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    BLACK FIRST LADY: CONVERSATIONS THROUGH THE YEARS

    Narrated by Liz Lovegood ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    Michelle Obama legacy as FIRST LADY is sealed forever in America fabric. She exemplified strength, compassion, and beauty like any other first lady before her. When it came to social issues, people could feel her empathy and familiarity with their problems, and her honesty is what drew people to her. Michelle Obama conversations in this book show a side to the world, that I BECAME cannot compare ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Begin Again

    James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

    Narrated by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2020A Washington Post N****otable Work of Non-Fiction 2020A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into beingThe struggles of Black... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD

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    Updike

    by Adam Begley ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 12 min

    A masterful, much-anticipated biography of one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Updike—a candid, intimate, and richly detailed look at his life and workIn this magisterial biography, Adam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD

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    The Questions That Matter Most

    Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

    by Jane Smiley ...
    Narrated by Jane Smiley ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Long acclaimed as one of America’s preeminent novelists, Jane Smiley is also an unparalleled observer of the craft of writing. In The Questions That Matter Mostthis Pulitzer Prize–winning writer offers steady and penetrating essays on some of the aesthetic and cultural issues that mark anyserious engagement with reading and writing. Beginning with a personal introduction tracing Smiley’s migration ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Más afuera

    Unabridged

    11 hours 5 min

    Una incisiva colección de ensayos, donde Jonathan Franzen vuelve con renovado vigor a los temas, tanto humanos como literarios, que le han preocupado durante mucho tiempo.Bien sea narrando su violento encuentro con cazadores furtivos en Chipre, bien sea señalando de forma aguda y conmovedora cómo el abuso de las nuevas tecnologías está erosionando el sentido de la intimidad, Franzen cumple en cada ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Unguessed Kinships

    Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 51 min

    It took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more bestsellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy's commitment to an older form of literary expression: naturalism. McCarthy's work tends to darker themes: violence, brutality, the cruel indifference ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Worlding the Western

    Contemporary US Western Fiction and the Global Community

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    This recording has been digitally produced by DeepZen Limited, using a synthesized version of an audiobook narrator’s voice under license. DeepZen uses Emotive Speech Technology to create digital narrations that offer a similar listening experience to human narration.A positive, critical concept through which to view the notion of a single world under pressure. Diversity, disparity, & opposition ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Erasing The Black Family: How White America Is Trying to Erase Black History, Black Families and Black Successes

    Narrated by Books with Voices ...

    Unabridged

    23 min

    Another day has come and gone, and a black family lost another black person to police brutality, a corrupt justice system, and gun violence. America has always had a system in place to terminate black people if they rise too high, or accomplish triumphs where they are absent from taking credit for. I understand black America is resilience and strong, however, how many police killings are we going ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Detectives in the Shadows

    A Hard-Boiled History

    by Susanna Lee ...
    Narrated by Christina Delaine ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 16 min

    Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force-and sometimes even the law-is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

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    Scenes of Subjection

    Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America

    Narrated by Nichole Marie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 2 min

    In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Black Like Who?

    20th anniversary edition

    Narrated by Nigel Williams ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 57 min

    Rinaldo Walcott’s groundbreaking study of black culture in Canada, Black Like Who?, caused an uproar upon its publication. With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott’s book not only assesses the role of black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness. As ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Republic of Imagination

    America in Three Books

    by Azar Nafisi ...
    Narrated by Mozhan Marnò ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 8 min

    **A New York Times bestsellerThe author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America**Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and ... Read more

    $33.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Read Until You Understand

    The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR IMPARTS THE LESSONS BEQUEATHED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ITS REMARKABLE ARTISTS AND THINKERS.Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life.Griffin ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The

    Narrated by Rhett Samuel Price ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    Olaudah Equiano was born in Eboe in 1745, and lived among his family and culture until he was kidnapped later, which began a chain of being sold and moved around Africa, to Barbados, and eventually to England, where he served a man as a crewmate on a ship. From there, Equiano was transferred between many owners, but was constantly seeking any advantages that would get him closer to buying his own ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Into the Wild

    by Adam Sexton ...
    Narrated by Luke Daniels ...
    Series series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    1 hour 49 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Krakauer's Into the Wild supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou

    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 38 min

    A comprehensive biographical and critical reading of the works of American poet and memoirist Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Linda Wagner-Martin covers all six of Angelou's autobiographies, as well as her essay and poetry collections, while also exploring Angelou's life as an African American in the United States, her career as stage and film performer, her thoughtful participation in the Civil Rights ... Read more

    $23.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Kite Runner, The

    Narrated by Luke Daniels ...
    Series series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Hosseini's The Kite Runner supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Fahrenheit 451

    by Kristi Hiner ...
    Narrated by Tim Wheeler ...
    Series series Cliffs Notes

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    The CliffsNotes study guide on Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was ... Read more

    $42.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The American Adrenaline Narrative

    Narrated by Emily Durante ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 47 min

    The American Adrenaline Narrative considers the nature of perilous outdoor adventure tales, their gendered biases, and how they simultaneously promote and hinder ecological sustainability. To explore these themes, Kristin J. Jacobson defines and compares adrenaline narratives by a range of American authors published after the first Earth Day in 1970, a time frame selected as a watershed moment for ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living

    A Handbook for the Damned Human Race

    by Mark Twain ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 23 min

    Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    The Write Stuff

    40 Episodes from the Panel Game of Literary Correctness

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    Highlights from the light-hearted literary quiz chaired by James WaltonThe Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.Each episode is themed around an ‘Author of the ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

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    Now Comes Good Sailing

    Writers Reflect on Henry David Thoreau

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    This audiobook brings together original pieces on Thoreau by twenty-seven of today's leading writersWith narration by William Hope, Barbara Barnes, Kaliswa Brewster, Kate Harper, Peter Marinker, and Ako MitchellFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan • Kristen Case • George Howe Colt • Gerald Early • Paul Elie • Will Eno • Adam Gopnik • Lauren Groff • Celeste Headlee • Pico Iyer • Alan Lightman ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Jonathan Franzen

    The Comedy of Rage

    Narrated by Tom Zingarelli ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    Jonathan Franzen's work raises major questions about the possibilities of contemporary fiction: How does one appeal to a broad mass of mainstream readers, on the one hand, while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's fiction has is high art? Even more acutely, how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two later novels ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD

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    Cross of Snow

    A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Narrated by Robert Fass ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 21 min

    In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work-the soul-of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD