Audiobooks narrated by Ruby Dee

The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 42 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the 1956 season, digitally remastered and commercial free.

Clifford D. Simak, Ernest Kinoy, Frederik Pohl, Fritz Leiber, George Lefferts, Isaac Asimov, J.T. Mcintosh, James Blish, L. Sprague De Camp, Philip K. Kick, Poul Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Block, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Godwin, William Tenn (Author), Alan Hewitt, Bob Hastings, Donald Buka, Hetty Galen, Jack Grimes, Jim Boles, Joe De Santis, Joyce Gordon, Larry Robinson, Luis Van Rooten, Mandel Kramer, Nat Polen, Norman Rose, Peter Capell, Peter Fernandez, Raymond Edward Johnson, Roger Dekoven, Ruby Dee, Sam Gray, Santos Ortega, Ted Osborne And William Keene (Narrator)

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Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family

The true story of Maggie Comer, an illiterate Southern Black woman who moves North to escape poverty and sexual and physical abuse. Unable to get the educuation she desperately desires, Maggie vows that her children will be educated. Working as a domestic, she raises five children who end up earning a total of thirteen college degrees between them. Told first in Maggie's own moving words, and then through those of her son, James, Maggie's American Dream celebrates the heroic efforts of African-American individuals and families who struggle for success despite powerful, social, economic, and educational hardships. Black Enterprise Magazine proclaim, 'This touching and funny book issues a powerful challenge to us all to make our children's lives more meaningful. Dare to dream Maggie's American Dream for your family.'

James P. Comer (Author), Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together

2007 Grammy Winner! Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee: legendary stars of the American stage, television, and film, a beloved and revered couple cherished not just for their acting artistry but also for their lifelong commitment to civil rights, family values, and the black community. Now they look back on a half- century of their personal and political struggles to maintain a healthy marriage and to create the record of distinguished accomplishment that earned each a Presidential Medal for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. With Ossie and Ruby overflows with consummate storytelling skill developed by decades in the spotlight. From their early years as struggling actors in Harlem's black theater to Broadway and Hollywood stardom, they regale the reader with colorful, entertaining tales of the places they've been and the people they've met. But their charming humor is leavened with a more serious side, as they share their experiences of keeping a family together in a world where scandal and divorce is the rule, and of being artists and political activists in an era of intense racial ferment. Born into the struggle, their characters were shaped by the dynamic collisions of life, politics, and art; and from those experiences, they achieved some sense of their worth as married people, friends, and lovers. Warm, positive, and compelling, this is a book that will surprise and challenge readers everywhere -- black and white, male and female, young and old. Lifting the veil of public image, media hype, and mystique, Ossie and Ruby speak of the real-life dilemmas and rewards of their lifelong search for purpose and value. "They both keep the material fresh, which could be hard to do when talking about one's own life. This is an immensely captivating dual memoir and a real audio treasure, especially poignant since Davis has since passed away. The listener comes away with a true sense of the essence of these lives, the things that were and are important to them, and their accomplishments." -AudioFile Magazine "...this is a compelling read, effectively evoking the challenges and rewards that have attended the authors' roles as black leaders..." -- Publishers Weekly, October 1998 "By turns sassy and sage . . . full of razor-sharp observations on who business, politics, race and love." -- Ebony "Consistently lively, witty and insightful." -- USA Today --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee (Author), Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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Mules And Men

"Simply the most exciting book on black folklore and culture I have ever read." --Roger D. Abrahams Mules and Men is the first great collection of black America's folk world. In the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston returned to her "native village" of Eatonville, Florida to record the oral histories, sermons and songs, dating back to the time of slavery, which she remembered hearing as a child. In her quest, she found herself and her history throughout these highly metaphorical folk-tales, "big old lies," and the lyrical language of song. With this collection, Zora Neale Hurston has come to reveal'and preserve'a beautiful and important part of American culture. Zora Neale Hurston (1901-1960) was a novelist, folklorist, anthropologist and playwright whose fictional and factual accounts of black heritage are unparalleled. She is also the author of Tell My Horse, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Mule Bone. Ruby Dee, a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, starred on Broadway in the original productions of A Raisin in the Sun and Purlie Victorious, and was featured in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. She is also an award-winning author and the producer of numerous television dramas.

Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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Every Tongue Got to Confess

African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the heart and soul of the vital, independent, and creative community that so inspired Zora Neale Hurston. In Every Tongue Got to Confess, Hurston records, with uncanny precision, the voices of ordinary people -and no two actors better capture this world than Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. They pay tribute to the richness of Black vernacular -- its crisp self-awareness, singular wit, and improvisational wordplay. These folk-tales reflect the joys and sorrows of the African-American experience, celebrate the redemptive power of storytelling, and showcase the continuous presence in America of an Afticanized language that flourishes to this day.

Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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The Member of the Wedding

Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the "we of me," and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: June Angela as Janice and Helen John Cothran Jr. as T.T. Williams Ruby Dee as Bernice Sadie Brown Daniel Henson as John Henry West Victor Mack as Honey Camden Brown Jena Malone as Frankie Addams Lawrence Pressman as Mr. Addams Jacquelyn Riggs as Mrs. West and Doris Tegan West as Jarvis and Barney MacKean Directed by Judyann Elder. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.

Carson McCullers (Author), Jena Malone, Ruby Dee (Narrator)

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Audiobooks Narrated by Ruby Dee