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Tommy
- The Gun That Changed America
- By: Karen Blumenthal
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver 100 bullets in a matter of seconds - but didn't find a market in the US military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade - and 80 years before the mass shootings of our own time - Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control.
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Tommy
- The Gun That Changed America
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 25-02-20
- Language: English
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The Call of the Rift: Veil
- The Call of the Rift, Book 2
- By: Jae Waller
- Narrated by: Sera-Lys McArthur
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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The Blackbird Battle has left all sides devastated. The wind spirit Suriel has disappeared. A hard winter is coming, and famine stalks the land. Kateiko Rin returns to her people, ready at last to rejoin her community, but the dangers of the unsettled times come raging to her doorstep. Kako is left with no choice but to battle the forces that seek to open a rift between the worlds. Leading an unlikely alliance that includes her new love Airedain and her old one Tiernan, Kako must risk all to try and stop the coming disaster.
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The Call of the Rift: Veil
- The Call of the Rift, Book 2
- Narrated by: Sera-Lys McArthur
- Series: The Call of the Rift, Book 2
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 16-12-19
- Language: English
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The Flying Tigers
- By: John Toland
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
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During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers - who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines - first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of the Chiang Kai-shek's China against Japan. Trained in the unconventional air-combat tactics of their maverick leader Claire Lee Chennault, they racked up some of the most impressive air victory records of World War II.
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The Flying Tigers
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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Flamboyants
- The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
- By: George M. Johnson, Charly Palmer - illustrator
- Narrated by: George M. Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs
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In Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured throughout history. Through 14 essays, Johnson reveals how American culture has been shaped by icons who are both Black and Queer–and whose stories deserve to be celebrated in their entirety.
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Flamboyants
- The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known
- Narrated by: George M. Johnson
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 24-09-24
- Language: English
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Don't Look Back
- A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America
- By: Achut Deng, Keely Hutton
- Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in refugee camps for ten years, until a refugee relocation program gave her the opportunity to move to the United States. When asked why she should be given a chance to leave the camp, Achut simply told the interviewer: I want life. But the chance at starting a new life in a new country came with a different set of challenges. Some of them equally deadly. Taught by the strong women in her life not to look back, Achut kept moving forward, overcoming one obstacle after another.
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Don't Look Back
- A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America
- Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 11-10-22
- Language: English
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When We Caught Fire
- By: Anna Godbersen
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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It’s 1871, and Emmeline Carter is poised to take Chicago’s high society by storm. Between her father’s sudden rise to wealth and her recent engagement to Chicago’s most eligible bachelor, Emmeline has it all. But she can’t stop thinking about the life she left behind, including her childhood sweetheart, Anders Magnuson. Fiona Byrne, Emmeline’s childhood best friend, is delighted by her friend’s sudden rise to prominence, especially since it means Fiona is free to pursue Anders herself. But when Emmeline risks everything for one final fling with Anders, Fiona feels completely betrayed.
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When We Caught Fire
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 02-10-18
- Language: English
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Sense and Sensibility
- By: Jane Austen
- Narrated by: Jill Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Rule by head or rule by heart? Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" (what today we'd call passion) serves to guide the heart. Through vicissitudes and, in the case of Marianne, outright betrayal by her lover, these two women learn the value in the other's outlook, and thereby prepare themselves for later domestic bliss that is the hallmark resolution of Jane Austen's novels.
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Sense and Sensibility
- Narrated by: Jill Masters
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-12-03
- Language: English
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Ghosts of War
- By: Ryan Smithson
- Narrated by: Ryan Smithson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was 17. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.
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Ghosts of War
- Narrated by: Ryan Smithson
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-04-09
- Language: English
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A Christmas Carol
- Past, Present, and Future
- By: Charles Dickens, adapted by Edward Stirling
- Narrated by: GiGi, Full Cast
- Length: 58 mins
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching miser in the first degree. He cares nothing for the people around him, and for him mankind exists only for the money that can be made through exploitation and intimidation. He particularly detests Christmas, which he views as "a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer". On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, who died seven Christmas Eves ago.
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A Christmas Carol
- Past, Present, and Future
- Narrated by: GiGi, Full Cast
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 17-12-04
- Language: English
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The Murgatroyd Adventures
- By: Russell Bloodworth, Christopher Bloodworth
- Narrated by: Russell Bloodworth III
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
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It was long ago that Bushy Bushy came on the scene. Modern day investigations have revealed that the Bushy Bushy in this story was actually the grandson of the original Blackbeard. Thus, the “Bushy Bushy,” shorthand for “grandson of.” Melissa Murgatroyd first appeared in night time stories in the year 1982. Melissa lived on a street in Memphis. Her driveway at that time was graveled and quite long.
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The Murgatroyd Adventures
- Narrated by: Russell Bloodworth III
- Length: 1 hr and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-02-24
- Language: English
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Stay Up
- Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom
- By: Khodi Dill
- Narrated by: Khodi Dill
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don’t know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives listeners tools to understand how racism impacts their lives. From dismantling internalized racism, decolonizing schools, joining social justice movements and more, Dill lays out paths to personal liberation and social transformation.
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Stay Up
- Racism, Resistance, and Reclaiming Black Freedom
- Narrated by: Khodi Dill
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-02-24
- Language: English
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A Tide of Dreams
- The Untold Backstory of Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant and Coaches Carney Laslie and Frank Moseley
- By: Carey Keefe
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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When the U.S. declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor was bombed in December 1941, the dreams of young men and women across the nation were sidelined. So, too, were the plans of Coaches Paul "Bear" Bryant, Carney Laslie, and Frank Moseley, a dream team of coaching talent who had plans to coach football together.
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A Tide of Dreams
- The Untold Backstory of Coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant and Coaches Carney Laslie and Frank Moseley
- Narrated by: GM Hakim
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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Shift Happens
- The History of Labor in the United States
- By: J. Albert Mann
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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You need to work to live. That’s the truth for most people, and plenty of people in power have been abusing that truth for centuries. Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It looked like generations of children dying in dangerous jobs. It looked like wealthy people hiring private militaries to attack their employees. But workers have always found a way to fight back.
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Shift Happens
- The History of Labor in the United States
- Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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Represent
- The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
- By: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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One of the most important and least understood true stories of our nation, the fight for representation is an ongoing and epic quest to build the democracy sketched out in the Constitution but unfinished in the twenty-first century. With impeccable research and exhilarating prose, Represent tells the story of voting rights in the United States from the American Revolution up to the present day.
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Represent
- The Unfinished Fight for the Vote
- Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 10-09-24
- Language: English
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Breaking the Chains
- African American Slave Resistance
- By: William Loren Katz, Robin D.G. Kelley
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, Breaking the Chains offers a thoroughly researched account of the ways people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.
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Breaking the Chains
- African American Slave Resistance
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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Victory. Stand!
- Raising My Fist for Justice
- By: Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships.
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Victory. Stand!
- Raising My Fist for Justice
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 23-01-24
- Language: English
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Hurdles in the Dark
- My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
- By: Elvira K. Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Elvira K. Gonzalez
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Twenty-four hours: that's how long fourteen-year-old Elvira Gonzalez is given to come up with the $40,000 she needs to save her kidnapped mother from a drug cartel. It's 2006 and Elvira's hometown of Laredo, Texas, has become engulfed by the Mexican Drug War. Elvira's life is unraveling around her—setting her on a harrowing path that leads her to being locked up in one of South Texas's worst juvenile detention centers. After Elvira's released from juvie, she's resolved to never go back. That's when her unexpected salvation arrives in the form of 33-inch-high plastic hurdles.
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Hurdles in the Dark
- My Story of Survival, Resilience, and Triumph
- Narrated by: Elvira K. Gonzalez
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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A Long Time Coming
- A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
- By: Ray Anthony Shepard
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
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Ona Judge wanted more than the best job an enslaved person could have, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman challenged why some people are masters and others enslaved, Ida B. Wells exposed post-slavery brutality, Martin Luther King Jr. was the key voice to overturn Jim Crow, and Barack Obama changed modern-day racial attitudes. For author Ray Anthony Shepard A Long Time Coming is highly personal, a chronicle of the times of his grandparents, parents, and himself.
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A Long Time Coming
- A Lyrical Biography of Race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
- Narrated by: Arnell Powell
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-12-23
- Language: English
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America Redux
- Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
- By: Ariel Aberg-Riger
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day—from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of "progress" on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid.
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America Redux
- Visual Stories from Our Dynamic History
- Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 02-05-23
- Language: English
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Self Help for Black Girls
- Ways to Benefit from Self Love Self Care and Mindfulness
- By: Carol Sinclair
- Narrated by: Hattie Schenck
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Black girls, you are supposed to rock and you are magic. This book is to help you blossom, bloom, and become the ultimate version of yourself, and that starts with self-help, self-care, and most importantly, self-love. So many of you may think that this is just about pampering nights, but that's just the beginning. The truth is, there is no one-size-fits-all way to take care of you. This book will help you discover the key ingredients of self-care so that you can whip up your self-love recipe. So, what are you still waiting for?
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Self Help for Black Girls
- Ways to Benefit from Self Love Self Care and Mindfulness
- Narrated by: Hattie Schenck
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-06-22
- Language: English
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