
A Woman of Endurance
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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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Midnight Blue
- A Novel
- De: Simone van der Vlugt
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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Following the sudden death of her husband, 25-year-old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: Science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age, and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. Madam Van Nulandt passes her time taking expensive painting lessons from a local master, Rembrandt van Rigin....
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Beach or trip read
- De CSL en 07-17-23
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Things Past Telling
- A Novel
- De: Sheila Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
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Born in West Africa in the mid-eighteenth century, Maryam Prescilla Grace—a.k.a “Momma Grace” will live a long, wondrous life marked by hardship, oppression, opportunity, and love. Though she will be “gifted” various names, her birth name is known to her alone. Over the course of 100-plus years, she survives capture, enslavement by several property owners, the Atlantic crossing when she is only eleven years of age, and a brief stint as a pirate’s ward, acting as both a spy and a translator.
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Fulfilled
- De Lovin Life en 08-18-22
De: Sheila Williams
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African Europeans
- An Untold History
- De: Olivette Otele
- Narrado por: Olivette Otele
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans."
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A fascinating overview of overlooked history
- De Scott GG Haller en 09-25-21
De: Olivette Otele
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The Tobacco Wives
- A Novel
- De: Adele Myers
- Narrado por: Shannon McManus, Janet Metzger
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who’s just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina—the tobacco capital of the South—where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt’s glossiest clientele: the wives of the powerful tobacco executives.
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Historical fiction at its best!
- De Amy en 04-07-22
De: Adele Myers
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Woman of Endurance, A \ Indómita (Spanish Edition)
- De: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
- Narrado por: Yetta Gottesman
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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Pola, una mujer esclavizada en el Puerto Rico del siglo XIX ha sido forzada a vivir en el mundo brutalmente inhumano de las paridoras de esclavos. Golpeada y violada repetidamente, sus bebés le son arrebatados en el momento de nacer para no volver a verlos jamás.
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Vívida, real, desgarradora y edificante
- De Enid Flores en 10-27-24
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Kinfolk
- A Novel
- De: Sean Dietrich
- Narrado por: Sean Dietrich
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he’s never harmed anyone—except perhaps himself.
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The most beautifully written book I have ever read
- De Kindle Customer en 04-24-24
De: Sean Dietrich
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The Sweetness of Water (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- De: Nathan Harris
- Narrado por: William DeMeritt
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Equal parts beauty and terror, The Sweetness of Water is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances.
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Masterful storytelling and an exceptional audio performance
- De Pamela en 06-18-21
De: Nathan Harris
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The Queen's Secret
- A Novel of England's World War II Queen
- De: Karen Harper
- Narrado por: Bianca Amato
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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In this riveting novel of royal secrets and intrigue, Karen Harper lifts the veil on one of the world’s most fascinating families and how its “secret weapon” of a matriarch maneuvered her way through one of the most dangerous chapters of the century.
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It doesn’t deserve a review.
- De Kevin Graves en 02-05-21
De: Karen Harper
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The American Queen
- De: Vanessa Miller
- Narrado por: Angel Pean
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Transformative and breathtakingly honest, The American Queen is based on actual events that occurred between 1865 - 1889 and shares the unsung history of a Black woman who built a kingdom in Appalachia as a refuge for the courageous people who dared to dream of a different way of life. Over the twenty-four years she was enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose. Hate so powerful there's no room in her heart for love.
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The life of the Queen
- De R. Dameron en 03-26-24
De: Vanessa Miller
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All the Ways We Said Goodbye
- A Novel of the Ritz Paris
- De: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, Karen White
- Narrado por: Helen Sadler, Nicola Barber, Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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The New York Times best-selling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress...the Resistance fighter...the widow...three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel.
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Too Many Cooks in this Kitchen
- De Eve453 en 02-15-20
De: Beatriz Williams, y otros
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A More Perfect Union
- De: Tammye Huf
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong, Chanté McCormick, Patryce Williams
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice. Determined never to starve again, he changes his surname to Taylor and heads south to Virginia, seeking work as a traveling blacksmith on the prosperous plantations. Torn from her home and sold to Jubilee Plantation, Sarah must navigate its intricate hierarchy. And now an enigmatic blacksmith is promising her not just the world but also her freedom. How could she say no?
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A Perfect Union
- De Claudette Heston en 06-13-22
De: Tammye Huf
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The Secret Letter
- De: Debbie Rix
- Narrado por: Jacqueline King
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Germany, 1939. A tumbledown farmhouse, on the outskirts of a close-knit village in the heart of the rolling hills of Bavaria. A once happy family home torn apart by Nazi rule. And one young girl who refuses to give up on what she believes in...London, 2018: When 94-year-old Imogen receives a letter addressed to her in neat, unfamiliar handwriting, she notices the postmark is stamped from Germany - and it sends shivers down her spine....
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Compelling
- De Book Nerd en 01-06-20
De: Debbie Rix
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
- A Novel
- De: Tom Franklin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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A powerful and resonant novel from Tom Franklin - critically acclaimed author of Smonk and Hell at the Breech - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter tells the riveting story of two boyhood friends, torn apart by circumstance, who are brought together again by a terrible crime in a small Mississippi town. An extraordinary novel that seamlessly blends elements of crime and Southern literary fiction, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter is a must for readers of Larry Brown, Pete Dexter, Ron Rash, and Dennis Lehane.
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Riveting
- De Hansthedachshund en 07-05-21
De: Tom Franklin
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Fawkes
- De: Nadine Brandes
- Narrado por: Oliver J. Hembrough
- Duración: 13 h y 11 m
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In 17th-century London, two forces rule the people: the color powers and the Stone Plague. Brown masks can manipulate wood. Black masks control the night. And red mask...well, red is the color of blood. Thomas Fawkes needs a gray mask so he can remove the stone that has invaded his body and will ultimately take his life. But when he fails his color test, his only hope is to track down his father, the infamous Guy Fawkes, and demand his color mask.
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Really loved this book!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-17-18
De: Nadine Brandes
Really good
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Much needed story!
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My heart
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Story of pain and loss and rebirth
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This book will stay with you long after you have completed it! So good!!
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Excellent story
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A Breathtaking Experience
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I really enjoyed this book. it was sad, it made me cry and then the ending was satisfying.
A GREAT READ!
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Trauma and Resilience
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Great story!!
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