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Mary Oliver - At Blackwater Pond

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story

Angela Saini
Narrated by Hannah Melbourn

What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew

On sale 5/23/17

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Mary Oliver - At Blackwater Pond

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life and Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks

Angela Jackson
Narrated by Janina Edwards

A look back at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, in celebration of her hundredth birthday

On sale 5/30/17

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Haroon Moghul - How to Be a Muslim

How to Be a Muslim: An American Story

Haroon Moghul
Narrated by Kamran R. Khan

A young Muslim leader’s memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity

On sale 6/6/17

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Sheryll Cashin - Loving

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Sheryll Cashin
Narrated by Trei Taylor

How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics

On sale 6/6/17

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Available Titles

Mary Oliver - At Blackwater Pond

At Blackwater Pond

Mary Oliver
Read by the author

The first-ever Mary Oliver recording, featuring the poet reading her selection of forty poems

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Mary Oliver - At Blackwater Pond

Many Miles

Mary Oliver
Read by the author

Beloved poet Mary Oliver reads a selection of forty-one of her poems

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Mary Oliver - At Blackwater Pond

I Told You So

Kate Clinton
Read by the author

A laugh-till-you-cry abridged audio from Kate Clinton’s I Told You So with added bonus tracks

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Rashod Ollison - Soul Serenade audiobook

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear

Danielle Ofri
Narrated by Ann M. Richardson

Can refocusing conversations between doctors and their patients lead to better health?

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Martin Moran - All the Rage audiobook

All the Rage: A Quest

Martin Moran
Narrated by the author

A moving and surprisingly funny memoir about finding the right balance between anger and compassion

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Jay Parini - West Mountain Epilogue audiobook

West Mountain Epilogue: A Reading by Jay Parini from His New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015

Jay Parini
Read by the author

A reading by Jay Parini of 33 of his most celebrated poems.

Listen to "Lament of the Middle Man"

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Jerald Walker - The World in Flames audiobook

The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

Jerald Walker
Narrated by C.S. Treadway

A memoir of growing up with blind, African-American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world

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Michael Berube - Life as Jamie Knows It Audiobook

Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up

Michael Bérubé
Narrated by Brian Roberts

The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life

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Adrienne Berard - Water Tossing Boulders audiobook

Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South

Adrienne Berard
Narrated by Moe Egan

A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never told.

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber - The Third Reconstruction audiobook

The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear

The Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II , with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Narrated by Chase Bradley

A modern-day civil rights champion tells the stirring story of how he helped start a movement to bridge America’s racial divide.

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Rashod Ollison - Soul Serenade audiobook

Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl

Rashod Ollison
Narrated by C.S. Treadway

A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music

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Forrest Church - Love and Death

Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow

Forrest Church
Narrated by the author

An intimate and compelling work from a beloved minister facing his own imminent death

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Marianne Leone - Ma Speaks Up audiobook

Ma Speaks Up: And a First Generation Daughter Talks Back

Marianne Leone
Narrated by the author

The acclaimed actress and author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story tells the story of her outspoken, frequently outrageous Italian immigrant mother

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