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Island Queen
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A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies.
Born into slavery on the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat, Doll bought her freedom—and that of her sister and her mother—from her Irish planter father and built a legacy of wealth and power as an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier, and planter that extended from the marketplaces and sugar plantations of Dominica and Barbados to a glittering luxury hotel in Demerara on the South American continent.
Vanessa Riley’s novel brings Doll to vivid life as she rises above the harsh realities of slavery and colonialism by working the system and leveraging the competing attentions of the men in her life: a restless shipping merchant, Joseph Thomas; a wealthy planter hiding a secret, John Coseveldt Cells; and a roguish naval captain who will later become King William IV of England.
From the bustling port cities of the West Indies to the forbidding drawing rooms of London’s elite, Island Queen is a sweeping epic of an adventurer and a survivor who answered to no one but herself as she rose to power and autonomy against all odds, defying rigid 18th-century morality and the oppression of women as well as people of color. It is an unforgettable portrait of a true larger-than-life woman who made her mark on history.
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A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day.
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mesmerizing
- De Dee in Philly en 02-26-24
De: Diane Oliver
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A Gamble at Sunset
- Betting Against the Duke, Book 1
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Bianca Drew
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the first willing stranger she meets in the enchanting gardens of Anya House. Unfortunately, her sister is not the sole witness. A group of reporters and the ton's leading gossips catch Georgina in a passionate embrace with a reticent composer.
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Sister Mother Warrior
- A Novel
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh, Robin Miles
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Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings listeners a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion that drove out the French and freed the enslaved people of Haiti.
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Marie Claire was a true Warrior 💪🏾💪🏾
- De Shanell Hodge en 03-25-24
De: Vanessa Riley
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Queen of Exiles
- A Novel
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 17 h y 50 m
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Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti’s Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society.
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Beautiful historical fiction
- De Lola en 08-07-24
De: Vanessa Riley
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
- A Novel in Interlocking Stories
- De: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
- Narrado por: Liz Femi, Korey Jackson
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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Nigerian author Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi makes her American debut with this dazzling novel which explores her homeland’s past, present, and possible future through the interconnected stories of four fearless globe-trotting women.
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- De Teni en 02-21-24
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One of the Good Ones
- De: Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Jordan Cobb, Carolyn Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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When teen social activist and history buff Kezi Smith is killed under mysterious circumstances after attending a social justice rally, her devastated sister Happi and their family are left reeling in the aftermath. As Kezi becomes another immortalized victim in the fight against police brutality, Happi begins to question the idealized way her sister is remembered. Perfect. Angelic.
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Stunning.
- De Pansy en 02-07-21
De: Maika Moulite, y otros
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Neighbors and Other Stories
- De: Diane Oliver
- Narrado por: Emana Rachelle
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of 22, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and 60s America. In this first and only collection by a masterful storyteller finally taking her rightful place in the canon, Oliver’s insightful stories reverberate into the present day.
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mesmerizing
- De Dee in Philly en 02-26-24
De: Diane Oliver
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A Gamble at Sunset
- Betting Against the Duke, Book 1
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Bianca Drew
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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Georgina Wilcox, a wallflower with hidden musical talents, is furious when her reclusive older sister—the recently widowed Viscountess—refuses sorely needed help from the Duke of Torrance, the only gentleman who has shown kindness to the bereft Wilcox sisters. Georgina decides to get back at her sister and shock the Viscountess by kissing the first willing stranger she meets in the enchanting gardens of Anya House. Unfortunately, her sister is not the sole witness. A group of reporters and the ton's leading gossips catch Georgina in a passionate embrace with a reticent composer.
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Dear Haiti, Love Alaine
- De: Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
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You might ask the obvious question: What do I, a 17-year-old Haitian American from Miami with way too little life experience, have to say about anything? Actually, a lot. Thanks to "the incident" (don’t ask), I’m spending the next two months doing what my school is calling a "spring volunteer immersion project." It’s definitely no vacation. I’m toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle at her new nonprofit. And my lean-in queen of a mother is even here to make sure I do things right.
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Awesome representation of Haiti and it’s rich juicy history
- De Leroy Jones en 05-16-20
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A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby
- Rogues and Remarkable Women, Book 1
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune - and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child - until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his military strictness belies an ex-rake of unswerving honor - and unexpected passion....
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Saved by the narrator
- De MaBiche en 02-04-21
De: Vanessa Riley
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
- An Oprah’s Book Club Novel
- De: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton, Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 29 h y 49 m
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The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the problem of race in America, and what he called “Double Consciousness,” a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois’s words all too well. Bearing the names of two formidable Black Americans—the revered choreographer Alvin Ailey and her great grandmother Pearl, the descendant of enslaved Georgians and tenant farmers—Ailey carries Du Bois’s problem on her shoulders.
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The Great American Novel is finally inclusive.
- De Margaret en 12-28-21
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Mercy House
- A Novel
- De: Alena Dillon
- Narrado por: Dawn Harvey, Catherine Ho, Scarlette Hayes, y otros
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Inside a century-old row house in Brooklyn, renegade Sister Evelyn and her fellow nuns preside over a safe haven for the abused and abandoned. Gruff and indomitable on the surface, warm and wry underneath, little daunts Evelyn, until she receives word that Mercy House will be investigated by Bishop Hawkins, a man with whom she shares a dark history. In order to protect everything they’ve built, the nuns must conceal many of their methods, which are forbidden by the Catholic Church.
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Good story but trigger warning
- De Lynne H. Mock en 05-18-20
De: Alena Dillon
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Find Me in Havana
- A Novel
- De: Serena Burdick
- Narrado por: Marisol Ramirez, Frankie Corzo
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration - from Havana to New York’s Copacabana and then Hollywood - becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film.
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Great Book!
- De Damarys Reyes Geronimo en 01-22-21
De: Serena Burdick
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The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
- A Novel
- De: Lola Shoneyin
- Narrado por: Lola Shoneyin
- Duración: 9 h y 28 m
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For Baba Segi, his collection of wives and gaggle of children are a symbol of prosperity, success, and a validation of his manhood. All is well in this patriarchal home, until Baba arrives with wife number four, a quiet, college-educated, young woman named Bolanle. Jealous and resentful of this interloper who is stealing their husband’s attention, Baba’s three wives begin to plan her downfall. How dare she not know her place, they whisper. How dare she offer to teach them to read. They will teach her instead, they vow, and open their husband's eyes to this wicked wind.
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Perfect narration
- De Aima G en 01-13-22
De: Lola Shoneyin
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The Governess Affair
- The Brothers Sinister, Book 1
- De: Courtney Milan
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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Three months ago, governess Serena Barton was let go from her position. Unable to find new work, she's demanding compensation from the man who got her sacked: a petty, selfish, swinish duke. But it's not the duke she fears. It's his merciless man of business - the man known as the Wolf of Clermont. The formidable former pugilist has a black reputation for handling all the duke's dirty business, and when the duke turns her case over to him, she doesn't stand a chance. But she can't stop trying....
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Short But Sweet
- De Karen en 09-11-12
De: Courtney Milan
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The Italian Girls
- De: Debbie Rix
- Narrado por: Katie Villa
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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Each morning Livia Moretti makes her way from an apartment overlooking Florence’s famous Duomo to a nearby café, where she drinks espresso and reads the newspaper. To the crowds of tourists who pass by, nothing about Livia will be memorable. She is simply an old lady. They walk on without knowing the part she played in ensuring the future of this beautiful city. And to Livia now, those dark days feel very far away. But today, when she opens the paper, she sees a name she has not heard for a long time. A name that will bring memories flooding back.
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Absorbing. Katie Villa as narrator was superb.
- De pt en 07-10-21
De: Debbie Rix
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Aunjanue Ellis
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- De Avid Listener en 09-09-20
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Murder in Westminster
- The Lady Worthing Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Vanessa Riley
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor, Stapleton Henderson. Although Abigail has little connection with the lady in question, she expects to be under suspicion. Abigail's skin color and her mother's past have earned her a certain reputation among the ton. And she can't divulge that she was attending a secret pro-abolition meeting at the time of the murder. To her surprise, Henderson offers her an alibi.
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Good story, poor narration
- De Lynn A. Herndon en 11-16-23
De: Vanessa Riley
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Better Luck Next Time
- A Novel
- De: Julia Claiborne Johnson
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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It's 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the "divorce capital of the world," Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six weeks to become "residents." Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything; now he's earning an honest living as a ranch hand. Admired for his good looks, Ward thinks he's got the Flying Leap's clients all figured out. But two guests are about to upend everything he thinks he knows.
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The Author and Narrator Nailed it!
- De Naunie en 02-17-22
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Where the Rhythm Takes You
- De: Sarah Dass
- Narrado por: Antonevia Ocho-Coultes
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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Seventeen-year-old Reyna has spent most of her life at the Plumeria, her family’s gorgeous seaside resort in Tobago. But what once seemed like paradise is starting to feel more like purgatory. It’s been two years since Reyna’s mother passed away, two years since Aiden - her childhood best friend, first kiss, first love, first everything - left the island to pursue his music dreams.
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A MUST read loved the Audible version!!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-10-21
De: Sarah Dass
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- J@YD944
- 12-29-21
Island Queen
A beautifully written story about extreme hardship/violence, infinite courage & one woman of color’s determination to battle injustice & fight against the enslavement & torture of others by gaining riches for the rich & powerful. Once I began reading, this book was hard to put down. Although this story takes place in the 1700’s, sadly discrimination against race, religious/political beliefs, social status, etc. is shamefully alive & well as we are entering into 2022.
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- Sparrow
- 06-13-22
Utterly fantastic
I checked, this makes book 371 I've listened to on audible, but it is hands down the BEST narration I've ever heard. Ever. The story was also great, but this narrator made it. I read it too, but hearing it from this truly gifted storyteller made it come to life! I would listen to her read the phone book!
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- Joy Letang
- 09-27-23
Powerful woman of color
I loved this totally enjoyed. Very riveting..powerful History about Dorothy Kirwan a strong Caribbean black woman, I was not aware even existed, this brilliant lady built her empire in slavery days throughout a few islands in the Caribbean to England
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- 07-11-24
a MUST listen!
Incredible story and Adjoa Andoh is PHENOMENAL with her narration (a queen herself, how could she not be?! 🙌🏽👑). These are the kinds of stories so many of us did not have access to in history class, and I'm grateful for coming across this body of work by Vanessa Riley and will definitely seek out more.
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- Bianca Morton
- 07-16-21
Amazing
Being a black woman from the West Indies this book was amazing. This book took me through so many emotions. I felt pain, anger, hope, joy and sadness. Very well read. Her triumphs and tribulations shows that woman can overcome anything.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-28-22
Truly amazing story
One of my favorite books of all time. I will hold this one in my heart for a long time. And the narrator did such an amazing job with the accents and characters. So well done.
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- Andrea S
- 01-27-22
Fantastic story, writing, narration!
One of the best books I have read in a while! Such a fascinating and inspiring woman! I have learned what strength truly looks like. Thank you.
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- Alvin Whitehair
- 07-10-22
Good book
Am awesome audio book. Highly recommended. Oprah recommendation also. Well written. I can’t get 15 words in.
++++++++++ aaaaaaa +++++
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- Mahina
- 12-11-22
So good!
Beautifully written and narrated.
I was invested from the very start. Lots of history that I was not aware of. Thank you for telling Dorothy's story.
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- roxanne calvert
- 07-23-24
The struggle, the unbelievable strength to achieve all that she did!
This book was wonderful, I couldn’t put it down! I smiled , I cried, I felt happy, and felt anger and disgust.
I could listen to it again.
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