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Release Date:  February 28, 2017 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 40 minutes Narrator:  Bahni Turpin Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what  really  went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does-or d...

Release Date: August 6, 2016 Publisher: Random House Audio Format: Audible Length: 10 hours 11 minutes Narrator:  Bahni Turpin Genre: Historical Fiction Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback  Synopsis: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.  In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially se...