African Myth Fiction
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African Myths of Origin
- By: Stephen Belcher
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
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Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands. From impassioned descriptions of animal-creators to dramatic stories of communities forced to flee monstrous crocodiles, all the narratives found here concern origins - whether of the universe, peoples or families.
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EXCELLENT!!!
- By Adelakin Agbonbioka on 07-11-21
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African Myths of Origin
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-25-21
- Language: English
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Gathering a wide range of traditional African myths, this compelling new collection offers tales of heroes battling mighty serpents and monstrous birds, brutal family conflict and vengeance and desperate migrations across vast and alien lands....
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Rise of the Jumbies
- By: Tracey Baptiste
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D'Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea.
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Excellent
- By Autumn green on 08-07-22
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Rise of the Jumbies
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Series: The Jumbies, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 09-19-17
- Language: English
- Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home....
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Anansi Time
- By: Bobby Norfolk
- Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk
- Length: 48 mins
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Bobby Norfolk plays a prominent role in African-American storytelling. But when he recently visited Africa, he went as a humble student, hoping to glean new insights, to immerse himself in a living oral tradition. He went as a pilgrim to the cities, villages, and jungles of Africa. Yet he was caught completely by surprise when, during a visit to an obscure African village, he was invited to a community-wide afternoon break at which elders told traditional Anansi stories and everyone else listened intently.
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Too child focused
- By Ramses on 03-20-15
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Anansi Time
- Narrated by: Bobby Norfolk
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 10-20-00
- Language: English
- Bobby Norfolk plays a prominent role in African-American storytelling....
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
- Legacy of Orisha, Book 2
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too. Now, Zélie struggles to unite the maji in an Orïsha where the enemy is just as powerful as they are. But when the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Orïsha, Zélie must fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
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Constant melodrama ruins a promising story
- By Bryn Stevens-Guill on 12-10-19
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Children of Virtue and Vengeance
- Legacy of Orisha, Book 2
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Legacy of Orïsha, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 12-03-19
- Language: English
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After battling the impossible, Zélie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Orïsha. But the ritual was more powerful than they could’ve imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji, but of nobles with magic ancestry, too....
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
- Tristan Strong, Book 1
- By: Kwame Mbalia
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' farm in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from a tragedy. But on his first night there, he accidentally ripps open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning sea, haunted bone ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this world.
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Enjoyed by all!
- By Kia B. on 12-04-20
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
- Tristan Strong, Book 1
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Series: Rick Riordan Presents, Tristan Strong Series, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 10-15-19
- Language: English
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Kwame Mbalia's epic fantasy, a middle grade American Gods set in a richly-imagined world populated with African American folk heroes and West African gods....
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Abeni's Song
- Abeni's Song, Book 1
- By: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrated by: Funmi James
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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On the day of the Harvest Festival, the old woman who lives in the forest appears in Abeni's village with a terrible message: You ignored my warnings. It’s too late to run. They are coming. Warriors with burning blades storm the village. A man with a cursed flute plays an impossibly alluring song. And everyone Abeni has ever known and loved is captured and marched toward far-off ghost ships set for even more distant lands. But not Abeni. Abeni is magically whisked away by the old woman.
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Good Story
- By Wendy on 07-27-23
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Abeni's Song
- Abeni's Song, Book 1
- Narrated by: Funmi James
- Series: Abeni's Song, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 07-25-23
- Language: English
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Abeni's Song by award-winning author P. Djèlí Clark is the enchanting beginning of an epic West African and African Diaspora-inspired fantasy adventure for middle-grade listeners about a reluctant apprentice to magic and the stolen villagers she sets out to save....
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
- By: Nelson Mandela - editor
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa, featuring Gillian Anderson, Benjamin Bratt, LeVar Burton, Ricardo Chavira, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Hayes, Hugh Jackman, Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Debra Messing, Helen Mirren, Parminder Nagra, Sophie Okonedo, CCH Pounder, and Alan Rickman.
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Exotic, fun and fascinating
- By Penny on 08-13-09
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
- Narrated by: Samuel L. Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Matt Damon, Alan Rickman
- Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 07-01-09
- Language: English
- Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales is an audiobook benefiting children orphaned and impacted by HIV/AIDS in South Africa....
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Tristan Strong Destroys the World
- A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2
- By: Kwame Mbalia
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge. Tristan must return to Alke - and reunite with his loud-mouthed sidekick, Gum Baby - in order to rescue Nana and stop the culprit from creating further devastation.
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I love this book it's so much fun don't think it's
- By Lawrence Blkphoto Dortch on 08-10-22
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Tristan Strong Destroys the World
- A Tristan Strong Novel, Book 2
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Series: Tristan Strong Series, Book 2, Rick Riordan Presents, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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Tristan Strong, just back from a victorious but exhausting adventure in Alke, the land of African American folk heroes and African gods, is suffering from PTSD. But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge....
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Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
- A Serwa Boateng Novel, Book 1
- By: Roseanne A. Brown
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it's a matter of life and death. That's because Serwa knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana. Adze prey on the blood of innocents, possessing their minds and turning them into hulking monsters, and for generations, slayers like Serwa and her parents have protected an unknowing public from their threats.
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The perfect mix of Aru Shah, Savvy, and Magnus Chase
- By IntrovertedEnbyPisces on 12-18-22
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Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
- A Serwa Boateng Novel, Book 1
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Series: Rick Riordan Presents
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 10-04-22
- Language: English
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Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown's middle grade debut about a pre-teen vampire slayer with a strong helping of Ghanaian folklore....
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Ikenga
- By: Nnedi Okorafor
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
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Nnamdi's father was a good chief of police, perhaps the best Kalaria had ever had. He was determined to root out the criminals that had invaded the town. But then he was murdered, and most people believed the Chief of Chiefs, most powerful of the criminals, was responsible. Nnamdi has vowed to avenge his father, but he wonders what a 12-year-old boy can do. Until a mysterious nighttime meeting, the gift of a magical object that enables super powers, and a charge to use those powers for good changes his life forever.
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Another Great Book by Nnedi Okorafor
- By Watchman on 05-20-21
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Ikenga
- Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 02-02-21
- Language: English
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Award-winning Nnedi Okorafor, acclaimed for her Akata novels, introduces a new and engaging hero in her first novel for middle-grade listeners set against a richly textured background of contemporary Nigeria....
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The People Could Fly
- American Black Folktales
- By: Virginia Hamilton
- Narrated by: Andrew Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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“The People Could Fly,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom. And it is a moving tale of those who did not have the opportunity to “fly” away, who remained slaves with only their imaginations to set them free as they told and retold this tale.
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The People Could Fly
- American Black Folktales
- Narrated by: Andrew Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 12-03-24
- Language: English
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“The People Could Fly,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.
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The Ups and Downs of Being Brown
- By: Rex M. Ellis
- Narrated by: Rex M. Ellis
- Length: 56 mins
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Rex M. Ellis weaves the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary interpretations into the rich quilt that is the African-American experience. His stories spin a thread from the Windward Coast of West Africa to the shores of Jamestown and beyond. He uses storytelling as both a historical teaching tool and a method for dealing with controversial subjects.
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FINALLY FOUND IT!!!!
- By Scheyler M on 03-06-20
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The Ups and Downs of Being Brown
- Narrated by: Rex M. Ellis
- Length: 56 mins
- Release date: 10-20-00
- Language: English
- Rex M. Ellis weaves the strands of African folklore, early American history, and contemporary interpretations into the rich quilt that is the African-American experience....
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Maya and the Rising Dark
- By: Rena Barron
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like were-hyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams. Her friends try to find an explanation - perhaps a ghost uprising or a lunchroom experiment gone awry. But to Maya, it sounds like something from one of Papa’s stories or her favorite comics.
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Fun and full of action! Perfect for all ages
- By Elizabeth Mellen on 10-24-20
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Maya and the Rising Dark
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-22-20
- Language: English
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Twelve-year-old Maya is the only one in her South Side Chicago neighborhood who witnesses weird occurrences like were-hyenas stalking the streets at night and a scary man made of shadows plaguing her dreams....
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
- Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
- By: David Mura
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy. From the country's founding through the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, David Mura unmasks how white stories about race attempt to erase the brutality of the past and underpin systemic racism in the present.
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The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself
- Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
- Narrated by: David Lee Huynh
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-09-24
- Language: English
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The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy.
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Maya and the Return of the Godlings
- By: Rena Barron
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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Now a guardian in training, Maya spends her days patching up veils with her father and cleaning up near-disasters like baby wormholes that her erratic powers create. But when Maya and her friends discover that something went terribly wrong during their journey to bring her father back to the human world, they are forced to return to The Dark and restore what they left behind, the one thing keeping the veil from falling: her father’s soul.
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Young Adult Fantasy Literature
- By T. Newkirk on 10-30-24
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Maya and the Return of the Godlings
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Series: Maya and the Rising Dark, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 09-21-21
- Language: English
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In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father’s soul....
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Anansi the Spider
- By: Gerald McDermott
- Narrated by: John J. Akar
- Length: 5 mins
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Anansi, one of the great folk heroes of the world, is saved from a terrible fate by his six sons in this traditional tale from West Africa.
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Check Out Bobby Norfolk's Version of this Story!
- By Jeanne on 04-02-08
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Anansi the Spider
- Narrated by: John J. Akar
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 05-24-06
- Language: English
- Anansi, one of the great folk heroes of the world, is saved from a terrible fate by his six sons....
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Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms
- Cameron Battle, Book 1
- By: Jamar J. Perry
- Narrated by: Marc Anthony Samuel
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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Cameron Battle grew up reading The Book of Chidani, cherishing stories about the fabled kingdom that cut itself off from the world to save the Igbo people from danger. Passed down over generations, the Book is Cameron’s only connection to his parents who disappeared one fateful night, two years ago. Ever since, his grandmother has kept the Book locked away, but it calls to Cameron.
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This was an interesting and exciting story
- By C Bowser Family on 08-22-24
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Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms
- Cameron Battle, Book 1
- Narrated by: Marc Anthony Samuel
- Series: Cameron Battle, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-01-22
- Language: English
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Cameron Battle grew up reading The Book of Chidani, cherishing stories about the fabled kingdom that cut itself off from the world to save the Igbo people from danger....
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Who Was Jesse Owens?
- By: James Buckley
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 55 mins
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At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more than a sports story. Born in rural Alabama under the oppressive Jim Crow laws, Owens' family suffered many hardships. As a boy he worked several jobs, like delivering groceries and working in a shoe repair shop, to make ends meet. But Owens defied the odds to become a sensational student athlete, eventually running track for Ohio State.
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Go ooooooooooo0ooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooo0ooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooo0ooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooo0oooooooooooooooooD
- By Jenn Boughey on 07-17-23
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Who Was Jesse Owens?
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 08-02-16
- Language: English
- At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But the life of Jesse Owens is much more....
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Perfect Thing
- By: Tolowa M. Mollel
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 5 mins
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Long ago a trickster rabbit cheated other animals in order to become more elegant. What happened when the other animals caught on? Find out in this tale from Uganda. The rabbit wants the fox’s tail, the fish’s scales, the bird’s feathers, and the leopard’s spots and greedily tosses away one feature for the next.
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Perfect Thing
- Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
- Length: 5 mins
- Release date: 10-28-24
- Language: English
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Long ago a trickster rabbit cheated other animals in order to become more elegant. What happened when the other animals caught on? Find out in this tale from Uganda.
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Magnolia Flower
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi, Sheryl Lee Ralph
- Length: 14 mins
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Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one’s heart.
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Beautiful Love story
- By Jaki on 07-12-23
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Magnolia Flower
- Narrated by: Ibram X. Kendi, Sheryl Lee Ralph
- Length: 14 mins
- Release date: 09-06-22
- Language: English
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Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of....
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