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The New Book

Poems, Letters, Blurbs, and Things

by Nikki Giovanni ...

Narrated by Nikki Giovanni, Kwame Alexander, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, Jericho Brown, Tabitha Brown, Mahogany L. Browne, Rio Cortez, Virginia Fowler, Amanda Gorman, Taraji P. Henson0, Nancy Johnson1, Aja Naomi King2, January LaVoy3, Robin Miles4, Nicole Sealey5, Patricia Smith6, Bahni Turpin7, Renée Watson8, Kevin Young9 ...

Unabridged

2 hours 43 min

An all-star ensemble cast of poets and performers bring to life Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature!For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about her indelible legacy, her family history, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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An all-star ensemble cast of poets and performers bring to life Nikki Giovanni’s extraordinary final collection—a landmark of American literature!For decades, Nikki Giovanni’s poetry has been at the forefront of American culture. The New Book is a towering work of protest against the divisions of our time, leavened with moments of joy and reflection about her indelible legacy, her family history,
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Citizenship

Notes on an American Myth

by Daisy Hernández ...

Narrated by Daisy Hernández ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non
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The Futilitarians

Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

by Anne Gisleson ...

Narrated by Anne Gisleson ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief.Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner and the mother of his son to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief.Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, Brad, he had suffered his own trauma, losing his partner and the mother of his son to
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Grieving While Black

An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow

by Breeshia Wade ...

Narrated by Michele Lyman ...

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5 hours 33 min

A groundbreaking exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss--the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what's already happened to us--as something that is connected to what we fear, ... Read more

$29.95 USD

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A groundbreaking exploration of grief and racial trauma through the eyes of a Black end-of-life caregiver.Most of us understand grief as sorrow experienced after a loss--the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or a change in life circumstance. Breeshia Wade approaches grief as something that is bigger than what's already happened to us--as something that is connected to what we fear,
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The Right of the People

Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding

by Osita Nwanevu ...

Narrated by Osita Nwanevu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real—from a formidable new voice in political journalism“The first thing I’ve read that provides a rigorous vision of how to refound this nation if we manage to survive the current threats to these core values.”—Chris Hayes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sirens’ CallFrustrated with ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bold case for reimagining the American project and making American democracy real—from a formidable new voice in political journalism“The first thing I’ve read that provides a rigorous vision of how to refound this nation if we manage to survive the current threats to these core values.”—Chris Hayes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Sirens’ CallFrustrated with
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Messy

The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives

by Tim Harford ...

Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith ...

Unabridged

9 hours 44 min

**“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take“Engrossing.” —New York TimesFrom the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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**“Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take“Engrossing.” —New York TimesFrom the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits
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Life on a Little-Known Planet

Dispatches from a Changing World

by Elizabeth Kolbert ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert's most important pieces about climate change and the natural world"To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth," Rolling Stone has advised, "you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert." From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the
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A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories

by Bettye Collier-Thomas ...

Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

Unabridged

7 hours 34 min

A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century to the modern civil rights movement.Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this landmark collection features writings from well-known black writers, activists, and visionaries such as Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, and John Henrik Clark along with literary ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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A collection of Christmas stories written by African-American journalists, activists, and writers from the late 19th century to the modern civil rights movement.Back in print for the first time in over a decade, this landmark collection features writings from well-known black writers, activists, and visionaries such as Pauline Hopkins, Langston Hughes, and John Henrik Clark along with literary
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This America

The Case for the Nation

by Jill Lepore ...

Narrated by Jill Lepore ...

Unabridged

2 hours 36 min

From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the ... Read more

$10.99 USD

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From the best-selling author of These Truths, a work that examines the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Harvard historian Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation in This America. Since the end of the Cold War, Lepore writes, American historians have largely retreated from the
... Read more

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A Gorgeous Excitement

A Novel

by Cynthia Weiner ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lowman ...

Unabridged

13 hours 8 min

One young woman’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in “this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.”—People (Best Books of the Month)“I haven’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the ’80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.”—Margarita Montimore, bestselling ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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One young woman’s summer of infinite possibility takes a turn she never saw coming in “this 1980s coming-of-age tale [that’s] chillingly compelling. Get ready to be transported.”—People (Best Books of the Month)“I haven’t felt this kind of excitement reading a story set in the ’80s since I first discovered Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, and Bret Easton Ellis.”—Margarita Montimore, bestselling
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Black-Owned

The Revolutionary Life of the Black Bookstore

by Char Adams ...

Narrated by Shayna Small ...

Unabridged

7 hours 29 min

Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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Longtime NBC News reporter Char Adams writes a deeply compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores, which have been centers for organizing from abolition to the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.In Black-Owned, Char Adams celebrates the living history of Black bookstores. Packed with stories of activism, espionage
... Read more

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