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My One Good Nerve

by Ruby Dee ...

Intimate reflections on loving and living from an American treasure."My One Good Nerve draws me back into my sweetest past . . . a work of memory and art."--Maya Angelou.My One Good Nerve is an exuberant collection of writings in the down-home tradition by that incomparable icon of the human spirit, Ruby Dee. Married for 50 years to fellow actor Ossie Davis, Dee has led an astonishingly full life. ... Read more

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Intimate reflections on loving and living from an American treasure."My One Good Nerve draws me back into my sweetest past . . . a work of memory and art."--Maya Angelou.My One Good Nerve is an exuberant collection of writings in the down-home tradition by that incomparable icon of the human spirit, Ruby Dee. Married for 50 years to fellow actor Ossie Davis, Dee has led an astonishingly full life.
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Life Lit by Some Large Vision

Selected Speeches and Writings

by Ossie Davis ...

Star actor of stage, film**,** and television, civil rights activist, screenwriter, and director, Ossie Davis was among the most beloved and respected men in Hollywood and American society as a whole, whose brilliant oratory style was among his most inspiring and celebrated gifts**—and all of his written essays, tributes, letters, and more have been collected for this book.**This book represents ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Star actor of stage, film**,** and television, civil rights activist, screenwriter, and director, Ossie Davis was among the most beloved and respected men in Hollywood and American society as a whole, whose brilliant oratory style was among his most inspiring and celebrated gifts**—and all of his written essays, tributes, letters, and more have been collected for this book.**This book represents
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I Never Had It Made

by Jackie Robinson ...

Narrated by Ossie Davis ...

Abridged

2 hours 59 min

The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie RobinsonBefore Barry Bonds, before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is Robinson's own ... Read more

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The bestselling autobiography of American baseball and civil rights legend Jackie RobinsonBefore Barry Bonds, before Reggie Jackson, before Hank Aaron, baseball's stars had one undeniable trait in common: they were all white. In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke that barrier, striking a crucial blow for racial equality and changing the world of sports forever. I Never Had It Made is Robinson's own
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With Ossie and Ruby

In This Life Together

by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee ...

Narrated by Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee ...

Abridged

6 hours 15 min

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and the black community. Now they look back on a half- century of their personal and political struggles to maintain a healthy marriage and to create the record of ... Read more

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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and the black community. Now they look back on a half- century of their personal and political struggles to maintain a healthy marriage and to create the record of
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Every Tongue Got to Confess

Negro Folk-tales From the Gulf States

by Zora Neale Hurston ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at ... Read more

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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at
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47

by Walter Mosley ...

Narrated by Ossie Davis ...

Unabridged

6 hours 18 min

47 is the first young adult novel to be written by bestselling author Walter Mosley. A master storyteller, Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring novel. Set in a plantation, 47 (a young slave boy) is growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed, until he meets the mysterious Tall John who not only introduces him to an unimaginable ... Read more

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47 is the first young adult novel to be written by bestselling author Walter Mosley. A master storyteller, Mosley deftly mixes speculative and historical fiction in this daring novel. Set in a plantation, 47 (a young slave boy) is growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal slave master. His life seems doomed, until he meets the mysterious Tall John who not only introduces him to an unimaginable
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Maggie's American Dream

The Life and Times of a Black Family

by James P. Comer ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis ...

Abridged

2 hours 46 min

The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up earning a total of thirteen college degrees between them.Told first in Maggie's own moving words, and then ... Read more

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The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up earning a total of thirteen college degrees between them.Told first in Maggie's own moving words, and then
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Mules and Men

by Zora Neale Hurston ...

Narrated by Ruby Dee ...

Abridged

2 hours 57 min

""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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""Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read."" --Roger D. AbrahamsMules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her ""native village"" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her
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Jimmie Lee and James

Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement That Changed America

by Adar Cohen, Steve Fiffer ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

"Bloody Sunday"—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that afternoon?Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in ... Read more

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"Bloody Sunday"—March 7, 1965—was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. The national outrage generated by scenes of Alabama state troopers attacking peaceful demonstrators fueled the drive toward the passage of the Voting Rights Acts later that year. But why were hundreds of activists marching from Selma to Montgomery that afternoon?Days earlier, during the crackdown on another protest in
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Bayou Magic

by Jewell Parker Rhodes ...

Narrated by Bahni Turpin ...

Series series Louisiana Girls Trilogy
Unabridged

4 hours 46 min

A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids—plus an environmental twist.It’s city-girl Maddy’s first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings—the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she ... Read more

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A magical coming-of-age story from Coretta Scott King honor author Jewell Parker Rhodes, rich with Southern folklore, friendship, family, fireflies and mermaids—plus an environmental twist.It’s city-girl Maddy’s first summer in the bayou, and she just falls in love with her new surroundings—the glimmering fireflies, the glorious landscape, and something else, deep within the water, that only she
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Disgrace

A Novel

by J. M. Coetzee ...

Narrated by Michael Cumpsty ...

Unabridged

7 hours 1 min

**The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker**At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends ... Read more

$34.95 USD

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**The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker**At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends
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In the Name of the Family

A Novel

by Sarah Dunant ...

Narrated by Nicholas Boulton ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK)“In the end, what’s a historical novelist’s obligation to the dead? Accuracy? Empathy? Justice? Or is it only to make them live again? Dunant ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Before the Corleones, before the Lannisters, there were the Borgias. One of history’s notorious families comes to life in a captivating novel from the author of The Birth of Venus.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY COSMOPOLITAN (UK) AND THE TIMES (UK)“In the end, what’s a historical novelist’s obligation to the dead? Accuracy? Empathy? Justice? Or is it only to make them live again? Dunant
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