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They were forgotten. Until someone chose to see them. In a city where survival comes before purpose, a group of young lives collide with something they've never truly known — structure, accountability, and belief. Under the guidance of Elijah Cross, what begins as a second chance becomes something far greater. But transformation doesn't go unnoticed. As pressure builds from outside forces — systems, opinions, and fear — their new life is put under scrutiny. One by one, they are tested. Together, they are challenged. When one them is taken, everything changes.

Southside Kings is the explosive entry point into a five-audiobook crime saga built on power, loyalty, and survival. This isn't the full story… this is where it begins. In South Jamaica Queens, the rules are simple—respect is earned, loyalty is everything, and betrayal is never forgotten. The Southside Kings didn't just rise… they took control. But when pressure builds and enemies start closing in, cracks begin to form from within.

You ever accidentally ended up in perfect sync?

Police Officer, Jabari Miller, finds himself at the center of a citywide storm after being involved in the shooting of an unarmed teenager. As protests and civil unrest sweep through Durham, North Carolina, Jabari faces intense public scrutiny and a high-stakes trial that weighs heavily on his mind.

Three people living separate lives, unaware of each other with plans that would never make their paths cross… until they did. Origins, book two of The Red Thread Saga, goes back to the beginning finding Nicole, Mark, and Eric before they met each other – before they ever came to be – all the while navigating the mind of a tortured soul who knows more than she should.

God is always with you. No matter what.

Experience a new audio version of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking, genre-redefining masterpiece, selected by The Atlantic as one of the "most consequential novels of the past 100 years." In 1976, on her 26th birthday, Dana Franklin is pulled through time and space from her Los Angeles home to...

In a bustling and class-divided Nigerian state, a strong-willed female detective is called to the mansion of a wealthy politician to investigate the disappearance of a house girl’s daughter. Olori’s four-year-old daughter, Frieda, has vanished. Working as a house girl for wealthy politician...

Ava and Preston grew up together in the rough streets of Sleighton, both doing everything they needed to survive. Over time, their childhood friendship evolved into a fiery love story. Their flames are suddenly extinguished when Ava leaves without a word, leaving Preston to wonder where they went wrong. Never quite getting over her. He used his pain as fuel to achieve success that he never thought possible.

Baylynn Rhodes is done playing nice. She's burned out, bored, and hungry for something she can't name—until she locks eyes with a smooth-talking cowboy in a dusty Stetson and a gold grill that flashes like danger. Karderro Watson doesn't believe in coincidences. So when a sharp-tongued beauty in cotton pants dares him to ruin her night, he takes that as a challenge—and a promise. One drink turns into one dance. One look turns into one filthy weekend of slow-burn seduction, whispered commands, lasso knots, and riding lessons neither of them will forget.

In the ring, I'm known as Nightmare. I'm undefeated in the underground boxing ring and at the top of my city's food chain. That sounds cocky, doesn't it? Sure. But it's true. I'm also dangerous, and the man every woman wants to be with, but I try not to brag. The thing is, everything changed when I laid eyes on Remedie. She's the gorgeous chef who doesn't want to be saved. She's surviving on selling plates out of her home, but she's worth so much more than that.

She’s chasing her Hollywood dream. He’s hiding behind his fame. But when desire goes undercover, can love survive the truth? Mona Johnson is an aspiring screenwriter working behind the scenes for one of Hollywood’s most sought-after and award–winning producers. Smart, focused, and...

Chiara Franchesca Giovanni has spent her life protecting her family’s historic Vermont vineyard from debt, betrayal, and the dangerous reach of Aldo Marconi. When the business nears collapse, she turns to the one man she never expected to need—Troy Jackson, a former basketball star whose second career in finance is matched only by the strength of the family who raised him.

Aarika Marshall was weeks away from getting married. Lauren Stiles was tasked to completed the hit on her. Neither wanted to do what they had been told to do. And nobody knew they'd shared a night together years earlier. When Lauren was confronted with the cruelty of the organization she worked for, and someone else went after Aarika, the two women were shoved together in order to stay alive.

Illuminating speeches by famous black women that offer wisdom and clarity, solace and inspiration--curated by, and with personal essays from, a leader whose "voice is going to be making a difference for years to come" (President Barack Obama) Dedicated to the prophetic voices of black women, We...

Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life. During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes she's been given a challenge.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds...

In Greenwich Pointe’s world of Black wealth and power, Tatiana Rich has everything money can buy—except freedom. When her kingpin father forces her into a strategic marriage with the Sterling dynasty’s heir, she begs Nazir Kane—the man she fell for during her college years—to run away with her. By morning, he’s vanished without a word.

Jim Crow Florida, 1950. Twelve-year-old Robert Stephens Jr., who for a trivial scuffle with a white boy is sent to The Gracetown School for Boys. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there.

'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs—and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.

You have the fulfillment and astonishment of a story whose themes are insightful, dominant and compelling, whose characters are believably unbelievable, unforgettable and authentic, and whose plot has captivating tension and resolution. You are immersed in another realm, you are splendidly touched and transported in a certain fashion and direction and the experience ...remains and raves with you long after you have put down the text.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones. One...

As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

It’s bring-your-wife-to-school day at the adults-only BDSM class and today Shelley’s going to get treated to something I could never give her. Carlos is on hand to deliver his big, black package as I watch from the sidelines and the class takes notes on cuckold erotica. It’s such a humiliating turn-on that I just know that the first time won’t be our last time—especially given how much Shelley is enjoying herself!

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune—an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club...

In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the ground, where a daughter is imprisoned in the basement by her own father, where celebrities and pop stars walk among us, and where the poet herself loses her father, one of the engineers who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense! "Lazarre-White masterfully portrays people of multiple races, old and young. He also delivers Cosby's reflections on family, grief, and faith with genuine introspection and without distracting from the tense plotlines...This is a gripping...

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Amerie Cross and Arnold Hightower.

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction. Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while...

When it comes to being a caregiver, Kym Knicely has been there, done that, and is ready to move on from that lifestyle. Then she meets Hamilton Cross and soon learns that every caregiver situation is not one size fits all. Where she was the caregiver of her elderly aunt, Hamilton is years older and is a full-time caregiver of his seven-year-old autistic granddaughter.

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film. Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow...

When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map and a gun they shouldn't have. Along the way, the country surprises East.

When a skeleton Italy thought she buried comes back into her life, she has no choice but to deal with the situation. However, what happens when the situation calls for her to further explain herself and prove that Trell did rape her and fathered her oldest daughter, Jai? Poppa has to deal with his wife and the unborn child that Italy is carrying. Does he end his marriage with Misa to be with Italy? Or is it best for him and Italy to co-parent? His heart says one thing, but his mind says another. Nothing is going to stop Milan from getting her surgery and being able to see again—hopefully.

Many women are not willing to go the extra mile to please their men. For most couples, inviting someone into their bedroom is totally out of the question. Any normal woman would flip if her man even thought about trying a threesome with another woman. Jasmine is that woman, and more. It’s not until her husband James pressures her into having a threesome that their once happy lives get turned into nothing but drama.

Noah Blue's finally got her foot in the door. After clawing her way to the top of the charts with her webcomic, she's garnered enough attention to earn a full-time position at a comic company relaunching their cult classic comic: Queen Leisah. Queen Leisah is predicted to be an instant bestseller with movie deals already in the making. There's nowhere to go but up . . . as soon as she gets one person out of her way.

At eighteen years old, Maya Johnson's entire identity collapses. A locked drawer in her mother's bedroom reveals the truth: she was kidnapped from Cook County Hospital as a three day old infant. The woman who raised her who taught her to ride a bike, who braided her hair, who whispered "I love you" every night is a criminal. And somewhere out there is a mother she's never met, a family she never knew existed. What follows is not a triumphant reunion or a simple journey toward justice.

Azul is known in the streets for his ruthless ways, but most people don’t see the thorough woman he has just over his shoulder. He and Justice have been a team since the young age of fourteen. Some would call her the yin to his yang, while others would call her his shooter. It’s hard to get and keep a woman as gutta as Justice, and he has been doing it for over a decade. In this game, sacrifice is inevitable, and Justice understands that a little more than the next woman. Riding beside Azul becomes tiring after she is put on the back burner for his wife time and time again.