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From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou

by Bethany Hegedus ...

Series series Live Oak Media eReadalong
This glorious biography of Maya Angelou's life—from her traumatic childhood through her work as a freedom fighter and her triumphant rise as a poet—is a powerful tribute to a phenomenal woman. ... Read more

$9.89 USD

This glorious biography of Maya Angelou's life—from her traumatic childhood through her work as a freedom fighter and her triumphant rise as a poet—is a powerful tribute to a phenomenal woman.
... Read more
Audiobook

Invitation

by Bill Myers, Angela Hunt, Alton Gansky, Frank Peretti ...

Narrated by Bill Myers, Ali Ahn, Cherise Boothe, Jeff Brick ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Harbingers
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

FOUR STRANGERS WITH GIFTS THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND.A WORLD FALLING INTO DARKNESS.THIS IS HARBINGERS.You’re invited on a journey of suspense and the supernatural as four of your favorite bestselling authors team up for a unique series.From the minds of Bill Myers, Frank Peretti, Angela Hunt, and Alton Gansky, Invitation compiles the first four episodes of Harbingers, each following a different ... Read more

$19.99 USD

FOUR STRANGERS WITH GIFTS THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND.A WORLD FALLING INTO DARKNESS.THIS IS HARBINGERS.You’re invited on a journey of suspense and the supernatural as four of your favorite bestselling authors team up for a unique series.From the minds of Bill Myers, Frank Peretti, Angela Hunt, and Alton Gansky, Invitation compiles the first four episodes of Harbingers, each following a different
... Read more
Audiobook

Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

by Celeste Watkins-Hayes ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 52 min

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago ... Read more

$17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In the face of life-threatening news, how does our view of life change—and what do we do it transform it? Remaking a Life uses the HIV/AIDS epidemic as a lens to understand how women generate radical improvements in their social well being in the face of social stigma and economic disadvantage. Drawing on interviews with nationally recognized AIDS activists as well as over one hundred Chicago
... Read more
Audiobook

A Chorus Rises

A Song Below Water novel

by Bethany C. Morrow ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Eboni Flowers ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Song Below Water
Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

"Narrator Eboni Flowers creates the perfect voice for the charismatic Naema in this thoughtful story meshing magic and media." -- AudioFile MagazineTHE LATEST NOVEL FROM YA SENSATION BETHANY C. MORROWMeet Naema Bradshaw: a beautiful Eloko, once Portland-famous, now infamous, as she navigates a personal and public reckoning where confronting the limits of her privilege will show Naema what her ... Read more

$26.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

"Narrator Eboni Flowers creates the perfect voice for the charismatic Naema in this thoughtful story meshing magic and media." -- AudioFile MagazineTHE LATEST NOVEL FROM YA SENSATION BETHANY C. MORROWMeet Naema Bradshaw: a beautiful Eloko, once Portland-famous, now infamous, as she navigates a personal and public reckoning where confronting the limits of her privilege will show Naema what her
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

An Unkindness of Ghosts

by Rivers Solomon ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe ...

Unabridged

11 hours 54 min

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For ... Read more

$22.95 USD

Also available as: eBook

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For
... Read more

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Audiobook

The Homework Machine

by Dan Gutman ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe, Julia Gibson, Norm Lee, Andy Paris, Nicole Poole, Robert Ramirez, Cecelia Riddett, Angela Rogers ...

Series series Homework Machine
Unabridged

3 hours 9 min

Dan Gutman, the prolific author of over 60 popular books for children and young adults, vividly imagines what is surely every put-upon school kid's dream: a machine that does homework for them-error free!When four unlikely friends become dependent on this marvelous device, they'll soon learn that cheating always has its consequences-including legal trouble. No matter what happens, their best bet ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Dan Gutman, the prolific author of over 60 popular books for children and young adults, vividly imagines what is surely every put-upon school kid's dream: a machine that does homework for them-error free!When four unlikely friends become dependent on this marvelous device, they'll soon learn that cheating always has its consequences-including legal trouble. No matter what happens, their best bet
... Read more
Audiobook

The Best American Short Stories 2022

by Heidi Pitlor, Andrew Sean Greer ...

Narrated by Reynaldo Piniella, Shawn K. Jain, Carolina Hoyos, Cherise Boothe, Cindy Kay ...

Series series Best American
Unabridged

13 hours 52 min

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF ... Read more

$32.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.Andrew Sean Greer, “an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy” (Washington Post), selects twenty stories out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Supplemental enhancement PDF
... Read more

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Audiobook

What Matters in Mayhew

by Cassie Dandridge Selleck ...

Narrated by Pam Ward, Dan John Miller, Kevin Kenerly, Robert Fass, Cherise Boothe, Rebecca Gibel, Carrington MacDuffie, various narrators ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Beanie Bradsher Series
Unabridged

9 hours 4 min

Every town has at least one beloved, if misunderstood, eccentric, and Beanie Bradsher belongs to Mayhew Junction. Some, LouWanda Crump, for example, would call Beanie a spectacle, but Beanie just marches—and dresses—to the beat of a different drum.Not much has changed over the years in this town. On any given morning, you’ll find the same people at the same table at the same café, and none of them ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Every town has at least one beloved, if misunderstood, eccentric, and Beanie Bradsher belongs to Mayhew Junction. Some, LouWanda Crump, for example, would call Beanie a spectacle, but Beanie just marches—and dresses—to the beat of a different drum.Not much has changed over the years in this town. On any given morning, you’ll find the same people at the same table at the same café, and none of them
... Read more
Audiobook

A Brief History of Seven Killings

by Marlon James ...

Narrated by Ryan Anderson, Dwight Bacquie, Cherise Boothe, Robertson Dean, Robert Younis, Johnathan McClain ...

Unabridged

26 hours

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return ... Read more

$39.99 USD

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return
... Read more
Audiobook

The Preacher's Son

by Carl Weber ...

Narrated by Myra Lucretia Taylor, Lizan Mitchell, Cherise Boothe, Peter Jay Fernandez, Nyambi Nyambi, JD Jackson ...

Series series Church
Unabridged

9 hours 27 min

Carl Weber is an Essence best-selling author and recipient of the African-American Bookseller of the Year Award. His stories are intoxicating dramas with smart, sexy characters. The Preacher's Son captivates with all the intensity expected of a Weber novel. Bishop T.K. Wilson is a pillar of the community, pastor of the largest African- American church in Queens, NY, and has always tended to the ... Read more

$19.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Carl Weber is an Essence best-selling author and recipient of the African-American Bookseller of the Year Award. His stories are intoxicating dramas with smart, sexy characters. The Preacher's Son captivates with all the intensity expected of a Weber novel. Bishop T.K. Wilson is a pillar of the community, pastor of the largest African- American church in Queens, NY, and has always tended to the
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Ruth's Journey

The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind

by Donald McCaig ...

Narrated by Cherise Boothe ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

From the national bestselling author of Rhett Butler’s People, the “exquisitely imagined, deeply researched” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March) authorized prequel to Gone with the Wind following the epic story of one of literature’s greatest characters—Mammy—magnificently recounting her life from her infancy in Haiti and days as a slave in the South, to raising Scarlett at ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

From the national bestselling author of Rhett Butler’s People, the “exquisitely imagined, deeply researched” (Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March) authorized prequel to Gone with the Wind following the epic story of one of literature’s greatest characters—Mammy—magnificently recounting her life from her infancy in Haiti and days as a slave in the South, to raising Scarlett at
... Read more

Also available as: eBook
Audiobook

Bronx Masquerade

by Nikki Grimes ...

Narrated by Jessica Almasy, Cherise Boothe, Kevin R. Free, Marc Damon Johnson, Sisi Aisha Johnson, Melanie Martinez ...

Unabridged

2 hours 51 min

Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City. Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Acclaimed poet, novelist, journalist, and educator Nikki Grimes was born and raised in New York City. Each of the 18 kids in Mr. Ward's inner city classroom has something important to say, but some don't even realize it. Then Mr. Ward begins to have "open mic" poetry slams once a month on Fridays. Young adult listeners will identify with the characters in Bronx Masquerade as they explore questions
... Read more

Also available as: eBook