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Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson
Price: 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.
Price: 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
Price: 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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A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Price: Audio Cassette ($15.16)
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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In the Ruins of Empire
by Ronald H. Spector
Price: 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 Boy
by Richard Wright
Price: Audio CD ($31.96)
Richard Wright's devastating autobiography of his childhood and youth in the Jim Crow South.
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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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Born to Kvetch
by Michael Wex
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($31.46)
As the main spoken language of the Jews for more than a thousand years, Yiddish has had plenty to lament, plenty to conceal. Its phrases and expressions paint a comprehensive picture of the mind-set that enabled the Jews of Europe to survive persecution...
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
Price: 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
Price: 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 Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China, and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD | MP3 CD ($17.99)
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials, and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built highways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo.
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Life Beyond Measure
by Sidney Poitier
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($27.96)
Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on his amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter.
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Song Yet Sung
by James McBride
Price: Audio CD ($31.96)
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Color of Water comes a powerful page-turner about a runaway slave and a determined slave catcher.
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The Black List
by Elvis Mitchell
Price: 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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Rabbit Ears Treasury of African American Heroes: Follow the Drinking Gourd; John Henry
Price: Audio CD ($9.56)
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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The Everything Martin Luther King, Jr. Book
by Jessica McElrath
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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
Price: 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 Life of an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($22.49) | MP3 CD ($17.99)
Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, writer, journalist, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
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The Kitchen God's Wife
by Amy Tan
Price: 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
Price: 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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