Collection Development, Featured, Featured Titles, Hear Diversity Essential Toni Morrison Audiobooks for Your Collection Submitted by Taraneh DJangi on February 1, 2019

Toni Morrison is one of the most celebrated African American writers today. Read more

Tagged: A Mercy, Bahni Turpin, BELOVED, GOD HELP THE CHILD, The Bluest Eye, The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison

Collection Development, Featured, Featured Titles Toni Morrison narrates two new recordings of her beloved classics Submitted by Kristen Luby on September 27, 2017

Award-winning author Toni Morrison returned to the studio to record never-before-available unabridged editions of SONG OF SOLOMON and PARADISE. Her brilliant readings add another level of musicality and magic to her already-poetic written words. AudioFile raves, “Morrison sets the gold standard for a writer narrating her own work.” Read more

Tagged: author-read, Classics, Fall '17, PARADISE, SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison

In The Studio, Video IN THE STUDIO with Ta-Nehisi Coates as he records BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on July 16, 2015

Step into the studio with acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates as he records BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, a bold memoir and exploration of America’s racial history, written in the form of a letter to his son—resulting in a uniquely intimate and intensely personal audiobook. Read more

Tagged: author-read, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, Hear Diversity, In the Studio, Read by the Author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Video

Featured Titles Hear Toni Morrison read GOD HELP THE CHILD Submitted by Jennifer Rubins on April 3, 2015

It has been said that “Toni Morrison sets the gold standard for a writer narrating her own work” (AudioFile). Read more

Tagged: author-read, GOD HELP THE CHILD, Nobel Prize, PARADISE, Read by the Author, SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison

Collection Development Celebrate the freedom to listen on #BannedBooksWeek Submitted by Kristen Luby on September 5, 2014

Sound off on censorship! Join the national literary community from September 21-27, 2014 to celebrate your right to hear powerful stories. Read more

Tagged: #BannedBooksWeek, Banned Books Week, Censorship, E L James, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

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