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10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
"An expansive, epic love story."—O, The Oprah Magazine
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
At once powerful and tender, Americanah is a remarkable novel that is "dazzling…funny and defiant, and simultaneously so wise."—San Francisco Chronicle
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Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola.
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Beautiful writing and performance of realistic native family saga
- De ReallyNelie en 07-12-24
De: Tommy Orange
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Dream Count
- A Novel
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae, y otros
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—but faces an unthinkable hardship.
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Listening sounded like a conversation in my mother’s kitchen . . . .
- De Ms. Esq. en 05-14-25
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The Change
- A Novel
- De: Kirsten Miller
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
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Great book until you realize what it’s about
- De Kaitlin Rosenthal en 05-16-22
De: Kirsten Miller
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What the Fireflies Knew
- A Novel
- De: Kai Harris
- Narrado por: Zenzi Williams
- Duración: 8 h y 35 m
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An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has turned upside down.
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Heart-Wrenching Story of Complex Love & Loss
- De Nicole Estes en 01-27-23
De: Kai Harris
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We Should All Be Feminists
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Duración: 51 m
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In this personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman now—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.
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compelling
- De Gregg Coffin en 06-01-17
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Hope and Glory
- A Novel
- De: Jendella Benson
- Narrado por: Kelechi Okafor
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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Glory Akindele returns to London from her seemingly glamorous life in LA to mourn the sudden death of her father, only to find her previously close family has fallen apart in her absence. Her brother, Victor, is in jail and won’t speak to her because she didn’t come home for his trial. Her older sister, Faith, once a busy career woman, appears to have lost her independence and ambition, and is instead channeling her energies into holding together a perfect suburban family.
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Great book, ending left me wanting more
- De Jessica Cofield en 08-05-22
De: Jendella Benson
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Zainab Jah
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a 13-year-old houseboy working for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who's abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene.
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A Little Background Adjustment
- De Perkbrooke en 03-13-18
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The Mighty Red
- A Novel
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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In Argus, North Dakota, a collection of people revolve around a fraught wedding. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels.
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Read this book
- De Jessica en 11-01-24
De: Louise Erdrich
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Playground
- A Novel
- De: Richard Powers
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
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What a tremendous story
- De Deb Hatch en 11-08-24
De: Richard Powers
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Americanah
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Marta De Lorenzis
- Duración: 19 h y 14 m
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La distanza tra la Nigeria e gli Stati Uniti è enorme, e non solo in termini di chilometri. Partire alla volta di un mondo nuovo abbandonando la propria vita è difficile, anche se quel mondo ha i tratti di un paradiso, ma per Ifemelu è necessario. Il suo paese è asfittico, l'università in sciopero. E poi, in fondo, sa che ad accoglierla troverà zia Uju e che Obinze, il suo ragazzo dai tempi del liceo, presto la raggiungerà. Arrivata in America, Ifemelu deve imparare un'altra volta a parlare e comportarsi. Diverso è l'accento, ma anche il significato delle parole.
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
- The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
- De: Jonathan Blitzer
- Narrado por: Jonathan Blitzer, André Santana
- Duración: 18 h y 14 m
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Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. For years, the majority came from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but many more have begun their journey much farther away. Some flee persecution, others crime or hunger. They may have already been deported, but the United States remains their only hope for safety and prosperity. They will take their chances.
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How America Created its Own Border Problem
- De Amazon Customer en 04-19-24
De: Jonathan Blitzer
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Harlem Shuffle
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably priced furniture, making a decent life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time.
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Best Read/Listen on Audible
- De Henry Posner en 09-22-21
De: Colson Whitehead
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Banyan Moon
- A Novel
- De: Thao Thai
- Narrado por: Cindy Kay, Catherine Ho, Elyse Dinh
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she’s last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life—a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste—but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future now in question, Ann returns home to Florida to face her estranged mother, Huơng.
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Mean Girls / Soap Opera, But Sans Fun
- De Ignatius en 08-26-23
De: Thao Thai
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Finding Margaret Fuller
- A Novel
- De: Allison Pataki
- Narrado por: Barrie Kreinik
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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Young, brazen, beautiful, and unapologetically brilliant, Margaret Fuller accepts an invitation from Ralph Waldo Emerson, the celebrated Sage of Concord, to meet his coterie of enlightened friends. There she becomes “the radiant genius and fiery heart” of the Transcendentalists, a role model to a young Louisa May Alcott, an inspiration for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne and the scandalous Scarlet Letter, a friend to Henry David Thoreau as he ventures out to Walden Pond . . . and a muse to Emerson. But Margaret craves more than poetry and interpersonal drama.
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I must’ve missed this group of thinkers in high school being friends
- De Liesl en 04-20-24
De: Allison Pataki
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The Distance Between Us
- A Novel
- De: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrado por: Susie Riddell
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand.
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Not my favorite Maggie O’Farrell novel…
- De serene ghazi en 03-05-24
De: Maggie O'Farrell
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The Librarian of Burned Books
- A Novel
- De: Brianna Labuskes
- Narrado por: Caroline Hewitt, Eleanor Caudill, Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
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For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWII-era novel about the intertwined fates of three women who believe in the power of books to triumph over the very darkest moments of war.
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Banned books, history repeating itself
- De Amazon Customer en 05-07-23
De: Brianna Labuskes
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Within Arm's Reach
- A Novel
- De: Ann Napolitano
- Narrado por: Ray Porter, Marin Ireland, Gilli Messer, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 52 m
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This spellbinding novel by bestselling author Ann Napolitano is a poignant reminder of how connected we are to those we love, even when we cannot find the words to say it. The unforgettable story of three generations of an Irish American family, Within Arm’s Reach is another rich and deeply satisfying novel from the author who captured the many dimensions of grief in Dear Edward and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood in Hello Beautiful.
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Didn’t realize it was old
- De Anonymous User en 12-23-24
De: Ann Napolitano
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The Wind Knows My Name
- A Novel
- De: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle - translator
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Maria Liatis
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
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Reminiscences of House of the Spirits; too short, underdeveloped
- De J. Mirabal en 06-08-23
De: Isabel Allende, y otros
Beautiful
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Great listen
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Dues race matter?
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Brilliant
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A Triumph!
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Great listen
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Beautiful and moving
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Everything!
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What more can I say that has not been said ?
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This author never disappoints
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