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Dashawn Barnes
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Deborah Wilson
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Ralph Harris
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From a best-selling and award-winning husband and wife team comes an innovative, beautifully illustrated novel that delivers a front-row seat to the groundbreaking moments in history that led to African Americans earning the right to vote.
"Right here, I'm sharing the honest-to-goodness." (Loretta)
"I'm gon' reach back, and tell how it all went. I'm gon' speak on it. My way." (Roly)
"I got more nerve than a bad tooth. But there's nothing bad about being bold." (Aggie B.)
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B., members of the Little family, each present the vivid story of their young lives, spanning three generations. Their separate stories - beginning in a cotton field in 1927 and ending at the presidential election of 1968 - come together to create one unforgettable journey.
Through an evocative mix of fictional first-person narratives, spoken-word poems, folk myths, gospel rhythms and blues influences, Loretta Little Looks Back weaves an immersive tapestry that illuminates the dignity of sharecroppers in the rural South. Inspired by storytelling's oral tradition, stirring vignettes are presented in a series of theatrical monologues that paint a gripping, multidimensional portrait of America's struggle for civil rights as seen through the eyes of the children who lived it.
The novel's unique format invites us to walk in their shoes. Each encounters an unexpected mystical gift, passed down from one family member to the next, that ignites their experience what it means to reach for freedom.
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- De: Jetta Carleton
- Narrado por: Natalie Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 106
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On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- De Amanda H. en 01-20-21
De: Jetta Carleton
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Sula
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,090
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Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- De Karen en 04-11-11
De: Toni Morrison
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Cane
- De: Jean Toomer
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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First published in 1923, Jean Toomer's Cane is an innovative literary work powerfully evoking black life in the South. Rich in imagery, Toomer's impressionistic, sometimes surrealistic sketches of Southern rural and urban life are permeated by visions of smoke, sugarcane, dusk, and fire; the northern world is pictured as a harsher reality of asphalt streets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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When Robots Read, and I'm a Fan of Robots...
- De Jonathan en 03-26-13
De: Jean Toomer
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A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl
- Pearl Spence Novels, Book 1
- De: Susie Finkbeiner
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 242
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Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need. Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother's unshakable belief in a God. Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense
- De VickyJ en 02-07-21
De: Susie Finkbeiner
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Mudbound
- De: Hillary Jordan
- Narrado por: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- De Betty en 03-25-12
De: Hillary Jordan
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Fallen Angels
- De: Patricia Hickman
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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During the Great Depression, Jeb Nubey is running from the law when he meets three abandoned children. With nowhere else to go the group passes a stormy night in a comforting church. When they are discovered, a case of mistaken identity ensues. It seems the congregation has been waiting for their new pastor, a widower with three kids. Looks like more trouble for Jeb. Yet the chance for a steady job and three squares a day is too good to turn down.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Touching
- De Christina en 11-11-04
De: Patricia Hickman
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Rush Home Road
- De: Lori Lansens
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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1 out of 5 stars
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filthy language and violent content
- De Anna en 12-16-11
De: Lori Lansens
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De S. Clay en 11-01-17
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Dessa Rose
- A Novel
- De: Sherley Anne Williams
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 2 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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This is the story of an extraordinary friendship between two remarkable women, both caught in the shadow of slavery in the 19th-century South. One is an escaped black slave under sentence of death; the other is white, yet committed to end the horrors her neighbors accept as a matter of course. Ruby Dee's passionate and sensitive readings gives a poignant sense of reality to this magnificent novel of courage, daring and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Star from Perfect
- De Marty en 01-26-18
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Douglass' Women
- De: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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The best-selling author of Voodoo Dreams focuses on two women who loved the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Anna, a free woman of color, was his rescuer, his loving wife and mother to his children. Ottilie Assing, a white German woman, became his intellectual soul mate and mistress. At times, they all lived under the same roof.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating
- De MJ en 02-09-24
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Angel Sister
- A Novel
- De: Ann H. Gabhart
- Narrado por: Dianna Dorman
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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It is 1936 and Kate Merritt works hard to keep her family together. Her father has slipped into alcoholism, her mother is trying to come to grips with their dire financial situation, and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to all of it. Kate could never have imagined that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be just what her family needs.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful angel story
- De Kindle Customer en 02-24-24
De: Ann H. Gabhart
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Angel of Harlem
- De: Kuwanna Haulsey
- Narrado por: Brenda Pressley
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 48
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed!
- De Amazon Customer en 08-08-19
De: Kuwanna Haulsey
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
- De: Truman Capote
- Narrado por: Cody Roberts
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capote’s coming of age story
- De Daniel Diffin en 11-08-23
De: Truman Capote
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Three Short Novels
- De: Katherine Anne Porter
- Narrado por: Chelsea Stephens
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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The classic 1939 collection of three novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of the most brilliant prose ever written
- De Anonymous User en 03-21-23
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 196
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
- De Ryan C. Bango en 01-05-22
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
- De: Patrice Caldwell - editor
- Narrado por: York Whitaker
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler’s heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that puts Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals at its center. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters through which you cannot help but see yourself reflected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely brilliant
- De Ruthi en 03-11-20