BIPOC Authors

Caregiving with Love and Joy

By: Patricia A. Boswell, LPN, MBA

Narrated by: Patricia A. Boswell, LPN, MBA

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A revolutionary, practical, uplifting guide for the caregivers of people with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.


When it comes to caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the right caregiving can make all the difference. Here, Patricia Boswell shares structured routines, life hacks, and best practices that are evidence-based... Read more

Tough

By: Terry Crews

Narrated by: Terry Crews

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews, the deeply personal story of his lifelong obsession with strength—and how, after looking for it in all the wrong places, he finally found it

Terry Crews spent decades cultivating his bodybuilder physique and bravado. On the outside, he seemed invincible: he escaped his abusive father, went pro in the NFL,... Read more

In the Face of the Sun

By: Denny S. Bryce

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman & Tracey Conyer Lee

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A candy-apple red Ford Mustang is parked outside my building. Unmistakable. My Aunt Daisy, the driver, is an audacious woman that no one in our family actually speaks to. They only speak about her—and not glowingly. Still, she is part of my escape plan …

1928, Los Angeles:
The newly-built Hotel Somerville is the hotspot for the city's glittering... Read more

Fat, Crazy, and Tired

By: Van Lathan Jr.

Narrated by: Van Lathan Jr.

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Podcaster and former TMZ host Van Lathan Jr. writes a sharp, funny, and brutally honest, cultural critique of the unspoken obstacles and extreme anxiety that keep us from maintaining good health in America’s “wellness waistland,” explored through vignettes about his mental health and weight loss journey as a Black man.
 
  A formerly chubby kid... Read more

Rest Rituals

By: Valerie Oula

Narrated by: Valerie Oula

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Rest easy with this collection of over 50 powerful restorative techniques.

Good sleep—the kind that leaves you with increased mental clarity, steady energy, and excitement for the day ahead—can be elusive. But it’s within reach: vibrational energy healer and meditation instructor Valerie Oula has put together over fifty rituals for winding down,... Read more

Private Arrangements & Possessed by Passion

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Private Arrangements
No man has ever tempted her like this…

Nikki Cartwright can't believe Jonas Steele—the Jonas Steele—has chosen her for a high-profile marketing venture. It could make her career. But when she remembers the kiss they once shared, a kiss so intimate it sent their desire skyrocketing from simmering to blazing, Nikki knows she... Read more

Possessed by Passion

By: Brenda Jackson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

They're discovering the healing powers of passion 

Burned-by-love architect Hunter McKay came home to Phoenix to open her own firm, not rekindle her fleeting high school romance with playboy Tyson Steele. But when she runs into the sexy surgeon at a nightclub—and he unleashes that legendary Steele charm—Hunter fears she's headed straight for... Read more

No Crowns in the Castle

By: Fantasia Taylor & Kendall Taylor

Narrated by: Fantasia Taylor & Kendall Taylor

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A Grammy Award-winning singer and her husband share what a Godly marriage looks like and encourage readers with faith-forward and Biblical relationship advice.
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Fantasia Taylor—American Idol, Grammy-winning vocalist, and chart-topping singer—and her husband businessman Kendall Taylor were both successful and living in their purpose when they met... Read more

Saving Our Sons

By: Marita Golden

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Listen to an intimate account of a mother's efforts to save her son. Telling her son's story against the backdrop of a society plagued by systemic racism, economic inequality, and mass incarceration, Golden offers a form of witness and testimony in a time of crisis for Black Americans.

Learn how to grapple with the realities of Black America.... Read more

One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for his jazz musician friend.

Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process... Read more

The Song of Our Scars

By: Haider Warraich

Narrated by: Haider Warraich & Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A doctor’s personal and unsparing account of how modern medicine’s failure to understand pain has made care less effective

In The Song of Our Scars, physician Haider Warraich offers a bold reexamination of the nature of pain, not as a simple physical sensation, but as a cultural experience.

Warraich, himself a sufferer of chronic pain, considers... Read more

Body Becoming

By: Roberto Ché Espinoza

Narrated by: Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The body that Robyn Henderson-Espinoza inhabits is a nonbinary body, a trans body, a body in two races—and a body continually in discovery. Theirs is also a body on sojourn invested in experience, body understanding, and engagement in and for human thriving. Henderson-Espinoza relates coming into a new body story, beginning with the deep... Read more

Call Me Chef, Dammit!

By: Andre Rush

Narrated by: Chef Andre Rush

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author.What does it take to go from growing up in a Mississippi housing project to becoming a master sergeant and a celebrity chef serving in the White House under four United States presidents?Call Me Chef, Dammit! is the inspiring story of Andre Rush, who became an overnight sensation in 2018, after a photograph of his now-famous... Read more

Empty Vows

By: Mary Monroe

Narrated by: Tracey Conyer Lee & Ruffin Prentiss

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this scandalous follow-up to the Depression-era tale Mrs. Wiggins, awardwinning and New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe brings even more period drama as a proper church-going woman ensnares a widower living too many secrets—and lies …

Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and... Read more

Real Life, Real Love

By: Raashaun "DJ Envy" Casey & Gia Casey

Narrated by: Raashaun "DJ Envy" Casey & Gia Casey

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

RaaShaun “DJ Envy” and Gia Casey met when they were two teenagers attending the same high school in Queens. They have been together for an astounding twenty-seven years and married for twenty. They have remained together through RaaShaun’s growing celebrity, a devastating (and very public)
cheating scandal, and the births of six children. Now, a... Read more

Queen of the Tiles

By: Hanna Alkaf

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in this “stunning…unforgettable” (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.

CATALYST
13 points
noun: a substance that... Read more

Shelter

By: Lawrence Jackson

Narrated by: Korey Jackson

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job teaching in Baltimore, he searched for schools for his sons and bought a house. This would be unremarkable but for the fact that he grew up in West Baltimore and his job was at Johns Hopkins,
whose vexed relationship to its neighborhood, to the city and its history, provides a point of departure for this... Read more

Monarca

By: Leopoldo Gout & Eva Aridjis

Narrated by: Maria Liatis

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“A work of art. In each of the pages, you will feel the flow of a powerful energy which will murmur to each of your cells that it is time to come out of hiding, to open the windows, to breathe freely, to dress colorfully… to fly.”—Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for ChocolateA fable for all ages about a Mexican-American girl who transforms... Read more

Hope and Glory

By: Jendella Benson

Narrated by: Kelechi Okafor

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the year’s most anticipated by Marie Claire, Essence, Debutiful, & GoodreadsA brilliant debut by a British-Nigerian author—a heartfelt family drama that will delight book club readers and fans of books like The Girl with the Louding Voice and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.“Jendella Benson has drawn such a compelling world. The... Read more

The Girl in the Middle

By: Anais Granofsky

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this poignant and timely memoir—written with the searing power of Beautiful Struggle and Born a Crime—Degrassi Junior High star Anais Granofsky contemplates the lingering impact of a childhood spent in two opposite and warring worlds.Though recognized around the world for her role as Lucy Hernandez on the hit show Degrassi, Anais Granofsky’s... Read more

Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

Narrated by: Jane Lui

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is... Read more

God of Neverland

By: Gama Ray Martinez

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this magical re-imagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic tale, Michael Darling—the youngest of the Darling siblings and former Lost Boy, now all grown up—must return to the life he left behind to save Neverland from the brink of collapse and keep humanity safe from magical and mythological threats, as well as answer the ultimate question: Where is... Read more

The Little Book of Rootwork

By: Paris Ajana

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Rootwork, also known as hoodoo or conjure, is an African American folk magic influenced by a blend of African beliefs, traditions, and cultures. This book includes step-by-step guidance for over 80 rituals, spells, and techniques that can help manifest your goals and transform your life. Written by a descendant of African American and Filipino... Read more

A Woman of Endurance

By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

Narrated by: Tracey Leigh

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to... Read more