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My Name Is Maame
- By: Jessica George
- Narrated by: Heather Agyepong
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Meet Maddie. To her mostly absent mum, she's Maame, the woman of the family. To her dad, she's his carer—even if he hardly recognises her. To her friends, she's the one who still lives at home, who never puts herself first. It's time to become the woman she wants to be. The kind who wears a bright yellow suit, says yes to after-work drinks and flirts with a 30-something banker. Who doesn't have to Google all her life choices. Who demands a seat at the table.
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A real treat!
- By Natalie on 19-10-2023
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My Name Is Maame
- Narrated by: Heather Agyepong
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 14-02-2023
- Language: English
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Horse
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, James Fouhey, Katherine Littrell, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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A discarded painting in a roadside clean-up, forgotten bones in a research archive and Lexington, the greatest racehorse in US history. From these strands of fact, Geraldine Brooks weaves a sweeping story of spirit, obsession and injustice across American history. A gripping reckoning with the legacy of enslavement and racism in America, Horse is the latest masterpiece from a writer with a prodigious talent for bringing the past to life.
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Didn’t love it
- By Marita on 27-12-2023
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Horse
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead, James Fouhey, Katherine Littrell, Lisa Flanagan, Michael Obiora
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2022
- Language: English
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Jazz
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
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In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This novel “transforms a familiar refrain of jilted love into a bold, sustaining time of self-knowledge and discovery. Its rhythms are infectious” (People).
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Jazz
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 3 hrs
- Release date: 10-03-2015
- Language: English
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Coming Home
- By: Kennedy Ryan
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were close friends at Finley College, the prestigious HBCU they attended. The attraction that simmered between them every semester was a question they never got to ask or answer before soaring ambitions launched them to opposite corners of the world. Both chased their dreams of grit and glamor as high-profile journalists. They got it all...except a shot at being more than friends. Years later, Touré is an award-winning investigative journalist and Niomi is America's most popular morning-show host, but they both feel like something’s missing.
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Cute
- By Anonymous User on 20-08-2023
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Coming Home
- Narrated by: Wesleigh Siobhan, Jakobi Diem
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 09-02-2023
- Language: English
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Harlem Shuffle
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife, Elizabeth, are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.
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A great tale perfectly told
- By Dr JS Ross on 27-10-2021
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Harlem Shuffle
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Series: Ray Carney Series, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 14-09-2021
- Language: English
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Dr. No
- A Novel
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.
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Great!
- By Anonymous User on 30-05-2023
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Dr. No
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-11-2022
- Language: English
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James
- By: Percival Everett
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson’s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, towards the elusive promise of the free states and beyond.
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Astounding
- By Anonymous User on 15-06-2024
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James
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 11-04-2024
- Language: English
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The House of Eve
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Philadelphia, 1948: Fifteen-year-old Ruby's dreams are almost within reach. She's going to be the first in her family to attend college, despite having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her only daughter. Washington, DC, 1948: Eleanor arrives in the city with ambition, hope and a past she's trying her hardest to run from. When she meets William at Howard University, with his inky black eyes and broad shoulders, it's love at first sight. In the dawn of the 1950s, Ruby and Eleanor are complete strangers - until their paths unexpectedly collide.
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Beautifully narrated
- By Anonymous User on 24-04-2024
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The House of Eve
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Nicole Lewis
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2023
- Language: English
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Blanche on the Lam
- Blanche White Series, Book 1
- By: Barbara Neely
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Blanche White is a plump, feisty, middle-aged African-American housekeeper working for the genteel rich in North Carolina. But when an employer stiffs her, and her checks bounce, she goes on the lam, hiding out as a maid for a wealthy family at their summer home. That plan goes awry when there's a murder and Blanche becomes the prime suspect. So she's forced to use her savvy, her sharp wit, and her old-girl network of domestic workers to discover the truth and save her own skin.
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10/10
- By Elucidate on 22-08-2021
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Blanche on the Lam
- Blanche White Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Series: Blanche White Series, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 20-09-2017
- Language: English
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The Help
- By: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
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Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where Black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver. There's Aibileen, raising her 17th white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue and white Miss Skeeter, home from college, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another.
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Wonderful
- By Anonymous User on 12-06-2024
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The Help
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 05-08-2021
- Language: English
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The Blood Trials
- The Blood Gift Duology, Book 1
- By: N. E. Davenport
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
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Blood spilled long ago between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor, ending all blood magic. Now there is peace in the Republic—but there is also a strict class system, misogyny and racism. Her world is not perfect, but Ikenna survived in it. With the murder of her grandfather, Ikenna spirals out of control. Though she is an initiate for the Republic’s deadly elite military force, Ikenna has a secret only her grandfather knew: she possesses the blood magic of the Republic’s enemies.
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The Blood Trials
- The Blood Gift Duology, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
- Series: The Blood Gift Duology, Book 1
- Length: 18 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 14-04-2022
- Language: English
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The Sweetness of Water
- By: Nathan Harris
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they're soon discovered by the land's owner, George Walker, a man still reeling from the loss of his son in the war. When the brothers begin to live and work on George's farm, the tentative bonds of trust and union begin to blossom between the strangers.
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The most gut wrenching story I have ever experienced.
- By Keith Bielamowicz on 29-04-2022
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The Sweetness of Water
- Narrated by: William DeMeritt
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2021
- Language: English
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The Color Purple
- By: Alice Walker
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by society and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband. In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women.
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Even better than the Movie
- By Su G. on 26-11-2022
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The Color Purple
- Narrated by: Alice Walker
- Series: Color Purple, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 25-12-2018
- Language: English
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Kindred
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.
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Get past the beginning.
- By Casey on 31-01-2017
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Kindred
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2007
- Language: English
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Such a Fun Age
- By: Kiley Reid
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for ‘kidnapping’ the white child she’s actually babysitting, it sets off an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix, a feminist blogger with the best of intentions, resolves to make things right. But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix’s desire to help. When a surprising connection emerges between the two women, it sends them on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know – about themselves, each other and the messy dynamics of privilege.
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Disappointing
- By cottagedweller on 23-01-2020
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Such a Fun Age
- Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-01-2020
- Language: English
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The Perfect Ruin
- By: Shanora Williams
- Narrated by: Chante Ellison, Nola Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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A brutal tragedy ended Ivy Hill’s happy family and childhood. Now in her 20s and severely troubled, she barely has a life - or much to live for. Until the day she discovers the name of the woman who destroyed her world: Lola Maxwell - the mega-wealthy socialite with a heart, Miami’s beloved “first lady” of charity. Accomplished, gorgeous, and oh-so-caring, Lola has the best of everything - and doesn’t deserve any of it. So it’s only right that Ivy take it all away....
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Plenty of twists and turns
- By frantickellie on 25-09-2023
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The Perfect Ruin
- Narrated by: Chante Ellison, Nola Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-08-2021
- Language: English
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Transcendent Kingdom
- By: Yaa Gyasi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought.
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Can I give this book 10 stars?
- By Anonymous User on 10-01-2021
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Transcendent Kingdom
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-09-2020
- Language: English
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
- By: Rivers Solomon
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, whom they consider to be less than human.
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Check the narrator first
- By Anonymous User on 01-10-2021
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An Unkindness of Ghosts
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2017
- Language: English
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Sula
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
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Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Beautiful Voice, Beautiful Story
- By Anonymous User on 29-09-2021
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Sula
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 23-07-2007
- Language: English
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- By: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's attending a Bruce Springsteen concert the day after visiting Michael Brown's grave, or discussing public displays of affection at a Carly Rae Jepsen show, he writes with a poignancy that resonates profoundly. In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times.
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
- Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 15-11-2022
- Language: English
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