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Author: Marissa Stapley
Format: Online
Author Marissa Stapley
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 11h 29m
Jane Pyre was once part of the famous rock 'n' roll duo, the Lightning Bottles. Years later, she's the most hated - and least understood - woman in music. She was never as popular as her bandmate (and soulmate) Elijah Hart, despite writing the songs that catapulted them to fame. But ever since Elijah disappeared five years earlier and the band's ri...
View BookAuthor: James Baldwin
Format: Online
Author James Baldwin
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 6m
Brought to you by Penguin.The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director Barry Jenkins'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem in the 1970s: the black soul of New York City. Tish is nineteen and the man she loves - her lifelong friend and the father of her unborn child - has been jailed for a crime he did not commit. As their famili...
View BookAuthor: A. J. Hackwith
Format: Online
Author A. J. Hackwith
Narrator Bahni Turpin
SeriesHell's Library, Book 2
Duration 13h 10m
In the second installment of this richly imagined fantasy adventure series, a new threat from within the Library could destroy those who depend upon it the most.The Library of the Unwritten in Hell was saved from total devastation, but hundreds of potential books were destroyed. Former librarian Claire and Brevity the muse feel the loss of those st...
View BookAuthor: A. J. Hackwith
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Author A. J. Hackwith
Narrator Bahni Turpin
SeriesHell's Library, Book 3
Duration 13h 18m
"Hackwith's poignant, imaginative series sends readers on an amazing journey, with profound prose that will capture hearts and minds."*To save the Library of the Unwritten in Hell, former librarian Claire and her allies may have to destroy it first.Claire, rakish Hero, angel Rami, and muse-turned-librarian Brevity have accomplished the impossible b...
View BookAuthor: Yaa Gyasi
Format: Online
Author Yaa Gyasi
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 8h 41m
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to unde...
View BookAuthor: Angie Thomas
Format: Online
Author Angie Thomas
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 11h 45m
No. 1 New York Times bestseller“[An] exuberant, exquisitely intimate novel.” The New York Times“Passionate and powerful.” Metro“Pure magic.” The ObserverMovie rights sold to Fox 2000; George Tillman Jr. to directThe award-winning author of The Hate U Give returns with a powerful...
View BookAuthor: Toni Morrison
Format: Online
Author Toni Morrison
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 16h 8m
Spanning four decades, these essays, speeches and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of politics. The duty of the press and the role of the artist. Throughout A Mouth Full of Blood our search for truth, moral integrity and expertise...
View BookAuthor: Tara Conklin
Format: Online
Author Tara Conklin
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 14h 42m
Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine. . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco fa...
View BookAuthor: Nalo Hopkinson
Format: Online
Author Nalo Hopkinson
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 13h 15m
With unapologetically sensual prose, Nalo Hopkinson, the Nebula Award-winning author of Midnight Robber, explores slavery through the lives of three historical women touched by a goddess in this "electrifying bravura performance by one of our most important writers" (Junot Diaz).
View BookAuthor: Colson Whitehead
Format: Online
Author Colson Whitehead
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 10h 43m
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North, embarking on a harrowing...
View BookAuthor: Lesa Cline-Ransome
Format: Online
Author Lesa Cline-Ransome
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 20m
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics needed to launch spacecraft. Katherine Johnson was one of these mathematicians who used trajectories and comp...
View BookSo You Want To Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Format: Online
Author Ijeoma Oluo
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 7h 44m
A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor-at-Large of the Establishment Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in...
View BookAuthor: Angie Thomas
Format: Online
Author Angie Thomas
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 11h 39m
Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018 and the Children's Book of the Year 2018 at the British Book Awards. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping young-adult novel about one girl's struggle for justice. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and rais...
View BookAuthor: Jessica Bennett
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Author Jessica Bennett
Narrator Bahni Turpin
Duration 6h 10m
'Engaging, hilarious and practical - I will proudly proclaim myself a card-carrying member of the FFC' - Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and bestselling author of Lean In. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Feminist Fight Club by Jessica Bennett, read by Bahni Turpin. This is a call to arms. Are you aged zero to in...
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