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  • The Mixed Marriage Project

    A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who “has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades” (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity.Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Torn Apart

    How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Killing the Black Body

    Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.**"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fatal Invention

    How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes inequality in a supposedly "post-racial" era.Though the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shattered Bonds

    The Color Of Child Welfare

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children.Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Mixed Marriage Project

    A Memoir of Love, Race, and Family

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Narrated by Dorothy Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 17 min

    **“**Dorothy Roberts has an important story to tell at a time when our nation needs to think more honestly about the legacy of racial inequality.” —Bryan Stevenson, #1 New York Times bestselling authorsA spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage and her own identity—from the author of the “must ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Media, The - A Short Story Collection

    Classic stories before the age of social media

    by Henry James, E M Delafield, E M Delafield, Frank R Stockton, H D Everett, W F Arnold, Barry Pain, Dorothy Edwards, Robert Duncan Milne, Owen Oliver, Winifred Holtby0, Charlotte Perkins Gilman1, C E Montague2 ...
    Narrated by Richard Mitchley3, Robert Maskell4, Eric Roberts5 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting.However, in this volume we go back a little way to when social media was an actual chat on the street corner or a dinner party, when breaking news was tomorrow’s ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die

    Exploring the Multifaceted World of Mystery and Detective Fiction

    by Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, John Buchan, Anna Katharine Green, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Joseph Conrad, Algernon Blackwood, Guy de Maupassant, Ernest Bramah, Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Morrison, Agatha Christie, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Sax Rohmer, Alexandre Dumas, Washington Irving, Maurice Leblanc, Erskine Childers, Gaston Leroux, Wilkie Collins, Earl Derr Biggers, Marcel Allain, Richard Marsh, H. G. Wells, E. Phillips Oppenheim, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, E. W. Hornung, G. K. Chesterton, A. A. Milne, D. H. Lawrence, E. C. Bentley, H. P. Lovecraft, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anton Chekhov, Robert William Chambers, Sheridan Le Fanu, Nikolai Gogol, Émile Gaboriau, Annie Haynes, Sapper, S. S. Van Dine ...
    Dive into the captivating world of '101 Mystery & Detective Classics You Should Read Before You Die,' an anthology that expertly curates a wide spectrum of engaging tales from the annals of mystery and detective fiction. This remarkable collection showcases an impressive range of styles, from the cerebral puzzles of classic Victorian mysteries to the atmospheric noir tales that dominate American ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Torn Apart

    How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

    by Dorothy Roberts ...
    Narrated by Dorothy Roberts, Janina Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    An award-winning scholar and author of Killing the Black Body exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system“A brilliant and impassioned call for abolition.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowMany believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Documents in the Case

    by Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace ...
    A writer turns amateur sleuth when his former roommate is suspected of murder in this epistolary mystery from one of the acclaimed Queens of Crime.When a fungi expert is found dead after feasting on poisonous mushrooms, everyone assumes he died by suicide. Everyone, that is, except the man's son, Paul Harrison, who is certain his father would never make such a deadly mistake. Harrison's suspicions ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Documents in the Case. Illustrated

    by Dorothy L. Sayers, Robert Eustace ...
    The Documents in the Case is a gripping collaboration between Dorothy L. Sayers and Robert Eustace, blending masterful detective work with meticulous attention to forensic detail. The story unfolds through letters, telegrams, and official reports, giving readers a unique epistolary perspective on a shocking murder that seems both baffling and sinister. The novel revolves around a wealthy family ... Read more

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  • The Lake Poets

    An Anthology

    by William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey ...
    Introduced by James Rebanks, The Lake Poets is a beautiful anthology which showcases some of the best writing from ‘The Lake Poets’ and celebrates the isolated beauty of the English Lakes.Inspired by the spectacular pastoral landscapes of the region, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb are best remembered for their incredible depictions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD