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The first science-fiction written by a Black woman, Kindred has become a cornerstone of African-American literature. This combination of slave memoir, fantasy, and historical fiction is a novel of rich literary complexity.
Having just celebrated her 26th birthday in 1976 California, Dana, an African-American woman, is suddenly and inexplicably wrenched through time into antebellum Maryland. After saving a drowning White boy there, she finds herself staring into the barrel of a shotgun and is transported back to the present just in time to save her life.
During numerous such time-defying episodes with the same young man, she realizes the challenge she's been given: to protect this young slaveholder until he can father her own great-grandmother.
Author Octavia E. Butler skilfully juxtaposes the serious issues of slavery, human rights, and racial prejudice with an exciting science-fiction, romance, and historical adventure. Kim Staunton's narrative talent magically transforms the listener's earphones into an audio time machine.
Critic reviews
"[Kindred] is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now." (Los Angeles Herald Examiner)
"Truly terrifying." (Essence)
"Butler's literary craftsmanship is superb." (The Washington Post Book World)
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"I approached Kindred about a year ago knowing it was a classic. I don’t usually do well with classics—I get impatient with old-fashioned language and plodding plots—but this wasn’t like that at all. I was thrown off my expectations from chapter one. This story is gripping and fast-paced and uncomfortable and every bit as genius as when it was first released forty years ago. Listening with Kim Staunton’s narration made it, if possible, even more hauntingly real. This one stays with you."
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should have been book #2.
- By sandy on 07-05-14
By: Jude Deveraux
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The Folk of the Fringe
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Scott Brick, Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 92
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short Story Collection
- By Sam on 02-09-07
By: Orson Scott Card
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Forever and Always
- A Cactus Creek Novel
- By: Leigh Greenwood
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Logan Holstock, oldest of three brothers orphaned on the Santa Fe Trail, has always been content knowing his brothers were alive and happy somewhere in the vast and brutal West - until he learns he may be dying. Certain he has little time left, Logan sets out to find them and end his days near a family he's never known...and stumbles across a strong yet vulnerable widow who makes him yearn for what can never be his.
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3 out of 5 stars
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didn't held my attention
- By joanie on 08-22-20
By: Leigh Greenwood
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Mudbound
- By: Hillary Jordan
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,276
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 962
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 968
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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Stonefather
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,033
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,616
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,613
When Runnel leaves his mountain valley to head for the great city of the water mages, he has no idea of his own magical talents. But he soon finds that without meaning to, he complicates and then endangers the lives of everyone he comes to know and care about. For when it comes to magic, there are rules and laws, and the untrained mage-to-be must be careful not to tap into deep forces and ancient enmities. Otherwise, other people might end up paying the price for his mistakes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Familiar and unique--a breath of fresh air
- By Scott on 03-10-09
By: Orson Scott Card
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Tennessee Bride
- By: Rosanne Bittner
- Narrated by: Loretta Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Raised in the hills of Tennessee, Emma Simms dreams of the day she’ll escape her life of poverty to start over in the excitement of Knoxville. But when her mother dies and she’s left with no one but her stepfather, Luke Simms, her dream abruptly becomes a nightmare. Luke plans to send Emma to Knoxville all right - straight to a notorious brothel. River Joe, the mysterious Cherokee-raised frontiersman, knew from the first time he set eyes on the beautiful Emma that he had to have her as his own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me!
- By Anonymous User on 07-09-21
By: Rosanne Bittner
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Freedom Road
- By: Howard Fast
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
It was everywhere. You couldn’t talk about the revolution without using the word freedom in the same breath. But Gideon Jackson knew that freedom meant something different if your skin was black. Fast’s fictional account of the post Civil War era takes us into the life of Gideon Jackson, a black man, newly freed, and determined to make a difference.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Decent Narrator
- By Keon Gardner on 12-04-17
By: Howard Fast
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Last Town on Earth
- By: Thomas Mullen
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 136
The Last Town on Earth centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary, events are set in motion that change the town forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thrill for a Reader. Model for a Writer
- By Angela on 03-04-11
By: Thomas Mullen
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Facets
- By: Barbara Delinsky
- Narrated by: Joyce Bean
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
" Facets pits the arrogant, self-centered John against the newly vengeful Hillary, the creative and sensitive Pamela, and the doggedly self-made Cutter. Spanning three decades, Facets is as much a family drama as any I've ever written. My writing style may have changed since 1990, but the heart and soul of my characters have not. Please enjoy Facets as much as I did then - and do now."
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1 out of 5 stars
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not a great read (or listen)
- By Nicole Warn on 06-30-21
By: Barbara Delinsky
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Going to Meet the Man
- By: James Baldwin
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 752
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 745
"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their heads above water.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Punch in the gut
- By Rebecca on 05-08-17
By: James Baldwin
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Peyton Place
- By: Grace Metalious
- Narrated by: Tim O'Connor
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 299
In 1956, when this novel was first published, communities all over New England snapped up copies to see if they were the town portrayed in the book. Peyton Place is the story of a repressive New England town known for its high standards of public morality, and the steamy sexual activities that take place behind its bedroom doors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book I've read to date!
- By Crusader on 11-07-11
By: Grace Metalious
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My Soul to Keep
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Book I Can't Keep
- By Mistsofjade on 07-19-20
By: Tananarive Due
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Out of the Darkness
- The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson
- By: Eric A. Shelman
- Narrated by: Deb Thomas
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 321
In New York City, in April of 1874, a most unusual event took place. A severely abused nine-year-old girl named Mary Ellen Wilson became the first child in America to be rescued from an abusive home. She had been beaten, burned, slashed with scissors, locked in a closet, and had never been outside of her tenement home in over 7 years. Thanks to the concern and dedication of a missionary named Etta Wheeler, the child was finally saved from her cruel captors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Harrowing Story
- By musa on 03-21-17
By: Eric A. Shelman
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For the Roses
- Claybornes' Brides, Book 1
- By: Julie Garwood
- Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
- Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,111
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 996
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 995
The Clayborne brothers were a rough gang of street urchins - until they found an abandoned baby girl in a New York City alley, named her Mary Rose, and headed to Blue Belle, Montana, to raise her to be a lady. They became a family - held together by loyalty and love, if not blood - when suddenly a stranger threatened to tear them apart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Story
- By 🌸DARA on 12-14-13
By: Julie Garwood
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Copper Sun
- By: Sharon M. Draper
- Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 832
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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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Wife of the Gods
- A Novel
- By: Kwei Quartey
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu---the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago---to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker. While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of the residents of Ketanu.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Engrossing Mystery in a Fascinating Setting
- By Tracey Rains on 04-19-10
By: Kwei Quartey
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God's Handmaiden
- By: Gilbert Morris
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Gervase Howard is in her mid-teens when her working-class mother dies and she must go to live with relatives in service to a wealthy, noble family, outside of London. While learning various jobs, she is drawn to the eldest son, Davis. Her fascination with him grows deeper, but more hopeless, since the two are separated not just by class, but also by Davis's love for Roberta. When Davis announces his engagement, he asks Gervase to join them as Roberta's maid. But instead Gervase becomes a companion to Florence Nightingale and accompanies her when the Crimean War breaks out....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Always enjoy Gilbert Morris-Great historical fict.
- By Linda - Yakima on 01-17-13
By: Gilbert Morris
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,323
Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother’s position as the estate’s medicine woman and cherished by the Master’s sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. She’d been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil’s Half Acre.
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A Real page turner
- By Elizabeth Early on 01-19-21
By: Sadeqa Johnson
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Not Without Laughter
- By: Langston Hughes
- Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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This stirring coming-of-age tale unfolds in 1930s rural Kansas. A poignant portrait of African-American family life in the early twentieth century, it follows the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a man. We meet Sandy's mother, Annjee, who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his strong-willed grandmother, Hager; Jimboy, Sandy's father, who travels the country looking for work; Aunt Tempy, the social climber; and Aunt Harriet, the blues singer who has turned away from her faith.
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American Classic, Wonderful narration
- By Philharmonic on 03-14-24
By: Langston Hughes
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The Deep
- By: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and others
- Narrated by: Daveed Diggs
- Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Yetu holds the memories for her people - water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners - who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one - the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities.
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4 out of 5 stars
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why was this read by a dude?
- By Nathaniel on 12-14-19
By: Rivers Solomon, and others
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Kindred
- By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Narrated by: Rebecca Wragg Sykes
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In Kindred, Neanderthal expert Becky Wragg Sykes shoves aside the cliché of the shivering ragged figure in an icy wasteland and reveals the Neanderthal you don’t know, who lived across vast and diverse tracts of Eurasia and survived through hundreds of thousands of years of massive climate change. Using a thematic rather than chronological approach, this book will shed new light on where they lived, what they ate and the increasingly complex Neanderthal culture that is being discovered.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Recording/Sound Quality
- By Howard Houchen on 11-24-20
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Leaving Cecil Street
- By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Narrated by: Saidah Arrika Ekulona
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Best-selling author Diane McKinney-Whetstone has won such prizes as the Zora Neale Hurston Society award for creative contribution to literature. Set in 1969, Leaving Cecil Street takes place in a proud neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The block has just thrown a summertime street party. Joe and Louise have been married for awhile, and Joe loves his wife. But sometimes he wonders what might have been if he had pursued some of those dreams he left behind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heck yeah
- By Kindle Customer on 08-18-21
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Octavia's Brood
- Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
- By: Adrienne Maree Brown, Walidah Imarisha
- Narrated by: Je Nie Fleming
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision and try to create such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought 20 of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Octavia Would Be Proud
- By Susie on 06-15-16
By: Adrienne Maree Brown, and others
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- Lovechristina245
- 02-02-22
What an amazing story
This is my 1st time experiencing a book written by Octavia Butler . I am now a fan for sure. I can't wait to explore the rest of her catalog. What an amazing, and terrifying tale.
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- oOkrytaOo
- 03-01-22
Abuse, control, slavery.
This book perfectly describes human character in its best and more often it’s worst forms. Definitely worth reading.
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- jazzmene
- 03-04-17
What an incredible story!!
How often do you think being able to time travel. Not Certaining repercussions or benefits you can get from just being you. This book had me engage from beginning to end. The Love Story between the two couples. One free to love with passion and concern. One forbidden and unwanted love.
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- kristi riley
- 08-24-15
great great great
great story and naration. very powerful and an excellent fictional novel that addresses America's awful racial history
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- Sherifatu
- 02-12-15
I love the store and would get the book again!!
Loved it!! It was a real story and it brought back the understanding of slavery and the transition from slavery
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- Tonya Fennell-Johnson
- 03-04-18
Wonderful!!
I've read this book before and it was good, but having someone read it to me, this time it was even better!! Great read!!
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- Ryan Mitofsky
- 07-30-22
History + time travel = Compelling
I found myself on the edge of my seat the whole time wondering what would happen to the characters.
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- LZSmith
- 07-17-22
Four Times
I love this book. I've read it 4 times. I need to see it made into a movies asap! I even decided to learn how to write a screenplay.
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- Charloop
- 08-11-22
Pulls you in... Simply awesome!
Awesomely told and read! And, close to historically accurate which is greatly appreciated in storytelling.
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- thomountains
- 01-21-23
An easy listen on a dark & complex subject
Very well written and wonderfully communicative on the ugly and awful truth of humankind. Narrator was good.
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