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Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case

Patricia Hruby Powell · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law,...
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Refugee

Alan Gratz · Findaway World
Format: Audiobook

Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping...
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The Greatest Story Ever Told . . . So Far: Why Are We Here?

Lawrence M Krauss · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

Internationally renowned, award-winning theoretical physicist, New York Times bestselling author of A Universe from Nothing, and passionate advocate for reason, Lawrence Krauss tells the dramatic story of the discovery of the hidden world of reality - a grand poetic vision of nature - and how we find...
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Star-Crossed: A Novel

Minnie Darke · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Sometimes even destiny needs a little bit of help. When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns...
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The Mountain Between Us

Charles Martin · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive. When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return...
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

Imani Perry · Dreamscape Media
Format: Audiobook

A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her life...
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The Forgotten Hours

Katrin Schumann · Brilliance Audio
Format: Audiobook

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller."A relevant, compelling, and compassionate look at the torture of conflicted loyalties and the slipperiness of truth." - Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost FamilyIn this evocative debut...
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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

Fawaz A. Gerges · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically elected president?Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood?and subsequently led a brutal repression of the Islamist group. These bloody events echoed...
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The Lost Carousel of Provence

Juliet Blackwell · Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook

An artist lost to history, a family abandoned to its secrets, and the woman whose search for meaning unearths it all in a sweeping and expressive story from the New York Times bestselling author of Letters from Paris.Long, lonely years have passed for the crumbling Ch?teau Clement, nestled...
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Tony Kushner · Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

Presenting an original audiobook performance of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring the cast of the National Theatre's 2018 Broadway revival.

In this production, adapted especially for the listening experience, Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane, and the entire cast recreate their...
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The Mueller Report

The Washington Post · Simon & Schuster Audio and Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 1
Format: Audiobook

April 30, 2019 is a new placeholder publication date for The Mueller Report. The actual publication date for the ebook, audio, and paperback editions of The Mueller Report will be determined when and if the Special Counsel's findings are made public.The only book with exclusive analysis...
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Forest Dark CD: A Novel

Nicole Krauss · HarperAudio
Format: Audiobook

"A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration." - Philip Roth"One of America's most important novelists" (New York Times) , the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The History of Love, conjures an achingly beautiful and breathtakingly original novel...
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Let It Bang: A Young Black Mans Reluctant Odyssey into Guns

RJ Young · HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook

The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to relate to his gun-loving father-in-law, Charles, Young does the unimaginable: he accepts Charles's gift of a Glock.Despite, or because of, the racial...
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The awkward age : a novel

Francesca Segal · Books on Tape
Format: Audiobook

"A wry, tender novel about an ordinary family facing extraordinary choices. Julia Alden has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. American obstetrician James is everything she didn't know she wanted--if only her teenage daughter, Gwen, didn't hate him so much. Uniting two households...
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How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People, Library Edition

D L Hughley · Blackstone Pub
Format: Audiobook

A cutting satire of race relations in the age of Trump and Black Lives Matter from the hugely popular comedian-one of "The Original Kings of Comedy"-and author of the New York Times bestseller Black Man, White House"White people are always giving out 'helpful' advice,...
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