History

Black Noir

by Otto Penzler; read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Sean Crisden

Some of the best-known and most influential pieces of crime fiction have been from African American writers. Be it Walter Mosley's great detective Easy Rawlins, or the mean streets of Harlem at the hands of Chester Himes, the stories and characters in this anthology have shaped the mystery genre with their own unique viewpoints and styles. Learn More

Black Samson

by Nyasha Junior & Jeremy Schipper; read by David Sadzin

Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King was identified with Moses, African Americans identified those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper tell the story of how this biblical character became an icon of African American literature. Learn More

Black Snow

by James M. Scott; read by LJ Ganser

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporizing thousands; sixteen square miles of the city were flattened and more than 100,000 men, women, and children were killed. Black Snow is the story of this devastating operation. Learn More

Black Theology and Black Power

by James H. Cone, introduction by Cornel West; read by Leon Nixon

First published in 1969, Black Theology and Black Power is the first systematic presentation of black theology that also introduced the voice of a young theologian who would shake the foundations of American theology. Learn More

A Black Theology of Liberation

by James H. Cone; foreword by Peter J. Paris; read by Amir Abdullah

The classic text in black theology, with a new introduction by Peter J. Paris and afterword by Kelly Brown Douglas. Learn More

Black Tudors

by Miranda Kaufmann; read by Corrie James

AudioFile Earphones Award Winner

In Black Tudors Miranda Kaufmann reveals the absorbing stories of some of the Africans who lived free in Tudor England. Learn More

Black Virgin Mountain

Larry Heinemann; read by Larry Heinemann

An intense, harrowing recounting of Larry Heinemann’s brutal tour of duty in Southeast Asia that tragically and irrevocably altered his life and that of his family, and the long journey of mourning that led him, ultimately, to reconciliation. Learn More

Black Wave

by Kim Ghattas; read by Kim Ghattas & Nan McNamara

Novelistic and character-driven, Black Wave is an unprecedented and ambitious examination of how the modern Middle East unraveled and why it started with the pivotal year of 1979. Learn More

Blacksound

by Matthew D. Morrison; read by Matthew D. Morrison

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Blacksound explores the sonic history of blackface minstrelsy and the racial foundations of American musical culture from the early 1800s through the turn of the twentieth century. With this namesake book, Matthew D. Morrison develops the concept of "Blacksound" to uncover how the popular music industry and popular entertainment in general in the United States arose out of slavery and blackface. Learn More

Blitzkrieg

by Lloyd Clark, read by Shaun Grindell

In Blitzkrieg, military historian Lloyd Clark argues our understanding of blitzkrieg is based on myth. Learn More

Blood Echoes

by Thomas H. Cook; read by Kris Koscheski

A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner. Learn More

Blood Runs Coal

by Mark A. Bradley; read by Perry Daniels

Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime

The true story of the shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal. Learn More

Bloody Tuesday

by John M. Giggie; read by Christopher Grove

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The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States. Learn More

Bombing Hitler's Hometown

by Mike Croissant; read by J. Rodney Turner

A brilliant, groundbreaking slice of military history, this riveting story of white-knuckled action over one of Europe's most heavily defended targets in the waning days of World War II also tells of the aftermath of the Linz, Austria, bombing—the heart-wrenching tales of survival and recovery, and the toll of warfare on both sides. Learn More

Born in Blackness

by Howard W. French; read by James Fouhey

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Learn More

Borrowing Life

by Shelley Fraser Mickle; read by Tom Perkins

Against a global backdrop of wartime suffering and postwar hope, Borrowing Life gathers the personal histories of the men and women behind the team that enabled and performed the modern medical miracle of the world's first successful organ transplant. Learn More

The Bourbon King

by Bob Batchelor; read by Joe Barrett

Love, murder, mountains of cash, bribery, political intrigue, rivers of bourbon, and a grand spectacle like few before it, the tale of George Remus provides listeners with a lens into the dark heart of Prohibition's "Bourbon Trail," the thirst of the American people, and their fascination with crime. Learn More

Brave the Wild River

by Melissa L. Sevigny; read by Elizabeth Wiley

The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon. Learn More

Break Every Yoke

by Joshua Dubler & Vincent Lloyd; read by Leon Nixon

Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Learn More

A Brief History of the Female Body

by Dr. Deena Emera; read by Dr. Deena Emera

From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause―A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens. Learn More

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