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    • A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony
    • By: Annabelle Tometich
    • Narrated by: Annabelle Tometich
    • Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn’t prepared to hear her mother’s voice on the other end of the line.

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,655 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,831 ratings
    • The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Taraji P. Henson
    • Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9,409 ratings
    • Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,783 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Safiya Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair
    • Length: 16 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms.

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    • Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
    • By: Fei-Fei Li
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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    • One Name, Two Fates
    • By: Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
    • Narrated by: Wes Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,223 ratings
    • From the governor of Maryland, the true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,589 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
    • By: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the Black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era....

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    • By: Booker T. Washington
    • Narrated by: Noah Waterman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,738 ratings
    • Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

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    • By: Maya Angelou
    • Narrated by: Maya Angelou
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,175 ratings
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      Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

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    • Prophet of Freedom
    • By: David W. Blight
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520 ratings
    • The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era....

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    • The Autobiography of DMX
    • By: DMX
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 487 ratings
    • Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive number one hip-hop albums in a row...this is the life and times of the darkest and most dangerously introspective hip-hop artist ever....

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    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,501 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

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    • By: Ernest Hemingway
    • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 715 ratings
    • His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,315 ratings
    • Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....

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    • Break the Silence, Become a Revolution, Unearth Your Inner Guerrera
    • By: Kim Guerra
    • Narrated by: Kim Guerra
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Poet and Latine therapist Kim Guerra tells a story of coming into her own power, and guides listeners through the process of finding their own.

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    • By: Sonia Sotomayor
    • Narrated by: Rita Moreno
    • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,425 ratings
    • The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon....

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