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Audible Ancestors

Tamborazo Music and Indigenous Memory in the Borderlands

by Dr. Luis Chávez-González ...

Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through ... Read more

$89.99 USD

Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through
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Berta Saves the River/Berta salva el río

by Suzanne Llewellyn ...

Illustrated by Luis Chávez ...

This delightfully colorful book of expressive characters will engage children, parents, and teachers alike. It portrays real-life indigenous heroine, Berta Cáceres, in Honduras. Through the eyes of Ana, a young girl living in a beautiful, mountainous, and remote Lenca village, we see a drama of courage unfold. Against powerful odds, the villagers save their life-sustaining river from being dammed ... Read more

$8.99 USD

This delightfully colorful book of expressive characters will engage children, parents, and teachers alike. It portrays real-life indigenous heroine, Berta Cáceres, in Honduras. Through the eyes of Ana, a young girl living in a beautiful, mountainous, and remote Lenca village, we see a drama of courage unfold. Against powerful odds, the villagers save their life-sustaining river from being dammed
... Read more
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Las Biuty Queens

Stories

by Iván Monalisa Ojeda ...

Narrated by Luis Chavez ...

Unabridged

3 hours 13 min

Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with addiction, clashing with law enforcement, or is being subjected to personal violence, each character choses her own path of defiance, often responding to her fate with ... Read more

$10.99 USD

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Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with addiction, clashing with law enforcement, or is being subjected to personal violence, each character choses her own path of defiance, often responding to her fate with
... Read more

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Learned Behaviors

A Single Dad Romance

by Jayce Ellis ...

Narrated by K. Bernard ...

Series series Higher Education
Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

Two single dads meet at the office, where it’s hate at first sight in this new series from acclaimed author Jayce Ellis.Sending his daughter off to college is the proudest day of single dad JaQuan Reynolds’s life. Everything took a back seat to raising her—including his career. He has no idea what comes next, but his newfound freedom is quickly curtailed by acrash deadline at work and the uptight, ... Read more

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Two single dads meet at the office, where it’s hate at first sight in this new series from acclaimed author Jayce Ellis.Sending his daughter off to college is the proudest day of single dad JaQuan Reynolds’s life. Everything took a back seat to raising her—including his career. He has no idea what comes next, but his newfound freedom is quickly curtailed by acrash deadline at work and the uptight,
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The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

by Junauda Petrus ...

Narrated by Junauda Petrus, Bahni Turpin, JD Jackson ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

**A Coretta Scott King Honor BookTold in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.**Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her ... Read more

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**A Coretta Scott King Honor BookTold in two distinct and irresistible voices, Junauda Petrus's bold and lyrical debut is the story of two black girls from very different backgrounds finding love and happiness in a world that seems determined to deny them both.**Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is despondent, having just found out she's going to be sent to live in America with her
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From Little Tokyo, with Love

by Sarah Kuhn ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 20 min

One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer!"I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book.”—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the DateCelebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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One of PEOPLE Magazine's Best Books of Summer!"I absolutely adored this funny, fierce, big-hearted book.”—Morgan Matson, New York Times bestselling author of Save the DateCelebrated author Sarah Kuhn reinvents the modern fairy tale in this intensely personal yet hilarious novel of a girl whose search for a storybook ending takes her to unexpected places in both her beloved LA neighborhood and her
... Read more

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Ink, Iron, and Glass

by Gwendolyn Clare ...

Narrated by Lauren Fortgang ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Ink, Iron, and Glass
Unabridged

9 hours 54 min

Can she write a world gone wrong?A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality.But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Can she write a world gone wrong?A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality.But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the
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Every Body Looking

by Candice Iloh ...

Narrated by Candice Iloh ...

Unabridged

2 hours 54 min

A Finalist for the National Book AwardWhen Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it’s the first time she’s ever been so far from her family—and the first time that she’s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past—her ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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A Finalist for the National Book AwardWhen Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it’s the first time she’s ever been so far from her family—and the first time that she’s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past—her
... Read more

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Castaway Mountain

Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai

by Saumya Roy ...

Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains' edge, making a living by reusing, ... Read more

$39.99 USD

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All of Mumbai's possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Towering at the outskirts of the city, the mountains are covered in a faint smog from trash fires. Over time, as wealth brought Bollywood knock offs, fast food, and plastics to Mumbaikars, a small, forgotten community of migrants and rag-pickers came to live at the mountains' edge, making a living by reusing,
... Read more

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The Dragon’s Legacy

by Deborah A. Wolf ...

Narrated by Natalie Naudus ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Dragon’s Legacy Series
Unabridged

18 hours 41 min

Deborah A. Wolf presents an epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey.In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers bear few live children, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who remain, and the vash’ai—the great cats who have called the people kithren for as long as there have been stories—bond with fewer ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Deborah A. Wolf presents an epic fantasy in the tradition of Guy Gavriel Kay and Jacqueline Carey.In the heart of the singing desert, the people are fading from the world. Mothers bear few live children, the warriors and wardens are hard-pressed to protect those who remain, and the vash’ai—the great cats who have called the people kithren for as long as there have been stories—bond with fewer
... Read more
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We Came Here to Shine

A Novel

by Susie Orman Schnall ...

Narrated by Susie Orman Schnall, Carly Robins, Dan Bittner, Lauren Fortgang ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

Set at the iconic 1939 New York World’s Fair, Susie Orman Schnall's We Came Here to Shine is historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they're truly made of during a glorious summer of spectacle and potential.“An ode to female friendship that pulses with momentum and left me breathless.” —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author ... Read more

$26.99 USD

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Set at the iconic 1939 New York World’s Fair, Susie Orman Schnall's We Came Here to Shine is historical fiction featuring two bold and ambitious women who navigate a world of possibility and find out what they're truly made of during a glorious summer of spectacle and potential.“An ode to female friendship that pulses with momentum and left me breathless.” —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author
... Read more

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Welcome to Lagos

A Novel

by Chibundu Onuzo ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Unabridged

9 hours 25 min

When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them is Fineboy, a fighter with ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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When army officer Chike Ameobi is ordered to kill innocent civilians, he knows it is time to desert his post. As he travels toward Lagos with Yemi, his junior officer, and into the heart of a political scandal involving Nigeria's education minister, Chike becomes the leader of a new platoon, a band of runaways who share his desire for a different kind of life. Among them is Fineboy, a fighter with
... Read more

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