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Hair Story

Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

by Ayana D. Byrd, Lori L. Tharps ...

"As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things." —Philadelphiaweekly.comHair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans' tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day ... Read more

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"As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things." —Philadelphiaweekly.comHair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans' tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day
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Naked

Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts

Edited by Ayana Byrd, Akiba Solomon ...

Provocative essays on body image by black women.Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe.Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality, it follows women on their paths to acceptance-and enjoyment -of their unique features...to a place where it doesn't matter ... Read more

$13.99 CAD

Provocative essays on body image by black women.Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe.Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality, it follows women on their paths to acceptance-and enjoyment -of their unique features...to a place where it doesn't matter
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Hair Story

Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

by Lori L. Tharps, Ayana D. Byrd ...

Narrated by Janina Edwards ...

Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 2013 uproar over an Ohio school that banned Afro puffs, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we move through the twenty-first ... Read more

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Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair. From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 2013 uproar over an Ohio school that banned Afro puffs, the issues surrounding Black hair continue to linger as we move through the twenty-first
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Endangered Eating

America's Vanishing Foods

by Sarah Lohman ...

Narrated by Sarah Lohman ...

Unabridged

11 hours 6 min

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural ... Read more

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Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates?these are foods that carry significant cultural
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Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

by Amir Alexander ...

Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs ... Read more

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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs
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Freedom's Detective

The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror

by Charles Lane ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

10 hours

“This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the EmpireFreedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their b... ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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“This is a powerful, vitally important story, and Lane brings it to life with not only vast amounts of research but with a remarkable gift for storytelling that makes the pages fly by.” —Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt and Hero of the EmpireFreedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their b...
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Real American

A Memoir

by Julie Lythcott-Haims ...

Narrated by Julie Lythcott-Haims ...

Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

**This program is read by the author.A fearless debut audiobook memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.**Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

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**This program is read by the author.A fearless debut audiobook memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America.**Bringing a poetic sensibility to her prose to stunning effect, Lythcott-Haims briskly and stirringly evokes her personal battle with the low self-esteem that
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Without Consent

A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime

by Sarah Weinman ...

Narrated by Sarah Weinman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades.In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many
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Visionary Women

How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World

by Andrea Barnet ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

19 hours 17 min

Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

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Four influential women we thought we knew well—Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters—and how they spearheaded the modern progressive movementThis is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together, these women—linked not by friendship or field, but by their choice to break with convention—showed what one person speaking truth to power
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Six hot naked old women on a running machine

A scrambled chronicle of my family bondage

by Peter Jalesh ...

My grand-grandparents had in their house a servant they brought long time before from Mexico. Her name was Freda. She had a big overflowing breast. Before she would put me to bed she’d take me in her arms and set my nose between her tits. I’ll take a plunge there and get asleep very fast against my will. She smelled always like cayenne pepper mixed with basil. Sometimes before I went to sleep I ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

My grand-grandparents had in their house a servant they brought long time before from Mexico. Her name was Freda. She had a big overflowing breast. Before she would put me to bed she’d take me in her arms and set my nose between her tits. I’ll take a plunge there and get asleep very fast against my will. She smelled always like cayenne pepper mixed with basil. Sometimes before I went to sleep I
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The Best Advice I Ever Got

Lessons from Extraordinary Lives

by Katie Couric ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to see how today’s best and brightest got it right, got it wrong, and came out on top.What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? In this inspiration-packed book, Katie Couric reports from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthropy, the arts, and business ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to see how today’s best and brightest got it right, got it wrong, and came out on top.What was the tipping point for Malcolm Gladwell? What unscripted event made Meryl Streep who she is? In this inspiration-packed book, Katie Couric reports from the front lines of the worlds of politics, entertainment, sports, philanthropy, the arts, and business
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Black Friend

Essays

by Ziwe ...

With the razor-sharp, late-night comedic timing of a Ziwe interview and the pop-culture fluency of an NPR podcast, Black Friend is a hilarious, unapologetic dissection of modern tokenism.What does it actually feel like to be “the Black friend” in a predominantly white world—and how do you navigate that role without losing yourself?In Black Friend, comedian and cultural critic Ziwe turns he... ... Read more

$15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

With the razor-sharp, late-night comedic timing of a Ziwe interview and the pop-culture fluency of an NPR podcast, Black Friend is a hilarious, unapologetic dissection of modern tokenism.What does it actually feel like to be “the Black friend” in a predominantly white world—and how do you navigate that role without losing yourself?In Black Friend, comedian and cultural critic Ziwe turns he...
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