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Abby West
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Sex, Race, and Robots
- How to Be Human in the Age of AI
- By: Dr. Ayanna Howard
- Narrated by: Amandla Stenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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In the movies, robots can be terrifying. In reality, thinking machines are disrupting the world in ways that are even more disturbing than in Hollywood fantasies - but they also have the potential to change our lives for the better. In this stirring, visionary work, acclaimed roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard explores how the tech world’s racial and sexual biases are infecting the next generation of Artificial Intelligence, with profoundly negative effects for humans of all genders and races.
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Will not return
- By bilihor on 12-26-20
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The History of Sketch Comedy
- A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor With Keegan-Michael Key
- By: Elle Key, Keegan-Michael Key
- Narrated by: Keegan-Michael Key
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From the beginning of time, there have been many monumental questions that have perplexed the human race such as: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? And... Who’s on first?
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Hilarious and educational
- By Owen's Mom on 02-01-21
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Dispossession
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 57 mins
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Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets. It was the American dream, or was it? Now settled in Vermont, Javonte is married and well-employed, but Cheryl hardly ever sees him, and when she does, her own son seems like someone she only used to know.
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Wanted more
- By Sarah Peters on 01-19-21
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Concrete Rose
- By: Angie Thomas
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he's a father. But it's not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child.
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Five Starr!
- By Dayna on 01-18-21
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Surviving the White Gaze
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Carroll
- Narrated by: Rebecca Carroll
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Rebecca Carroll grew up the only Black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic - and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young White woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem.
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Outstanding
- By Steve Shirley on 02-08-21
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Grateful and Blessed
- Words + Music, Vol. 10
- By: Smokey Robinson
- Narrated by: Smokey Robinson
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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If any artist could brag about his contribution to the pop culture canon, it’s Smokey Robinson. His career is filled with so many “he was there” moments it’s a wonder he doesn’t recall them with the swagger of a conquering hero: songwriting and singing as a teenager in Detroit; co-founding Motown Records with Berry Gordy; creating 26 Top 40 hits with his group The Miracles; helping to spark racial integration of popular music in the 1960s; discovering hitmakers like Diana Ross and the Supremes; penning tunes for a jaw-droppingly diverse group of artists.
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Man Crush
- By John R. Meade on 11-22-20
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Sex, Race, and Robots
- How to Be Human in the Age of AI
- By: Dr. Ayanna Howard
- Narrated by: Amandla Stenberg
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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In the movies, robots can be terrifying. In reality, thinking machines are disrupting the world in ways that are even more disturbing than in Hollywood fantasies - but they also have the potential to change our lives for the better. In this stirring, visionary work, acclaimed roboticist Dr. Ayanna Howard explores how the tech world’s racial and sexual biases are infecting the next generation of Artificial Intelligence, with profoundly negative effects for humans of all genders and races.
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Will not return
- By bilihor on 12-26-20
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The History of Sketch Comedy
- A Journey Through the Art and Craft of Humor With Keegan-Michael Key
- By: Elle Key, Keegan-Michael Key
- Narrated by: Keegan-Michael Key
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From the beginning of time, there have been many monumental questions that have perplexed the human race such as: Why are we here? What is the meaning of life? And... Who’s on first?
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Hilarious and educational
- By Owen's Mom on 02-01-21
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Dispossession
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 57 mins
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Motherhood isn’t easy, especially when you’re a mother of a Black son. Ten years ago, Cheryl jumped at the chance to send her son, Javonte, to an exclusive boarding school in New England - far away from Atlanta and the violence of the city streets. It was the American dream, or was it? Now settled in Vermont, Javonte is married and well-employed, but Cheryl hardly ever sees him, and when she does, her own son seems like someone she only used to know.
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Wanted more
- By Sarah Peters on 01-19-21
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Concrete Rose
- By: Angie Thomas
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison. Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he's a father. But it's not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child.
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Five Starr!
- By Dayna on 01-18-21
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Surviving the White Gaze
- A Memoir
- By: Rebecca Carroll
- Narrated by: Rebecca Carroll
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Rebecca Carroll grew up the only Black person in her rural New Hampshire town. Adopted at birth by artistic parents who believed in peace, love, and zero population growth, her early childhood was loving and idyllic - and yet she couldn’t articulate the deep sense of isolation she increasingly felt as she grew older. Everything changed when she met her birth mother, a young White woman, who consistently undermined Carroll’s sense of her blackness and self-esteem.
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Outstanding
- By Steve Shirley on 02-08-21
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Grateful and Blessed
- Words + Music, Vol. 10
- By: Smokey Robinson
- Narrated by: Smokey Robinson
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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If any artist could brag about his contribution to the pop culture canon, it’s Smokey Robinson. His career is filled with so many “he was there” moments it’s a wonder he doesn’t recall them with the swagger of a conquering hero: songwriting and singing as a teenager in Detroit; co-founding Motown Records with Berry Gordy; creating 26 Top 40 hits with his group The Miracles; helping to spark racial integration of popular music in the 1960s; discovering hitmakers like Diana Ross and the Supremes; penning tunes for a jaw-droppingly diverse group of artists.
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Man Crush
- By John R. Meade on 11-22-20
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The Memo
- What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table
- By: Minda Harts
- Narrated by: Minda Harts
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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The Memo is the much-needed career advice guide for women of color specifically, finally ending the one-size-fits-all approach of business books that lump together women across races and overlook the unique barriers to success for women of color. In a charismatic and relatable voice, Minda Harts brings her entrepreneurial experience as CEO of The Memo to audio, as well as her past career life as a fundraising consultant to top colleges across the country.
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Must read (listen) for EVERY woman
- By VJ Smith on 08-28-19
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Ruby Red
- Ruby Red Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell - translator
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who, in the middle of class, takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon, the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential.
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Where's the rest?
- By betsy on 11-26-11
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More Than Enough
- Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)
- By: Elaine Welteroth
- Narrated by: Elaine Welteroth, Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own - on your own terms. Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, the groundbreaking journalist unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success through her own journey....
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Disappointing
- By Laurel Avenue on 01-25-20
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Around Harvard Square
- By: C.J. Farley
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Tosh Livingston, superstar student-athlete from small-town USA, thinks he's made it big as a rising freshman at Harvard University. Not so fast! Once on campus, he's ensnared in a frenzied competition to win a spot on Harvard's legendary humor magazine, the Harpoon. Tosh soon finds that joining the Harpoon is a weird and surprisingly dangerous pursuit. He faces off against a secret society of super-rich kids, gets schooled by a philosophy professor who loves flunking everyone, and teams up with a genius student-cartoonist with an agenda of her own.
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Life at Harvard
- By Carolyn on 03-22-20
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- By: Lori Gottlieb
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.
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It was like a hallmark movie being waterboarded into my ears for 15 hours
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-19
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The Power of Onlyness
- Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World
- By: Nilofer Merchant
- Narrated by: Nilofer Merchant
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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An innovation expert illuminates why your power to make a difference is no longer bound by your status. In The Power of Onlyness, Nilofer Merchant, one of the world's top-ranked business thinkers, reveals that we have now reached an unprecedented moment of opportunity for your ideas to "make a dent" on the world.
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Everyone has a purpose
- By Ed Shepherdson on 09-07-17
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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
- A Memoir
- By: T Kira Madden
- Narrated by: T Kira Madden
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed literary essayist T Kira Madden's raw and redemptive debut memoir is about coming of age and reckoning with desire as a queer, biracial teenager amidst the fierce contradictions of Boca Raton, Florida, a place where she found cultlike privilege, shocking racial disparities, rampant white-collar crime, and powerfully destructive standards of beauty hiding in plain sight.
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Interesting POV, Not a literary memoir.
- By Margaret on 04-13-20
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Winter Dark
- By: Alex Callister
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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GCHQ agent Winter has just 14 days to bring down a website before a teenager is tortured to death in front of an internet audience of millions. Winter has to go deep undercover, disguised as the paid assassin Snow White, to infiltrate the criminals’ organisation and bring down the man at the heart of the dark web. Winter is razor-sharp, quick-witted and sexy, an expert in all forms of combat, master hacker and the number one field agent of British Intelligence.
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Self Indulgent
- By Avila on 04-18-19
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Magical Negro
- Poems
- By: Morgan Parker
- Narrated by: Morgan Parker
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics - of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience.
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Waste of time
- By Lida on 07-19-20
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Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- By: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.
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Varga's story needs to be read in schools!
- By V R. Jasso on 10-12-18
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Standing Our Ground
- By: Lucia Kay McBath, Rosemarie Robotham - contributor
- Narrated by: Lucia Kay McBath
- Length: 8 hrs
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Lucia Kay McBath knew deep down that a bullet could one day take her son. After all, she had watched the news of countless unarmed Black men unjustly gunned down. Standing Our Ground is McBath’s memoir of raising, loving, and losing her son to gun violence, and the story of how she transformed her pain into activism. Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot by a man who thought the music playing on his car stereo was too loud. McBath presents an emotional account of her fervent fight for justice, and her awakening to a cause that will drive the rest of her days.
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Inspiring and Powerful
- By Wilbeaux on 10-19-18
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Thick
- And Other Essays
- By: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Narrated by: Tressie McMillan Cottom
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Smart, humorous, and strikingly original essays by one of “America’s most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time.” (Rebecca Traister) In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society.
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A different perspective
- By ANNE on 08-13-19
Getting to know the author of She Would be King, Watéyu Moore
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Mirage
- A Novel
- By: Somaiya Daud
- Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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In a star system dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, 16-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation....
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WOW
- By S. L. Devenport on 09-17-18
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Mirage
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri
- Series: Mirage, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-28-18
- Language: English
- A beautiful but frightening future world
- Debut author Somaiya Daud has done that most wonderful of things in YA sci-fi: she's created a compelling, complicated heroine as well as a compelling, complicated villain and a love story to root for. Young Amani’s life is forever changed when she is kidnapped and forced to be the stand-in for the vicious lookalike princess of the people who conquered and now occupy Amani's home world. Narrator Rasha Zamamiri’s performance drives home themes of colonialism and captures the heightened anxieties felt by all in this near future world.
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Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- By: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “[T]he most famous undocumented immigrant in America”, tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms....
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Varga's story needs to be read in schools!
- By V R. Jasso on 10-12-18
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Dear America
- Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
- Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-18-18
- Language: English
- Defining home
- There are books that are so perfectly right for the zeitgeist that it’s scary and amazing at the same time, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas’s memoir of his life as an undocumented person is such a book. The audiobook takes it to another level as his voice brings home the reality of his life since coming from the Philippines at the age of 11, what it means to be living in limbo in this day and age (deportation is a real threat to him since he publicly outed himself in an essay to cease hiding in plain sight), and why we all must grapple with the future of immigration policies—all while displaying a killer knack for imagery, such as when he compared his native Tagalog accent to "the sound of tropical rain pouring down on cement." It’s a reminder of the real life hearts and minds we stand to lose beyond the illegal alien headlines.
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November Road
- A Novel
- By: Lou Berney
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
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Set against the assassination of JFK, a poignant and evocative crime novel that centers on a desperate cat-and-mouse chase across 1960s America - a story of unexpected connections, daring possibilities, and the hope of second chances from the author of The Long and Faraway Gone....
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A new look at life after the JFK Assassination
- By stuartjash on 10-10-18
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November Road
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
- Thrilling history
- I was wary of having the JFK assassination as the backdrop to Lou Berney’s November Road — such an iconic moment in history, often used to varying effect. But this thriller about two very different people on the run from two very different lives has Berney’s great pacing, and Johnathan McClain’s narration elevating the story, as it expands on the prevailing conspiracy theory that a New Orleans mobster orchestrated the hit. Boiling down a national tragedy to its ripple effect on mob lieutenant Frank Guidry, housewife Charlotte Dooley, and hitman Barone creates a tension that builds, while layering on each player’s motivation and growth, and making the climactic end that much more satisfying
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
- A Novel
- By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
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Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead....
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That’s it?!!!
- By Danni B. on 12-26-18
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
- Length: 4 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 11-20-18
- Language: English
- Double trouble
- A twisted sister dynamic has rarely been so enjoyable to explore as the one that Oyinkan Braithwaite has created in her edgy debut novel. Just as the younger Ayoola has embraced her role as the pretty, spoiled one in the Nigerian family, Korede has taken her role as the forgettable, responsible one to a new level as she expertly covers up her sister’s nasty little habit of killing her suitors. The real question becomes how far she will go when the next one in her sister’s path of destruction is a man Korede dreams of for herself. Listening to Adepero Oduye narrate this surprisingly funny yet suspenseful treat gives you a real sense of the internal turmoil Korede endures as she struggles with her family's problematic dynamics and her stunted sense of self.
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Golden Child
- A Novel
- By: Claire Adam
- Narrated by: Obi Abili
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love....
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Underwhelmed
- By L. Boedeker on 02-04-19
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Golden Child
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Obi Abili
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-29-19
- Language: English
- His brother’s keeper
- It is unbelievably satisfying how well Claire Adam’s Golden Child nails so many things about life in Trinidad, my homeland. From the opening chapter, peppered with the language and landscape of this beautiful yet complicated Caribbean island nation, to the nods to class and socioeconomic strife that run throughout, Golden Child is a loving, yet clear-eyed look at Adam’s and my shared birthplace. But what really makes this debut novel a stunner is the heartbreaking look at twin brothers Peter and Paul—one bright and destined for great things, the other painfully slower by comparison—and their family’s fears and hopes in the face of one agonizing decision. It’s a story that you often wish would go another way but nevertheless are compelled to finish, drawn deeper by both Obi Abili’s enrapturing narration as it bounces between clear British and Trini Creole, and Adam’s riveting and unsettling prose.
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The Ruin of Kings
- By: Jenn Lyons
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew up on storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he is claimed against his will as the long-lost son of a treasonous prince, Kihrin finds that being a long-lost prince isn't what the storybooks promised....
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Amazing
- By Kevin Potter on 02-07-19
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The Ruin of Kings
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Series: A Chorus of Dragons, Book 1
- Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 02-05-19
- Language: English
- Bloodlines and battlefields
- There's nothing like getting sucked into a truly epic fantasy story and that's exactly what Ruin of Kings delivers from the moment you start getting to know the cheeky young Kihrin, following his journey from orphaned street rat to long-lost heir to a royal house to on-the-run savior (or destroyer) of the world. Narrators Feodor Chin, Vikas Adam, and Soneela Nankani seamlessly pull you into a world full of wizards, dragons, demons, and witches, all made believably real thanks, in part, to the all-too-human motivations of the characters. It all comes together to make this series starter come alive in the most delicious ways.
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Queenie
- By: Candice Carty-Williams
- Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. After a messy breakup from her White long-term boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places....
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The Black Womans Burden
- By LATOYA LEWIS on 05-20-19
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Queenie
- Narrated by: Shvorne Marks
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 03-19-19
- Language: English
- Modern-day adulting
- Candice Carty-Williams’s Queenie is the epitome of that refreshing new voice reviewers love to rave about. And rave I will. Her title character, a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman in London at the tail end of a longterm relationship, is a bit of a hot mess—but a hot mess in which we can all recognize parts of ourselves. Her motley crew of girlfriends, whom she calls the Corgis, all shore her up in different ways as she navigates the landmines of her life, from racial/cultural expectations to the emotional trauma of her youth. Actress Shvorne Marks brings Queenie’s world to life with an accessible range of British accents, while highlighting the soul searching for peace that belies the breeziness with which Queenie tries to meet the world, and eventually finds that her path forward isn’t based on anyone but herself.
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I Can't Date Jesus
- Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
- By: Michael Arceneaux
- Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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With the characteristic wit and candor that have made him one of today’s boldest writers on social issues, I Can’t Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux’s impassioned, forthright, and refreshing look at minority life in today’s America....
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Good story...terrible narration
- By KCT MAMA on 10-04-18
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I Can't Date Jesus
- Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
- Narrated by: Michael Arceneaux
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 07-24-18
- Language: English
- I’ve been following Arceneaux on social media for a while now, cracking up at his witty nicknames and verbal backflips, and find it immensely gratifying to see him flesh out his funny and uniquely descriptive voice in his memoir, I Can’t Date Jesus. He shares what it was like to grow up black and gay as a Catholic whose first reference point for being gay was the death of an uncle from AIDS. It took a long dark road for him to embrace his life and sexuality, but Arceneaux manages to keep it real and heavy (with Houston references, including lots of love for his hometown’s Queen Bey), but not so emotionally heavy that you can’t thoroughly enjoy the ride.
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Sex and the City and Us
- By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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By the best-selling author of Seinfeldia, a fascinating retrospective of the iconic and award-winning television series Sex and the City, to coincide with the show’s 20th anniversary....
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- By Armando on 06-07-18
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Sex and the City and Us
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-05-18
- Language: English
- I abso-freaking-lutely love it
- Sex and the City fans know the importance of the line referenced above, the same way I knew that this book would be diligently reported and thoughtfully written because I worked with the fantastic Jennifer Keishin Armstrong at Entertainment Weekly for years. What I didn’t know was how much she’d reignite my affection for the groundbreaking show—the women, the themes, the fashion, the city we all love. Or how Joy Osmanski’s narration would strike the right tone and give voice to each player in this delightful behind-the-scenes look at the beautiful mix of hard work, talent, and luck that made the show a hit.
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade....
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-08-18
- Language: English
- An unexpected voice from the past
- I was so excited to learn of this never-before-published work from Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God—one of my all-time favorite books—which comes more than 50 years after her death. Underscoring the importance of this literary event, Barracoon is the story of one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade, in his own words and own vernacular. From his capture in a raid in Africa to his time as a slave and then as a free man, Hurston’s interviews with Cudjo Lewis in the early 1900s give a unique look at an American history we thought we knew so well.
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The Female Persuasion
- A Novel
- By: Meg Wolitzer
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world....
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Quitting 3 hours in and returning it
- By NMwritergal on 04-07-18
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The Female Persuasion
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-03-18
- Language: English
- Growing pains
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On the surface, The Female Persuasion could not have been better timed to hit the zeitgeist: it takes on the role of feminism in the age of #MeToo, but it also expertly grapples with things that are timeless, such as the complicated nature of coming of age and finding one’s voice, maintaining friendships and loves, and determining when/if to take your idols off their pedestals.
Young Greer Kadetsky is mired in resentment and seething anger stemming from a forced detour on her college plans, as well as a disturbing sexual assault on campus—though her feelings are masked by her quiet and unassuming nature. She begins to get comfortable with her own sense of ambition thanks to the words and attention of dynamic activist/speaker Faith Frank, who provides her a mission and a path. Besides Fran, Greer must also size up where her longtime love Cory and her best friend Zee fit within the life she envisions.
Narrator Rebecca Lowman is able to find the emotional connections in the book through the layered dialogue, and then bring those connections out in the characters’ literal voices—a skill that pays off in spades as we go on this journey with Greer and all those in her orbit.
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Children of Blood and Bone
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared....
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Beautifully Written
- By Samantha on 03-09-18
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Children of Blood and Bone
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Series: Legacy of Orïsha, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-06-18
- Language: English
- Finding the fire within
- There’s a specific delicious satisfaction to finding that a much-hyped book is everything it’s touted to be and more. After listening to all 18 hours of Tomi Adeyemi’s incredible debut sci-fi YA novel, I am beyond well satisfied. Building on a uniquely West African mythology, Adeyemi conjures up a vibrant, amazing fantasy world, in which magic once thrived, a segment of the population is grievously oppressed, and a young woman becomes the leader she was meant to be. Feisty teenager Zélie Adebola, who has seen her mother killed and her people crushed under the heel of a villainous king, knows that bringing back magic is the key to freeing them—all but she has no idea she’ll have to be the one to do it or the epic adventure that awaits. Bahni Turpin’s mastery of the accents expertly brings the wide array of characters to life, carrying you with Zélie and her crew across the physical and emotional landscapes that make this book so special.
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Asymmetry
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Halliday
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Arthur Morey, Fiona Hardingham, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday....
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This is not a fair review. Doesn’t work in audio format.
- By Elizabeth on 02-16-18
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Asymmetry
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Arthur Morey, Fiona Hardingham, Aden Hakim
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 02-06-18
- Language: English
- What looms ahead
- This beautifully crafted look at the simplicity and central themes of life itself focuses on two very different lives, weaving them together in a most interesting way across three distinct segments. Between young aspiring writer Mary Alice’s relationship with older famous writer Ezra Blazer, and economist Amar’s experience as an Iraqi-American man, currently stuck in a Heathrow Airport holding room, it’s full of detail and imagery that carries you along in a very vivid world and narration that is just perfect for shifting viewpoints.
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The Wife Between Us
- By: Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us exposes the secret complexities of an enviable marriage - and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love....
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Ignore the reviews that claim it's confusing...
- By Claudia H on 01-12-18
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The Wife Between Us
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
- Beyond the veil
- The twists and turns keep coming in this complex domestic thriller that will have you questioning everything you think you know about the lives of one woman, her Master-of-the-Universe ex-husband, and her replacement (his new fiancée). Julia Whelan deftly handles the narration as it shifts between POVs, intensity, and time frames; her nuanced performance gives the action a heightened sense of pressure as it barrels toward the explosive and satisfying conclusion.
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Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them....
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Magical Apocalypse "Lite"
- By Kitty on 12-07-17
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Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Series: Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
- A fresh start creating a new beginning
- Best-selling author Nora Roberts’s new post-apocalyptic dystopian fantasy novel is a departure from the romantic fiction for which she’s known (or the suspense of her alter ego J.D. Robb), but it showcases the masterful storytelling that fans know and love while embracing the kind of world-building called for in this genre. Julia Whelan’s nuanced narration captures Roberts’s wide swath of characters and their authentic relationships. When the earth succumbs to a new plague, otherworldly powers manifest and human traits come in both life-affirming and monstrous ways in the first of a promising series.
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Bonfire
- A Novel
- By: Krysten Ritter
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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It's been 10 years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, her career is thriving. But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby's created begins to crack....
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I admit I bought this on Krysten Ritter's name
- By Toivo J Luick on 11-13-17
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Bonfire
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-07-17
- Language: English
- Who Says You Can’t Go Home Again?
- The author is currently well known for the super-strong badass hero she plays in Netflix’s Marvel universe, but the character she’s written here has a strength and spunk that makes her a superhero of another kind. Lawyer Abby Williams’s return to the small town in which she grew up will require her to take on not only the area’s biggest employer in an environmental crimes investigation, but also the traumas of her youth and the personal fallout she’s dealt with for years. The story, full of mind games and suspense, moves along thanks to rich character development as you meet the characters in this sad and suspect town, Karissa Vacker’s effectively moving narration, and the tension that builds to one satisfying resolution.
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They Both Die at the End
- By: Adam Silvera
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today....
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My heart..
- By Shay on 10-03-17
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They Both Die at the End
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin
- Series: They Both Die at the End, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
- Living Life to its Fullest
- Even though the entire premise of Silvera’s new YA novel is about impending death, this poignant tale of two teen boys knowingly going about their last day alive is all about the promise of life. As the socially-stunted yet giant-hearted Mateo meets and gets to know rough-around-the-edges yet thoughtful Rufus, they explore what it means to be alive and who constitutes family. Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, and Bahni Turpin embody these and more characters in nuanced ways that tease out the many emotions of preparing for death (from regret to acceptance and growth) and embracing the most important thing about life: love.
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We're Going to Need More Wine
- Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
- By: Gabrielle Union
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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In this moving collection of thought-provoking essays infused with her unique wisdom and deep humor, Union tells personal and true stories about power, color, gender, feminism, and fame....
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👏🏾👏🏾 thank you. Thank You. THANK YOU!! #BRAVO
- By Kenneisha T. on 11-22-17
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We're Going to Need More Wine
- Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Union
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 10-17-17
- Language: English
- Savor the Taste
- In a series of revealing and often funny essays, TV and movie actress Gabrielle Union shares personal stories from her childhood, adolescence, and career, that touch on some weighty themes. Union ties universal issues such as self esteem, colorism, racial disparity in Hollywood, and more with the personal in a way that can be both entertaining and empowering. And hearing her throaty, inviting voice, full of self awareness and good humor, narrating this book will only serve to endear her more to existing fans while gaining her new ones.
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- By: Sherman Alexie
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: He wrote....
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A Painful Gift
- By MC on 08-01-17
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You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Sherman Alexie
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 06-13-17
- Language: English
- An Unvarnished Truth Bomb
- I’ve called Sherman Alexie’s You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me “an unvarnished truth bomb” and while true, that authenticity is only as powerful as it is because of the heart and humor of this story. This trifecta of wonderful storytelling that Alexie created brings an intimacy that forever binds you to him and his family, particularly his mother, as he delves into her power, her life, and her relationship with him. His description of his life both on the reservation and after he left is wholly unique and fascinating, and still serves as a reminder of the universal truth that the ties that bind us all are made up of the people we call family, either by blood or by choice. And that sometimes the messiness of that family story can obscure just how strong the love is.
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