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The Hero Book Series, Book 1
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A.J. Wolfe-Ferguson
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Jerald L. Hoover
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Bennett Wilson has the world at his fingertips. One of the top basketball players in New York State, he is destined to lead Mount Vernon High to the state championship for the first time. Many of the nation’s top colleges are already reaching out, eager to sign him to their roster. Scholarships are guaranteed. Still young, Bennett is seduced by the promise of fame and fortune.
Yet, all is not as it appears. Bennett’s life is plagued with strife and conflict. The oldest of three, he has grown up with his single mother in the tough inner city projects of Mount Vernon. Life is hard, but Bennett refuses to choose the fast life of the streets. He knows his only ticket to freedom is through basketball and academics.
Bennett’s dreams come to a screeching halt when he learns his sick mother has fallen far behind on her rent and is threatened with eviction. He knows he can get easy money on the streets, but at the cost of ruining his future. Will Bennett finally succumb to a life he’s avoided and if he does, what will it cost?
My Friend, My Hero, which celebrates its 25th year in print, is the first in the acclaimed The Hero Book Series by author Jerald LeVon Hoover.
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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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Sweet Gone South
- Love Gone South, Book 1
- De: Alicia Hunter Pace
- Narrado por: Amy Rubinate
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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Chocolatier Lanie Heaven has good friends, a booming business, and the adoration of the citizens of Merritt, Alabama. But she also has a secret. After the devastating breakup with her longtime college boyfriend, she lost a baby and the hope of ever having a child - the thing she desires above all else.
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Sweet but Disappointing
- De Rusty en 10-29-17
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Memories of Another Day
- De: Harold Robbins
- Narrado por: Stephen Bowlby
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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Born to a life of violence and tragedy, Dan becomes one of the most powerful and dangerous labor organizers in the country - at the expense of his personal relationships. He's a man who embraced violence, fierce ambition, lust and a deep hunger for justice even as he accumulated personal wealth, fame, and power.
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Good story too much unnecessary sex
- De J. Veinot en 08-14-17
De: Harold Robbins
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Devil in a Blue Dress
- An Easy Rawlins Mystery
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Michael Boatman
- Duración: 5 h y 35 m
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Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs.
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Beware of Mysterious Sexy Women with Big Suitcases
- De Jefferson en 02-13-11
De: Walter Mosley
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The Residue Years
- De: Mitchell S. Jackson
- Narrado por: Corey Allen
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America’s whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the ’90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that’s nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace.
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Dense in cultural details
- De Angel en 12-04-15
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Tyrell
- De: Coe Booth
- Narrado por: Barrie Buckner
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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Tyrell is a young African-American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a homeless shelter. His father's in jail. His girlfriend supports him, but he doesn't feel good enough for her - and seems to be always on the verge of doing the wrong thing around her. There's another girl at the homeless shelter who is also after him, although the desires there are complicated. Tyrell feels he needs to score some money to make things better. Will he end up following in his father's footsteps?
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Great book for Teenagers
- De Anonymous User en 10-10-22
De: Coe Booth
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
- De: Anne Moody
- Narrado por: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
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Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
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A Gripping, Visceral Account of 1960's Reality
- De Philomena en 01-03-13
De: Anne Moody
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That Was Then, This Is Now
- De: S. E. Hinton
- Narrado por: Jeff Woodman
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
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Bryon and Mark aren't related, but they are as close as brothers. Ever since his parents died when he was nine, Mark has lived with Bryon and his mother. Now at 16, they like to reminisce about old times - the fights and pranks at school, smoking and swearing - junk they got into when they were younger. But lately things have been different. Bryon starts spending a lot of time with Cathy, and she makes him feel there are some things worth working for. He grows bored with all the fighting, the dead-end choices of life on the streets.
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Good Story for Middle School Students
- De Shelley en 04-06-16
De: S. E. Hinton
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Reprieve
- A Novel
- De: James Han Mattson
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize - a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants.
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creepy escape room story
- De Barbara S en 11-18-21
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Primary Colors
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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Primary Colors offers a richly detailed look at life on the political stump. As former congressional aide Henry Burton is dazzled and lured into presidential hopeful Jack Stanton's fledgling campaign, he becomes a cog in Stanton's unstoppable political machine. Burton illuminates, through his actions and observations, the sometimes seamy, sometimes steamy and sometimes surprisingly noble ascent to the presidency.
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- De Daniel W. Eggemeier en 10-15-08
De: Anonymous
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Bump This
- De: LT Ville
- Narrado por: Alonzo Riggs
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Keith is an 18-year-old high school student living in Harlem. He has a life plan that includes being the class valedictorian and going to Columbia University. His mother is a recovering drug addict and his family is broken in most meanings of the word, but he has remained unfazed by his surroundings. He meets two cousins, Jesse and Derrick, and his senior year is turned on its head as he finds himself in a love triangle that leads to the discovery of details from his past that his mother wanted to keep hidden forever.
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A Gay Black Romance, Yay!
- De DeonLoves Reading en 06-07-19
De: LT Ville
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City Boy
- The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk.
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I wanted the next adventure of Herbie Bookbinder!
- De Lucie Batte en 03-17-22
De: Herman Wouk