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JB Adkins
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Otis, Willie, and Hibernia are three children with a lot in common: they've all lost a loved one, they each have secret dreams, and they won't stop fighting for what they want. And they're also a lot like their hero, famed boxer Joe Louis. Throughout this moving novel, their lives gradually converge to form friendship, family, and love. Their trials and triumphs echo those of Joe Louis, as he fights to become the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion.
Andrea Pinkney masterfully weaves in factual information about Joe Louis and actual radio commentary from his fights, enriching the narrative of this uniquely rendered and beautifully written novel.
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Absoultly wonderful
- De Debbie en 08-05-07
De: Joyce Meyer, y otros
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 303
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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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 64
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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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This Side of the Sky
- De: Elyse Singleton
- Narrado por: Myra Taylor, Sharon Washington, Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
Award-winning journalist Elyse Singleton delivers what Essence calls “a gem - the perfect book to curl up with.”
Best friends Lilian and Myraleen, two African American women from rural Mississippi, travel to Europe during World War II to act as members of the Women’s Army Corps. During this time of segregation and destruction, both women discover love and heartbreak, triumph and defeat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Breath of Fresh Air
- De Adina Andreu en 07-19-12
De: Elyse Singleton
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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 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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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5 out of 5 stars
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real life
- De Richard M. en 10-05-22
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Some Sing, Some Cry
- De: Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 26 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 643
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 365
Audible presents the multigenerational epic Some Sing, Some Cry. Created by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza, this audiobook takes listeners on a journey through Reconstruction, two world wars, the Harlem renaissance, and Vietnam to modern day America.Some Sing, Some Cry begins at the threshold of one family’s freedom. We meet Betty Mayfield, newly emancipated from Sweet Tamarind, a lush and haunted rice plantation off the Carolina coast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Sang, I Cried
- De Jo en 09-29-10
De: Ntozake Shange, y otros
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Ninth Ward
- De: Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Narrado por: Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Duración: 4 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Acclaimed novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes is an American Book Award winner. Rhodes’ Ninth Ward is a stunning tale set against the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. Orphaned 12-year-old Lanesha lives with Mama Ya-Ya, the midwife who birthed her, in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Although Lanesha is different—able to see ghosts like that of her dead mother—she never feels unloved, an empowerment that helps her survive the devastating storm.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The only thing worse than narrator is story itself
- De Erin en 02-13-13
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All-of-a-Kind Family
- De: Sydney Taylor
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 3 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 356
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 360
It's the turn of the 20th century in New York's Lower East Side and a sense of adventure and excitement abounds for five young sisters. Follow along on their adventures and experience their holiday fun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story about family life.
- De lavenderknitter en 10-27-15
De: Sydney Taylor
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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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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 191
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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Rapture of Canaan
- De: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good story
- De mctoria en 08-15-24
De: Sheri Reynolds
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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 49
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 42
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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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- De: Rae Meadows
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 46
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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1 out of 5 stars
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While I really disliked this book...
- De NMwritergal en 08-17-16
De: Rae Meadows
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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 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 132
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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Gathering of Waters
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 188
Gathering of Waters is a deeply engrossing tale narrated by the town of Money, Mississippi - a site both significant and infamous in our collective story as a nation. Money is personified in this haunting story, which chronicles its troubled history following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to escape the town, Tass marries Maximillian May and relocates to Detroit
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!!
- De Dr. Allen en 07-26-16
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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 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De DWT en 01-06-25
De: Ann H. Gabhart
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Promise
- A Novel
- De: Minrose Gwin
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart - one Black, one White; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager - fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Disappointing
- De Anjoli en 06-15-19
De: Minrose Gwin