
About My Collection
"In 2021, to my delight, women's voices dominated my favorite histories, memoirs, and historical fiction. Historians Tiya Miles, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Nikole Hannah-Jones amplified the stories of people whose lived experiences broadened America's origin story. Fiction writers like Natalie Haynes and Lauren Groff focused on a female POV, while activists (Luvvie Ajayi, Sarah Schulman, and Elsa Sjunneson) inspired with the heroism of women who spoke out against erasure. Through reading and listening, we can all be (to quote Maria Tatar) 'the heroine with 1001 faces.'" —Editor Christina H.-
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The Twilight Zone
- A Novel
- By: Nona Fernandez, Natasha Wimmer - translator
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony....
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A good but dark listen
- By A. Hawley
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The Twilight Zone
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-07-21
- Language: English
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces
- By: Maria Tatar
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman....
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Excellent perspective
- By Knightwyng
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The Heroine with 1001 Faces
- Narrated by: Julie McKay
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-14-21
- Language: English
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Birthright Citizens
- A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
- By: Martha S. Jones
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- unabridged
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Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans....
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Birthright Citizens
- A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-05-21
- Language: English
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- By: Tiya Miles
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- unabridged
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In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold....
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Beautifully written
- By J. Christensen
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All That She Carried
- The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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The Good Kings
- Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
- By: Kara Cooney
- Narrated by: Kara Cooney
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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This provocative narrative explores the lives of five remarkable pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3,000-year empire and its meaning today....
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Everyone Should Read This!
- By Jennifer Grotpeter
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The Good Kings
- Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World
- Narrated by: Kara Cooney
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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The Trouble with White Women
- A Counterhistory of Feminism
- By: Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper - foreword
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- unabridged
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Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As Kyla Schuller argues, their White feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves....
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So informative
- By Deb Evans
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The Trouble with White Women
- A Counterhistory of Feminism
- Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 10-05-21
- Language: English
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On Juneteenth
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- unabridged
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The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native....
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A must listen
- By J. Mccloskey
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On Juneteenth
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-04-21
- Language: English
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Being Seen
- One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
- By: Elsa Sjunneson
- Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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A deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else....
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Fascinating and important!
- By Ms. Kirsty L. Collins
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Being Seen
- One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism
- Narrated by: Elsa Sjunneson
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 10-26-21
- Language: English
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, Caitlin Roper - editor, Ilena Silverman - editor, Jake Silverstein - editor
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
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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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I’m Never to Old to Learn
- By Sheila Proctor
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The 1619 Project
- A New Origin Story
- Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Full Cast
- Length: 18 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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Professional Troublemaker
- The Fear-Fighter Manual
- By: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Narrated by: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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From the New York Times best-selling author of I'm Judging You, a hilarious and transformational book about how to tackle fear - that everlasting hater - and audaciously step into lives, careers, and legacies that go beyond even our wildest dreams....
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Awesomely Awesome Encouragment
- By Satisfied customer
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Professional Troublemaker
- The Fear-Fighter Manual
- Narrated by: Luvvie Ajayi Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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Read Until You Understand
- The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
- By: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- unabridged
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Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries....
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Got it....
- By Rupert
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Read Until You Understand
- The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
- Narrated by: Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 09-14-21
- Language: English
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Matrix
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Groff
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- unabridged
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Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease....
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Luminous literary novel!
- By Maureen
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Matrix
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 09-07-21
- Language: English
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A Thousand Ships
- A Novel
- By: Natalie Haynes
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- unabridged
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In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen....
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Exceptional
- By starling01
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A Thousand Ships
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-26-21
- Language: English
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Let the Record Show
- A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
- By: Sarah Schulman
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Sarah Schulman
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
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Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and American AIDS activism....
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An epic and important oral history
- By J. C. Edens
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Let the Record Show
- A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Sarah Schulman
- Length: 27 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 05-18-21
- Language: English
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At home in the past, Christina’s favorite stories range from factual history to...history the way it should’ve been (classics, fantasy, and historical fiction.) She plans for the future by seeking out big ideas, novelistic details, and richly explored worlds. Follow her @charcar on Twitter.