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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store weaves a compelling tale of community, resilience, and the power of human connection across racial and cultural divides. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store won the prestigious Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was hailed as one of the best novels of the year by major publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and TIME.
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,998
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,201
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Multiple Stories Obfuscate Narrative
- By Stephnsea on 08-12-23
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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Song Yet Sung
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Leslie Uggams
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding
- By Roberta on 11-05-09
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Song Yet Sung
- Narrated by: Leslie Uggams
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 01-09-09
- Language: English
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,959
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,588
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,585
The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome
- By Michael on 05-30-17
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The Color of Water
- A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Susan Denaker
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-25-14
- Language: English
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,577
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,735
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,694
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterpiece
- By Linda G McDonough on 05-17-20
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-03-20
- Language: English
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Five-Carat Soul
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 223
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 222
The stories in Five-Carat Soul - none of them ever published before - spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They’re funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen. Just listen.
- By Rebbe Don Justino on 12-26-17
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Five-Carat Soul
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi, Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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Miracle at St. Anna
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Ted Daniel
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
In Miracle at St. Anna, toward the end of World War II, four Buffalo Soldiers from the Army’s Negro 92nd Division find themselves separated from their unit and behind enemy lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerhouse of a story
- By Suzette Marriott on 05-07-25
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Miracle at St. Anna
- Narrated by: Ted Daniel
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-11-25
- Language: English
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,202
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,950
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,944
From the best-selling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade - and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Abolition Huck Finn arouses interest in history
- By Abram H on 12-13-13
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The Good Lord Bird
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-20-13
- Language: English
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Kill 'Em and Leave
- Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 240
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 240
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul, Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Captivating Narrative of a Complex Man
- By Kindle Customer on 04-10-16
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Kill 'Em and Leave
- Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 04-05-16
- Language: English
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book that will stay with you
- By Michelle Procter on 09-05-24
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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-08-23
- Language: English
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L'épicerie du paradis sur terre [The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Olivier Dote-Doevi
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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En 1972, des ouvriers de Pottstown, Pennsylvanie, découvrent des restes humains au fond d’un puits. À Chicken Hill, quartier pauvre où se côtoient Juifs et noirs américains, l’identité du squelette et la manière dont il est arrivé là sont deux secrets bien gardés.
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L'épicerie du paradis sur terre [The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]
- Narrated by: Olivier Dote-Doevi
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 02-27-25
- Language: French
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
The year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball team....
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Deacon King Kong
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 07-16-20
- Language: English
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El pájaro carpintero
- Una novela
- By: James McBride, Miguel Sanz Jiménez
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Henry Cebolla Shackleton es un pícaro niño esclavo en cuyo camino se cruza el legendario abolicionista John Brown....
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El pájaro carpintero
- Una novela
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 01-13-26
- Language: Spanish
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Himmel & Erde
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Oliver Dupont
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1972: Beim Ausheben der Fundamente für ein neues Baugebiet stoßen die Arbeiter am Grund eines Brunnens auf ein Skelett ...
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Himmel & Erde
- Narrated by: Oliver Dupont
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 10-23-24
- Language: German
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Die Farbe von Wasser
- By: James McBride
- Narrated by: Adisat Semenitsch, Oliver Dupont
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Die Farbe von Wasser erzählt die Geschichte James McBrides, der in den sechziger Jahren – den Zeiten von Malcolm X und Martin Luther Kings – an der ...
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Die Farbe von Wasser
- Narrated by: Adisat Semenitsch, Oliver Dupont
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-21-24
- Language: German
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