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"[The BreakBeat Poets is] one of the most diverse and important poetry anthologies of the last 25 years." (Latino Rebels)
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Poet and vocalist Jamila Woods was raised in Chicago, and graduated from Brown University, where she earned a BA in Africana Studies and Theatre & Performance Studies. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks, much of her writing explores blackness, womanhood, and the city of Chicago.
Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem and Poets House alumna and the author of several books including Smudge and Redbone. She directs the poetry program of the Nuyorican Poets Café.
Idrissa Simmonds is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Black Renaissance Noire, The Caribbean Writer, Fourteen Hills Press, and elsewhere. She is the 2014 winner of the Crab Creek Review poetry contest, and a New York Foundation for the Arts and Commonwealth Short Story Award Finalist.
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Over the past two decades, Jessica Care moore has become a cultural force as a poet, performer, publisher, activist, and critic. Reflecting her transcendent electric voice, this searing poetry collection is filled with moving, original stanzas that speak to both Black women’s creative and intellectual power, and express the pain, sadness, and anger of those who suffer constant scrutiny because of their gender and race.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just beautiful.
- De @oil_house_ (IG) en 02-25-21
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Godshot
- A Novel
- De: Chelsea Bieker
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 159
Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.
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4 out of 5 stars
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flawless novel, not the best narration
- De Adrienne en 05-05-20
De: Chelsea Bieker
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Bone
- De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon - foreword
- Narrado por: Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
From navigating the oft competing worlds of religion and desire, to balancing society’s expectations with the raw experience of being a woman in the world; from detailing the experiences of growing up as a first generation black British woman, to working through situations of dependence and abuse; from finding solace in the echoing caverns of depression and loss, to exploring the vulnerability and redemption in falling in love, each of the raw and immediate poems in Daley-Ward’s bone resonates to the core of what it means to be human.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Visceral,blood hot, thrilling poetry-prose
- De Pam en 12-28-22
De: Yrsa Daley-Ward, y otros
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There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
- De: Morgan Parker
- Narrado por: Morgan Parker
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 125
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 109
The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly laughing in the therapist's office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, and ruthless, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and déjà vu.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just no.
- De Janice en 07-08-20
De: Morgan Parker
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New American Best Friend
- De: Olivia Gatwood
- Narrado por: Olivia Gatwood
- Duración: 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 13
One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tough women, to embracing your own journey in all its failures and triumphs.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing poetry, but the music
- De Keaira en 07-29-19
De: Olivia Gatwood
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
- De: Patrice Caldwell - editor
- Narrado por: York Whitaker
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler’s heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that puts Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals at its center. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters through which you cannot help but see yourself reflected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant
- De Ruthi en 03-11-20
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,044
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,674
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,670
Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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Caramelo
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love, family, history, and fantasy, Caramelo
- De Michele en 08-07-20
De: Sandra Cisneros
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The Star Side of Bird Hill
- De: Naomi Jackson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 79
Two sisters, ages 10 and 16, are exiled from Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados, after their mother can no longer care for them. The young Phaedra and her older sister, Dionne, live, for the summer of 1989, with their grandmother, Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah. Dionne spends the summer in search of love, testing her grandmother's limits, and wanting to go home. Phaedra explores Bird Hill, where her family has lived for generations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My absolute favorite book of all time
- De Eme en 07-16-15
De: Naomi Jackson
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Memphis
- A Novel
- De: Tara M. Stringfellow
- Narrado por: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo, Tara Stringfellow
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 781
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 695
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 694
Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awful narrator
- De Rachael edwards en 06-07-22
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Bad Indians
- A Tribal Memoir
- De: Deborah A. Miranda
- Narrado por: Deborah Miranda
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 40
This beautiful and devastating book - part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir - should be required for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad recording
- De Aspyn Maes en 09-18-21
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Above Us Only Sky
- De: Michele Young-Stone
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. Growing up in Los Vientos, Florida, Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'm So Glad I Listened to It!
- De Elizabeth en 08-22-16
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9,368
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,246
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8,214
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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Paradise
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
- De Kennedi Hill en 11-07-19
De: Toni Morrison
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What Storm, What Thunder
- De: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- Narrado por: Ella Turenne
- Duración: 11 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- De AuthorAnnaBella en 03-15-22
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Priestdaddy
- A Memoir
- De: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrado por: Patricia Lockwood
- Duración: 10 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 944
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 851
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 849
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met - a man who lounges in boxer shorts, who loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates "like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972". His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the church's country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their two worlds collide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration--read, don't listen
- De Penelope en 08-06-17
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Mother Tongue
- De: Demetria Martinez
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 16
A nameless El Salvadoran man, fleeing torture and imprisonment, arrives in the United States - his only hope for asylum. The American woman who has volunteered to help him is searching for something to add meaning to her life. When these two lonely people meet, their haunting relationship fulfills their hearts' desires, but it also gives life to their darkest dreams.