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    The Song and the Silence

    A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright

    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    “Have to keep that smile,” said Booker Wright in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright was a waiter in a whites-only restaurant and a local business owner who would become an unwitting icon of the civil rights movement. For he did the unthinkable: before a national audience, he described what life was truly like for the black people of Greenwood, Mississippi ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Song and the Silence

    A Story about Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright

    In this “beautiful, evocative” (Booklist, starred review) memoir, Yvette Johnson travels to the Mississippi Delta to uncover the moving, true story of her late grandfather Booker Wright, whose extraordinary act of courage would change his and, later, her life forever.“Have to keep that smile,” Booker Wright said in the 1966 NBC documentary Mississippi: A Self-Portrait. At the time, Wright was a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    The One

    The Life and Music of James Brown

    by R.J. Smith ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 12 min

    Senior editor at L.A. Magazine, RJ Smith saw his first book, The Great Black Way, win the coveted California Book Award. With The One, Smith profiles one of the 20th century's most innovative musical icons, the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Drawing on extensive research and captivating interviews, Smith chronicles Brown's rise from abject poverty to the pinnacle of fame, while also ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Grace of Silence

    A Memoir

    Narrated by Michele Norris ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 48 min

    In the wake of talk of a “postracial” America upon Barack Obama’s ascension as president of the United States, Michele Norris, cohost of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered, set out to write, through original reporting, a book about “the hidden conversation” on race that is unfolding nationwide. She would, she thought, base her book on the frank disclosures of others on ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

  • Catfish and Mandala

    A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

    "A brilliantly written memoir in which a young Vietnamese-American uses a bicycle journey in his homeland as a vehicle to tell his eventful life story." — Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Whiting Writers' AwardA Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the YearCatfish and... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Marching to the Mountaintop

    How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours

    by Ann Bausum ...
    Narrated by Corey Allen ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    Bausum's historical nonfiction is routinely lauded by such organizations as the ALA and School Library Journal. In Marching to the Mountaintop, Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically altered the face of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coretta

    My Life, My Love, My Legacy

    Named a Washington Post Book to ReadA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA USA Today “New and Noteworthy” PickARead It Forward* Favorite ReadAParade* Magazine PickCoretta Scott King's true story, told in full for the first time.... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Half and Half

    Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural

    As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren't answered--they are discussed.How do you measure someone's race or culture? Half this, quarter that, born here, raised there. What name ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide

    An Autobiography

    by Buffalo Bill ...
    In "The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout and Guide," Buffalo Bill himself presents a captivating autobiographical narrative, chronicling his extraordinary adventures across the American frontier. The book employs a vivid and engaging prose style that immerses readers in the expansive landscapes and diverse characters of the Wild West. With a blend of ... Read more

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  • The Student's Life of Washington

    In condensing into one compact volume Mr. Irving's elaborate Life of Washington, care has been taken to retain, not only all the important facts connected with Washington's career, but also those circumstances and incidents which may be supposed to contribute to a full estimate of his character in all its aspects. Nor have any portion of the great events connected with the era in which he filled ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Kingdom of Memory

    Reminiscences

    by Elie Wiesel ...
    In this "powerful" (New York Times Book review) collection of personal essays and landmark speeches by "one of the great writers of our generation" (New Republic), Elie Wiesel weaves together reminiscences of his life before the Holocaust, his struggle to find meaning afterward, and the actions he has taken on behalf of others that have defined him as a leading advocate of humanity and have earned ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Restavec

    From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American

    This inspiring memoir recounts a man's harrowing journey from unpaid child labor in Haiti to a successful life in the United States.African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus