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Author: James McBride
Author James McBride
Narrator Leslie Uggams
Duration 10h 45m
In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and arm...
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Author: James McBride
Author James McBride
Narrator Ted Daniel
Duration 8h 16m
FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE Towards the end of World War Two, four soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit behind enemy lines. Risking their lives for a country in which they are treated with less respect than the enemy they're fighting, they discove...
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Author: James McBride
Author James McBride
Narrator Dominic Hoffman
Duration 9h
The music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential cultural figures of the twentieth century. But the singer known as the 'Hardest Working Man in Show Business' was also an immensely troubled, misunderstood and complicated man. Award-winning writer James McBride, himself a professional m...
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Author: James McBride
Author James McBride
Narrator Michael Boatman
Duration 14h 35m
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856. When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John Brown turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town - along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both...
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Author: James McBride
Author James McBride
Narrator Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, Dominic Hoffman, Arthur Morey
Duration 8h 34m
An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by a Civil War General now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Ba...
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