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Plantas Abuelas
- By: Claudia Rodríguez, Lara Becerra
- Narrated by: Marina de Tavira
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Plantas Abuelas es una serie de encuentros con personas en diferentes regiones de México que tienen una identidad ligada a la tierra, con modos diferentes de vivir y habitar el mundo. Es gente que camina su territorio a otro ritmo y con otra mirada; que encuentra en las plantas una compañía, una inspiración y una afinidad que permea en su relación con lo que les rodea. A través de sus historias, leyendas, territorios, desafíos, saberes y aprendizajes descubrimos posibilidades para las generaciones futuras.
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Plantas Abuelas
- Narrated by: Marina de Tavira
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: Spanish
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Surviving SAJOMACO: A Nigerian Boarding School Odyssey
- By: Bunmi Asaolu
- Narrated by: Bunmi Asaolu
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Question: What do you do when the kitchen wall collapses into the vat of beans being cooked for a horde of hungry schoolboys? Answer: You serve it up anyway! Why let a few lumps of clay and the odd metal screw spoil a decent meal? When Bunmi Asaolu arrived at the grand gates of St. John/Mary's Unity Secondary School (SAJOMACO) as a first-year student, you'd be forgiven for assuming he was swapping life on the serene university campus he grew up on for another of equal civility. Wrong! Behind the gates of SAJOMACO lay a world of contradictions.
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I can’t quite believe a human lived through this!!!
- By Joseph L. on 18-10-21
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Surviving SAJOMACO: A Nigerian Boarding School Odyssey
- Narrated by: Bunmi Asaolu
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 26-08-21
- Language: English
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In Exile
- Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
- By: Sadiya Ansari
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Sadiya Ansari
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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In a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother?
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In Exile
- Rupture, Reunion, and My Grandmother’s Secret Life
- Narrated by: Sneha Mathan, Sadiya Ansari
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 24-02-26
- Language: English
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Jew(ish)
- A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea
- By: Matt Greene
- Narrated by: Matt Greene
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be Jew(ish) in 2020? Caught between tradition and modernity, between a Jewish family and a non-Jewish son, Matt Greene ponders the big questions concerning identity, religion, family and Seinfeld. When his son was born to a non-Jewish mother, Matt began to consider the upbringing he'd put behind him - the sense of not belonging, the forbidden foods, the holidays that felt more like punishments.
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Loved it. Classic Jewish humour for all
- By kristina on 12-02-22
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Jew(ish)
- A Primer, a Memoir, a Manual, a Plea
- Narrated by: Matt Greene
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-12-20
- Language: English
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In the Wake
- On Blackness and Being
- By: Christina Sharpe
- Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
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In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake". Activating multiple registers of "wake" - the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousness - Sharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what survives despite such insistent violence and negation.
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In the Wake
- On Blackness and Being
- Narrated by: Melanie Nicholls-King
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 15-02-22
- Language: English
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Home Is Where We Start
- Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream
- By: Susanna Crossman
- Narrated by: Susanna Crossman
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. A Guardian book to look out for for 2024 In the turbulent late seventies, six-year-old Susanna Crossman moved with her mother and siblings from a suburban terrace to a crumbling mansion deep in the English countryside. They would share their new home with over fifty...
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Fascinating memoir of a radically hopeful attempt to build eutopia.
- By Anon on 12-01-26
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Home Is Where We Start
- Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream
- Narrated by: Susanna Crossman
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-08-24
- Language: English
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I Have Avenged America
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
- By: Julia Gaffield
- Narrated by: Shana Pennington-Baird
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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"My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery," declared Jean‑Jacques Dessalines as he announced the independence of Haiti, the most radical nation‑state during the Age of Revolution and the first country ever to permanently outlaw slavery. Enslaved for the first thirty years of his life, Dessalines (c. 1758-1806) joined the revolution that abolished slavery within the French colony. Then he became a general in the colonial army of the new French Republic. When it was discovered that France once again supported slavery, Dessalines declared war on his former allies.
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I Have Avenged America
- Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
- Narrated by: Shana Pennington-Baird
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
- By: Maurice White, Herb Powell
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The late Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincere memoir that captures the heart and soul of an artist whose groundbreaking sound continues to influence music today. With a foreword by David...
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A great look at a great musician
- By Dazler on 29-12-16
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-09-16
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- By: Jeff Hobbs
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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*Now a major motion picture—Rob Peace—starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The New York Times bestselling account of a young African-American man who escaped Newark, NJ, to...
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Haunting Story
- By Emily Marbach on 11-10-15
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
- A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 23-09-14
- Language: English
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True Nature
- The Lives of Peter Matthiessen
- By: Lance Richardson
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 31 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen – writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master – in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant. Author of The Snow Leopard, co-founder of the Paris Review and the only writer to have ever won the...
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Exceptional in language, performance and insight
- By Sara on 22-05-26
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True Nature
- The Lives of Peter Matthiessen
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 31 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- By: Olaudah Equiano
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, David Olusoga
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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Kidnapped as a child into slavery, Equiano spent the rest of his life fighting for his freedom. After years of slavery, working on ships that carried him across empire and into battle during the Seven Years War, he eventually managed to purchase his own freedom, and went on to become a leading figure in the early abolition movement. Published to coincide with the first attempt to abolish the slave trade in 1789, Equiano's remarkable autobiography became a sensation and turned its author into the most famous Black person in Georgian Britain.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, David Olusoga
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 18-09-25
- Language: English
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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
- A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food
- By: Candice Chung
- Narrated by: Nicolette Chin
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
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‘If only my Cantonese parents weren’t so allergic to the word love…’ ‘A wonderfully heart-warming memoir from the bottom of the stomach. ’ Xiaolu Guo ‘A real and delightful surprise, full of smart thought and deft words – and also very funny.’ Ella Risbridger 'Poetic, delicious...
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Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
- A Memoir of Saying the Unsayable with Food
- Narrated by: Nicolette Chin
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 24-04-25
- Language: English
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Out of Egypt
- By: André Aciman
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Aciman's story of Alexandria is the story of his own family, a Jewish family with Italian and Turkish roots that tied its future to Egypt and made its home there for three generations, only to find itself peremptorily expelled by the government in the early 1960s. It is the story of a fractious clan of dreamers and con men and the emotional price they would pay for exile, the story of a young boy's coming of age and his memories of the city he loved in his youth.
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Out of Egypt
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 20-12-25
- Language: English
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My Father Came from Italy
- By: Maria Coletta McLean
- Narrated by: Carol Schneider
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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After 64 years, Mezzabotte Coletta, a retired truck driver for a Toronto macaroni factory, is retuning to his native Italia. In his native village of Supino is a rundown villa bought sight unseen by Mezzabotte Coletta 's daughter Maria - an olive branch after years of family struggle. While she and her husband breathe in the chatter of local tradesmen, the fragrant offerings of well-wishing neighbors, and the aroma of fine wine, her father awaits in Canada, anticipating the day he will again touch Italian soil.
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Heartbreaking
- By Frieda on 01-03-26
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My Father Came from Italy
- Narrated by: Carol Schneider
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 29-03-13
- Language: English
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The Broken Circle
- A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
- By: Enjeela Ahmadi-Miller
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Before the Soviet invasion of 1980, Enjeela Ahmadi remembers her home - Kabul, Afghanistan - as peaceful, prosperous, and filled with people from all walks of life. But after her mother, unsettled by growing political unrest, leaves for medical treatment in India, the civil war intensifies, changing young Enjeela’s life forever. Amid the rumble of invading Soviet tanks, Enjeela and her family are thrust into chaos and fear when it becomes clear that her mother will not be coming home.
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Raw and brave
- By Amazon Customer on 14-09-24
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The Broken Circle
- A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-03-19
- Language: English
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- By: Robert Gordon
- Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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“A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman’s songs.” —Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters—who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the...
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Can't Be Satisfied
- The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
- Narrated by: Keb' Mo'
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-04-24
- Language: English
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Of This Our Country
- Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia, Oseloka Obi
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate...
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Both entertaining and educational
- By ClareR on 06-01-24
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Of This Our Country
- Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know
- Narrated by: Weruche Opia, Oseloka Obi
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 30-09-21
- Language: English
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My Beloved World
- By: Sonia Sotomayor
- Narrated by: Rita Moreno
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
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The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that...
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Absolutely lovely inspiring life story
- By Amazon Customer on 26-09-17
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My Beloved World
- Narrated by: Rita Moreno
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 15-01-13
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- By: Susana M. Morris
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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A magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work. As the first Black woman to consistently write and publish in the field of science fiction, Octavia Butler was a trailblazer...
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Positive Obsession
- The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Karen Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 19-08-25
- Language: English
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The Day We Forgot to Smile
- Stories from the Tender Corners of Life
- By: Anthony Owens
- Narrated by: Maliek Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The Day We Forgot to Smile is a powerful collection of true-to-life stories capturing the quiet battles, hidden heartbreaks, and small triumphs that shape a family growing up in 1970s Bushwick. Through vivid scenes of brotherhood, survival, faith, and the search for joy in hard places, Anthony Owens takes listeners back to a childhood lived between danger and hope.
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The Day We Forgot to Smile
- Stories from the Tender Corners of Life
- Narrated by: Maliek Washington
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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