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“Our home began, as all things do, with a wish.”
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Jane will do anything to save the community that sheltered her. So, when a man with uncanny abilities arrives in town asking strange questions, she wonders if he might be the key. But as the stranger hints at gods and ancestral magic, Jane is captivated by a bigger mystery. She knows this man. Only the last time she saw him, he was dead. His body laid to rest in a rushing river.
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"Daughter of the Merciful Deep is a mesmerizing tale that deftly blends history and magic. It’s a thoughtful, timely, and immensely compelling read. Readers will find much to admire and marvel at from the first page to the very last!"—Nicole Glover, author of The Conductors
“Daughter of the Merciful Deep skillfully weaves the mythology of the age-old gods, with all their feuds and foibles, through this poignant and mystical story. It will leave you filled both with the hope of all that can be when one is reminded of the magic found in family and community, and the unimaginable power of generational memory and the thread that binds us to the ancestors.”—Rita Woods, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author of Remembrance
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Brooklyn is fresh out of high school and looking to get away from her past. What better way to do that than going to college out of state? The only things she planned on taking with her to the dirty south were her New York state of mind and her best friend, Anika. While in North Carolina, Anika’s neck of the woods, life changes for both Brooklyn and Anika.
By: C. Wilson
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Queen Sugar
- By: Natalie Baszile
- Narrated by: Miriam Hyman
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning can prepare Charley for a Louisiana that's mired in the past: as her judgmental but big-hearted grandmother tells her, cane farming is always going to be a white man's business.
By: Natalie Baszile
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In the Hour of Crows
- By: Dana Elmendorf
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Adam Gold
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique gift comes at a price, rooting Weatherly to people who only want her around when they need her and resent her backwater ways when they don’t. Weatherly’s cousin Adaire also has a gift: she’s a Scryer and can see the future reflected back in dark surfaces. Right before she is killed in an accident, Adaire saw something unnerving, and that’s why Weatherly believes she was murdered—never thinking for a moment that it was an accident.
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That was… something ✌️
- By OnlyPaid ReviewsStay on 06-05-24
By: Dana Elmendorf
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The Complete Earthsinger Chronicles Novellas
- Earthsinger Chronicles, Books 1.5 - 3.5
- By: L. Penelope
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Delve deeper into the world of the Earthsinger Chronicles with these prequel novellas full of magic, adventure, destiny, and love.
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well done
- By Wonder Rose on 09-25-21
By: L. Penelope
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Daughter of Calamity
- By: Rosalie M. Lin
- Narrated by: Si Chen
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Jingwen spends her nights as a showgirl at the Paramount, one of the most lavish clubs in Shanghai, competing ruthlessly to charm wealthy patrons. To cap off her shifts, she runs money for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most powerful gang in the city. A position her grandmother is pressuring her to inherit. When a series of dancers are targeted—the attacker stealing their faces—Jingwen fears she could be next. And as the faces of the dancers start appearing on wealthy foreign socialites, she realizes Shanghai's mirage of carefree luxury comes at a terrible price.
By: Rosalie M. Lin
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The Borrowed Hills
- A Novel
- By: Scott Preston
- Narrated by: David Crellin
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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In early 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as they burn the carcasses. Two neighboring shepherds lose everything and set their sights on a wealthy farm in the south with its flock of prizewinning animals. So begins the dark tale of Steve Elliman and William Herne. As their sheep rustling leads to more and more difficult decisions, the struggles of the land are never far away. Steve’s only distraction is his growing fascination with William’s enigmatic and independent wife, Helen.
By: Scott Preston
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Baby X
- By: Kira Peikoff
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya, Imani Jade Powers, Abigail Reno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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In the near-future United States, where advanced technology can create eggs or sperm from any person’s cells, celebrities face the alarming potential of meeting biological children they never conceived. Famous singer Trace Thorne is tired of being targeted by the Vault, a black market site devoted to stealing DNA. Sick of paying ransom money for his own cell matter, he hires bio-security guard Ember Ryan to ensure his biological safety.
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Great Read
- By Sara W on 06-17-24
By: Kira Peikoff
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Tiananmen Square
- By: Lai Wen
- Narrated by: Jocelyn Tam
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It is Beijing in the 1970s, and Lai lives with her parents, grandmother and younger brother in a small flat in a working-class area. Her grandmother is a formidable figure–no-nonsense and uncompromising, but loving towards her granddaughter–while her ageing beauty of a mother snipes at her father, a sunken figure who has taken refuge in his work. As she grows up, Lai comes to discern the realities of the country she lives in.
By: Lai Wen
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The Monsters We Defy
- By: Leslye Penelope
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Washington D. C., 1925. Clara Johnson talks to spirits, a gift that saved her during her darkest moments in a Washington D. C. jail. Now a curse that’s left her indebted to the cunning spirit world. So, when the Empress, the powerful spirit who holds her debt, offers her an opportunity to gain her freedom, a desperate Clara seizes the chance. The task: steal a magical ring from the wealthiest woman in the District.
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absolutely perfect!
- By Kindle Customer on 02-22-23
By: Leslye Penelope
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Benang
- From the Heart
- By: Kim Scott
- Narrated by: Gregory Fryer
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Harley, a man of Nyoongar ancestry, finds himself at a difficult point in the history of his country, family and self. As the apparently successful outcome of his white grandfather's enthusiastic attempts to isolate and breed the ‘first white man born', he wants to be a failure. But would such failure mean his Nyoongar ancestors could label him a success? And how can the attempted genocide represented by his family history be told?
By: Kim Scott
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Hex
- By: Jenni Fagan
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Hex is a visceral depiction of what happens when a society is consumed by fear and superstition, exploring how the terrible force of a king's violent crusade against ordinary women can still be felt, right up to the present day.
By: Jenni Fagan
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Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet
- A Novel
- By: Molly Morris
- Narrated by: Georgina Sadler
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Wilson Moss entered the town’s top-secret contest in the hopes of resurrecting her ex-best friend Annie LeBlanc, but that doesn’t mean she thought she’d actually win. Now Annie’s back and Wil’s ecstatic—does it even really matter that Annie ghosted her a year before she died…? But like any contest, there are rules, and the town’s resurrected dead can only return for thirty days. When Wil discovers a loophole that means Annie might be able to stay for good, she’s desperate to keep her alive. The potential key? Their third best friend, Ryan.
By: Molly Morris
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Calamity
- Uncharted Hearts
- By: Constance Fay
- Narrated by: Paige Reisenfeld
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her crew together after their feckless captain ran off with the intern. But she’s drowning in debt and revolutionary new engine technology is about to make her beloved ship obsolete. Enter Arcadio Escajeda. Second child of the terrifying Escajeda Family, he’s the thorn in Temper’s side as they’re sent off on a scouting mission on the backwater desert planet of Herschel 2. They throw sparks every time they meet but Temper’s suspicions of his ulterior motives only serve to fuel the flames between them.
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Highly enjoyable sci-fi romance.
- By Justin McCoy on 04-09-24
By: Constance Fay