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From the acclaimed author of The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks and Must Love Books comes a heartfelt bookclub story following one woman's journey to reconnect with her Black family in the south, just as it's on the brink of falling apart, perfect for fans of The Chicken Sisters and The Last Summer at the Golden Hotel.
One estranged family. One lost recipe. One last barbecue on the line. Mae is about to learn what happens when things go south....
Mae Townsend has always dreamed of connecting with her estranged Black family in the South. She grew up picturing relatives who looked like her, crowded dinner tables, bustling kitchens. And, of course, the Townsend family barbecue, the tradition that kept her late father flying to North Carolina year after year, despite the mysterious rift that always required her to stay behind.
But as Mae's wedding draws closer, promising a future of always standing out among her white in-laws, suddenly not knowing the Townsends hits her like a blow. So when news arrives that her paternal grandmother has passed, she decides it's time to head South.
What she finds is a family in turmoil, a long-standing grudge intact, a lost mac & cheese recipe causing grief, and a family barbecue on the brink of disaster. Not willing to let her dreams of family slip away, Mae steps up to throw a barbecue everyone will remember.
For better or for worse.
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- De: Shauna Robinson
- Narrado por: Imani Jade Powers
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 57
When Maggie Banks arrives to run her best friend's struggling bookstore, she expects to sell bestsellers to the small-town clientele. But with the town on the map as a top literary destination and the tourist society bent on keeping businesses historic, Maggie is banned from selling anything written this century. So, when a series of mishaps suddenly tip the bookstore toward ruin, Maggie will have to get creative to keep the shop afloat. And in Maggie's world, bookish rules are made to be broken.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Simple RomCom nothing more nothing less
- De Kelli en 09-01-23
De: Shauna Robinson
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It's Elementary
- De: Elise Bryant
- Narrado por: Aure Nash
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha Holbrook, the long-reigning, slightly terrifying PTA president, and finds herself in charge of the school’s brand-new DEI committee. As one of the few Black parents at this California elementary school, Mavis tries to convince herself this is an opportunity for real change. But things go off the rails at the very first meeting.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It was a different kind of novel I have read normally but it was good!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-09-25
De: Elise Bryant
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Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life
- De: Helen Fisher
- Narrado por: Alex Wingfield
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin. But Joe is far from nothing. Joe is a good friend, good at his job, good at making things and at following rules, and he is learning how to do lots of things by himself. Joe’s mother knows there are a million things he isn’t yet prepared for. While she helps to guide him every day, she is also writing notebooks of advice for Joe, of all the things she hasn’t yet told him about life and things he might forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kindness
- De Janey Mattson en 03-16-25
De: Helen Fisher
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Isaac's Song
- A Novel
- De: Daniel Black
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
Isaac is at a crossroads in his young life. Growing up in Missouri, the son of a caustic, hard-driving father, he was conditioned to suppress his artistic pursuits and physical desires, notions that didn’t align with a traditional view of masculinity. But now, in late ’80s Chicago, Isaac has finally carved out a life of his own. He is sensitive and tenderhearted and has built up the courage to seek out a community. Yet just as he begins to embrace who he is, two social catalysts—the AIDS crisis and Rodney King’s attack—collectively extinguish his hard-earned joy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Sequel held its own!
- De BT Bonner en 01-15-25
De: Daniel Black
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What Does It Feel Like?
- De: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrado por: Sally Phillips, Sophie Kinsella
- Duración: 1 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumor growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again—and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children—she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights, and always buying that dress when she sees it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic and real
- De Brianne Weingarten en 10-13-24
De: Sophie Kinsella
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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 212
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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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Expiration Dates
- A Novel
- De: Rebecca Serle
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 473
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 442
Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The overall premise
- De Lisa Winter en 03-27-24
De: Rebecca Serle
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Colored Television
- A Novel
- De: Danzy Senna
- Narrado por: Kristen Ariza
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 261
Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Frustrating
- De Carolyn White en 12-12-24
De: Danzy Senna
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All I've Wanted All I've Needed
- Rise & Fall Series, Book 1
- De: A.E. Valdez
- Narrado por: iiKane, Winston James
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 941
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 918
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 918
Harlow Shaw feels naïve for believing in happily ever afters, but she craves a love that lights her up. She thinks she has it all with her boyfriend—Until his promising baseball career overshadows their relationship, and he asks her a life-changing question. It causes her to wonder if what they have is all she ever truly wanted. Harlow is yearning for more than the curated life she is living. A trip to Bali, a move to Seattle, and an alleged burned cup of coffee lead her to a friendship she didn't know she needed and a love so deep she can feel it in her bones.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely amazing
- De Brianna Smith en 01-04-24
De: A.E. Valdez
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Sky Full of Elephants
- De: Cebo Campbell
- Narrado por: Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 386
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ever wish that some folks would just disappear?
- De Alioop en 12-11-24
De: Cebo Campbell
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How to Age Disgracefully
- A Novel
- De: Clare Pooley
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 562
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 533
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 533
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aging imperfections
- De Susan Love en 08-07-24
De: Clare Pooley