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Glitter and Concrete
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*
"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York
An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more
After Botham
By: Allisa Charles-Findley & Jeremiah Cobra
Narrated by: Reina Mystique
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from his daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’d encouraged her brother to stay home for the night’s opening Dallas Cowboys game as sports bars would be too dangerous. Guyger instantly assumed... Read more
View audiobookA Hard Road to Glory, Volume 1 (1619-1918)
By: Arthur Ashe
Narrated by: Landon Woodson
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
With a Foreword by Jeanne Moutoussamy-AsheAvailable once again for a new generation, the first volume in Arthur Ashe’s epic trilogy that chronicles the remarkable legacy of Black athletes in the United States—a major addition to our understanding of American history and the fulfillment of this legendary sports star and global activist’s lifelong... Read more
View audiobookBootstrapped
By: Alissa Quart
Narrated by: Beth Hicks
Length: 7 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if you work hard and rely on your own... Read more
View audiobookUnwanted
By: Cathy Glass
Narrated by: DeNica Fairman
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son. Lara and her one-year-old son, Arthur, are brought to experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, by their social worker. Lara has... Read more
View audiobookYou Gotta Be You
By: Brandon Kyle Goodman
Narrated by: Brandon Kyle Goodman
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
YOU ARE ENOUGH EXACTLY AS YOU ARE.
From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We're required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we... Read more
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
By: Dr. Steven Novella
Narrated by: Dr. Steven Novella
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it means to be human.
Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to... Read more
American Sirens
By: Kevin Hazzard
Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world
Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local... Read more
America Made Me a Black Man
By: Boyah J. Farah
Narrated by: Preston Butler III
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NAACP Image Award Nominee · NPR Best Book of 2022A searing memoir of American racism from a Somalian-American who survived hardships in his birth country only to experience firsthand the dehumanization of Blacks in his adopted land, the United States.“No one told me about America.” Born in Somalia and raised in a valley among nomads, Boyah... Read more
View audiobookElectable
By: Ali Vitali
Narrated by: Ali Vitali
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A fearless deep dive into the 2020 election from former MSNBC “Road Warrior” and now NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali, who covered the campaign trail every step of the way—investigating the gendered double standards placed on women presidential candidates of that cycle and those who came before, and what it will take for a woman to... Read more
View audiobookThe Divorce Colony
By: April White
Narrated by: April White & Lisa Flanagan
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth-century women who moved to South Dakota to divorce their husbands and start living on their own termsFor a woman traveling without her husband in the late nineteenth century, there was only one reason to take the train all the way to Sioux Falls,... Read more
View audiobookDon't Trust Your Gut
By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” — Steven Levitt, co-author, FreakonomicsBig decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing “expert” advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes... Read more
View audiobookHollywood Heroes
By: Frank Turek & Zach Turek
Narrated by: Frank Turek & Taylor Lambert
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Seven fictional stories―Captain America, Iron Man, Harry Potter, Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Wonder Woman―point us to the ultimate hero, Jesus Christ.
Think about it. What if Batman knew your name and wanted to be friends with you? What if you were the one that Tony Stark died to save? What if it was you that Luke Skywalker... Read more
The Super Age
By: Bradley Schurman
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future. Societies all over the world are getting older, the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the... Read more
View audiobookThe Future of the American Negro
By: Booker T. Washington
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Written in 1899 by Booker T. Washington, an American educator, orator, and advisor to several United States presidents, The Future of the American Negro outlines Washington's ideas on the history of African-American people and their need for education in order to advance themselves within society. Putting emphasis on the concept of industrial... Read more
View audiobookSemut
By: Christine Helliwell
Narrated by: Christine Helliwell & Dorje Swallow
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
March 1945. A handful of very young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island's indigenous Dayak peoples to fight the Japanese. Yet most speak next to no Borneo languages and know little about Dayaks, other than that they were once... Read more
View audiobookWhat White People Can Do Next
By: Emma Dabiri
Narrated by: Emma Dabiri
Length: 3 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a poignant and sensible guide to questioning the meaning of whiteness and creating an antiracist world from the acclaimed historian and author of Twisted.
Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be agents of change... Read more
The Natural Mother of the Child
By: Krys Malcolm Belc
Narrated by: Krys Malcolm Belc
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner Anna adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as the natural mother of the child. By considering how the experiences contained... Read more
View audiobookTerraform
By: Propaganda
Narrated by: Propaganda
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Performed by Propaganda and featuring four exclusive original songs.In this debut collection of essays and poetry, musician, speaker, and activist Propaganda inspires us to create a better, more equitable world.“If we get to make the very cultures that shape who we are, then let us remake them in the best way possible.”In this deep, challenging,... Read more
View audiobookStart Here, Start Now - Abridged
By: Liz Kleinrock
Narrated by: Liz Kleinrock
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Most educators want to cultivate an antibias and antiracist classroom and school community, but they often struggle with where and how to get started. Liz helps us set ourselves up for success and prepare for the mistakes we’ll make along the way.
Each chapter in Start Here, Start Now addresses many of the questions and challenges educators have... Read more
Freeing Jesus
By: Diana Butler Bass
Narrated by: Diana Butler Bass
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The award-winning author of Grateful goes beyond the culture wars to offer a refreshing take on the comprehensive, multi-faceted nature of Jesus, keeping his teachings relevant and alive in our daily lives.How can you still be a Christian?This is the most common question Diana Butler Bass is asked today. It is a question that many believers... Read more
View audiobookThe Narrative of Sojourner Truth
By: Sojourner Truth
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s. With the strength of her spirituality, she overcame obstacles to become a leading abolitionist and champion of women's rights. Published originally... Read more
View audiobookYou Ought To Do a Story About Me
By: Ted Jackson
Narrated by: Christopher Grove
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“This masterpiece of dogged and loving reporting will astonish you and touch your heart. The struggles and quest for redemption of football star Jackie Wallace make for a fall-from-grace tale that’s both unsettling and uplifting.”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da VinciThe heartbreaking, timeless, and redemptive story of the... Read more
View audiobookMuslim Women Are Everything
By: Seema Yasmin
Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present. Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible,... Read more
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