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Their Eyes Were Watching God

by Zora Neale Hurston ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee ...

Unabridged

6 hours 44 min

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the ... Read more

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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the
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Every Tongue Got to Confess

Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States

by Zora Neale Hurston ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at ... Read more

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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at
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X MINUS ONE: SEASON TWO

by Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Ernest Kinoy, George Lefferts, Philip K. Kick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, J.T. McIntosh, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, William Tenn, Thomas Godwin, James Blish, Robert Block, L. Sprague de Camp ...

Narrated by Alan Hewitt, Bob Hastings, Donald Buka, Hetty Galen, Jack Grimes, Jim Boles, Joe De Santis, Joyce Gordon, Larry Robinson, Luis Van Rooten, Mandel Kramer, Nat Polen, Norman Rose, Peter Capell, Peter Fernandez, Raymond Edward Johnson, Roger DeKoven, Ruby Dee, Sam Gray, Santos Ortega, Ted Osborne and William Keene ...

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19 hours 16 min

The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 42 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the ... Read more

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The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 42 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the
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Bag of Tricks

Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s

by Ruby Dee Philippa ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee Philippa ...

Series series A Punk trilogy
Unabridged

7 hours 39 min

Bag of Tricks by Ruby Dee Philippa Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK ONE OF A PUNK TRILOGY BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s. These vignettes stand alone yet bleed into one another. Meet the band The Shits, their groupies The Clits, and an array of colourful characters who populate these streets, squats ... Read more

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Bag of Tricks by Ruby Dee Philippa Mixed Stories of Life as a San Francisco Punk in the early 80’s BOOK ONE OF A PUNK TRILOGY BAG OF TRICKS is a compilation of short stories about San Francisco punks in the early 80’s. These vignettes stand alone yet bleed into one another. Meet the band The Shits, their groupies The Clits, and an array of colourful characters who populate these streets, squats
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With Ossie and Ruby

In This Life Together

by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee ...

Narrated by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee ...

Unabridged

18 hours 8 min

This captivating and inspiring autobiography tells the story of a Hollywood power couple that dominated the screen and championed civil rights issues for decades.Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and ... Read more

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This captivating and inspiring autobiography tells the story of a Hollywood power couple that dominated the screen and championed civil rights issues for decades.Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and
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Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: Old Testament

by Zondervan ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Yolanda Adams, India Arie, Angela Bassett, James Brown, LeVar Burton, Juanita Bynum, Shirley Caesar, Nick Cannon, Common Common, Ruby Dee, Charles Dutton, Faith Evans, Kim Fields, Kirk Franklin, Tyrese Gibson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Regina Hall, Fred Hammond, Billy Ingram, Samuel Jackson, T. D. Jakes, Orlando Jones, Yolanda King, Boris Kodjoe, Nikki Kodjoe, Eriq LaSalle, Derek Luke, MC Lyte, Greg Mathis, Donnie McClurkin, Mo'nique Mo'nique, Tahj Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Tia Mowry, Dwight Myers, Keke Palmer, Tyler Perry, Kelly Price, Della Reese, Star Reynolds, Angie Stone, Cheri Townsend, Tye Tribbett, Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Williams, Chandra Wilson ...

Unabridged

66 hours 47 min

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. ... Read more

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Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios.
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X Minus One

Time and Time Again

Narrated by Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Staats Cotsworth, Ruby Dee, Mandel Kramer, Joe DeSantis, Original Radio Broadcast ...

Series series X Minus One
Unabridged

6 hours 34 min

Launch your imagination, and break the bonds of time and space, with radio's highly-acclaimed science-fiction anthology X Minus One! Produced in cooperation with science fiction magazines of the day, the series featured provocative stories by the genre's top genre authors. Ray Bradbury, Ernest Kinoy, Robert Sheckley, and more helped Americans of the 1950s look to the future. Dramatized with an ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Launch your imagination, and break the bonds of time and space, with radio's highly-acclaimed science-fiction anthology X Minus One! Produced in cooperation with science fiction magazines of the day, the series featured provocative stories by the genre's top genre authors. Ray Bradbury, Ernest Kinoy, Robert Sheckley, and more helped Americans of the 1950s look to the future. Dramatized with an
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Jimmie Lee and James

Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement That Changed America

by Adar Cohen, Steve Fiffer ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

"Bloody Sunday"—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that afternoon?Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in ... Read more

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"Bloody Sunday"—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that afternoon?Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in
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Disgrace

A Novel

by J. M. Coetzee ...

Narrated by Michael Cumpsty ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

**The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker**At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends ... Read more

$34.99 USD

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**The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker**At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends
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In the Name of the Family

A Novel

by Sarah Dunant ...

Narrated by Nicholas Boulton ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK)“In the end, what’s a historical novelist’s obligation to the dead? Accuracy? Empathy? Justice? Or is it only to make them live again? Dunant ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK)“In the end, what’s a historical novelist’s obligation to the dead? Accuracy? Empathy? Justice? Or is it only to make them live again? Dunant
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The Bluest Eye

A Novel

by Toni Morrison ...

Narrated by Toni Morrison, Karen Murray ...

Unabridged

7 hours 15 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. • With a new introduction by Jacqueline Woodson.“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry”
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