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 11,222 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 952 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: 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: Gail Herman
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • As a kid, Jackie Robinson loved sports. And why not? He was a natural at football, basketball, and, of course, baseball. But beyond athletic skill, it was his strength of character that secured his place in sports history....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 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: Dion Graham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 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: 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 31 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • By: Kelly J. Baptist
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Ebony and De’Kari (aka Flow) do not get along. How could they when their cafeteria scuffle ended with De'Kari's ruined shoes, Ebony on the ground, and both of them with ten days of at-home suspension? Now Eb and Flow have two weeks to think about and explain their behavior....

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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 225 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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    • Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • By: Brad Meltzer
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy, Various
    • Series: Ordinary People Change the World Series
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This audiobook focuses on Harriet Tubman's brave heroism as part of the movement to abolish slavery. As one of the key players in the Underground Railroad, she helped enslaved African Americans escape and find freedom....

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    • Race to the Truth
    • By: Patricia Williams Dockery
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • Until now, you've only heard one side of the story: how Abraham Lincoln defeated the Confederacy to end slavery, but the truth involves a vast network of abolitionists who would keep fighting for freedom long after the end of the war.

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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: 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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