Karen Murray has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 7 ratings. The most-rated is Girl Who Fell from the Sky.
Girl Who Fell from the Sky
Summary
A timely and moving bicultural coming-of-age tale, based on a true story and told by an author who has struggled with the same issues as her protagonist. The daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I., Rachel survives a family tragedy only to face new challenges. Sent to live with her strict African-American grandmother in a racially divided Northwest city, she must suppress her grief and reinvent herself in a mostly black community. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself. Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne, a friend of Rachel's mother. Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky reveals an unfathomable past and explores issues of identity at a time when many people are asking, "Must race confine us and define us?"
©2009 Original material © 2009 Heidi W. Durrow. Recorded by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. (P)2009 (P) 2009 HighBridge Company.
Good Kings Bad Kings
Summary
Told in alternating perspectives by a varied and vocal cast of characters, Nussbaum pulls back the curtain to reveal the complicated and funny and tough life inside the walls of an institution for juveniles with disabilities. From Yessenia Lopez, who dreams of her next boyfriend and of one day of living outside those walls, to Teddy, a resident who dresses up daily in a full suit and tie, to Mia, who guards a terrifying secret, Nussbaum has crafted a multifaceted portrait of a way of life hidden from most of us. In this isolated human warehouse on Chicago's South Side, friendships are forged, trust is built, and love affairs begin. And it's in their alliances that the residents ultimately find the strength to bond together and finally fight back against their mistreatment. Told with humor and authenticity in voices that stay with you long past the last moments, Good Kings Bad Kings is at once strikingly original, baldly funny, and profoundly moving. Performed by an ensemble cast, with Chris Delaine (Joanne Madsen), Lauren Fortgang (Michelle Volkmann), Emma Galvin (Yessenia Lopez), Alexander Cendese (Teddy Dobbs), David Ledoux (Ricky Hernandez), Karen Murray (Jimmie Kendrick), and Daya Mendez (Mia Oviedo).
©2013 Susan Nussbaum. Recorded by arrangement with Algonquin Books of Chapel hill, a Division of Workman Publishing Company, Inc. (P)2013 HighBridge Company
Civil Disobedience
Summary
As Karen Civil narrates her incredible rise to the top, the listener gets inspiration, motivation, and a tantalizing glimpse into her business and her relationships with celebrities. Episodes from Civil's extraordinary life illuminate lessons that anyone - but especially black women in America - can apply to themselves to transcend and overcome. The miraculous journey of a boss lady: Karen Civil's rags to riches story is a powerfully inspirational one. In the beginning, Civil was a young black female entrepreneur with a dream; hear about her entrepreneurial journey as she overcame adversity and achieved success in digital marketing: a field dominated by white men. An entrepreneur book for black women: from a working class first generation immigrant to a star in marketing working with celebrity clients like the Backstreet Boys and Lil' Wayne, Civil's journey is bound to inspire any young entrepreneur: especially black female entrepreneurs just starting on their paths to success. Lessons on perseverance, self-improvement, and success: as Civil narrates her incredible rise to the top, you'll get inspiration, motivation, and a tantalizing glimpse into her business and her relationships with celebrities. Throughout the book, episodes from Civil's extraordinary life illuminate lessons that anyone - but especially black women in America - can apply to themselves to transcend and overcome.
©2020 Karen Civil (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing
The Whiteness of Wealth
Summary
A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy “Important reading for those who want to understand how inequality is built into the bedrock of American society, and what a more equitable future might look like.” (Ibram X. Kendi, number-one New York Times best-selling author of How to Be an Antiracist) Dorothy A. Brown became a tax lawyer to get away from race. As a young Black girl growing up in the South Bronx, she’d seen how racism limited the lives of her family and neighbors. Her law school classes offered a refreshing contrast: Tax law was about numbers, and the only color that mattered was green. But when Brown sat down to prepare tax returns for her parents, she found something strange: James and Dottie Brown, a plumber and a nurse, seemed to be paying an unusually high percentage of their income in taxes. When Brown became a law professor, she set out to understand why. In The Whiteness of Wealth, Brown draws on decades of cross-disciplinary research to show that tax law isn’t as color-blind as she’d once believed. She takes us into her adopted city of Atlanta, introducing us to families across the economic spectrum whose stories demonstrate how American tax law rewards the preferences and practices of white people while pushing Black people further behind. From attending college to getting married to buying a home, Black Americans find themselves at a financial disadvantage compared to their white peers. The results are an ever-increasing wealth gap and more Black families shut out of the American dream. Solving the problem will require a wholesale rethinking of America’s tax code. But it will also require both Black and white Americans to make different choices. This urgent, actionable book points the way forward.
©2021 Dorothy A. Brown (P)2021 Random House Audio