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Medical Bondage

Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology

by Deirdre Cooper Owens ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied ... Read more

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The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied
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My Soul Is a Witness

The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching

by Mari N. Crabtree ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 23 min

An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its traumaMari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. African American victims and survivors had to find a way to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching.Crabtree offers a theory of ... Read more

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An intimate look at the afterlife of lynching through the personal stories of Black victims and survivors who lived through and beyond its traumaMari N. Crabtree traces the long afterlife of lynching in the South through the traumatic memories it left in its wake. African American victims and survivors had to find a way to live through and beyond the horrors of lynching.Crabtree offers a theory of
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Vanished

by Elizabeth Heiter ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Profiler Series
Unabridged

10 hours 59 min

Sometimes the past can haunt you …Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine's best friend, Cassie Byers, disappeared, the third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery rhyme was left at the scene, a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn was also an intended victim. Now, after all these years of silence, another girl has gone missing in South Carolina, and the Nursery Rhyme ... Read more

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Sometimes the past can haunt you …Eighteen years ago, FBI profiler Evelyn Baine's best friend, Cassie Byers, disappeared, the third in a series of unsolved abductions. Only a macabre nursery rhyme was left at the scene, a nursery rhyme that claimed Evelyn was also an intended victim. Now, after all these years of silence, another girl has gone missing in South Carolina, and the Nursery Rhyme
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The Three Lives of Mary Sutton

A Novel

by Allyson Johnson ...

For fans of Marie Benedict and Rachel Beanland, this debut novel shows a grittier side of the Gilded Age as two young women struggle to find their own way in 1880s New York, where the cards are stacked in favor of men.In 1878, young Mame Sutton escapes her oppressive father through a quick marriage to the charming stage manager of a New York theatre, while her younger sister Lizzie makes the same ... Read more

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For fans of Marie Benedict and Rachel Beanland, this debut novel shows a grittier side of the Gilded Age as two young women struggle to find their own way in 1880s New York, where the cards are stacked in favor of men.In 1878, young Mame Sutton escapes her oppressive father through a quick marriage to the charming stage manager of a New York theatre, while her younger sister Lizzie makes the same
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

A Novel

by Ntozake Shange ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 4 min

Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams. Cypress, the dancer, ... Read more

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Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories, and her dreams. Cypress, the dancer,
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Wrong Todd, The

by Donna McDonald ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

5 hours 12 min

Why had she ever promised to do something so crazy?After winning her bid at the bachelor auction, Sabine Blakeman vows she will never do another embarrassing favor for a friend. This is especially true for favors that involve spending large sums of money and buying men whose last names she doesn't even know.In twenty bachelors, Sabine expected to find several Davids, Mikes, or Johns. But what were ... Read more

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Why had she ever promised to do something so crazy?After winning her bid at the bachelor auction, Sabine Blakeman vows she will never do another embarrassing favor for a friend. This is especially true for favors that involve spending large sums of money and buying men whose last names she doesn't even know.In twenty bachelors, Sabine expected to find several Davids, Mikes, or Johns. But what were
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White Lines

by Tracy Brown ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The White Lines Novels
Unabridged

19 hours 23 min

Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother’s boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn’t save her from a crack addiction. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and ... Read more

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Jada left home at the age of sixteen, running from her own demons and the horrors of physical abuse inflicted by her mother’s boyfriend. She partied hard, and life seemed good when she was with Born, the neighborhood kingpin whose name was synonymous with money, power, and respect. But all his love couldn’t save her from a crack addiction. Jada goes from crack addict and prostitute to survivor and
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Accounting for Slavery

Masters and Management

by Caitlin Rosenthal ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 43 min

The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and ... Read more

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The story of modern management generally looks to the factories of England and New England for its genesis. But after scouring through old accounting books, Caitlin Rosenthal discovered that Southern planter-capitalists practiced an early form of scientific management. They took meticulous notes, carefully recording daily profits and productivity, and subjected their slaves to experiments and
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Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

by Sabrina Strings ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye ... Read more

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How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye
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Room Service

by Rochelle Alers ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series series Innkeepers
Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

Bestselling author Rochelle Alers's heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African ... Read more

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Bestselling author Rochelle Alers's heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . .New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African
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White Lines II

Sunny; A Novel

by Tracy Brown ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The White Lines Novels
Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

In her most stunning, riveting, unstoppable novel yet, bestselling and critically acclaimed author Tracy Brown delivers the unforgettable sequel to White Lines.On the surface, it appears that Sunny has got it all: looks, money, a beautiful home, a healthy daughter, and friends who love her. But Sunny has a secret—something she hasn’t even told her best friend. The truth is Sunny is unhappy. She ... Read more

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In her most stunning, riveting, unstoppable novel yet, bestselling and critically acclaimed author Tracy Brown delivers the unforgettable sequel to White Lines.On the surface, it appears that Sunny has got it all: looks, money, a beautiful home, a healthy daughter, and friends who love her. But Sunny has a secret—something she hasn’t even told her best friend. The truth is Sunny is unhappy. She
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First Day Around the World

by Ibi Zoboi ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

16 min

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londoño, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to school looks like for children in countries around the world!How do children around the world spend their first day of school?Some eat warm akara for breakfast in Nigeria, while others unwrap lunches of ... Read more

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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londoño, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to school looks like for children in countries around the world!How do children around the world spend their first day of school?Some eat warm akara for breakfast in Nigeria, while others unwrap lunches of
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