African American Library

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    • A Novel
    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,082 ratings
    • From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

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    • By: Krystal Marquis
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Series: The Davenports, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 929 ratings
    • The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago....

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    • By: Elizabeth Yates
    • Narrated by: Roslyn Ruff
    • Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 224 ratings
    • When Amos Fortune was only 15 years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction....

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    • By: Louis Sachar
    • Narrated by: Curtis McClarin
    • Series: Holes Series, Book 2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around....

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    • By: Christopher Paul Curtis
    • Narrated by: LeVar Burton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,877 ratings
    • When the Watson family—ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron—sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don’t realize that they’re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America’s history.

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    • By: Chris Crowe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • At first, Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer. Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place"....

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    • Born on the Water
    • By: Nikole Hannah-Jones, Renée Watson
    • Narrated by: Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse, adapted for audio, chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States....

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    • By: Nic Stone
    • Narrated by: Nic Stone, Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens: a certified genius living with a diagnosed mental illness and a politician's son who is running from his own addiction and grief....

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    • By: Kim Johnson
    • Narrated by: Guy Lockard, Kim Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of This Is My America comes another thriller about a wrongly accused teen desperate to recclaim both his innocence and his first love....

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    • By: Nic Stone
    • Narrated by: Nic Stone
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change....

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    • By: Nic Stone
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • From number one New York Times best-selling author Nic Stone comes a middle-grade road-trip story through American race relations past and present, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Jason Reynolds....

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    • By: Brit Bennett
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Series: American Girl: Historical Character (TM): Claudie, Book 1
    • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Claudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. When an eviction notice threatens her family, friends, and the beloved boardinghouse they share, Claudie has an idea that just might save the day....

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    • American Black Folktales
    • By: Virginia Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Andrew Barnes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • “The People Could Fly,” the title story in Virginia Hamilton’s prize-winning American Black folktale collection, is a fantasy tale of the slaves who possessed the ancient magic words that enabled them to literally fly away to freedom.

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