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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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.
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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
Credits: Audio Download
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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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Credits: Audio Cassette
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama.
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Credits: Audio Download | 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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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
by Rafe Esquith
Credits: Audio Download
Best-selling author Rafe Esquith, the only teacher to receive the National Medal of Arts, has garnered the American Teacher Award and numerous other honors.
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Black Boy
by Richard Wright
Credits: Audio CD
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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Religion, Myth, and Magic
by Susan A. Johnston
Credits: Audio Download
Anthropologist Susan Johnston turns a scholarly eye on one of humankind's primary interests throughout history: the spiritual belief system.
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Meeting Hate with Love
by Arun Gandhi
Credits: Audio Download
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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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
Credits: Audio Download
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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Iron & Silk
by Mark Salzman
Credits: Audio Download
Mark Salzman graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1982. With his degree in his pocket, he took his cello and himself to China for a two-year stint teaching English. This is his portrait of the people and places he encountered.
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The Avengers
by Rob Cohen
Credits: Audio Download
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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Nomad
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Credits: Audio Download
In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society.
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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Credits: Audio Download
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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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Leslie Chang
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
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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Stupid Black Men
by Larry Elder
Credits: Audio Download
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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History of Native America
by Ned Blackhawk
Credits: Audio Download
In these illuminating lectures from Professor Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), a history of Native America is provided from the time shortly before the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present.
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Rabbit Ears Treasury of African American Heroes: Follow the Drinking Gourd; John Henry
Credits: Audio CD
Rabbit Ears Treasury of African American Heroes features brave and spirited characters in these classic stories read by your favorite stars and featuring original music by some of today’s greatest artists.
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Think India: The Rise of the World's Next Superpower and What It Means for Every American
by Vinay Rai
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD
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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Acts of Faith: Meditations for People of Color
by Iyanla Vanzant
Credits: Audio Download
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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A Slave No More
by David Blight
Credits: Audio Download
Slave narratives are extremely rare. Of the one hundred or so of these testimonies that survive, a mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves.
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What is the What
by Dave Eggers
Credits: Audio Download
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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The People's Dynasty: Culture and Society in Modern China
by Robert J. Shepard
Credits: Audio Download
The state-directed opening of the Chinese economy in 1979 led to a number of radical transformations within Chinese society, but Western understanding of these changes is often limited by erroneous assumptions.
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Kabul Beauty School
by Deborah Rodriguez
Credits: Audio Download | Audio CD
In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of the Kabul Beauty School.
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