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Bestsellers
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De: Mí Para: Mí [From: Me, To: Me]
- La Tormenta Pasará [The Storm Will Pass]
- By: Nacarid Portal, Chriss Braund
- Narrated by: Dave Ramos
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Nunca es tarde para otorgarte una segunda oportunidad. Por mucho tiempo te has juzgado, y en este viaje, uno de los destinos será el perdón.
By: Nacarid Portal, and others
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Shout
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times best seller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson....
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A touching story that resonates with all those hurt
- By KyTheTransGuy on 10-05-19
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We Have Everything We Need to Start Again
- Empowering poems to bring you hope
- By: Koleka Putuma, Adriana Bellet - illustrator
- Narrated by: Koleka Putuma
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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From groundbreaking and award-winning poet Koleka Putuma comes an empowering and uplifting collection of poems about figuring out who you are and embracing it....
By: Koleka Putuma, and others
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Apple
- Skin to the Core
- By: Eric Gansworth
- Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....
By: Eric Gansworth
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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy....
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The sort of grandmother I wish I had.
- By brian on 09-06-22
By: Rex Ogle
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Home Is Not a Country
- By: Safia Elhillo
- Narrated by: Safia Elhillo, Christopher Myers
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere....
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Totally Worth a Listen and All the Awards!
- By Rachel on 09-16-22
By: Safia Elhillo
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De: Mí Para: Mí [From: Me, To: Me]
- La Tormenta Pasará [The Storm Will Pass]
- By: Nacarid Portal, Chriss Braund
- Narrated by: Dave Ramos
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Nunca es tarde para otorgarte una segunda oportunidad. Por mucho tiempo te has juzgado, y en este viaje, uno de los destinos será el perdón.
By: Nacarid Portal, and others
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Shout
- By: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times best seller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson....
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A touching story that resonates with all those hurt
- By KyTheTransGuy on 10-05-19
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We Have Everything We Need to Start Again
- Empowering poems to bring you hope
- By: Koleka Putuma, Adriana Bellet - illustrator
- Narrated by: Koleka Putuma
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From groundbreaking and award-winning poet Koleka Putuma comes an empowering and uplifting collection of poems about figuring out who you are and embracing it....
By: Koleka Putuma, and others
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Apple
- Skin to the Core
- By: Eric Gansworth
- Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....
By: Eric Gansworth
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Abuela, Don't Forget Me
- By: Rex Ogle
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Rex Ogle’s companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother’s legacy....
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The sort of grandmother I wish I had.
- By brian on 09-06-22
By: Rex Ogle
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Home Is Not a Country
- By: Safia Elhillo
- Narrated by: Safia Elhillo, Christopher Myers
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere....
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Totally Worth a Listen and All the Awards!
- By Rachel on 09-16-22
By: Safia Elhillo
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
- By: Angela Shanté
- Narrated by: Angela Shanté
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Set in New York City in the ’90s, Angela Shanté’s poems and stories paint a mosaic of childhood that is shaped by the past and reverberates into the present.
By: Angela Shanté
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Voices in the Air
- By: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Narrated by: Naomi Shihab Nye
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Voices in the Air is a collection of almost one hundred original poems written by the award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye in honor of the artists, writers, poets, historical figures, ordinary people, and diverse luminaries from past and present who inspire her and us.
By: Naomi Shihab Nye
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It's Not Like It's a Secret
- By: Misa Sugiura
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Sana Kiyohara has too many secrets. Some are small, like how it bothers her when her friends don't invite her to parties....
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YA contemporary that focused on an important topic
- By Anonymous User on 06-21-17
By: Misa Sugiura
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Dear Medusa
- (A Novel in Verse)
- By: Olivia A. Cole
- Narrated by: Olivia A. Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixteen-year-old Alicia Rivers has a reputation that precedes her. But there’s more to her story than the whispers that follow her through the hallways at school—whispers that splinter into a million different insults that mean: a girl who has had sex....
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Striking metaphor about men and young women
- By Anonymous User on 06-05-24
By: Olivia A. Cole
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Bless the Blood
- A Cancer Memoir
- By: Walela Nehanda
- Narrated by: Walela Nehanda
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A searing debut YA poetry and essay collection about a Black cancer patient who faces medical racism after being diagnosed with leukemia in their early twenties, for fans of Audre Lorde's The Cancer Journals and Laurie Halse Anderson's Shout....
By: Walela Nehanda
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For Every One
- By: Jason Reynolds
- Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
- Length: 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This stirring and inspirational poem is New York Times best-selling author and National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds' rallying cry to the dreamers of the world....
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enter headline for review
- By Julie Weaver on 12-31-22
By: Jason Reynolds
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These Are the Words
- Fearless Verse to Find Your Voice
- By: Nikita Gill
- Narrated by: Nikita Gill
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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These Are the Words is the empowering first-ever YA feminist collection written and illustrated by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, containing all the things she wished someone had told her when she was a growing up....
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Just amazing
- By Anonymous User on 03-22-24
By: Nikita Gill
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Inheritance
- A Visual Poem
- By: Elizabeth Acevedo
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo
- Length: 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad—the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance....
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Viva la Herencia
- By Yulil Alonso-Garza on 05-05-22
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The Surrender Tree
- Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom
- By: Margarita Engle
- Narrated by: Yesenia Cabrero, Yane Millon, Chris Nunez, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
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In this history in verse, acclaimed poet Margarita Engle has created a lyrical, powerful portrait of Cuba....
By: Margarita Engle
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Ten Thousand Stars
- By: Jim Weiss
- Narrated by: Jim Weiss
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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Beloved storyteller Jim Weiss performs unabridged, thrilling, engaging poetry for listeners from middle school age through adults....
By: Jim Weiss
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Hope Ablaze
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Mughal Rana
- Narrated by: Farah Kidwai
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece—the poet who will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror....
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The story was good
- By Anonymous User on 03-13-24
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Black Girl You Are Atlas
- By: Renée Watson
- Narrated by: Renée Watson
- Length: 51 mins
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In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender....
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A pleasant reminder
- By Arnetta Young on 07-11-24
By: Renée Watson
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Light Filters In: Poems
- By: Caroline Kaufman
- Narrated by: Caroline Kaufman
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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In Light Filters In, Caroline Kaufman - known as @poeticpoison - does what she does best: reflects our own experiences back at us and makes us feel less alone, one exquisite and insightful piece at a time....
By: Caroline Kaufman
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Chlorine Sky
- By: Mahogany L. Browne
- Narrated by: Mahogany L. Browne
- Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes....
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Affirming.
- By Thuli on 02-19-21
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Ode to My First Car
- By: Robin Gow
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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A YA contemporary sapphic romance told in verse, by the critically praised author of A Million Quiet Revolutions, Ode to My First Car is about a bisexual teen girl who falls in and out of love over the course of one fateful summer....
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It's a different kind of gay coming out story.
- By Kindle Customer on 07-13-23
By: Robin Gow
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Aquella orilla nuestra [That Shore of Ours]
- By: Elvira Sastre
- Narrated by: Elvira Sastre
- Length: 23 mins
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Elvira Sastre revela en este libro su mundo interior y sus experiencias más íntimas. El diálogo que se establece entre el texto y las ilustraciones de Emba logra una composición estética única, digna de coleccionistas....
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Poemas.
- By Anonymous User on 07-13-24
By: Elvira Sastre
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A Million Quiet Revolutions
- By: Robin Gow
- Narrated by: Salem Corwin, Kaden Catalina
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Robin Gow's A Million Quiet Revolutions is a modern love story, told in verse, about two teenaged trans boys who name themselves after two Revolutionary War soldiers....
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T4T dream!!!
- By Anonymous User on 06-25-22
By: Robin Gow
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Just Another Epic Love Poem
- By: Parisa Akhbari
- Narrated by: Nikki Massoud, Elena Rey
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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Best friendship blossoms into something more in this queer literary romance....
By: Parisa Akhbari
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Slam! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This
- By: Nikita Gill
- Narrated by: Nikita Gill
- Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
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Collected by international poetry sensation Nikita Gill, Slam! You're Gonna Wanna Hear This is a joyful celebration of the ground-breaking poets making their voices heard in the spoken word scene....
By: Nikita Gill
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Vinyl Moon
- By: Mahogany L. Browne
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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A teen girl hiding the scars of a past relationship finds home and healing in the words of strong Black writers. A beautiful sophomore novel from a critically acclaimed author and poet that explores how words have the power to shape and uplift our world even in the midst of pain....
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- By BFigaro on 07-29-24
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Augusta Savage
- The Shape of a Sculptor's Life
- By: Marilyn Nelson
- Narrated by: Marilyn Nelson, Grace Angela Henry
- Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
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A powerful biography in poems about a trailblazing artist and a pillar of the Harlem Renaissance—with an afterword by the curator of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture....
By: Marilyn Nelson
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I Don't Want To Be Crazy
- By: Samantha Schutz
- Narrated by: Samantha Schutz
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
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In this harrowing, remarkable poetry memoir of growing up, breaking down, and coming to grips, one girl struggles with a psychological disorder....
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Crazy how relatable..
- By Kaitlyn on 12-01-19
By: Samantha Schutz
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And We Rise
- The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
- By: Erica Martin
- Narrated by: Erica Martin
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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In stunning verse, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement - from the well-documented events that shaped the nation’s treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal" ruling....
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🫶 Author’s Intensity
- By Anonymous User on 09-25-24
By: Erica Martin
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Concrete Kids
- By: Amyra León
- Narrated by: Amyra León
- Length: 54 mins
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Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience....
By: Amyra León