No Better Time
A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
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“Just the novel to elevate these unforgettable voices.”—Shelf Awareness
The acclaimed author of The Secret Women and Things Past Telling returns with an engrossing historical novel about a little known aspect of World War II—the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only Black WACs to serve overseas during the conflict.
In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Dorothy Thom, Spelman graduate, librarian and Francophile, joins the Women’s Army Corps wanting to do her part for the war effort. Longing for adventure, she has one question for the recruiter: “Do you think I’ll get to go abroad?”
As Dorothy and her sister WACs discover, life in the Army is an adventure filled with unexpected deprivations and culture shock. Women from all levels of society, secretaries, teachers, and sharecroppers, work together to navigate a military segregated by race and gender. At boot camp, the “colored girls” are separated for processing. At Ft. Riley, the women’s barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water.
In early 1945, Dorothy and eight hundred African American WACs cross the turbulent North Atlantic to their post in England. Their orders are to process the mail sent to GIs from their loved ones back home, an estimated 17 million pieces. The women arrive to find mail stockpiled for over two years in warehouses and airplane hangars, many pieces in poor condition, the names illegible.
In England and France, the WACs traverse a landscape of unimagined possibilities. With their outlooks changed forever, they return to the United States as the catalysts for change in America and build lives that transcend anything their ancestors ever dreamed of.
No Better Time illuminates a love of country and duty that has been overlooked until now.
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1918 - America is at war with Germany, and, for the first time in history, the US Navy has allowed women to join up alongside the men. Ten thousand of them rush to do their part. German-American Marjory Kunwald enlists in the Navy to prove her patriotism. Suffragette Blanche Lawrence to prove that women are the equal of men. And shy preacher’s daughter Viv Weston in a desperate attempt to hide from the police.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De Deborah Hayes en 12-09-22
De: Alix Rickloff
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One Woman's Army
- The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story
- De: Janis Karpinski
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 7 h y 34 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 31
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In an outspoken memoir that is sure to generate controversy, General Janis Karpinski tells the real story of the tragic and shameful events of 2004 from her first-hand experience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book that needed to be written.
- De R. Frost en 06-23-18
De: Janis Karpinski
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Code Girls
- The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
- De: Liza Mundy
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,611
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Recruited by the US Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than 10,000 women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of codebreaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just released, about 80% through this story
- De Roobah en 10-11-17
De: Liza Mundy
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In a League of Her Own
- A Novel
- De: Kaia Alderson
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 5
An ambitious Harlem woman’s husband upends her social climbing when he buys a Negro Leagues baseball team and appoints her as the team’s business manager. Overnight, Effa Manley goes from 125th Street’s civil rights champion to an interloper in the boys’ club that is professional baseball.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Such an interesting story!
- De Carolyn Hector Hall en 08-13-24
De: Kaia Alderson
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No Better Time
- The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet
- De: Molly Knight Raskin
- Narrado por: Christine Marshall
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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No Better Time tells of a young, driven mathematical genius who wrote a set of algorithms that would create a faster, better Internet. It's the story of a beautiful friendship between a loud, irreverent student and his soft-spoken MIT professor, of a husband and father who spent years struggling to make ends meet only to become a billionaire almost overnight with the success of Akamai Technologies, the Internet content delivery network he cofounded with his mentor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Overlooked Hero of 9-11
- De Jean en 05-27-16
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The Queen of Sugar Hill
- A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
- De: ReShonda Tate
- Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Duración: 15 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
It was supposed to be the highlight of her career, the pinnacle for which she’d worked all her life. And as Hattie McDaniel took the stage in 1940 to claim an honor that would make her the first African-American woman to win an Academy Award, she tearfully took her place in history. Between personal triumphs and tragedies, heartbreaking losses, and severe setbacks, this historic night of winning best supporting actress for her role as the sassy Mammy in the controversial movie Gone With the Wind was going to be life-changing. Or so she thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Story I Never Knew
- De Face To Face With Yolanda en 04-27-24
De: ReShonda Tate
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Firstborn Girls
- A Memoir
- De: Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles, Bernice L. McFadden
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died in a car crash near Detroit, only to be resuscitated after her mother pulled her from the flaming wreckage. Firstborn Girls traces her remarkable life from that moment up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Growing up in 1980s Brooklyn, Bernice finds solace in books, summer trips to Barbados, and boarding school to escape her alcoholic father. Discovering the works of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, she finally sees herself and her loved ones reflected in their stories of “messy, beautiful, joyful Black people.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow! Felt like a movie.
- De Lachell B en 03-07-25
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Valiant Women
- The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II
- De: Lena S. Andrews
- Narrado por: Courtney Patterson
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 32
Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. Military analyst Lena Andrews corrects the record with the definitive and comprehensive historical account of American servicewomen during World War II, based on new archival research, firsthand interviews with surviving veterans, and a deep professional understanding of military history and strategy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing
- De Fact addict en 10-08-23
De: Lena S. Andrews
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Ours
- A Novel
- De: Phillip B. Williams
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 22 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25
In this ingenious, sweeping novel, Phillip B. Williams introduces us to an enigmatic woman named Saint, a fearsome conjurer who, in the 1830s, annihilates plantations all over Arkansas to rescue the people enslaved there. She brings those she has freed to a haven of her own creation: a town just north of St. Louis, magically concealed from outsiders, named Ours. It is in this miraculous place that Saint’s grand experiment—a truly secluded community where her people may flourish—takes root.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good
- De C. Mercer en 02-19-25
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The Davenports
- De: Krystal Marquis
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 791
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 789
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carriage Company years ago. Now it's 1910, and the Davenports live surrounded by servants, crystal chandeliers, and endless parties, finding their way and finding love—even where they’re not supposed to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Giving Bridgerton Vibes
- De Danni B. en 03-11-23
De: Krystal Marquis
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The Life of Herod the Great
- De: Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G. Plant - editor
- Narrado por: Blair Underwood, Robin Miles
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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In the 1950s, as a continuation of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel about one of the most infamous figures in the Bible, Herod the Great. In Hurston’s retelling, Herod is not the wicked ruler of the New Testament who is charged with the “slaughter of the innocents,” but a forerunner of Christ—a beloved king who enriched Jewish culture and brought prosperity and peace to Judea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Delighted
- De Whitney Williams-Black en 01-24-25
De: Zora Neale Hurston, y otros
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The Thread Collectors
- A Novel
- De: Shaunna J. Edwards, Alyson Richman
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 250
1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love for William, a Black soldier and a brilliant musician.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely stunning!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-14-24
De: Shaunna J. Edwards, y otros
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Medgar and Myrlie
- Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
- De: Joy-Ann Reid
- Narrado por: Joy-Ann Reid
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 440
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Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar’s secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation, lynching, violence, and sheer despair within their state’s “black belt.”
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read!
- De Kenny Cook en 02-11-24
De: Joy-Ann Reid
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- L. Pavela
- 01-21-25
A must read
This was a great book and I enjoyed every minute aside from the last 10. It seems like this author wanted to finish this book really quickly and it was left with some loose ends.
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- Claudia Rhen
- 06-15-24
Good WWII Black Army Women
Loved finding out the trials and tribulations of Black women in the WWII army. Historical events brought ar
richness to the story. Interesting to see how they were treated by their own vs the "enemy", A must read!
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- Coleen Fabrizi
- 06-26-24
Wonderful read!
It was very well written and captures a significant part of history and the impact women have had in preserving our freedom.
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