American Depression Fiction

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    • By: Patrick Flores-Scott
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • With a strong family, the best friend a guy could ask for, and a budding romance with the girl of his dreams, life shows promise for Teodoro "T" Avila. But he takes some hard hits the summer before senior year when his nearly perfect brother, Manny, returns from a tour in Iraq with PTSD....

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    • By: William Faulkner
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,852 ratings
    • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin....

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    • By: Angeline Boulley
    • Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,829 ratings
    • Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother....

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    • A Novel (Vintage International)
    • By: James Baldwin, Kevin Young - introduction
    • Narrated by: Matt Bomer, Kevin Young
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction, Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality.

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    • Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • By: Mary Monroe
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Lexington, Alabama, Book 4
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 390 ratings
    • Since childhood, identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have been getting in—and out—of trouble by pretending to be each other. Yet underneath, they couldn’t be more different.

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • A Novel
    • By: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Narrated by: Cedric The Entertainer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The first novel from one of the original Kings of Comedy, Cedric “The Entertainer,” Flipping Boxcars is an engaging and entertaining crime caper that is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities struggling to get by during the Depression and World War II....

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    • A Companion Novel to Shame the Stars
    • By: Guadalupe Garcia McCall
    • Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
    • Series: Shame the Stars, Book 2
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the heart of the Great Depression, Rancho Las Moras, like everywhere else in Texas, is gripped by the drought of the Dust Bowl, and resentment is building among white farmers against Mexican Americans....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 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: Wab Kinew
    • Narrated by: Michelle Bardach
    • Series: The Floraverse, Book 2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Devastated by the loss of her older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has regained her position of power in that virtual world....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Amy Greene
    • Narrated by: Dale Dickey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel of a family in turmoil, set against the backdrop of real-life historical event—the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elvin James Mensah
    • Narrated by: Paul Mendez
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Harley is a young queer black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Returning home, having just dropped out of college, he is racked by feelings of failure and inadequacy....

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    • The White House
    • By: Justina Prima
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • A Stolen Artifact... A Man on a Mission... The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced the relocation of Georgia’s Cherokee Nation to its new home in ...

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    • By: Melissa de la Cruz
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Working with Seoul’s premiere matchmaker, Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are determined to ensure her success in life and love by matching her with the right boyfriend. After one too many slip-ups at school, Jisu finds herself shipped off to San Francisco....

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    • By: Derek Jackson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-06
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Motivational speaker Jermaine Hill seems to have it all: celebrity, money, women, even a Cadillac Escalade. One thing he doesn't have is the will to keep on living....

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    • By: Cynthia L. Smith
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In a voice that resonates with insight and humor, New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith tells the story of a teenage girl who must face down her grief and reclaim her place in the world with the help of her intertribal community.

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    • By: Una LaMarche
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • What if the last hope to save your family is the person who broke it up to begin with? Michelle and her little siblings Cass and Denny are African-American and living on the poverty line in urban Baltimore, struggling to keep it together with their mom in jail....

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    • By: Andrew Yang
    • Narrated by: Greta Jung, Katharine Chin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
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    • Terrace House meets Loveboat, Taipei in this fun, frothy, incisive YA debut, following two teens and their unforgettable summer on a reality show....

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