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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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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
- By Karen on 04-11-11
By: Toni Morrison
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Arcadia
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Lauren Groff’s acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the utopia crumble and the world change in unimaginable ways.
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Luscious prose, intimate and realistic
- By Kathleen on 03-22-12
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The Plague of Doves
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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Avoid this Plague
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"Some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus. The man who sees sunrise from a Belle woman's bed will swear he's been born again." So begins Paula Wall's funny, poignant, and sexy novel, The Rock Orchard. Musette Belle could lay her hand on a baby's heart and see his life as if he'd already lived it. Even in death, she continues to shock the good citizens of Leaper's Fork, Tennessee, and her descendents are doing their best to carry on her legacy.
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Laugh Out Loud
- By MaryRoseJ on 11-06-12
By: Paula Wall
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Midnight Robber
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- Narrated by: Robin Miles
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It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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Even Through the Dimensions, Girls Are Not Safe
- By mary on 12-11-12
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
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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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Capote’s coming of age story
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Memphis
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Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
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Awful narrator
- By Rachael edwards on 06-07-22
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Angel of Harlem
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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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Really Enjoyed!
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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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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
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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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Great read!
- By S. Clay on 11-01-17
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Rush Home Road
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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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filthy language and violent content
- By Anna on 12-16-11
By: Lori Lansens
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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Beautiful and Haunting Fairytale
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Southern Gods
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Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music - broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio statio - is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. Disturbed and enraged by the bootleg recording the DJ plays for him, Ingram follows Hastur's trail into the strange, uncivilized backwoods of Arkansas, where he hears rumors the musician has sold his soul to the Devil.
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Big, Bold and Bright
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- bv
- 07-27-18
Interesting
l enjoyed it. kept my attention. difficult subject matter at times but very real and thoughful
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- vanda
- 06-02-15
Intense, yet beautifully written
I had some difficulty reading the book because I had some difficulty with metaphorical phrases. I decided to continue to read and had a better understanding of Ruby's character.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-13-15
Riveting
I had to listen to the beginning at least 3 times but once I got into the story I could not stop listening. Narrator excellent with both men's and women's voices which can sometimes be distracting. Story was almost too painful at times but author moved through those times gracefully
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- Madeline E.
- 08-26-15
Love the book!
The performance by the author was awesome. Job well done. I never awesome she would deliver the story the way she did.
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- Patricia
- 03-11-15
Good Read
struggled to finish I hope this wasn't a true story.
Ruby had a horrible child hood because she was beautiful.
The narrator's voice made you feel her pain and sorrow.
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- Tracey
- 02-26-15
Painfully obscure with a dark religious undertone
Enjoyed all the colorful characters and their inability to see and connect with their inner hurts are understood. Thumbs Up!
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- Ms.MoeMoeCoolBeans
- 06-01-21
Nothing like you have ever heard before
Intense. Disturbing. Heartwarming. Hopeful. Shocking. This book is nothing like you have ever heard or read.
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- Gabby
- 02-25-15
So sad and yet so beautifully written
If you are looking for a feel good book this is not it. But it is a beautifully written story that draws you in. There is some magic realism that feels almost real. It starts out slow and the reader grew on me after a while and by the end I decided she read it just right.
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- TMB
- 11-13-16
Survivors beware
If you have experience sexual trauma be forewarned that this story maybe hard listen. Certain scenes are very descriptive, as soon as the main character is empowered the story ends! It is a great story of overcoming.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-15-15
very dark and deep. not for the faint of heart.
So painful to listen to, I believed I could feel her pain. She isn't alone.
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