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Bestsellers
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- By Stephnsea on 08-12-23
By: James McBride
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The House of Eve
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis, Sadeqa Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....
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This could've been good...
- By Speedreader on 10-13-23
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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This Could Be Us
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem, Kennedy Ryan
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes....
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She does it again!
- By Cierra Wallace on 03-12-24
By: Kennedy Ryan
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Before I Let Go
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage....
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Didn't Give What Everyone Said It Gave!!!
- By Annette Williams on 11-23-22
By: Kennedy Ryan
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Black Shield Maiden
- By: Willow Smith, Jess Hendel
- Narrated by: Willow Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen....
By: Willow Smith, and others
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- St. Louis Sires, Book 3
- By: Alexandria House
- Narrated by: Jakobi Diem, Wesleigh Siobhan
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Center for the St. Louis Sires has lived an undeniably good life, but something has always been missing, something he desperately craves a family.
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Good listen
- By L. Bailey on 05-11-24
By: Alexandria House
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- By Stephnsea on 08-12-23
By: James McBride
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The House of Eve
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis, Sadeqa Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....
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This could've been good...
- By Speedreader on 10-13-23
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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This Could Be Us
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Ines del Castillo, Jakobi Diem, Kennedy Ryan
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes....
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She does it again!
- By Cierra Wallace on 03-12-24
By: Kennedy Ryan
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Before I Let Go
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasmen and Josiah Wade found that love alone couldn’t solve or save everything. It couldn’t save their marriage....
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Didn't Give What Everyone Said It Gave!!!
- By Annette Williams on 11-23-22
By: Kennedy Ryan
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Black Shield Maiden
- By: Willow Smith, Jess Hendel
- Narrated by: Willow Smith
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen....
By: Willow Smith, and others
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Assist
- St. Louis Sires, Book 3
- By: Alexandria House
- Narrated by: Jakobi Diem, Wesleigh Siobhan
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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The Center for the St. Louis Sires has lived an undeniably good life, but something has always been missing, something he desperately craves a family.
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Good listen
- By L. Bailey on 05-11-24
By: Alexandria House
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- By: ReShonda Tate
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood’s most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars—and the first Black person ever to win an Oscar for her role as Mammy in the critically acclaimed classic film Gone With the Wind.
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The Story I Never Knew
- By Face To Face With Yolanda on 04-27-24
By: ReShonda Tate
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The Personal Librarian
- A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
- 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 Marriage Favor
- Crenshaw Kings, Book 1
- By: Shvonne Latrice
- Narrated by: Tony Isabella, Sable Lyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The day Lisara Compton caught her husband in a rather compromising position changed her life in a way neither she nor her sons ever saw coming. Realizing too late that divorcing him would cause a domino effect of turmoil, she is now forced into an uncomfortable life....
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Story development, awesome
- By Marian Burge on 01-25-24
By: Shvonne Latrice
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Black Cake
- A Novel
- By: Charmaine Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman, Simone Mcintyre
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording.
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Wonderful Listen
- By Regina on 02-04-22
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Summer on Highland Beach
- Summer Beach, Book 3
- By: Sunny Hostin
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy....
By: Sunny Hostin
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Can't Catch Me
- Houston Skyhawks, Book 1
- By: Alexandra Warren
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The job offer she expected after taking an unpaid internship at a major shoe company didn’t come through. The friend who’d offered her a place to stay suddenly gave her 48 hours to vacate after a misunderstanding....
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Boring
- By Queenie Morrison on 12-01-23
By: Alexandra Warren
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A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
- By: Tia Williams
- Narrated by: Mela Lee, Preston Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician are irreversibly linked through the history, art, and magic of Harlem....
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New age fairytale
- By Shoshana Y on 02-14-24
By: Tia Williams
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All the Sinners Bleed
- A Novel
- By: S. A. Cosby
- Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust....
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Visceral, gripping, thrilling and entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 06-26-23
By: S. A. Cosby
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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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Emotional & Powerful
- By Miss Toni on 06-30-13
By: Maya Angelou
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Chain Gang All Stars
- A Novel
- By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry....
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Can’t wait for more from this author!
- By Brian Sheldon on 06-04-23
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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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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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A Real page turner
- By Elizabeth Early on 01-19-21
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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Butterfly 5
- By: Ashley Antoinette
- Narrated by: Nicole Small
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone talks about healing, but no one talks about the ugly part of the process: the part that requires separation and accountability. Can M&M restore their magnetic love? Or are they forever lost on the pages? Join Ashley Antoinette in Ethicland once again....
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Sunshine Anderson
- By sheila king on 10-02-23
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Love on the Highlight Reel
- Connecticut Kings, Book 2
- By: Christina C. Jones
- Narrated by: J. Shani Michaels, Winston James
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Jordan Johnson is a man under pressure—from his teammates, fans, family, and the one person who wants to see him succeed as badly as he wants it for himself. He'll do whatever he has to in order to not let anyone down . . . and maybe find an unanticipated connection along the way.
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Loved this 🌹
- By Amazon Customer on 05-09-24
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Fell for the Wrong One
- By: Tay Mo'Nae
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Wiston James
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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All Zarinah wanted was to fall in love. Growing up, she had kissed her fair share of frogs. When an unconventional situation leads her to Lawson, her wishes might become reality....
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What a great live story!
- By Shawnte on 11-05-23
By: Tay Mo'Nae
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New Nigeria County
- By: Clare Brown
- Narrated by: Clare Brown, full cast, Ayanna Dookie, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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When a white family moves to the affluent Black community of New Nigeria County, a “misunderstanding” between neighbors escalates until the entire town is swept up in the drama in this hilarious and whip-smart full-cast audiobook, written and performed by TikTok star Clare Brown.
By: Clare Brown
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Daughters of Nri
- By: Reni K. Amayo
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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A gruesome war results in the old gods' departure from earth....
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The potential to be a good story but the pace is unbearable
- By Danay on 02-19-20
By: Reni K. Amayo
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The Billionaire's Accidental Bride
- By: Kimmy Love
- Narrated by: Cici Kay
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Annaya's wild streak has often got her into trouble before but this situation is something else....
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Two authors have same title, not like trailer
- By M. Doherty on 07-22-21
By: Kimmy Love
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Samira Wiley
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa....
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Wow!
- By elizabeth h correa on 05-19-20
By: Alice Walker
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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 Vanishing Half
- A GMA Book Club Pick (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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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range....
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Masterpiece
- By Linda G McDonough on 05-17-20
By: James McBride
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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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perfection
- By Mel on 04-06-15
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Ethic 3
- By: Ashley Antoinette
- Narrated by: Trei Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Healing requires separation. When Ethic discovers malice in a woman he thought was perfect, he walks away from their love. Keeping his family safe is his main priority, and falling for Alani Lenika Hill is dangerous....
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Frustrated
- By Britt on 06-17-19
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Dispossession
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 57 mins
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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