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 9,720 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, comes a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

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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 207 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: 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 751 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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    • American Black Folktales
    • By: Virginia Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Andrew Barnes
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • “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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    • 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 1,845 ratings
    • Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement....

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    • By: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Brantley-Newton
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An ode to the girl with scrapes on her knees and flowers in her hair, and every girl in between, this exquisite treasury will appeal to fans of Dear Girl and I Am Enough and have kids listening through it to find a poem that's just for them....

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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 297 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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    • 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 168 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: 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 34 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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    • By: Roberta Edwards
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young pharaoh has become a symbol of the wealth and mystery of ancient Egypt. This Who Was...? explains the life and times of this ancient Egyptian ruler....

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    • Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
    • By: Lonnie G. Bunch III
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • In its first four months of operation, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture surpassed one million visits and quickly became a cherished, vital monument to the African American experience. And yet this accomplishment was never assured....

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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 196 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: 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 23 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: 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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