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  • Shifting Through Neutral

    A Novel

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if in synch with the Stevie Wonder tunes that play giddily from new automobiles fresh off the factory lots. Her bid whist–playing mother is as nervous as ever, and her father's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love, Rita

    An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, a moving memoir of profound love and loss from the acclaimed author of The World According to Fannie Davis.In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Just four years apart in age, as the two sisters grew into young adulthood they left behind their childhood rivalry and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The World According to Fannie Davis

    My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Into the Go-Slow

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    A young black woman visits Africa on a quest for peace, meaning, and love in "a beautiful allegory at the heart of a realist novel . . . A strong book" (Chris Abani, author of The Secret History of Las Vegas).In 1986 Detroit, twenty-one-year-old Angie is still mourning the death of her brilliant, radical sister, Ella, when she impulsively decides to pack up and go to the place where Ella ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daddy Was a Number Runner (55th Anniversary Edition)

    by Louise Meriwether, Bridgett M. Davis, Farah Griffin, Deesha Philyaw ...
    **"**A most important novel.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA new edition of Louise Meriwether’s classic novel about a young Black girl’s coming-of-age in Harlem in the 1930s, featuring new writing celebrating Meriwether’s life, work, and activism.Francie Coffin is the daughter of a number runner, someone who collects bets for the underground lottery that drives Harlem’s secret economy. In Louise ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Love, Rita

    An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    Narrated by Bridgett M. Davis ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 29 min

    A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, profound love and loss from the acclaimed author of The World According to Fannie Davis.In Love, Rita Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her beloved older sister Rita, who knew Bridgett before she knew herself. Just four years apart in age, as the two sisters grew into young adulthood they left behind their childhood rivalry and became best friends ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The World According to Fannie Davis

    My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

    by Bridgett M. Davis ...
    Narrated by Bridgett M. Davis ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Black Summers

    Growing Up in the Urban Outdoors

    by Cassandra Spratling, Tommye Blount, D'Nae Hearn, Pamela Hilliard Owens, various authors, Zig Zag Claybourne, Luther Keith, Renee Simms, Shannon Garth-Rhodes, Keith A. Owens, Esperanza Cintrón0, Mic Jennings1, Satori Shakoor2, Desiree Cooper4, Jean Alicia Elster5, Chace Morris6, Rochelle Wilson-Ellis7, Isaiah Chambers8, Xavier Jackson9, Brittany Rogers0, Stephen Henderson1, Kahn Santori Davison2, MARS. Marshall3, Lillien Waller4, Justin Boggués5, Charisma Holly6, Kamron Reynolds7, Bridgett M. Davis8, Nandi Comer9, Angela Atabex Lugo-Thomas0 ...
    Narrated by Janina Edwards1, Patryce Williams2, JD Jackson3, André Santana4, January LaVoy5, Robin Miles6, Dion Graham7, Ron Butler8 ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 45 min

    A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites listeners to breathe deeply and return to that “carefree” season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Alice

    Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute

    by Ivy Anderson, Devon Angus ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s worldIn 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. “A Voice from the Underworld” detailed Alice’s humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Detroit `67

    The Year that changed Soul

    by Stuart Cosgrove, Tillmann Gscheidle, Sasha Zigic ...
    Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 40 min

    The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music SceneIt's January 1967-and one of the worst snowstorms in decades is blanketing Detroit, Michigan. Berry Gordy, owner of Motown Records, is trapped in his home, unable to do anything about the internal war ravaging his most successful group, The Supremes. Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard are imploding as Ballard battles ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

    by Michael Bennett, Dave Zirin ...
    Narrated by JD Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 55 min

    Super Bowl Champion and two-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor. One of the most scathingly humorous athletes on the planet, he is also a fearless activist, grassroots philanthropist, and organizer.Bennett, a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, has gained international recognition for his public support for the Black Lives ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Water Tossing Boulders

    How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools inthe Jim Crow South

    by Adrienne Berard ...
    Narrated by Moe Egan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 5 min

    A generation before Brown v. Board of Education struck down America’s “separate but equal” doctrine, one Chinese family and an eccentric Mississippi lawyer fought for desegregation in one of the greatest legal battles never toldOn September 15, 1924, Martha Lum and her older sister Berda were barred from attending middle school in Rosedale, Mississippi. The girls were Chinese American and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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