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Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
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Rashod Ollison
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A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music.
Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on 45s in smoky rooms.
Steeped in the sounds, the smells, and the salty language of rural Arkansas in the 1980s, Soul Serenade is the memoir of a pop music critic whose love for soul music was fostered by his father, Raymond. Drafted into the Vietnam War as a teenager, Raymond returned a changed man, "dead on the inside". After his parents' volatile marriage ended in divorce, Rashod was haunted by the memory of his itinerant father and his mama's long forgotten "sunshine smile". For six-year-old Rashod, his father's record collection - the music of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, and others - provided solace, coherence, and escape.
Moving nine times during his childhood, Rashod constantly adjusted to new schools and homes with his two sisters, Dusa and Reagan, and his mother, Dianne. Resilient and tough while also being distant and punitive, she worked multiple jobs, striving "to make ends wave at each other if they couldn't meet". He spent time with his acerbic mother's mother, Mama Teacake, and her family's living-out-loud ways, which clashed with his father's family - religious, discreet, and appropriate - where Rashod gravitated to Big Mama and Paw Paw, his father's parents.
Becoming aware of his same-sex attraction, Rashod felt further isolated and alone but was encouraged by mentors in the community who fostered his intelligence and talent. He became transformed through discovering the writing of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, and other literary greats, and these books, along with the soulful sounds of the 1970s and '80s, enabled him to thrive in spite of the instability and harshness of his childhood.
In textured and evocative language, and peppered with unexpected humor, Soul Serenade is an original and captivating coming-of-age story set to an original beat.
©2016 Rashod Ollison (P)2016 Random House AudioLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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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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- De Denzil and Judy's Account en 03-25-10
De: Rebecca Wells
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American Street
- De: Ibi Zoboi
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie - a good life. But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by US immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins - Chantal, Donna, and Princess - the grittiness of Detroit's West Side, a new school, and a surprising romance all on her own.
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- De AudioBookHoe en 07-18-17
De: Ibi Zoboi
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The Sweet By and By
- A Novel
- De: Todd Johnson
- Narrado por: Becky Ann Baker, Adriane Lenox, Robin Miles, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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Among the longleaf pines and family farms of eastern North Carolina, days seem to pass without incident for Margaret Clayton and Bernice Stokes until they discover each other in a friendship that will take them on the most important journey of their lives. Margaret, droll and whip smart, has a will of iron that never fails her even when her body does, while Bernice, an avid country-music fan, is rarely lucid.
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Great 2/3 of a book.
- De Tracy en 07-09-12
De: Todd Johnson
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The Turner House
- De: Angela Flournoy
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over 50 years. Their house has seen 13 children grown and gone - and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a 10th of its mortgage.
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The narrator's performance made the difference.
- De KT en 06-11-15
De: Angela Flournoy
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Memphis
- A Novel
- De: Tara M. Stringfellow
- Narrado por: Karen Murray, Adenrele Ojo, Tara Stringfellow
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Half a century earlier, Joan’s grandfather built this majestic house in the historic Black neighborhood of Douglass—only to be lynched days after becoming the first Black detective in the city. Joan tries to settle into her new life, but family secrets cast a longer shadow than any of them expected.
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Awful narrator
- De Rachael edwards en 06-07-22
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The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove
- A Novel
- De: Susan Gregg Gilmore
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Bezellia Grove was born into the most prominent of Nashville families, but that didn’t stop her from having an alcoholic mother and a distant, adulterous father. Her nanny, Maizelle, and Nathaniel, the handyman, are the people who have taken care of her since she can remember. She considers them family, but her parents just consider them servants because they are Black. When Bezellia has a clandestine romance with Nathaniel's son, Whites and Blacks unite in fury at the young couple.
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light southern fiction
- De suzanne en 02-08-13
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Georgia Bottoms
- A Novel
- De: Mark Childress
- Narrado por: Debra Monk
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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A best-selling author of books for adults and children, Mark Childress pens his most outrageous work yet with Georgia Bottoms. The titular heroine is the epitome of the church-going Southern belle, except for one teeny-tiny aspect of her life. Georgia’s family inheritance has long since evaporated, and to maintain her genteel lifestyle, Miss Bottoms has taken six affluent lovers—the fly in the ointment being that one is a married preacher who’s about to reveal their infidelity to the whole congregation.
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Fun Listen
- De Sue en 04-08-11
De: Mark Childress
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Finding Fish
- A Memoir
- De: Antwone Q. Fisher
- Narrado por: Thomas Penny
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his midteens he escaped and enlisted in the navy, where he became a man of the world, raised by the family he created for himself. Finding Fish shows how, out of this unlikely mix of deprivation and hope, an artist was born.
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This book will not disappoint you.
- De Joseph en 10-16-16
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Trading Dreams at Midnight
- De: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrado por: Shari Peele
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Diane McKinney-Whetstone, the award-winning and best-selling author of Tumbling, presents Trading Dreams at Midnight - - an Essence Book Club Recommended Read. Back in 1984, 15-year-old Neena's mother left and never came back. And now Neena is following in her footsteps.
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Hard to follow
- De Nevada en 08-13-10
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Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
- De: Sheila Williams
- Narrado por: Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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Acclaimed author Sheila Williams tells the compelling story of a middle-aged woman who is looking for excitement and takes a chance at starting over. The adventures Juanita encounters in her new town, Paper Moon, test her hope and courage and give her a sense of self-confidence that she never had before.
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I love this book I wanted more. I laughed I cried
- De Amazon Customer en 09-05-18
De: Sheila Williams
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Sister, Sister
- De: Eric Jerome Dickey
- Narrado por: Sisi Aisha Johnson, Patricia R Floyd, Susan Spain
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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Join three beautiful young women, Valeria, Inda, and Chiquita, as they look for Mr. Right in the bright lights of L.A. Gutsy, graphic, and full of sensual energy, Sister, Sister is Dickey at his best.
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Sister Sister is Sensational!
- De Thomas en 04-06-08
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Finding Amos
- De: J. D. Mason, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, Bernice L. McFadden
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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Three daughters, connected only through their relationship to Amos, a now elderly ex-musician struggling with Alzheimer's disease, find their lives intertwining as a car accident reunites them at Amos' bedside - bringing some long-buried issues to light.
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Soulful
- De D. Stokes en 11-11-15
De: J. D. Mason, y otros
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Liberating Paris
- A Novel
- De: Linda Bloodworth Thomason
- Narrado por: Cynthia Darlow
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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Woodrow McIlmore, the town's golden boy and local gynecologist, is married to his beautiful high school sweetheart, Milan, and seems by all appearances to be leading the perfect life with his two children and extended family and friends. But when Wood's daughter announces that she is smitten with a college classmate and intends to marry him, her parents are stunned.
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Deeply moving, a great listen
- De Cynthia en 11-27-05
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Disgruntled
- De: Asali Solomon
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's black - most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are, too. Maybe it's because she calls her father - a housepainter-slash-philosopher - "Baba" or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations "from the Creator, for the Martyrs" and discuss "the community".
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Loved It!!!
- De ayodele higgs en 05-20-15
De: Asali Solomon
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Soul Serenade
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- Gerard Marsh
- 05-19-21
My Mom's from Malvern, Ar I went during the summer
Brought back Memories. My Mom from Malvern, Ar. my Grandparents lived on Stanley St. And I also grew on Tanya Dr on little Rock. I'm sure we have cross paths.
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- Marvin Johnson
- 02-19-18
This book is a vivid triumph. If you enjoyed Moonlight - you will love Soul Serenade.
Ollison’s writing is cinematic - the reader is drawn in to the story and see, smell, and touch (identify) with each character as the story unfolds. The narrator, C.S. Treadway, adds to the story by providing the appropriate voice/inflection to the characters. For example, his voice takes on a shy/awkward tone when speaking as Rashod, a matronly tone when speaking as Rashod’s mother. But the book and the audio book - this work is a triumph. And to borrow a phrase from one of Rashod’s teachers in the book - vivid...very vivid.
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