African American

Author: Barack Obama | Narrator: Barack Obama (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Non-Fiction, African American | Release Date: October 17, 2006

In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political ... (more)

Author: Toni Morrison | Narrator: Toni Morrison (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: November 11, 2008

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize—winning author of Beloved and, almost like a ... (more)

Author: Walter Mosley | Narrator: Lorraine Toussaint (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: April 18, 2006

New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley explores the true meaning of fortune in a gripping novel about two extraordin ... (more)

Author: Ishmael Beah | Narrator: Dominic Hoffman (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Non-Fiction, African American | Release Date: March 6, 2007

In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah u ... (more)

Author: Terry McMillan | Narrator: Desiree Taylor (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 19, 2005

Since Terry McMillan’s breakout novel Waiting to Exhale surged onto the bestseller lists, critics and readers alike have b ... (more)

Author: Stephen L. Carter | Narrator: Bahni Turpin (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 3, 2007

With the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the New En ... (more)

Author: Lalita Tademy | Narrator: Bahni Turpin (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT African American
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: January 16, 2007

April 13, 1873. What happened that day in the small Southern town of Colfax, Louisiana, was called “the Colfax Riot.” But i ... (more)

Author: Walter Mosley | Narrator: Michael Boatman (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT African American
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: September 19, 2006

Author: James McBride | Narrator: Leslie Uggams (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: February 5, 2008

March, 1850. In the tense days before the Civil War, a slave breakout in the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore sets ... (more)

Author: Toni Morrison | Narrator: Toni Morrison (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: December 5, 2006

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as i ... (more)

Author: Walter Mosley | Narrator: Michael Boatman (Amer.)
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 6, 2004

It is 1965, and the devastating Watts riots are ravaging Los Angeles. A white man attempts to escape from a mob by running into a near ... (more)

Author: Barack Obama | Narrator: Andre Blake (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Non-Fiction, African American | Release Date: September 9, 2008

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is a defining moment in American history. After years of failed policies ... (more)

Author: Barack Obama | Narrator: Barack Obama (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Non-Fiction, African American | Release Date: March 6, 2007

Author: Maya Angelou | Narrator: Maya Angelou (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: November 7, 2006

Grace, dignity, and eloquence have long been hallmarks of Maya Angelou’s poetry. Her measured verses have stirred our souls, ener ... (more)

Author: Walter Mosley | Narrator: Michael Boatman (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: October 4, 2005

It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is deep in conversation with his lifelong friend Mouse about robbing ... (more)

Author: Bebe Moore Campbell | Narrator: Pamella D'Pella (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 26, 2005

In this novel of family and redemption, a mother struggles to save her eighteen-year-old daughter from the devastating consequences of ... (more)

Author: Walter Mosley | Narrator: Mirron Willis (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: March 24, 2009

Ex-boxer, hard drinker, in a business that trades mostly in cash and favors–Leonid McGill’s an old-school P.I. working a tw ... (more)

Author: E. Lynn Harris | Narrator: Adenrele Ojo (Amer.), Bahni Turpin (Amer.) and Mirron Willis (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 15, 2008

Harris serves up a treat that will capture and enchant audiences everywhere—a big, bold, and irresistible novel about football, f ... (more)

Author: Sapphire | Narrator: Bahni Turpin (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT African American
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: October 20, 2009

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street- ... (more)

Author: Stephen L. Carter | Narrator: Mirron Willis (Amer.)
Imprint: BOT Essentials
Genre: General Fiction, African American | Release Date: July 8, 2008

@In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha’s Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the ... (more)