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A Novel
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Narrado por:
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Prentice Onayemi
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Imani Parks
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Alice Randall
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An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings.
From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary Black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats.
As he lays dying in the Black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy reflects on his life, the community that was the center of his world, and the remarkable people who helped shape it.
Inspired by the Catholic Saints Day Books, Ziggy curates his own list of Black Bottom’s venerable "52 Saints". Among them are a vulnerable Dinah Washington, a defiant Joe Louis, and a raucous Bricktop. Randall balances the stories of these larger-than-life "Saints" with local heroes who became household names, enthralling men and women whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this Black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City’s Harlem.
Accompanying these “tributes” are thoughtfully paired cocktails - special drinks that capture the essence of each of Ziggy’s saints - libations as strong and satisfying as Alice Randall’s wholly original view of a place and time unlike any other.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- De Paul Hernandez en 04-29-20
De: Rudolfo Anaya
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The Godmothers
- A Novel
- De: Camille Aubray
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
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Meet the Godmothers: Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy French girl from upstate New York, escapes an abusive husband after falling in love with Johnny, the oldest of the brothers. Lucy, a tough-as-nails Irish nurse, ran away from a strict girls' home and marries Frankie, the sensuous middle son. And the glamorous Petrina, the family's only daughter, graduates with honors from Barnard College despite a past trauma that nearly caused a family scandal.
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Easy Enjoyable Read
- De Bunny en 06-23-21
De: Camille Aubray
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Save Me the Waltz
- De: Zelda Fitzgerald
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender Is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessions of a famous, slightly doomed glamour girl of the affluent 1920s, which captures the spirit of an era.
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Audio is a great platform for Zelda's writing--
- De Renee LaBonte-Jones en 10-30-16
De: Zelda Fitzgerald
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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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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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Some of the most brilliant prose ever written
- De Anonymous User en 03-21-23
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Nigger
- An Autobiography
- De: Dick Gregory, Dr. Christian Gregory - introduction, Robert Lipsyte
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Dr. Christian Gregory
- Duración: 6 h y 40 m
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Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America.
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PLEASE don't pass this book up!
- De D en 05-06-20
De: Dick Gregory, y otros
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Appointment in Samarra
- Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
- De: John O'Hara, Charles McGrath - introduction
- Narrado por: Christian Camargo
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, social circuit is electrified with parties and dances. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English. But in one rash moment born inside a highball glass, Julian breaks with polite society and begins a rapid descent toward self-destruction.
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Quite good, but not a classic
- De Michael en 04-25-15
De: John O'Hara, y otros
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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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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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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Tambourines to Glory
- De: Langston Hughes
- Narrado por: Myra Taylor
- Duración: 4 h y 15 m
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Angelic Essie Belle Johnson and devilish Laura Reed both agree that they need to do something to spice up their lives and earn more money. So, they start their own church on the street in front of their Harlem apartment. With Laura's gift for performing and Essie's melodious voice, the two quickly become a hit and must move their services into a renovated theater. But as their congregation grows, a host of misfits enter the scene - some honest, but others who just want a piece of the pie.
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Nice timepiece
- De Akida Kissane Long en 02-08-17
De: Langston Hughes
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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Shine Bright
- A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
- De: Danyel Smith
- Narrado por: Danyel Smith
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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A weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor (Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host (Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo.
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Ok might have been better reading the hard copy
- De cde en 06-18-22
De: Danyel Smith
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Bitter in the Mouth
- De: Monique Truong
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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Growing up in the small town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina, in the 70’s and 80’s, Linda believes that she is profoundly different from everyone else, including the members of her own family. “What I know about you, little girl, would break you in two” are the cruel, mysterious last words that Linda’s grandmother ever says to her.
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"Tasting Words" made this hard to hear!
- De Kate Anderson en 11-06-11
De: Monique Truong
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The Undocumented Americans
- De: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Narrado por: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she'd tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer's phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own.
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Raw, heartbreaking - we can do better by others
- De RapaciousReader en 04-11-20
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- De: Rebecca Wells
- Narrado por: Judith Ivey
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
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When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser", the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.
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As usual the book is better than the movie
- De Denzil and Judy's Account en 03-25-10
De: Rebecca Wells
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Mother Land
- A Novel
- De: Leah Franqui
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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When Rachel Meyer, a 30-something foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home. But the expat American’s sense of adventure is sorely tested when her mother-in-law, Swati, suddenly arrives from Kolkata - 1,000 miles away - alone, with an even more shocking announcement: She’s left her husband of more than 40 years and moving in with them.
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This could have been so good...
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-20
De: Leah Franqui
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Talk to Me
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- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
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Complex and Fascinating
- De D en 07-12-23
De: John Kenney
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Uncle Tom's Children
- De: Richard Wright
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful and devastating stories in Uncle Tom's Children concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. The collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."
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I am Speechless, Absolutely Breath Taking!,
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De: Richard Wright
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Last Summer on State Street
- De: Toya Wolfe
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes. It’s the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence.
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This book was depressing and a slow burn
- De mel en 08-18-22
De: Toya Wolfe
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Night Wherever We Go
- A Novel
- De: Tracey Rose Peyton
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
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The historical content of how king Black woman have healed themselves in the mist of a world trying to kill them- amazing read!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-05-23
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Greenland
- A Novel
- De: David Santos Donaldson
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
- Duración: 10 h
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In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there.
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Unexpected story with literary depth
- De Hannah Aron en 06-01-24
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Mother Land
- A Novel
- De: Leah Franqui
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
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When Rachel Meyer, a 30-something foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home. But the expat American’s sense of adventure is sorely tested when her mother-in-law, Swati, suddenly arrives from Kolkata - 1,000 miles away - alone, with an even more shocking announcement: She’s left her husband of more than 40 years and moving in with them.
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This could have been so good...
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-20
De: Leah Franqui
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Talk to Me
- De: John Kenney
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
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Complex and Fascinating
- De D en 07-12-23
De: John Kenney
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Uncle Tom's Children
- De: Richard Wright
- Narrado por: Adam Lazarre-White
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children, a collection of novellas, was the first book from Richard Wright, who would go on to win international renown for his powerful and visceral depiction of the Black experience. Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful and devastating stories in Uncle Tom's Children concerns an aspect of the lives of Black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. The collection also includes a personal essay by Wright titled "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow."
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I am Speechless, Absolutely Breath Taking!,
- De Lisalisa en 09-26-20
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Last Summer on State Street
- De: Toya Wolfe
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
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Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes. It’s the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence.
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This book was depressing and a slow burn
- De mel en 08-18-22
De: Toya Wolfe
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Night Wherever We Go
- A Novel
- De: Tracey Rose Peyton
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
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On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
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The historical content of how king Black woman have healed themselves in the mist of a world trying to kill them- amazing read!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-05-23
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Greenland
- A Novel
- De: David Santos Donaldson
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
- Duración: 10 h
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In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there.
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Unexpected story with literary depth
- De Hannah Aron en 06-01-24
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My Year Abroad
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: Lawrence Kao
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
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Worst narration ever
- De Unhappy Sirius Camper en 02-07-21
De: Chang-rae Lee
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The Office of Historical Corrections
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- De: Danielle Evans
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pressley, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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Danielle Evans is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in a way that allows them to speak to larger issues of race, culture, and history. She introduces us to Black and multiracial characters who are experiencing the universal confusions of lust and love, and getting walloped by grief - all while exploring how history haunts us, personally and collectively.
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blecch
- De Burns en 12-23-20
De: Danielle Evans
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Theophilus North
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- De: Thornton Wilder
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 15 m
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The last of Thornton Wilder’s works published during his lifetime, Theophilus North is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventures of Wilder’s twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade.
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I Absolutely Loved It!
- De SandyK en 06-10-24
De: Thornton Wilder
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The Son of Mr. Suleman
- A Novel
- De: Eric Jerome Dickey
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
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It’s the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man from Memphis with a lot to endure - not only as a Black man in Trump’s America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague’s prejudices and microaggressions. At the same time, he’s being blackmailed by a powerful professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted her, when in fact the truth is just the opposite, trapping him in a he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi knows he will never win.
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He Went Home
- De alec en 05-02-21
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The Tiger Mom's Tale
- De: Lyn Liao Butler
- Narrado por: Natalie Naudus
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she's neither White enough nor Asian enough. Visiting her father in Taiwan as a child, Lexa thought she'd finally found a place where she belonged. But that was years ago, and even there, some never truly considered her to be a part of the family. When her estranged father dies unexpectedly, leaving the fate of his Taiwanese family in Lexa's hands, she is faced with the choice to return to Taiwan and claim her place in her heritage.
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There is more to the story than the title suggests
- De KEM en 07-12-21
De: Lyn Liao Butler
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Stealing Benefacio's Roses
- De: Martín Prechtel
- Narrado por: Martín Prechtel
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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Following the acclaimed Secrets of the Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive lyrical novel in the tradition of Indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths.
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I read this book a long time ago
- De D. Varga en 01-17-22
De: Martín Prechtel
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Where We Come From
- A novel
- De: Oscar Cásares
- Narrado por: Yareli Arizmendi
- Duración: 8 h
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From a distance, the towns along the US-Mexican border have dangerous reputations - on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents - and Brownsville is no different. But to 12-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives - and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death. For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated.
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Fantastic Read
- De NSJ en 07-31-19
De: Oscar Cásares
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Maggie-Now
- A Novel
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
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In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness.
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no unabridged
- De sally en 08-03-21
De: Betty Smith
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Monogamy
- A Novel
- De: Sue Miller
- Narrado por: Sue Miller
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple. When Graham suddenly dies—this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives together—Annie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him? Then, while she is still mourning Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.
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Monotonous
- De Susan G. en 10-16-20
De: Sue Miller
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Skinship
- Stories
- De: Yoon Choi
- Narrado por: Greta Jung, Intae Kim, Jennifer Kim, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims. Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground,
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My favorite from this year!
- De Marla Lev en 12-14-21
De: Yoon Choi
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The Hummingbird
- A Novel
- De: Sandro Veronesi
- Narrado por: Victor Vertunni, Silvia Presente, Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges—suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman—Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living.
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A wonderful book!
- De Elizabeth Lawson en 02-07-22
De: Sandro Veronesi
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Big Time
- Stories
- De: Jen Spyra, Stephen Colbert - foreword
- Narrado por: Jen Spyra, Stephen Colbert, Dan Stevens, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
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A bride so desperate to get in shape for her wedding that she enrolls in a new kind of workout program that promises the moon but costs more than she bargained for. A snowman who, on the wish of a child, comes to life in a decidedly less savory way than in the childhood classic. And in the title story, a time-hopping 1940s starlet tries to claw her way to the top in modern-day Hollywood, despite being ridiculously unwoke.
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Old white dudes might think this is funny?
- De Anonymous User en 05-27-22
De: Jen Spyra, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Black Bottom Saints
Con calificación alta para:
Reseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
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- Barbara Suhr
- 09-26-20
History through character studies
As a white Detroiter I was familiar with many places and moments but unfamiliar with much about my beloved city. I believe It’s essential to learn more about black history and culture - this book is steeped in it. Its filled with amazing stories of dynamic, smart and talented (often famous) people. Their portraits are at times poignant, graceful and at others gritty and resilient.
The structure is creative and fun with a cocktail for each “Black Bottom Saint”. I want to try some of these cocktails!
Thank you Alice Randall for another lovely novel!
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- 05-01-21
An Incredible World Hidden In Plain Sight.
With sumptuous narration and vivid imagery, this book took me back to the Detroit and the America that history dodges because it shows the reality of mid-century Black America.
The real Black people do not exist only as a reaction to white evil or white compassion. We are our own soul and we live in no shadow cast by sin. This book stands as evidence of our humanity and no false history or Hollywood perversion can change that.
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- Red Dragon
- 05-17-21
Interesting and Deep
very compelling story. I loved learning about so many historical figures in a moving and compelling way. the female narrator is halting and strange. I don't understand it, I assume it is meant to be artistic, I just didn't understand. But, this shouldn't deter you from listening to this dynamic book.
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- 08-10-22
A fabulous listen.
This was a nostalgic walk through Detroit royalty and black history and entertainment.
I selected this book for entertainment and ended up getting educated too. This was one of the best if not the best narrated book that I’ve ever listened too which only added to the experience. Absolutely wonderful read!
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- Richard
- 08-28-20
Amazing book
If you want to read something that gives you an entertaining perspective on the richness and difficulty of Black life in America in the middle of last century, listen to this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-29-22
Entrancing engaging inspirational
I loved this book. Alice Randall writes poetically about real people who populated and passed through Black Bottom DETROIT during its golden age. Thank you, Alice and Ziggy.
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- Etoile NEOhio
- 10-26-22
Stories rooted in the legendary Detroit neighborho
An important addition to my understanding of a race and culture not my own. Stories rooted in the legendary Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom which was home to more than a hundred thousand African Americans and their businesses during the 1930s and 40s. The neighborhood was destroyed in the 1960s in a sweep of "urban renewal" Highly recommended for all readers/listeners, especially those who have read books like "Caste", "The Warmth of Other Suns", etc. Read something outside your own bubble. This is a good place to start.
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- 12-14-20
Interesting Read. Too Much In Common with Today
This is a great read. It took me a the first few chapters to get into the flow of the structure as it is quite different than anything else I have read. The individual chapters have some that are more interesting than others, but overall, they're all great.
It is sad when reading this how it feels like we have made so little progress in some areas. Many of the over arching themes still ring true today. I got a better understanding of why cultural appropriation is such a sensitive topic because the book touches on the theft of culture. The book touches on how integration can have a tendency to steam roll over black history. There were many items like this I knew about, but never focused on that this book forced me to really think about.
I did not realize how much Iiked this book until I circled back to reread a few of my favorite chapters and how hard they hit me on the 2nd reading.
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- Frances
- 08-23-20
Storytelling at its best
Engaging from first to last. I feel privileged to “know” the black bottom family and passing friends. A tiny glimpse; a slice; a diamond set in gold and platinum. More please. I have taken down the names to know more. Wow!
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- Paul R Szydlowski
- 08-26-20
For Detroit-lovers and students of black culture
A fascinating and wildly creative look at Black culture and the Detroit neighborhood where it thrived like nowhere else. An essential book for anyone who loves Detroit or wants to understand how people can thrive even when everything seems designed to thwart them.
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