of identity formation as a Queer family. They needed a guide for what lay ahead.
By: Nia Chiaramonte, and others
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The Tainos
- Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
- By: Irving Rouse
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on archeological and ethno-historical evidence, Irving Rouse sketches a picture of the Tainos-the first people Columbus encountered when he arrived in the Americas-as they existed during the time of Columbus, contrasting their customs with those of their neighbors. He then moves backward in time to the ancestors of the Tainos-two successive groups who settled the West Indies and who are known to archeologists as the Saladoid peoples and the Ostionoid peoples.
By: Irving Rouse
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Medicine Wheel for the Planet
- A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing
- By: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
- Narrated by: Dr. Jennifer Grenz
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A farm kid at heart, and a Nlaka'pamux woman of mixed ancestry, Dr. Jennifer Grenz always felt a deep connection to the land. Which is why, after nearly two decades of working as a restoration ecologist in the Pacific Northwest, she became frustrated that she and her colleagues weren't making the meaningful change needed for plant, animal and human communities to adapt to a warming climate. She began to question the central conceit of restoration ecology: that somehow, we must return the natural world to an untouched, pristine state, placing humans in a godlike role.
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Gay Shame
- The Rise of Gender Ideology and the New Homophobia
- By: Gareth Roberts
- Narrated by: Gareth Roberts
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Only a few years ago, it seemed that the fight for gay rights was won in the UK: legal equality was achieved, prejudice rapidly dying out. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong, argues Gareth Roberts. Homophobia is making a major comeback under the guise of the ideology of 'gender identity'. In this passionate, witty polemic, Gareth Roberts answers these questions and argues that we need a new gay liberation movement.
By: Gareth Roberts
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Inside Out
- The Extraordinary Legacy of April Ashley
- By: Douglas Thompson
- Narrated by: Luke R Francis
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Through her own – often bloody-minded – determination and the medical skill of others, April Ashley became the woman she had always believed herself to be. And for half a dozen decades she soared around, over and above momentous and turbulent times, difficult, and changing times when, finally, who you wanted to be and who you could be became the cultural topic of the day. She overcame opprobrium and penury and became renowned and celebrated for one specific achievement: being April Ashley.
By: Douglas Thompson
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Sluts
- The truth about slutshaming and what we can do to fight it
- By: Beth Ashley
- Narrated by: Beth Ashley
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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From award-winning journalist Beth Ashley comes a groundbreaking investigation into the history of slutshaming, how it continues to affect us today and what we can do to fight it. What is a slut? Where did the word come from? And what do the Jonas Brothers, TikTok and Shakespeare have to do with it? Beth Ashley has the answers in this eye-opening account of slutshaming through the ages and how it’s changed over time but still affects us in the 21st century.
By: Beth Ashley
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Guest Privileges
- Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East
- By: Gaar Adams
- Narrated by: Gaar Adams
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon moving to the Gulf States – where penalties for queer acts include deportation, imprisonment, torture and death – Gaar Adams wants to understand why LGBTQ+ migrants might choose to live amid such peril. From the UAE to Bahrain and Oman to Saudi Arabia – a region where four out of five residents are noncitizens – he begins riskily gathering interviews outside the tightly controlled state media, leading with what he thinks is a simple question:
By: Gaar Adams
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Black Meme
- A History of the Images That Make Us
- By: Legacy Russell
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Representations of Blackness have always been integral to our understanding of of the modern world. In Black Meme, Legacy Russell, author of Glitch Feminism, explores the construct, culture, and material of the "meme" as mapped to Black visual culture from 1900 to present day. Mining archival and contemporary media Russell explores the impact of Blackness, Black life, and death on contemporary conceptions of viral culture, borne in the age of the internet.
By: Legacy Russell
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Under Jackie's Shadow
- Voices of Black Minor Leaguers Baseball Left Behind
- By: Mitchell Nathanson
- Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories of thirteen Black Minor League baseball players during the post-Jackie Robinson era, from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, who were figuratively and literally left behind even as both baseball and the country claimed a newfound racial progressiveness.
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Crafting Masculinity
- Qualities Men Want & How to Get Them
- By: Frank Paul Vignola
- Narrated by: Frank Paul Vignola
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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What is masculinity? You can spend your life trying to turn something gray into black and white, but you’ll end up negotiating your own biases somewhere along the way. What qualities do men admire most in other men, and how do I attain those qualities? That’s the question men's coach, Frank Paul Vignola believe most men are actually interested in having answered.
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My Conversations with Canadians
- Essais Series, Book 4
- By: Lee Maracle
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labor, law, prejudice and reconciliation, to name a few, are the heart of My Conversations with Canadians.
By: Lee Maracle