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Author: Tara M Stringfellow
Format: Online
Author Tara M Stringfellow
Narrator Adenrele Ojo, Karen Murray
Duration 9h 24m
Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night. She doesn't know she's as likely to hear a gunshot ring out as the sound of children playing. How the smell of honeysuckle is almost overwhelming as she climbs the porch steps to the house where her mother grew up. This hous...
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Author: Victoria Aveyard
Format: Online
Author Victoria Aveyard
Narrator Amanda Dolan, Adenrele Ojo
SeriesRed Queen, Book 3
Duration 17h 20m
This is the highly anticipated new novel from New York Times number one best-selling author of Red Queen. Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven continues weaving his web in an attempt to maintain contro...
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Author: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Format: Online
Author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Narrator Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
Duration 29h 48m
Immerse yourself in a celebration of Black womanhood and an epic tale of the stories that span generations. A breath-taking debut novel that chronicles the journey of generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade to our own tumultuous era. Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers...
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Author: Camryn Garrett
Format: Online
Author Camryn Garrett
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 9h 32m
Brought to you by Penguin. A smart, funny, sex-positive YA perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Rainbow Rowell, this is a heartwarming look at the particular challenges of adolescence, written as only a teen could. Simone is HIV-positive - and positive HIV won't define her. She also knows that celibacy is - techincally - the best way to stay safe. E...
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Author: Afia Atakora
Format: Online
Author Afia Atakora
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 13h 59m
The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do. But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother, Miss May Belle, held the power to influence the life and death o...
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Author: Brit Bennett
Format: Online
Author Brit Bennett
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 9h 55m
Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sour...
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Author: Randi Pink
Format: Online
Author Randi Pink
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 7h 2m
LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn't know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were . . . different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be "anything...
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Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga
Format: Online
Author Tsitsi Dangarembga
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 11h 32m
Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself,...
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