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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche, the willful daughter of a chief, is desperate to play an important role in her father's court. These two women's lives converge as infighting among Wurche's people threatens the region, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the nineteenth century. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people.
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Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- De: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt - translator
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 24 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 91
Today’s most revered, feared, and controversial Chinese novelist offers a tour de force in which the real, the absurd, the comical, and the tragic are blended into a fascinating narrative. The hero—or antihero—of Mo Yan’s new novel is Ximen Nao, a landowner known for his benevolence to his peasants. His story is a deliriously unique journey and absolutely riveting tale that reveals the author’s love of a homeland beset by ills inevitable, political, and traditional.
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4 out of 5 stars
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REINCARNATION
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 06-24-14
De: Mo Yan, y otros
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Midnight Robber
- De: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 451
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 451
It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even Through the Dimensions, Girls Are Not Safe
- De mary en 12-11-12
De: Nalo Hopkinson
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Andersonville
- De: MacKinlay Kantor
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 37 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 529
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 461
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 460
Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy of the Pulitzer
- De Gillian en 03-22-15
De: MacKinlay Kantor
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She Would Be King
- A Novel
- De: Wayétu Moore
- Narrado por: Wayétu Moore
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 873
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 783
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 780
Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters who share an uncommon bond. Gbessa, exiled from the West African village of Lai, is starved, bitten by a viper, and left for dead, but still she survives. June Dey, raised on a plantation in Virginia, hides his unusual strength until a confrontation with the overseer forces him to flee. Norman Aragon, the child of a white British colonizer and a Maroon slave from Jamaica, can fade from sight when the earth calls him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful example of magical realism.
- De Danielle en 10-07-18
De: Wayétu Moore
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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The Architect's Apprentice
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Piter Marek
- Duración: 16 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 301
In 1540, 12-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I feel like I should like it more than I do
- De nyog en 04-19-17
De: Elif Shafak
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Tess of the Road
- De: Rachel Hartman
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 508
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Boring, Both.
- De Ryan en 04-05-19
De: Rachel Hartman
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Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan
- De: Robin Maxwell
- Narrado por: Suzan Crowley
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
The only female student in Cambridge University’s medical program, Jane Porter is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero, Charles Darwin. When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father to join an expedition deep into West Africa, she can hardly believe her luck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Really Works...Great Story!
- De Kim Venatries en 09-28-12
De: Robin Maxwell
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Nowhere is a Place
- De: Bernice McFadden
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 297
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 303
Nothing can mend a broken heart quite like family. Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most important, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and stubbornly reluctant to reveal its secrets. But Sherry is determined to know the full story. In a few days' time, her extended family will gather for a reunion, and Sherry sets off across the country with her mother, Dumpling, to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Mother and Daughter Tear. It. Up.
- De Susie en 01-15-14
De: Bernice McFadden
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Henna House
- De: Nomi Eve
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 166
Yemen in 1920: After passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela Damari's situation looks dire until her uncle arrives from a faraway city, bringing with him a cousin and aunt who introduce Adela to the powerful rituals of henna tattooing.
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2 out of 5 stars
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historical fiction, read like an autobiography.
- De Anonymous User en 02-11-19
De: Nomi Eve
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The Incarnations
- A Novel
- De: Susan Barker
- Narrado por: Timo Chen, Joy Osmanski
- Duración: 14 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 176
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 161
Who are you? You must be wondering. I am your soul mate, your old friend, and I have come back to this city of 16 million in search of you. So begins the first letter that falls into Wang's lap as he flips down the visor in his taxi. The letters that follow are filled with the stories of Wang's previous lives - from escaping a marriage to a spirit bride to being a slave on the run from Genghis Khan to living as a fisherman during the Opium Wars and being a teenager on the Red Guard during the cultural revolution.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What was that you said?
- De cecil reniche-smith en 08-29-15
De: Susan Barker
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Copper Sun
- De: Sharon M. Draper
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 832
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 688
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Historia4.5 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
- De Gabrielle en 04-05-11
De: Sharon M. Draper
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- De: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrado por: Emily Zeller
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 458
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 408
Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disjointed account of an extraordinary life
- De David en 05-01-15
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Wicked
- The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
- De: Gregory Maguire
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 19 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 9,519
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6,652
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6,691
Heralded as an instant classic of fantasy literature, Maguire has written a wonderfully imaginative retelling of The Wizard of Oz told from the Wicked Witch's point of view. More than just a fairy tale for adults, Wicked is a meditation on the nature of good and evil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's not easy being green
- De PangaeaReads en 07-30-08
De: Gregory Maguire
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Now & Then
- De: Jacqueline Sheehan
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm, and she’s trying to re-create herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege, status, and a reprieve from the crushing pain of present-day life. For both Anna and her nephew, the past offers them a chance at love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved This Book
- De Janina en 03-07-17
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Song of the Exile
- De: Kiana Davenport
- Narrado por: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
- Duración: 16 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
This beautiful and haunting novel bares the soul of a Hawaiian-American family during World War II. As you share in the Meahuna family's misfortunes and triumphs, a sense of intense intimacy evolves. Cristine McMurdo-Wallis lets you savor the family members' remarkable, heartwrenching stories as they are revealed piece by piece in language rich with sensuous detail.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning Historical Novel
- De Mimi Routh en 05-27-19
De: Kiana Davenport
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,843
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,834
From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.
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Bernardine Evaristo's tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, a restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. She wanders through his villa, bored, or sneaks out to see her old friends, seeking an outlet for her creativity. Then she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimus Severus, remembered to history as the "African Emperor," and she knows her life will never be the same.
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Manifesto
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From the best-selling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glorious performance and inspiring story
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather - and also secretly gay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t miss this one.
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Soul Tourists
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- Narrado por: Mercedes Snow
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Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker, and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature.
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The Poisonwood Bible
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11,480
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,501
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
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2 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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smart, compassionate, confronting and enjoyable
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The Emperor's Babe
- De: Bernadine Evaristo
- Narrado por: Mercedes Snow
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Manifesto
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mr. Loverman
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 354
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Barrington Jedidiah Walker is 74 and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he's lived in Hackney, London, for years. A flamboyant character with a fondness for William Shakespeare, Barrington is a husband, father, grandfather - and also secretly gay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t miss this one.
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Soul Tourists
- De: Bernadine Evaristo
- Narrado por: Mercedes Snow
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Stanley Williams, angst-ridden banker and boffin, wonders whether there's more to life than his daily nine-to-five grind. One night he's dragged to a disco at Piccadilly Circus and there he meets Jessie: artiste, motormouth, ducker, and diver. She swoops Stanley out of his soulless life and off on a rollercoaster road trip across Europe, bringing him face to face with a host of forgotten luminaries from the rich mix of black European history and literature.
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The Poisonwood Bible
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
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- Duración: 15 h y 34 m
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2 out of 5 stars
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- Melinda Myers
- 07-26-23
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I couldn’t finish this one. I think the author was trying to make us see what the world would be like if the race roles in slavery were reversed. In doing so, Black people are depicted to heinously that I didn’t want to listen anymore.
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