African American Memoirs

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    • The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan
    • Auteur(s): Elaine M. Hayes
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 13 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Sarah Vaughan, a pivotal figure in the formation of bebop, influenced a broad array of singers who followed in her wake....

    Prix courant: 32,62$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire
    • Auteur(s): Kal Raustiala
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross, Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 22 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A legendary diplomat, scholar, and civil rights leader, Ralph Bunche was one of the most prominent Black Americans of the twentieth century. In The Absolutely Indispensable Man, Kal Raustiala restores Bunche to his rightful place in history....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Brendan I. Koerner
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 10 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of WWII. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his White commanding officers, found solace in opium....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • My Journey From Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
    • Auteur(s): Chris Wilson, Bret Witter, Wes Moore - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Chris Wilson, Wes Moore
    • Durée: 9 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-02-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • The inspiring, instructive, and ultimately triumphant memoir of a man who used hard work and a Master Plan to turn a life sentence into a second chance....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Speculative History
    • Auteur(s): Christopher Tomlins
    • Narrateur(s): Paul Boehmer
    • Durée: 11 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-03-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed 55 whites, mostly women and children....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption
    • Auteur(s): Phil Allen Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 5 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River. Three generations later, Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story and recounts the "baton of bitterness" that this murder passed down in his family....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    • Golf's Forgotten Star
    • Auteur(s): Gordon Hobson
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 4 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • His story is unprecedented in the world of golf. Born to a family of migrant laborers, Calvin Peete dropped out of school in the eighth grade, went to work picking crops, first swung a golf club at the age of twenty-three-and rose to the top of the PGA....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • Auteur(s): Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley’s music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Calvin Newborn.

    Prix courant: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • An African Boy, an American Lawyer, and Their Remarkable Battle for Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Jim Gash
    • Narrateur(s): Brandon Batchelar, Jason White
    • Durée: 10 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Jim Gash's comfortable life as a Los Angeles lawyer and law professor nearly ensured that he and Henry, a Ugandan boy languishing in prison for two murders he didn't commit, would never meet....

    Prix courant: 32,98$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,98$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Autobiography of a Great American Businessman
    • Auteur(s): John H. Johnson, Lerone Bennett Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): John H. Johnson
    • Durée: 2 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • John H. Johnson, the remarkable entrepreneur who founded the Ebony publishing empire, tells the story of his success....

    Prix courant: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Eric L. Heard
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Herron
    • Durée: 2 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The purpose of this audiobook is an awkward discussion of Eric Heard’s life to his son. He talks about his life in a candid way that tries to explain his anxiety as an African American dad....

    Prix courant: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 8,71$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Terrell Carter, Stacy Thunes
    • Narrateur(s): Terrell Carter
    • Durée: 7 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Problem Child is the unbelievably true story of Terrell Carter, an American musician and actor who grew up in Buffalo, New York, in a dysfunctional family, each member crazier than the next....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 8 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

    Prix courant: 34,82$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 34,82$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Biography
    • Auteur(s): Donald Bogle
    • Narrateur(s): Donald Bogle, Matthew J. Turner
    • Durée: 26 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer - the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award - who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Making of a Black Theologian
    • Auteur(s): James H. Cone
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 5 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this powerful and passionate memoir, Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those - like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow - who had no voice....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tick
    • Narrateur(s): Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Durée: 19 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole
    • Auteur(s): Will Jawando
    • Narrateur(s): Will Jawando
    • Durée: 7 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-05-03
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Drawing on Will Jawando’s inspiring personal story and involvement in My Brother’s Keeper, a national initiative to address opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color, My Seven Black Fathers offers a transformative way for Black men to shape the next generation....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
    • Narrateur(s): Edoardo Camponeschi
    • Durée: 7 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-08-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit