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Miles and Me
- By: Quincy Troupe
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
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Quincy Troupe's account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistically and personally. A keen and critical observer, Troupe captures and conveys the power of Miles' presence, the mesmerizing force of his personality, and the restless energy that lay at the root of his creativity.
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Miles and Me
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 25-09-18
- Language: English
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When I Was Puerto Rican
- By: Esmerelda Santiago
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Esmeralda Santiago reminisces about her childhood in Puerto Rico and her early years in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven (soon to be 11) children. Her upbringing is turbulent on account of her parents’ relentless fighting, which only ever seems to stop when they have another baby. When her youngest brother has an accident, her mother decides to move to New York with her children to seek medical treatment. Arriving in the United States, 13-year-old Santiago experiences uprooting and a loss of identity while she tries to adapt to a culture and language that are foreign to her.
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When I Was Puerto Rican
- Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago
- Series: Esmeralda Santiago's Memoirs, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-12-18
- Language: English
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Incarnations
- India in 50 Lives
- By: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrated by: Sunil Khilnani
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Historian Sunil Khilnani, Professor of History and Politics at Ashoka University, takes listeners on an immersive, whirlwind journey from ancient India to the 21st century through the life stories of 50 remarkable individuals, exploring their surprising legacies and illuminating both the wonders and the urgent conflicts of India today.
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Incarnations
- India in 50 Lives
- Narrated by: Sunil Khilnani
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Eddie Would Go
- The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing
- By: Stuart Holmes Coleman
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Aikau's legendary life and legacy, a pipeline into the exhilarating world of surfing, and an important chronicle of the Hawaiian Renaissance and the emergence of modern Hawaii. In the 1970s, a decade before bumper stickers and T-shirts bearing the phrase Eddie Would Go began popping up all over the Hawaiian islands and throughout the surfing world, Eddie Aikau was proving what it meant to be a "waterman."
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Good story
- By Marcus Goat on 12-05-25
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Eddie Would Go
- The Story of Eddie Aikau, Hawaiian Hero and Pioneer of Big Wave Surfing
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 29-10-24
- Language: English
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Shepherd's Sight
- A Farming Life
- By: Barbara McLean
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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For fifty years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her seventies, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.
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Shepherd's Sight
- A Farming Life
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 27-08-24
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- By: Oscar Zeta Acosta
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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The further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”— the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood...
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a life changing book
- By Anonymous on 13-04-21
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
- Narrated by: Henry Levya
- Series: "Dr. Gonzo", Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 02-04-19
- Language: English
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Kaddish
- By: Leon Wieseltier
- Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
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After his father died, Leon Wieseltier began to observe the traditional year-long period of mourning, going to the synagogue three times a day to recite the prayer known as the mourner's Kaddish. Struck by the profound, yet unexpected power of this practice and the poverty of his knowledge about it, Leon began to study the history and meaning of this ancient ritual.
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Kaddish
- Narrated by: Theodore Bikel
- Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 17-12-22
- Language: English
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The Black Family Who Built America
- The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers
- By: Cheryl McKissack Daniel, Nick Chiles
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A Scientific American Favorite Book of 2025 The riveting story of the McKissack family—the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today—in a moving celebration of resilience and innovation...
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The Black Family Who Built America
- The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Saint Patrick Retold
- The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint
- By: Roy Flechner
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland’s patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick’s travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly 50 years to explore Patrick’s career against the background of historical events in late antique Britain and Ireland.
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Great audio book but overly academic at times.
- By Anonymous on 24-03-22
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Saint Patrick Retold
- The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint
- Narrated by: Gerry O'Brien
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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True Nature
- The Lives of Peter Matthiessen
- By: Lance Richardson
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 31 hrs and 17 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen – writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master – in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant. Author of The Snow Leopard, co-founder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the...
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True Nature
- The Lives of Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 31 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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Heavy
- An American Memoir
- By: Kiese Laymon
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living...
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Heavy
- By Nirali Peter on 29-04-19
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Heavy
- An American Memoir
- Narrated by: Kiese Laymon
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-10-18
- Language: English
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Lightfoot
- By: Nicholas Jennings
- Narrated by: Nicholas Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A 2023 ROLLING STONE RECOMMENDED BOOK Shortlisted for the 2017 Legislative Assembly of Ontario Speaker's Book Award Nominated for the 2018 Heritage Toronto Award - Historical Writing: Book “The preeminent account of the late singer's life.” —Rolling Stone The definitive...
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Lightfoot
- Narrated by: Nicholas Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 31-10-17
- Language: English
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Soar
- My Journey from Council Estate to House of Lords
- By: Simon Woolley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Andrew Hume
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Simon Woolley is a member of the House of Lords, the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college and a policy changemaker who has the ear of prime ministers and the future king. But this is a lord who wants to shake up the establishment, an outsider who knows how important it is to bring underrepresented voices to the table. Raised by loving white foster parents on the impoverished St Matthew's Estate in Leicester, young Simon soon learnt about politics while in line at the barber's and about racism as one of the few Black children in the neighbourhood.
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What an inspiration!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-04-23
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Soar
- My Journey from Council Estate to House of Lords
- Narrated by: Jonathan Andrew Hume
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-04-22
- Language: English
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How We Fight For Our Lives
- By: Saeed Jones
- Narrated by: Saeed Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. One of the best books of the year as selected...
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Brilliant brilliant book!
- By Anthony W. on 29-12-24
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How We Fight For Our Lives
- Narrated by: Saeed Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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The Wind in the Reeds
- A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
- By: Wendell Pierce, Rod Dreher
- Narrated by: Wendell Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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2016 Christopher Award Winner From acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce, an insightful and poignant portrait of family, New Orleans and the transforming power of art. On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina barreled into New Orleans, devastating many of the city's...
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Life and Art and Family
- By Andrea Tyrrell on 16-03-25
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The Wind in the Reeds
- A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken
- Narrated by: Wendell Pierce
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-09-15
- Language: English
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
- By: Jeanne Theoharis
- Narrated by: Judith West
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography 2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 2013 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
- Narrated by: Judith West
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 30-01-24
- Language: English
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Slave in the White House
- Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- By: Elizabeth Dowling Taylor, Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Judith West, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
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Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, later becoming part of the Madison household staff at the White House. Once finally emancipated by Senator Daniel Webster later in life, he would give an aged and impoverished Dolley Madison, his former owner, money from his own pocket, write the first White House memoir, and see his sons fight with the Union Army in the Civil War.
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Slave in the White House
- Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- Narrated by: Judith West, Kevin Kenerly
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 10-04-12
- Language: English
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The 23rd Psalm
- A Holocaust Memoir
- By: George Salton, Anna Salton Eisen - contributor, Michael Berenbaum - foreword
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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Twenty years since its first publication, this new anniversary edition of the Holocaust memoir of George Salton (then Lucjan Salzman), gives listeners a personal and powerful account of his survival through one of the darkest periods in human history. With heartbreaking and honest reflection, the author shares a gripping first-person narrative of his transformation from a Jewish eleven-year-old boy living happily in Tyczyn, Poland, with his brother and parents, to his experiences as a teenage victim of growing persecution, brutality, and imprisonment as the Nazis pursued the Final Solution.
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The 23rd Psalm
- A Holocaust Memoir
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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Pessoa
- By: Richard Zenith
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 42 hrs and 45 mins
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Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do "more in dreams than Napoleon," yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or "heteronyms," under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this "most multifarious of writers" (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.
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Pessoa
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 42 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 22-08-23
- Language: English
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The Day We Forgot to Smile
- Stories from the Tender Corners of Life
- By: Anthony Owens
- Narrated by: Maliek Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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The Day We Forgot to Smile is a powerful collection of true-to-life stories capturing the quiet battles, hidden heartbreaks, and small triumphs that shape a family growing up in 1970s Bushwick. Through vivid scenes of brotherhood, survival, faith, and the search for joy in hard places, Anthony Owens takes listeners back to a childhood lived between danger and hope.
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The Day We Forgot to Smile
- Stories from the Tender Corners of Life
- Narrated by: Maliek Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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