A Woman of Endurance
A Novel
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Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Beloved with the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history—the Puerto Rican Atlantic Slave Trade—witnessed through the experiences of Pola, an African captive used as a breeder to bear more slaves.
A Woman of Endurance, set in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican plantation society, follows Pola, a deeply spiritual African woman who is captured and later sold for the purpose of breeding future slaves. The resulting babies are taken from her as soon as they are born. Pola loses the faith that has guided her and becomes embittered and defensive. The dehumanizing violence of her life almost destroys her. But this is not a novel of defeat but rather one of survival, regeneration, and reclamation of common humanity.
Readers are invited to join Pola in her journey to healing. From the sadistic barbarity of her first experiences, she moves on to receive compassion and support from a revitalizing new community. Along the way, she learns to recognize and embrace the many faces of love—a mother’s love, a daughter’s love, a sister’s love, a love of community, and the self-love that she must recover before she can offer herself to another. It is ultimately, a novel of the triumph of the human spirit even under the most brutal of conditions.
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 46
Beautiful young widow Elise Laffont embraces her freedom during the daylight hours, running the farm she loves so dearly, but the night brings with it painful reminders of the torment she endured at the hands of her abusive husband. Fate may have taken her husband, but it hasn't erased the scars he left, and Elise wonders if she will ever be able to bear the touch of a man again. From the moment he laid eyes on the beautiful widow, Reynaud Chevalier wanted her. When disaster offers him the chance to claim her as his own, Reynaud seizes the opportunity to bind Elise to him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Endearing Romance - Distracting Narration
- By Amazon User on 03-25-23
By: Jennifer Blake
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Daughters of the Storm
- By: Kim Wilkins
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Lying in a magic-induced coma, the King of Thyrsland is on the brink of death: if his enemies knew, chaos would reign. In fear for his life and his kingdom, his five daughters set out on a perilous journey to try to save him, their only hope an aunt they have yet to meet, a shadowy practitioner of undermagic who lives on the wild northern borders. No one can stand before the fierce tattooed soldier and eldest daughter, Bluebell, an army commander who is rumoured to be unkillable....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Boring, could not even get through half…
- By Diana M Meredith on 10-30-23
By: Kim Wilkins
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Planet Zero
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- Narrated by: Keira Stevens
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- Unabridged
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 86
A spaceship crash survivor, Addie Rye is lucky to be alive. But being stuck on a primitive planet isn’t exactly the epitome of luck. With no way home, Addie has no choice but learn how to use stone tools and catch her dinner before cooking it, all while attempting to befriend a tribe of wild nomads who inhabit this planet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings but mostly good
- By CCW on 05-21-22
By: Lydia Hope
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- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Isolated on an island where two rivers meet, the Lazaretto quarantine hospital is the first stop for immigrants who wish to begin new lives in Philadelphia. The Lazaretto's black live-in staff forge a strong social community, and when one of them receives permission to get married on the island the mood is one of celebration, particularly since the white staff - save the opium-addicted doctor - are given leave for the weekend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre
- By atlfolk on 02-20-17
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Copper Sun
- By: Sharon M. Draper
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 851
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 708
Fifteen-year-old Amari witnesses the murder of her family and the destruction of her remote African village. She endures countless humiliations as she is beaten, branded, and forced to board a slave ship. The atrocities continue as she struggles through endless days of backbreaking work and daily degradation on a plantation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Story
- By Gabrielle on 04-05-11
By: Sharon M. Draper
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Dhampir
- By: Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 227
Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe and disdain - grateful to her for ridding their towns of the undead menace, but finding themselves made poorer for their salvation. Magiere knows she's dealing with simple folk, who only wish to have their superstitions silenced, and sees nothing wrong with exploiting them for profit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Depressing
- By Sue on 04-07-15
By: Barb Hendee, and others
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga
- A Novel
- By: Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 26
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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Rena's Promise
- A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
- By: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
- Narrated by: Heather Dune Macadam
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 332
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 308
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Story5 out of 5 stars 304
"I do not hate. To hate is to let Hitler win." - Rena Kornreich Gelissen. On March 26, 1942, the first mass transport of Jews - 999 young women - arrived in Auschwitz. Among them was Rena Kornreich, the 716th woman numbered in camp. A few days later, her sister Danka arrives and so begins a trial of love and courage that will last three years and 41 days, from the beginning Auschwitz death camp to the end of the war.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Content / Horrible Production
- By Simone on 07-23-15
By: Rena Kornreich Gelissen, and others
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Binding Vows
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- Narrated by: David Monteath
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Duncan MacCoinnich's task... Travel to the twenty-first century Renaissance Faire, deflower the Druid virgins, and go home. Only his job is not so easily accomplished with the virgin in question, Tara McAllister. Time is running out. The evil is closing in on them both. Tara finds Duncan irresistible after what was supposed to be a mock hand-fasting binds them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Highlander Series - Modern Meets Medieval
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By: Catherine Bybee
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Desired
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- By: Ginger Garrett
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4 out of 5 stars 37
Three women loved him. Two betrayed him. One fulfilled his destiny. Desired tells the story of the legendary strongman through the eyes of the three most important women in his life. The fiercely loving Jewish mother who nags him toward greatness … and rebellion. The impoverished Philistine girl, Amara, who becomes Samson’s bride. And the emotionally damaged seductress—the legendary Delilah—who becomes the instrument of his destruction and the key to his tragic triumph.
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4 out of 5 stars
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really cool perspective on this story
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By: Ginger Garrett
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The Downs
- By: Kim Fielding
- Narrated by: K.C. Kelly
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 290
As the son of a wealthy man, Enitan Javed has spent his life frivolously - drinking, fighting, and making love. But after his father dies, Enitan is unjustly accused of murdering him and is given the harshest sentence possible. Judged irredeemable, he is banished to the Downs. As even young children know, nothing lives in the Downs except demons who delight in torturing the condemned. Brutalized by the men who transport him to his fate, Enitan has nothing left but his thirst for vengeance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully narrated by K.C. Kelly!
- By Belen on 10-12-16
By: Kim Fielding
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Luck in the Shadows
- Nightrunner, Book 1
- By: Lynn Flewelling
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,074
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 689
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 693
Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things, none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec's new mentor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic Series! Homophobes, shut up!
- By Ted on 09-23-11
By: Lynn Flewelling
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The Gods of Tango
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- By: Carolina De Robertis
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 105
February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A rousing tale
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Daughters unto Devils
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
When 16-year-old Amanda Verner's family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and, most of all, of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Intense Ride that Will Leave You Horrified
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By: Amy Lukavics
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The Spymaster's Lady
- By: Joanna Bourne
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 497
She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit... British spymaster Robert Grey must enter France and bring back the brilliant, beautiful - and dangerous - Fox Cub. His duty is to capture her and her secrets for England.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly enjoyable; Audiobook is fantastic
- By Emily London on 12-28-10
By: Joanna Bourne
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Season of Wonder
- The Remnants, Book 1
- By: Lisa T. Bergren
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
After years of training in stealth and warfare, Andriana and her Knight protector, Ronan, are finally ready to answer the Call and begin the life they were designed for. But as they embark with the other Remnants on the first of their assignments, they quickly discover that the world beyond the protected Valley is more dangerous than they imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Next
- By Louise Thurman on 02-23-23
By: Lisa T. Bergren
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The Runaway Princess
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- By: Christina Dodd
- Narrated by: Sasha Mia Khan
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
English orphan Miss Evangeline Scoffield has spent her life contenting herself with dreams. But with an unforeseen inheritance, she can afford one perfect summer. She buys herself expensive clothes, travels abroad, and presents herself as a lady of mystery. But she quickly discovers her mistake, for a darkly handsome man appears at her bedroom door, claiming to be a Crown Prince - and her fiancé. Her denials count for nothing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Too many unanswered questions
- By Glenda on 12-05-21
By: Christina Dodd
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When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high - or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history. Twelve years prior, Adelaide Mannheim - daughter of Mordecai, the only Jewish planter in the county - was given her own maid, a young slave named Rachel. The two became friends, and soon they discovered a secret.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- By M. Ryder on 06-20-16
By: Sabra Waldfogel
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Miss Eliza's English Kitchen
- A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
- By: Annabel Abbs
- Narrated by: Ell Potter, Bianca Amato
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,037
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England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses - until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she’s never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her surprise, she discovers a talent - and a passion - for the culinary arts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A gem!
- By Sara Shirley on 01-04-22
By: Annabel Abbs
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The London House
- By: Katherine Reay
- Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Caroline Payne thinks it’s just another day of work until she receives a call from Mat Hammond, an old college friend and historian. But pleasantries are cut short. Mat has uncovered a scandalous secret kept buried for decades: In World War II, Caroline’s British great-aunt betrayed family and country to marry her German lover. Determined to find answers and save her family’s reputation, Caroline flies to her family’s ancestral home in London.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The bones of the story were great
- By Carmen Gibson on 01-26-22
By: Katherine Reay
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Fallen Grace
- Blaze Collection
- By: Sadeqa Johnson
- Narrated by: Channie Waites
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 250
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With a newborn in tow, Bubbles Jones escapes a brutal sanctuary for “wayward girls” to confront the hypocritical shame of her pastor father and the betrayal of a lover. But Bubbles is accompanied by a woman who offers her shelter and a dream. Forging an unpredictable path ahead, Bubbles will not yield and will not hide in her unwavering commitment to make a big life real in a world determined to keep her small.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Give me MORE!!!
- By JoGriff on 06-01-24
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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The Girl in the Painting
- By: Tea Cooper
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Australia, 1906: Orphan Jane Piper is nine years old when philanthropist siblings Michael and Elizabeth Quinn take her into their home to further her schooling. The Quinns are no strangers to hardship. Having arrived in Australia as penniless immigrants, they now care for others as lost as they once were. Despite Jane’s mysterious past, her remarkable aptitude for mathematics takes her far over the next seven years, and her relationship with Elizabeth and Michael flourishes as she plays an increasingly prominent part in their business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Six- Star Review!
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 06-09-21
By: Tea Cooper
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The Queen's Governess
- A Novel
- By: Karen Harper
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 66
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Thomas Cromwell may have been known as the powerful and ambitious henchman for King Henry VIII, but the woman he installed in the king's court may have had the biggest impact on England's history.... Katherine Ashley was just the daughter of a poor country beekeeper, no matter how clever and beguiling she was. But when she catches the eye of Thomas Cromwell, King Henry VIII's chief minister, she finds her fortune suddenly, drastically changing. Cromwell secures Katherine a place in the king's court as the governess to and protector of Anne Boleyn's only child, Elizabeth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good!
- By Jessi on 04-11-23
By: Karen Harper
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
- Narrated by: Mia Ellis
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom for herself and her children. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery. Deemed too shocking for reading audiences at the time, the book was shelved before it was published in 1861 near the start of the Civil War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Will not finish it....
- By Karen M. Curry on 11-17-20
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- C. Marshall
- 01-02-24
Excellent story
The book is amazing! I highly recommend it. How much can one woman endure?? Paola is a warrior!!!
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- M. Ellis
- 08-12-24
This book will stay with you long after you have completed it! So good!!
I loved everything about this book! I was captivated by every aspect of this book—the rich history, compelling characters, and gripping storyline. The author’s vivid imagination and masterful use of language are unlike anything I’ve encountered before—truly riveting. The range of emotions portrayed throughout the book resonated deeply with both the characters and myself. This is a story worth revisiting, and I plan to read it again, this time with a deeper understanding in mind. Happy reading—you won’t be disappointed!
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- Sandra Felton
- 07-10-24
Really good
Loved this from start to finish. the storyline was captivating. couldn't put it down. some of narration was weak but storyline more than made up for it
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- A. Mc
- 04-21-23
Much needed story!
Love, Resilience and How to Endure. Community, Kindness, Empathy and Care what the World/ America is still missing in the majority population. We are still stuck on gender, race and religion when at the end of the day it doesn’t matter when you LOVE LIFE and the LIVING!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-22
My heart
My heart aches for this book this story.....it is worth the read trust me. This will live in my heart forever.
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- L. Barriage
- 03-08-24
Story of pain and loss and rebirth
This is a story of unbearable losses and a magnificent rebirth of love and hate
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- Kamaria
- 08-02-22
A GREAT READ!
Amazing!
I really enjoyed this book. it was sad, it made me cry and then the ending was satisfying.
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- Contisha Salinas
- 05-16-24
Trauma and Resilience
The amount of trauma that was endured almost stopped me a quarter into the story. I’m so glad that I finished it…
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- vicki
- 05-03-24
Great story!!
It was such a captivating novel. I highly recommend the reader. Loved it!! I felt I knew the struggles the main characters went through and rose above the pain.
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- JEdwards
- 09-03-24
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Great book. The book held my interest and I did not want it to end. Great narration
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