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A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an enslaved girl escape, in volatile pre-Civil War Philadelphia—“a gripping novel about standing up to impossible odds” (People, Best New Books)
The rebel . . . the socialite . . . and the fugitive. Together, they will risk everything for one another in this “beguiling story of friendship, deception, and women crossing boundaries in the name of freedom” (Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends).
WINNER OF THE BLACK CAUCUS OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S FIRST NOVELIST AWARD • BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, She Reads
Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. After all, Philadelphia is supposed to be the birthplace of American liberty. Instead, she’s locked away playing servant to her white-passing father, as they both attempt to hide their identities from slavecatchers who would destroy their new lives.
Longing to break away, Charlotte befriends Nell, a budding abolitionist from one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest Black families. Just as Charlotte starts to envision a future, a familiar face from her past reappears: Evie, her friend from White Oaks, has been brought to the city by the plantation mistress, and she’s desperate to escape. But as Charlotte and Nell conspire to rescue her, in a city engulfed by race riots and attacks on abolitionists, they soon discover that fighting for Evie’s freedom may cost them their own.
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Can't We Be Friends
- A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
- De: Eliza Knight, Denny S. Bryce
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton, Caroline Hewitt
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight collaborate on a brilliant novel that uncovers the boundary-breaking, genuine friendship between Ella Fitzgerald, the Queen of Jazz, and iconic movie star Marilyn Monroe.
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Great Period Piece
- De Eric F Randolph en 06-17-25
De: Eliza Knight, y otros
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The Third Mrs. Galway
- De: Deirdre Sinnott
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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It’s 1835 in Utica, New York, and newlywed Helen Galway discovers a secret: Two runaway slaves are hiding in the shack behind her husband’s house. Suddenly, she is at the center of not only the era’s greatest moral dilemma, but her own, as well. Should she be a “good wife” and report the fugitives to her husband? Or will she defy convention and come to their aid? Within her home, Helen is haunted by the previous Mrs. Galway, recently deceased but still an oppressive presence.
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Never thought I'd enjoy a novel so much.
- De HBvideo en 12-01-21
De: Deirdre Sinnott
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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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When the Moon Is Low
- A Novel
- De: Nadia Hashimi
- Narrado por: Sneha Mathan, Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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Mahmoud’s passion for his wife, Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she’s ever known. But their happy, middle-class world implodes when their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud, a civil engineer, becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister’s family in England. With forged papers and help from kind strangers they meet along the way, Fereiba make a dangerous crossing into Iran under cover of darkness.
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Unfinished?
- De James R. Hyde en 10-25-21
De: Nadia Hashimi
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The Lost Passenger
- A Novel
- De: Frances Quinn
- Narrado por: Heather Long
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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An immersive historical drama about a young mother who starts a new life with her son in New York after faking their deaths on the Titanic—the U.S. debut of acclaimed British novelist Frances Quinn.
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Caste Study
- De Suzanna en 05-20-25
De: Frances Quinn
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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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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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Needy Little Things
- De: Channelle Desamours
- Narrado por: Alaska Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Sariyah Lee Bryant can hear what people need—tangible things, like a pencil, a hair tie, a phone charger—an ability only her family and her best friend, Malcolm, know the truth about. But when she fulfills a need for her friend Deja who vanishes shortly after, Sariyah is left wondering if her ability is more curse than gift. This isn’t the first time one of her friends has landed on the missing persons list, and she’s determined not to let her become yet another forgotten Black girl.
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Teen drama that went too far in the most unrealistic way
- De Tiffanie en 06-28-25
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An Academy for Liars
- De: Alexis Henderson
- Narrado por: Tracie Frank
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart. Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.
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A Dizzying story
- De Adrienne King en 10-14-24
De: Alexis Henderson
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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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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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Great characters!
- De Andra en 06-24-25
De: Vanessa Miller
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The Attic Child
- A Novel
- De: Lola Jaye
- Narrado por: Lola Jaye, Lucian Msamati, Nneka Okoye
- Duración: 14 h y 46 m
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Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn’t bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As the years pass, he desperately clings on to memories of his family in Africa, even as he struggles to remember his mother’s face, and sometimes his real name . . .
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Read/ listen to this book!
- De KH en 10-01-22
De: Lola Jaye
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All the Forgivenesses
- De: Elizabeth Hardinger
- Narrado por: Stephanie Einstein
- Duración: 12 h y 27 m
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Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, 15-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing. What she doesn't know, but is forced to reckon with all too soon, is how to look after children as a mother should. When Polly succumbs to a long illness, Bertie takes on responsibility for her four younger siblings and their dissolute, unreliable daddy.
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Wonderful life story
- De gayle boyce en 10-01-19
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Surviving Savannah
- De: Patti Callahan
- Narrado por: Brittany Pressley, Catherine Taber, Patti Callahan
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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When Savannah history Professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. Everly can't resist the opportunity to try to solve some of the mysteries and myths surrounding the devastating night of its sinking. Everly's research leads her to the astounding history of a family of 11 who boarded the Pulaski together, and the extraordinary stories of two women from this family.
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Leave history as it is. Can't be changed.
- De Placeholder en 04-30-21
De: Patti Callahan
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Forty Acres
- De: Dwayne Alexander Smith
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. He's dazzled by what they've accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. They invite him for a weekend away from it all - no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions.
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poorly researched and poorly written
- De honestcritic en 09-20-15
The storyline and the intricate background of the characters.
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A truly captivating and riveting story.
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Would they actually be friends?
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All We Were Promised invites conversations about life, family, self- understanding, acceptance, current national issues, human rights, and love. Beautifully written; wonderfully portrayed.
Vivid, Engaging Eenlightenment
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Hardships
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Fantastic!
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A magnificent book
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A Real Gem!!!
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Simply Amazing!
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Transported me
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