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Meet the Cast: When Stars are Scattered April 27, 2020

Heartbreak and hope exist together in When Stars Are Scattered. This remarkable graphic novel on audio is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by Somali refugee Omar Mohamed to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl, Victoria Jamieson. Listen on to meet a selection of the talented cast members that bring this intimate, important, unforgettable story to life. READ MORE

Tags: Bahni Turpin, Barkhad Abdi, Christine Avila, Dominic Hoffman, Family Listening, Faysal Ahmed, Hakeemshady Mohamed, Ifrah Mansour, JD Jackson, Meet the Cast, Omar Mohamed, Robin Miles, Sadeeq Ali, Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

8 Stories Steeped in History You’ll Want to Hear July 31, 2019

Combing through history you’ll find events, people, and moments that are so compelling and important that they inspire great stories to be told. And we love listening to them! READ MORE

Tags: A Different Drummer, A. M. Stuart, All the Flowers in Paris, bookclub, Cassandra Morris, Colson Whitehead, crafter, Fiona Davis, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, Jay Smooth, JD Jackson, Jeanne Mackin, Julie Kibler, Karissa Vacker, Kim Bubbs, Kirsten Potter & Hillary Huber, Mark Deakins, Sarah Jio, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Saskia Maarleveld, Singapore Sapphire, The Chelsea Girls, The Last Collection, The Nickel Boys, William Melvin Kelley

Q&A with JD Jackson, Narrator of The Nickel Boys July 19, 2019

The newest book from author Colson Whitehead is The Nickel Boys, and it’s just as haunting, heartbreaking, and brilliant as his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Underground Railroad. READ MORE

Tags: bookclub, Colson Whitehead, JD Jackson, Q&A, The Nickel Boys

Audiobooks in Bloom: March 2019 Debuts March 18, 2019

March’s debuts are popping up like daisies, and we couldn’t be more thrilled! READ MORE

Tags: Adjoa Andoh, Alana Kerr Collins, Andrew Rannells, Andrew Ridker, Anna Kyra Hooton, Baby of the Family, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Bryan Washington, Dion Graham, Eithne Shortall, Euan Morton, Grace After Henry, If Then, Jacob Tobia, JD Jackson, Joel Golby, John McMahon, Jon Lindstrom, JP Pomare, Kate Hope Day, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Look How Happy I'm Making You, Lot, Maria Kuznetsova, Mark Bramhall, Maura Roosevelt, Namwali Serpell, Oksana Behave!, Olivia Mackenzie-Smith, Polly Rosenwaike, Rebecca Lowman, Richard E. Grant, Robbie Daymond, Robert Petkoff, Saskia Maarleveld, Scott Brown, Seth Fried, Sissy, The Altruists, The Good Detective, The Municipalists, The Old Drift, Too Much is Not Enough, XL

Hear History IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY by Kenneth C. Davis, read by a Full Cast (Audiobook Trailer) October 2, 2016

Did you know that many of America’s Founding Fathers—who fought for liberty and justice for all—were slave owners?

Through the powerful stories of five enslaved people who were “owned” by four of our greatest presidents, this audiobook helps set the record straight about the role slavery played in the founding of America. READ MORE

Tags: Adam Lazarre-White, Adenrele Ojo, Black History Month, Civil Rights, civil war, Dion Graham, Frankie Faison, Full Cast Recording, history, IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY, JD Jackson, Keith David, Kenneth C. Davis, Mark Bramhall, presidents, social studies