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Best sellers
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The Personal Librarian
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
- An Oprah’s Book Club Novel
- By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 29 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the problem of race in America and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well....
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The Great American Novel is finally inclusive.
- By Margaret on 12-28-21
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The Fifth Season
- The Broken Earth, Book 1
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter....
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The Nay-Sayers are Wrong.
- By Steve Groves on 02-10-20
By: N. K. Jemisin
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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So good.
- By KG on 07-28-14
By: Maya Angelou
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The Vanishing Half
- A Novel
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything....
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Soap opera material
- By Sheila S on 06-06-20
By: Brit Bennett
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Beloved
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby....
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Perhaps best read on paper
- By Mimi on 07-29-06
By: Toni Morrison
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The Personal Librarian
- By: Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world....
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A Treat For This Academic Librarian!
- By AlTonya on 07-14-21
By: Marie Benedict, and others
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
- An Oprah’s Book Club Novel
- By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 29 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the problem of race in America and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well....
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The Great American Novel is finally inclusive.
- By Margaret on 12-28-21
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The Fifth Season
- The Broken Earth, Book 1
- By: N. K. Jemisin
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter....
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The Nay-Sayers are Wrong.
- By Steve Groves on 02-10-20
By: N. K. Jemisin
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- By: Maya Angelou
- Narrated by: Maya Angelou
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....
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So good.
- By KG on 07-28-14
By: Maya Angelou
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The Vanishing Half
- A Novel
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything....
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Soap opera material
- By Sheila S on 06-06-20
By: Brit Bennett
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Beloved
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby....
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Perhaps best read on paper
- By Mimi on 07-29-06
By: Toni Morrison
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Seven Days in June
- By: Tia Williams
- Narrated by: Mela Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and best-selling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York....
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Better than the Reviews Say
- By Akuba on 09-26-21
By: Tia Williams
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Nathan Harris
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm....
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Masterful storytelling and an exceptional audio performance
- By Pamela on 06-18-21
By: Nathan Harris
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Take My Hand
- By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Narrated by: Lauren J. Daggett
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible injustice done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench....
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I loved it.
- By G'Lon Davis on 06-02-22
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This poetic, graceful love story celebrates boldly and brilliantly African-American culture and heritage....
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Ruby Dee is amazing
- By Jennifer on 04-20-13
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career....
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Loved the Story, but...
- By Lisa N. Haynes on 03-01-18
By: Tayari Jones
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon....
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way better than the movie
- By Ms. Blacq on 10-13-19
By: Alice Walker
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Homegoing
- A Novel
- By: Yaa Gyasi
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort....
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Beautiful and Haunting
- By Rick on 05-07-19
By: Yaa Gyasi
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The Yellow Wife
- A Novel
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Called “wholly engrossing” by New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Grissom, this “fully immersive” story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia....
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An excellent book!!! Must read!!!
- By Shenieque on 01-17-21
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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Razorblade Tears
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid....
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AMAZING!!!!
- By shelley on 07-11-21
By: S. A. Cosby
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem....
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What a rare pleasure
- By Lisa Braden on 09-27-21
By: Colson Whitehead
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Life After Death
- By: Sister Souljah
- Narrated by: Nia Long
- Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Winter Santiaga hit time served. Still stunning, still pretty, still bold, still loves her father more than any man in the world, still got her hustle and high fashion flow....
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What was that?
- By denea on 03-02-21
By: Sister Souljah
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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Elwood Curtis, a Black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow "delinquent" Turner....
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Who spoke for the black boys?
- By Darwin8u on 02-06-20
By: Colson Whitehead
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The Bluest Eye
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....
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Amazing
- By psiegler on 07-25-18
By: Toni Morrison
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The Violin Conspiracy
- By: Brendan Slocumb
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Brendan Slocumb
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. If he’s lucky, he’ll get a job at the hospital cafeteria. If he’s extra lucky, he’ll earn more than minimum wage....
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Get this audio!!
- By Barbara S on 02-09-22
By: Brendan Slocumb
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Kindred
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland....
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The Past of Slavery Still Moves and Wounds Us
- By Jefferson on 12-05-10
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
- A Novel
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss....
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Very well written but...
- By Sasha on 05-31-22
By: Akwaeke Emezi
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Black Girls Must Die Exhausted
- A Novel (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Book 1)
- By: Jayne Allen
- Narrated by: Marcella Cox
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The first novel in a captivating three-book series about modern womanhood, in which a young Black woman must rely on courage, laughter, and love—and the support of her two longtime friends—to overcome an unexpected setback that threatens the most precious thing she's ever wanted....
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Not What I Expected
- By R. Cartwright on 10-16-21
By: Jayne Allen
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
- By: Sidik Fofana
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in a Harlem high rise, a stunning debut about a tight-knit cast of characters grappling with their own personal challenges while the forces of gentrification threaten to upend life as they know it....
By: Sidik Fofana
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Pregnant by my Mother's Husband 3
- By: Linette King
- Narrated by: Cee Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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After killing her own mother, Angela will stop at nothing until the woman who's ruined her life twice has experienced just as much pain as she has. She vows to make Jade's life a living hell....
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Very Entertaining!
- By Tuesday Nichols on 04-25-19
By: Linette King
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Black Hamptons
- By: Carl Weber, La Jill Hunt
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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When a piece of land comes up for sale in this exclusive community, it sparks a war between the Brittons and the Johnsons. It’s old money versus new money, and neither family seems willing to compromise....
By: Carl Weber, and others
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The Darkest Child
- By: Delores Phillips
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's 10 children, but she is also the darkest complected....
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My heart couldn't take it
- By NIXX1993 on 03-01-18
By: Delores Phillips
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The Matter of Black Lives
- Writing from The New Yorker
- By: Jelani Cobb, David Remnick
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, and others
- Length: 30 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America - including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more - with a foreword by Jelani Cobb....
By: Jelani Cobb, and others
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Like a Sister
- By: Kellye Garrett
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime....
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Solid Story
- By PickyCustomer2 on 07-09-22
By: Kellye Garrett
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The Water Dancer (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Narrated by: Joe Morton
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life....
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UGH! I wanted SO much to like this book.
- By Carmen Lang on 01-26-20
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Blood Grove
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is an unlicensed private investigator turned hard-boiled detective always willing to do what it takes to get things done in the racially charged, dark underbelly of Los Angeles. But when Easy is approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran - a young White man who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a White woman from a Black man - he knows he shouldn't take the case.
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Lots of stuff...nothing that really mattered
- By Lovie247 on 02-17-21
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Dispossession
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 57 mins
- Original Recording
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Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets. It was the American dream, or was it? Now settled in Vermont, Javonte is married and well-employed, but Cheryl hardly ever sees him, and when she does, her own son seems like someone she only used to know.
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Wanted more
- By Sarah Peters on 01-19-21
New releases
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Nickel City Naked Lady
- Gideon Rimes, Book 4
- By: Gary Earl Ross
- Narrated by: Gary Earl Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Private Investigator Gideon Rimes knows he’s lucky, a survivor over the years. Now months after the first anniversary of the pandemic, a sense of mortality lingers over Nickel City. The changed landscape includes word of crime lord Lorenzo Quick’s passing whose regime is imploding as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case is being avidly built by the ADA. Yet in the territorial vacuum, opportunistic and unpredictable successors emerge. The case takes a twist when a drive-by shooting at an outdoor concert shares a link and jeopardizes Rimes’s personal world.
By: Gary Earl Ross
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Five Mafia Captors' Virgin
- Love by Numbers, Book 4
- By: Nicole Casey
- Narrated by: Rhys David, Jude Aaron
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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I tried my best to escape. But they are after me. These cruel, gorgeous monsters. All five of them. SadieI'd seen Mr. Marcello just once at a prestigious fashion show. His light golden amber eyes made me shiver, but I thought I was not gonna see him again. I never expected him to get his men to kidnap me, and even share me with his cousins and bodyguards. Of course, I'm not going to give in. And damn sure I'm going to fight my way out of this predicament…but what happens when I begin to fall for the men—my kidnappers?
By: Nicole Casey
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
- By: Sidik Fofana
- Narrated by: André Santana, Bahni Turpin, DePre Owens, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Banneker Homes is a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend's release from prison jeopardises the life he's been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe's and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can't seem to escape the building's gravitational pull.
By: Sidik Fofana
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The Can't Find Love Series
- The Complete Four Book Collection
- By: Patrice M. Foster
- Narrated by: Cassie Meagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When hot and handsome Vince Moretti walks into Ashley Santoro's life, she ultimately has to decide whether she will continue to hold onto the bad-girl, biracial routine that has her looking for love in superficial relationships only - or if what she has with this star basketball player is true love. The Ashley series details a courageous journey of a young adult fielding her way through alcoholism and overeating into her own discovery of how to love and how to be loved.
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
- By: Sidik Fofana
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Like Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind.
By: Sidik Fofana
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A Table for Two
- By: Sheryl Lister
- Narrated by: Trei Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Serenity Wheeler’s Supper Club is all about getting together with great friends, incredible food, and a whole lot of dishing—not for hooking up. Still, Serenity knows inviting her friend’s brother to one of her dinners is just good manners, but the ultra-fine, hazel-eyed Gabriel Cunningham has a gift for saying the wrong thing at the really wrong time. Especially when it comes to her cooking. Though refreshments and camaraderie may be the supper club’s mantra, Serenity and Gabriel know there’s more between them than just sharing delicious meals.
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When romance and food combine
- By My.Bookish.Mind on 08-18-22
By: Sheryl Lister
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Nickel City Naked Lady
- Gideon Rimes, Book 4
- By: Gary Earl Ross
- Narrated by: Gary Earl Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Private Investigator Gideon Rimes knows he’s lucky, a survivor over the years. Now months after the first anniversary of the pandemic, a sense of mortality lingers over Nickel City. The changed landscape includes word of crime lord Lorenzo Quick’s passing whose regime is imploding as a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case is being avidly built by the ADA. Yet in the territorial vacuum, opportunistic and unpredictable successors emerge. The case takes a twist when a drive-by shooting at an outdoor concert shares a link and jeopardizes Rimes’s personal world.
By: Gary Earl Ross
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Five Mafia Captors' Virgin
- Love by Numbers, Book 4
- By: Nicole Casey
- Narrated by: Rhys David, Jude Aaron
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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I tried my best to escape. But they are after me. These cruel, gorgeous monsters. All five of them. SadieI'd seen Mr. Marcello just once at a prestigious fashion show. His light golden amber eyes made me shiver, but I thought I was not gonna see him again. I never expected him to get his men to kidnap me, and even share me with his cousins and bodyguards. Of course, I'm not going to give in. And damn sure I'm going to fight my way out of this predicament…but what happens when I begin to fall for the men—my kidnappers?
By: Nicole Casey
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
- By: Sidik Fofana
- Narrated by: André Santana, Bahni Turpin, DePre Owens, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Banneker Homes is a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone's mind. There is Swan in apartment 6B, whose excitement about his friend's release from prison jeopardises the life he's been trying to lead. Mimi, in apartment 14D, who hustles to raise the child she had with Swan, waitressing at Roscoe's and doing hair on the side. And Quanneisha B. Miles, a former gymnast with a good education who wishes she could leave Banneker for good, but can't seem to escape the building's gravitational pull.
By: Sidik Fofana
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The Can't Find Love Series
- The Complete Four Book Collection
- By: Patrice M. Foster
- Narrated by: Cassie Meagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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When hot and handsome Vince Moretti walks into Ashley Santoro's life, she ultimately has to decide whether she will continue to hold onto the bad-girl, biracial routine that has her looking for love in superficial relationships only - or if what she has with this star basketball player is true love. The Ashley series details a courageous journey of a young adult fielding her way through alcoholism and overeating into her own discovery of how to love and how to be loved.
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs
- By: Sidik Fofana
- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nile Bullock, Sidik Fofana, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Like Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place and Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, Sidik Fofana’s electrifying collection of eight interconnected stories showcases the strengths, struggles, and hopes of one residential community in a powerful storytelling experience. Each short story follows a tenant in the Banneker Homes, a low-income high rise in Harlem where gentrification weighs on everyone’s mind.
By: Sidik Fofana
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A Table for Two
- By: Sheryl Lister
- Narrated by: Trei Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Serenity Wheeler’s Supper Club is all about getting together with great friends, incredible food, and a whole lot of dishing—not for hooking up. Still, Serenity knows inviting her friend’s brother to one of her dinners is just good manners, but the ultra-fine, hazel-eyed Gabriel Cunningham has a gift for saying the wrong thing at the really wrong time. Especially when it comes to her cooking. Though refreshments and camaraderie may be the supper club’s mantra, Serenity and Gabriel know there’s more between them than just sharing delicious meals.
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When romance and food combine
- By My.Bookish.Mind on 08-18-22
By: Sheryl Lister
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Hidden Blessings
- By: Kim Cash Tate
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Her diamond caught the sun’s rays and refracted light across the room. She’d asked herself again and again: How could she be so blessed? Partner at a prestigious law firm and engaged to the man of her dreams . . . there was no doubt. God had smiled on Kendra Woods. But the moment Kendra is diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, her world collapses. Within days, her fiancé backs out of the wedding and the firm suggests a leave of absence during her treatment. Of all the roles Kendra has played over the years, cancer patient seems the most unwelcome in the world.
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Hidden Blessings is a blessing.
- By S.Lunsford on 08-17-22
By: Kim Cash Tate
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His Royal Highness
- The Royals of Kéra Asnela, Book 1 (Elite Alliance)
- By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Winston James
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Princess Cadena Winthrope was well aware of the splintering heat that sizzled her flesh whenever Gemini was nearby. As her loyal guard, Gemini remained standing in the shadows, watching her every move—his gaze catching the dark corners of the room as well as her body's outline. Past ready to face their attraction head-on, Cadena is prepared to put her heart on the line, but a romance between the two could put his life at risk. How far would they be willing to go for love?
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Save your money
- By tasia mcafee on 08-18-22
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Lady Cab Driver
- By: Gregg Austin
- Narrated by: Adetunji Fasoranti
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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It is a story of tenacity, courage, and faithfulness. It is a narrative of sacrifice and loyalty when death comes a-knocking. In the midst of the melancholy that follows the death of a loved one, love resurrects again when least expected, even after refusing to love again. True love often comes from unexpected quarters, as in Ella's case. Looking back, Ella could have regretted her decision after the death of her first love. Most people don't get to experience one, let alone two. Could she have envisaged experiencing another true love in her life?
By: Gregg Austin
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Little Scarlet: Booktrack Edition
- A Novel
- By: Walter Mosley
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An irresistible story of love and death, this latest Easy Rawlins mystery takes place during the devastating 1965 Watts riots. Easy's hunt for a killer reveals a new city emerging from the ashes—and a new life for Easy and his friends.
By: Walter Mosley
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Low Down
- By: Tonja Ayers
- Narrated by: Adetunji Fasoranti
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Grant Ashford has his heart set on becoming the next mayor of the City of Detroit, and he has joined forces with some powerful players to assist with obtaining this goal. He is well aware of their ability to turn his dream into a reality; however, he is quite naïve regarding the fact that commingling with this circle could possibly turn his dream into a nightmare. What does a player do when he finds out he’s the one being played?
By: Tonja Ayers
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An Unsavory Mess
- Eugeena Patterson Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Tyora Moody
- Narrated by: Sharell Palmer
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Eugeena Patterson usually doesn’t have a problem putting her nose where it doesn’t belong. After her last mystery busting incident, she’s determined to hang up her amateur sleuth hat. Or at least that’s what she’s telling Amos and her family. When her friend Rosemary Gladstone encourages her to attend their high school reunion, Eugeena decides it wouldn’t hurt. All is well until Eugeena and Rosemary face off with their number-one enemy from high school. What should have been a celebration hits a sour note when their nemesis is found dead. There is no rest for the weary.
By: Tyora Moody
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Secret Blues
- By: KD Jac
- Narrated by: Susan Schuld
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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She genuinely didn't know why she did it or why she allowed things to continue in the direction they were heading. Thinking back on it now, maybe it was his eyes. He was unlike anyone she ever dated before. Unfortunately, being with him means putting her marriage at risk. Will she be able to keep her lover from being found out or will her blue-eyed mystery be the end of her 10-year marriage?
By: KD Jac
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Missy Me Mya: Vol. 2
- Occupations of Oppressions
- By: Carlos Alexander Murray
- Narrated by: Kimberly Yvonne Steele
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In the wild, ghetto streets of poverty, drugs, and violence grew a little, dainty girl called Mya. Living smack-dab in the trenches of a firestorm between two rival street mobs, Gangster Disciples and Vice Lords, along with the invading police, this 17-year-old of innocence is pulled into the street game's grasp.
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Rattlebone
- By: Maxine Clair
- Narrated by: Adrienne Hailey
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
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Irene Wilson knows that a “no-name invisible something” has settled over her parents’ marriage and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighborhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair. As Irene is initiated into adult passion and loss, her family story takes its place in a tightly woven tapestry of neighbors whose griefs and joys are as vivid as her own.
By: Maxine Clair