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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Available on: Audio Download ($19.99) | Audio CD ($35.99) | MP3 CD ($26.99)
The inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia.
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MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Tapes
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Available on: Audio Download ($9.95) | Audio CD ($12.76)
This historical compilation of Martin Luther King, Jr. features live recordings of "The Great March To Freedom," "The Great March To Washington" and the immortal "Free At Last" speech.
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Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
Available on: Audio Download ($24.98) | Audio CD ($39.96) | Audio Cassette ($39.95)
Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....
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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
Available on: Audio Download ($20.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This explosive new audiobook challenges many of the long-held assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans and Nazis, about slavery, and about education.
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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
by Vinay Rai
Available on: Audio Download ($15.00) | Audio CD ($26.99) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
With 1.1 billion residents, the world’s largest democracy is poised to dominate the world stage. One of India’s wealthiest men gives an insider’s view into his country’s dynamic transformation, revealing the forces and unique characteristics behind India’s meteoric rise.
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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
Available on: Audio Download ($19.58) | Audio CD ($35.96)
Radio host and best-selling author Larry Elder has made a career out of being a thorn in the side of the conventional-wisdom crowd.
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The Avengers
by Rob Cohen
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50)
From Rich Cohen, one of the preeminent journalists of his generation and author of the highly praised Tough Jews, a powerful exploration of vindication and revenge, of dignity and rebellion, painstakingly recreated through his exclusive access to the Avengers themselves.
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Available on: Audio Download ($13.75) | Audio CD
At once a powerful evocation of his early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the onsequences of racial injustice to both the individual and the body politic, James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil rights movement with his eloquent manifesto. The Fire Next Time stands as one of the essential works of our literature.
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Meeting Hate with Love
by Arun Gandhi
Available on: Audio Download ($4.95)
Two segments that assess the legacy of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., utilizing archive recordings and interviews with colleagues and relatives.
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The Black List
by Elvis Mitchell
Available on: Audio Download ($9.92) | Audio CD ($15.96)
In The Black List, 25 prominent African-Americans of various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds offer their own stories and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in America - and, in the process, redefine "black list" for a new century.
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The Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book
by Jessica McElrath
Available on: Audio Download ($24.49) | Audio CD ($34.99)
Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most inspirational figures in American history. From his march on Washington to his time in a Birmingham jail, King's life and work continue to have a profound effect on our nation.
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The Color of Love
by Gene Cheek
Available on: Audio Download ($29.98)
Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism. At its core, this is a frank account of a love affair between a white woman and a black man that took mother from son and split a family forever.
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Acts of Faith: Meditations for People of Color
by Iyanla Vanzant
Available on: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio CD
Acts of Faith is a thoughtful and inspirational work that explores the unique pressures on people of color with great insight and sensitivity.
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April 4, 1968
by Michael Eric Dyson
Available on: Audio Download ($13.95) | Audio CD ($17.96) | Audio Cassette ($44.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, was fatally shot. Only hours earlier, he had ended his final public speech by promising that “we as a people will get to the Promised Land.”
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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Available on: Audio Download ($31.47) | Audio CD ($40.46)
In this funny and touching novel Amy Tan reveals important truths about the effect of secrets kept and revealed, and the miraculous, resilient nature of love among mothers, daughters, and friends.
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Hundred in the Hand
by Joseph M. Marshall III
Available on: Audio Download ($19.95) | Audio CD ($80.00) | Audio Cassette ($59.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
Seeking to round out the compelling story of the American West, best-selling Lakota author Joseph M. Marshall III brings a new slant to the traditional Western: historical fiction written from the Native American viewpoint.
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Ethnic America
by Thomas Sowell
Available on: Audio Download ($22.95) | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Thomas Sowell provides us with a useful and concise record tracing the history of nine ethnic groups: Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.
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Crowded Land of Liberty
by Dirk Chase Eldredge
Available on: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Dirk Chase Eldredge, longtime specialist in public-policy issues, examines the impact of immigration on U.S. society…
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What is the What
by Dave Eggers
Available on: Audio Download ($36.75)
In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States.
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
by Carol Jenkins
Available on: Audio Download ($27.99)
A.G. Gaston, the poor grandson of slaves, was born in the Deep South in 1892. Over the course of his extraordinary life, he amassed a fortune of over $130 million and a vast business empire.
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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie Chang
Available on: Audio Download ($19.00) | Audio CD ($34.19) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
China has 130 million migrant workers - the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women...
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Hella Nation: Looking for Happy Meals in Kandahar, Rocking the Side Pipe, Wingnut's War Against the Gap, and Other Adventures with t
by Evan Wright
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
From his work as a reporter at Hustler magazine to his National Magazine Award-winning writing for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, Evan Wright has always had an affinity for outsiders---what he calls "the lost tribes of America."
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Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African American Explorer of the American South
by Robert Goodwin
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
Nearly two centuries before Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began their epic trek to the Pacific coast, a group of three Spanish noblemen and an African survived shipwreck, famine, Indian attack, and disease to make the first crossing of North America in recorded history.
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Between Two Worlds: From Tyranny to Freedom, My Escape from the Inner Circle of Saddam
by Zainab Salbi
Available on: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($20.69)
Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot, her family often forced to spend weekends with Saddam where he watched their every move.
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