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One of People magazine's most anticipated books!
""A memorable story of mothers and daughters, family dynamics, the complicated meaning of success, the pull of love, and the fight for racial equality, People of Means is a timely look at who we are as a nation—and who we can become, if only we have the courage to follow our hearts."" —Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Daughter
From the acclaimed author of The Kindest Lie, a propulsive novel about a mother and daughter each seeking justice and following their dreams in 1960s Nashville and 1990s Chicago; perfect for fans of Brit Bennett and Tayari Jones.
Two women. Two pivotal moments. One dream for justice and equality.
In the fall of 1959, Freda Gilroy arrives on the campus of Fisk University full of hope, carrying a suitcase and the voice of her father telling her she’s part of a family legacy of greatness. Soon, the ugliness of the Jim Crow South intrudes, and she’s thrust into a movement for social change. Freda is reluctant to get involved, torn between a soon-to-be doctor her parents approve of and an audacious young man willing to risk it all in the name of justice. Freda finds herself caught between two worlds, and two loves, and must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the advancement of her people.
In 1992 Chicago, Freda’s daughter Tulip is an ambitious PR professional on track for an exciting career, if workplace politics and racial microaggressions don’t get in her way. But with the ruling in the Rodney King trial weighing heavily on her, Tulip feels called to action. When she makes an irreversible professional misstep as she seeks to uplift her community, she must decide, just like her mother had three decades prior, what she’s willing to risk in the name of justice and equality.
Insightful, evocative, and richly imagined with stories of hidden history, People of Means is an emotional tour de force that offers a glimpse into the quest for racial equality, the pursuit of personal and communal success, and the power of love and family ties.
""People of Means left me breathless! A beautifully crafted story...profound and sharp.""—Sadeqa Johnson New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve
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Blues Highway is one migration story of Blacks from the American South, aided initially by the Pullman porters broad reach into the world beyond. Moving on to the next generation, the porter Sidney sets up his daughter Janet to take hold of his barber shop. As she navigates her life, opportunities and social conditions shift. The power of Janet and Frank's relationship moves the saga forward, touching honestly and deeply on the forces of change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Narration!
- De Sonja R😁 en 02-29-24
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Red Clay
- De: Charles B. Fancher
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 30
In 1943, when a frail old white woman shows up in Red Clay, Alabama, at the home of a Black former slave—on the morning following his funeral—his family hardly knows what to expect after she utters the words “… a lifetime ago, my family owned yours.” Adelaide Parker has a story to tell—one of ambition, betrayal, violence, and redemption—that shaped both the fate of her family and that of the late Felix H. Parker. But there are gaps in her knowledge, and she’s come to Red Clay seeking answers from a family with whom she shares a name and a history that neither knows in full.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story, strong characters
- De Amazon Customer en 04-23-25
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We Rip the World Apart
- De: Charlene Carr
- Narrado por: Tebby Fisher
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place in the world as a person who is half-Black, half-white—yet feels neither—is amplified. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her husband and their first-born child during the politically charged Jamaican exodus in the 1980s, only to realize they'd come to a place where Black men are viewed with suspicion—a constant and pernicious reality Evelyn watches her husband and son navigate daily. Years later, Evelyn's mother-in-law, Violet, moves in.
De: Charlene Carr
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Wicked Darlings
- De: Jordyn Taylor
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Elena Rey
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 3
Aspiring journalist Noa has a secret she's been keeping. Ever since her sister's tragic death, she's felt almost...relieved. Noa and Leah had been locked in competition with one another since childhood, and things came to a head when her sister scored a glitzy internship at a New York society newspaper. Noa can't help but revel in her new found autonomy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable
- De Pink Amy en 02-13-25
De: Jordyn Taylor
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Zeal
- A Novel
- De: Morgan Jerkins
- Narrado por: January LaVoy, Shayna Small
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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Spanning over a hundred and fifty years, Morgan Jerkins’s extraordinary novel intertwines the stories of these star-crossed lovers and their descendants. As Tirzah's family moves across the country during the Great Migration, they challenge authority with devastating consequences, while of the legacy of heartbreak and loss continues on in the lives of Harrison's progeny.
De: Morgan Jerkins
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Beauty in the Blood
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte Carter
- Narrado por: Marie-Francoise Theodore
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced–and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of violence and destruction. At the same time, Sarah is swept up in a highly charged relationship with a work colleague that portends a danger of its own. As she moves through her privileged life in New York, Sarah comes to learn how her past—her haunted history—is intertwined with America’s.
De: Charlotte Carter
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Blues Highway
- A Migration Journey from the South to Chicago
- De: Carla D. Williams
- Narrado por: Drama Simpson
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Blues Highway is one migration story of Blacks from the American South, aided initially by the Pullman porters broad reach into the world beyond. Moving on to the next generation, the porter Sidney sets up his daughter Janet to take hold of his barber shop. As she navigates her life, opportunities and social conditions shift. The power of Janet and Frank's relationship moves the saga forward, touching honestly and deeply on the forces of change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome Narration!
- De Sonja R😁 en 02-29-24
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Tilda Is Visible
- A Novel
- De: Jane Tara
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she’s living a relatively happy life. Until she wakes up one morning and her finger seems to have disappeared. She thinks back to the kombucha she drank the night before—perhaps it was spiked? Studying herself in the mirror, she discovers one of her ears has also disappeared! She rushes to the doctor, who after a multitude of tests says she’s sorry to inform her that she has invisibility, a disorder that affects millions of women worldwide, mostly after the age of forty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- De Andrea en 03-14-25
De: Jane Tara
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The Only Black Girl in the Room
- A Novel
- De: Alex Travis
- Narrado por: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 16
Genevieve Francis, a 25-year-old Black reporter, assumed she’d go into her fourth year at her newspaper job with a bigger story than the latest seasonal ice cream flavor. Instead, she’s relegated to doing copy edits and sensitivity reads on the articles her white colleagues write. So when Gen finally gets the opportunity to cover a prominent CEO’s gala, she leaps at the chance—this will be her biggest assignment to date. The only problem: The CEO is her ex, Jude, whose marriage proposal she publicly rejected four years prior.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story of truth setting you free
- De C. Spyn en 01-21-25
De: Alex Travis
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The Kindest Lie
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Johnson
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 715
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 621
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 618
It’s 2008, and the inauguration of President Barack Obama ushers in a new kind of hope. In Chicago, Ruth Tuttle, an Ivy-League educated Black engineer, is married to a kind and successful man. He’s eager to start a family, but Ruth is uncertain. She has never gotten over the baby she gave birth to—and was forced to leave behind—when she was a teenager. She had promised her family she’d never look back, but Ruth knows that she must make peace with the past. Returning home, Ruth discovers the Indiana factory town of her youth is plagued by unemployment, racism, and despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a fantastic book club novel
- De Barbara S en 03-05-21
De: Nancy Johnson
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Harlem Rhapsody
- De: Victoria Christopher Murray
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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In 1919, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C arrives in Harlem excited to realize her lifelong dream. Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all. W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, is not only Jessie’s boss, he’s her lover. And neither his wife, nor their fourteen-year-age difference can keep the two apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Representation
- De Kwana Nicholas en 04-05-25
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Mainline Mama
- A Memoir
- De: Keeonna Harris
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Keeonna and Jason met as young teens. Only fourteen, Keeonna had never had a boyfriend before, dreamed of attending Spelman to become an obstetrician, and thought she was “grown.” Within a year she was pregnant and Jason was in prison, convicted of a carjacking and sentenced to twenty-two years. Overnight Keeonna had become a “mainline mama,” a parent facing the task of raising a child—while still growing up herself—with an incarcerated partner.
De: Keeonna Harris
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The Late Americans
- A Novel
- De: Brandon Taylor
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free
- Duración: 9 h y 16 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 33
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery. Among them are Seamus, a frustrated young poet; Ivan, a dancer turned aspiring banker who dabbles in amateur pornography; Fatima, whose independence and work ethic complicate her relationships with friends and a trusted mentor; and Noah, who “didn’t seek sex out so much as it came up to him like an anxious dog in need of affection.”
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1 out of 5 stars
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Characters Lacked Depth, No Plot
- De MLB en 07-06-23
De: Brandon Taylor
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The Unexpected Diva
- A Novel
- De: Tiffany L. Warren
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 15 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Born into slavery on a Mississippi plantation, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield has been raised in the safety of Philadelphia’s Quaker community by a wealthy adoptive mother. Sheltered and educated, Eliza’s happy childhood always included music lessons to nurture her unique gift: a glorious three octave singing voice that leaves listeners in awe. But on the eve of her twenty-fourth birthday, young Eliza’s world is thrown into a tailspin when her mother dies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- De Cynthia en 04-26-25
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Junie
- A Novel
- De: Erin Crosby Eckstine
- Narrado por: Angel Pean
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 119
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 119
Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie. When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it all cost
- De Amazon Customer en 04-26-25
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The Filling Station
- A Novel
- De: Vanessa Miller
- Narrado por: Angel Pean
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 21
Sisters Margaret and Evelyn Justice have grown up in the prosperous Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma--also known as Black Wall Street. In Greenwood, the Justice sisters had it all--movie theaters and entertainment venues, beauty shops and clothing stores, high-profile businesses like law offices, medical clinics, and banks. While Evelyn aspires to head off to the East Coast to study fashion design, recent college grad Margaret plans to settle in Greenwood, teaching at the local high school and eventually raising a family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The resilience of the survivors!
- De sharbel en 04-19-25
De: Vanessa Miller
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Standing Heavy
- De: Gauz', Frank Wynne - translator
- Narrado por: Diontae Black
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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General0 out of 5 stars 0
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All over the city, they are watching: Black men paid to stand guard, invisible among the wealthy flâneurs and yet the only ones who truly see. From Les Grands Moulins to a Sephora on the Champs-Élysees, Ferdinand, Ossiri, and Kassoum find their way as undocumented workers amidst political infighting and the ever-changing landscape of immigration policy. Fast-paced and funny, poignant and sharply satirical, Standing Heavy is a searing deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption and an unforgettable account of everything that passes under the security guards' all-seeing eyes.
De: Gauz', y otros
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Happy Land
- De: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Ashley J. Hobbs
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 24
Nikki hasn’t seen her grandmother in years. So when the elder calls out of the blue with an urgent request for Nikki to visit her in the hills of western North Carolina, Nikki hesitates only for a moment. After years of silence in her family, due to a mysterious estrangement between her mother and grandmother, she’s determined to learn the truth while she still can. But instead of answers about the recent past, Mother Rita tells Nikki an incredible story of a kingdom on this very mountain, and of her great-great-great grandmother, Luella, who would become its queen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful emotional roller coaster
- De Keshawn Corbin en 04-26-25
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Small Worlds
- De: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Narrado por: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Set over the course of three summers, this novel follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain path—a university degree, a move out of home—but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn’t foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and peace for himself: a space he can feel beautiful, a space he can feel free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I feel free when listening to him
- De Anonymous User en 11-14-23
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre People of Means
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Bluberry
- 02-16-25
Intriguing Story With Relatable Characters
Johnson keeps us riveted to these people and how their lives will unfold. There’s twists and subterfuge. Love and heartache. Horror and passion. Descriptions to die for. Highly recommend.
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Dr. Judy A. Alston
- 02-19-25
Beautifully Told
I loved this book and the character development. I was sometimes frustrated by the naivety of Frieda and Tulip, but they didn’t know what they didn’t know or experience. So, that was just my own eyes seeing things in perspective that they could not. The last two chapters still have me in an emotional chokehold. Oh my - my heart!
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