Bahni Turpin

The Underground Railroad

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Colson Whitehead
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans, and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.

Everything, Everything

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Nicola Yoon
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, Robbie Daymond

This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known.

The Help

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Kathryn Stockett
• Narrated By Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
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Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Aibileen is a black maid raising her 17th white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi: a wonderful cook with a gossip's tongue. Graduate Skeeter returns from college with ambitions, but her mother will not be happy until she's married. Although world's apart, Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny's lives converge over a clandestine project that will change the town of Jackson forever.

Andrea Vernon and the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 49 mins)
• By Alexander C. Kane
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin

Andrea Vernon always thought she would spend her life living in Paris writing thought-provoking historical novels all day and sipping wine on the Seine all night. But the reality is she's drowning in debt, has no prospects, and is forced to move back to Queens, where her parents remind her daily that they are very interested in grandchildren. Then, one morning, she is kidnapped, interviewed, and hired as an administrative assistant by the Corporation for UltraHuman Protection. Superheroes for hire, using their powers for good. What could possibly go wrong?

Borne

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Jeff VanderMeer
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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A ruined city of the future lives in fear of a despotic, gigantic flying bear, driven mad by the tortures inflicted on him by the Company, a mysterious biotech firm. A scavenger, Rachel, finds a creature entangled in his fur. She names it Borne. At first Borne looks like nothing at all - a green lump that might be a discard from the Company. But he reminds Rachel of her homeland, an island nation long lost to rising seas.

Some Kind of Hero

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Suzanne Brockmann
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, Patrick Lawlor
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Navy men don't come tougher than Lieutenant Peter Greene. Every day he whips hotshot SEAL wannabes into elite fighters. So why can't he handle one 15-year-old girl? His ex's death left him a single dad overnight and very unprepared. Though he can't relate to an angsty teen, he can at least keep Maddie safe - until the day she disappears. Though Pete's lacking in fatherly intuition, his instinct for detecting danger is razor sharp. Maddie's in trouble. Now he needs the Troubleshooters team at his back, along with an unconventional ally.

Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual (for a Sexist Workplace)

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Jessica Bennett
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin

This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to infinity? Finished with the sexist status quo? Ready to kick ass and take names? Welcome to the Feminist Fight Club. You have lifetime membership. Feminist Fight Club provides an arsenal of weapons for surviving in an unequal world. You will learn how to fight microaggressions, correct unconscious bias, deal with male colleagues who can't stop 'manterrupting' or 'bro-propriating' your ideas - and how to lean in without falling the f**k over.

The Sun Is Also a Star

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Nicola Yoon
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, Raymond Lee, Dominic Hoffman
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I'm a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I'm definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is 12 hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won't be my story.

The Quaker Café

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Brenda Bevan Remmes
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker values will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she's falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina town of Cedar Branch keep her strong.

Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Ted Oswald
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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Ten-year-old orphan Libète has been hardened by the daily struggle to survive in Cité Soleil, Haiti's most infamous slum. But when she and her best friend, Jak, discover a young mother and her baby brutally murdered in a nearby marsh, it's unlike anything she's encountered before. Though initially shocked, the adults of Cité Soleil move on quickly from the event; after all, death is commonplace in this community.

Sister of Mine: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Sabra Waldfogel
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high - or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history. Twelve years prior, Adelaide Mannheim - daughter of Mordecai, the only Jewish planter in the county - was given her own maid, a young slave named Rachel. The two became friends, and soon they discovered a secret.

Yellow Crocus

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Laila Ibrahim
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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Moments after Lisbeth is born, she’s taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father.

The Kitchen House

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs)
• By Kathleen Grissom
• Narrated By Orlagh Cassidy, Bahni Turpin
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In 1791 when seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner, she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house and becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation. But Lavinia’s skin will always set her apart, whether she wishes it or not. And as she grows older, she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white woman and the people she knows as kin....

The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 45 mins)
• By David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
• Narrated By Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin

Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and the new labor history pioneered by E. P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white working-class racism is underpinned by a complex series of psychological and ideological mechanisms that reinforce racial stereotypes, and thus help to forge the identities of white workers in opposition to Blacks.

They Both Die at the End

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Adam Silvera
• Narrated By Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond, Bahni Turpin

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. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called The Last Friend, and through it Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure - to live a lifetime in a single day.

The Story Keeper

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Lisa Wingate
• Narrated By Abby Craden, Bahni Turpin
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Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing - until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped y dangerous men in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.

Comet

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
• Narrated By Seth MacFarlane, Bahni Turpin

Comet begins with a breathtaking journey through space astride a comet. Pulitzer Prize-winning astronomer Carl Sagan, author of Cosmos and Contact, and writer Ann Druyan explore the origin, nature, and future of comets, and the exotic myths and portents attached to them. The authors show how comets have spurred some of the great discoveries in the history of science and raise intriguing questions about these brilliant visitors from the interstellar dark.

Were the fates of the dinosaurs and the origins of humans tied to the wanderings of a comet? Are comets the building blocks from which worlds are formed? Comet is an enthralling adventure, indispensable for anyone who has ever gazed up at the heavens and wondered why.

Citizens Creek: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Lalita Tademy
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin, J. D. Jackson
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Cow Tom, born into slavery in Alabama in 1810 and sold to a Creek Indian chief before his 10th birthday, possessed an extraordinary gift: the ability to master languages. As the new country developed westward, and Indians, settlers, and blacks came into constant contact, Cow Tom became a key translator for his Creek master and was hired out to US military generals.

Zombies: The Recent Dead

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 7 mins)
• By Neil Gaiman, Max Brooks, Brian Keene, and others
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, L J Ganser, Josh Hurley, and others

You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video-gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic.