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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon.
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family. She strives to protect her sister, Nettie, from a similar fate, and while Nettie escapes to a new life as a missionary in Africa, Celie is left behind without her best friend and confidante, married off to an older suitor, and sentenced to a life alone with a harsh and brutal husband.
In an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear, Celie begins writing letters directly to God. The letters, spanning 20 years, record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment guided by the light of a few strong women. She meets Shug Avery, her husband’s mistress and a jazz singer with a zest for life, and her stepson’s wife, Sophia, who challenges her to fight for independence. And though the many letters from Celie’s sister are hidden by her husband, Nettie’s unwavering support will prove to be the most breathtaking of all
The Color Purple has sold more than five million copies, inspired an Academy Award-nominated film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey and directed by Steven Spielberg, and been adapted into a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Lauded as a literary masterpiece, this is the groundbreaking novel that placed Walker “in the company of Faulkner” (The Nation) and remains a wrenching - yet intensely uplifting - experience for new generations of listeners.
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Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some way with the legacy of the African experience in America. From recent African immigrants to a woman who grew up in the mixed-race rainforest communities of South America to Celie’s own granddaughter living in modern-day San Francisco, they must come to terms with the brutal stories of their ancestors in order to confront their own troubled lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to connect with
- De JZ Girl en 02-22-24
De: Alice Walker
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- De: Maya Angelou
- Narrado por: Maya Angelou
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
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Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. But years later, she learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Emotional & Powerful
- De Miss Toni en 06-30-13
De: Maya Angelou
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Beloved
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
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Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Author-read Books
- De John R Williford en 07-14-06
De: Toni Morrison
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- De: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrado por: Tonya Jordan
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- De Susan en 11-11-08
De: Ernest J. Gaines
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The Bluest Eye
- De: Toni Morrison
- Narrado por: Toni Morrison
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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It is the story of 11-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De psiegler en 07-25-18
De: Toni Morrison
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Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
- A Novel
- De: Alice Walker
- Narrado por: Alfre Woodard
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Kate has always been a wanderer. A well-published author, married many times, she has lived a life rich with explorations of the natural world and the human soul. Now, at fifty-seven, she leaves her lover, Yolo, to embark on a new excursion, one that begins on the Colorado River, proceeds through the past, and flows, inexorably, into the future. As Yolo begins his own parallel voyage, Kate encounters celibates and lovers, shamans and snakes, memories of family disaster and marital discord, and emerges at a place where nothing remains but love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Food for the intellect, heart, and soul
- De sweet_elizabeth en 02-12-09
De: Alice Walker
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In Search of the Color Purple
- The Story of an American Masterpiece
- De: Salamishah Tillet
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker’s epistolary novel, showing how it has influenced and been informed by the zeitgeist of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you very much for your insights, revelation.
- De Kindle Customer en 04-25-21
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The Help
- De: Kathryn Stockett
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 45,745
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In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great surprise!
- De Jan en 12-02-09
De: Kathryn Stockett
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
- Womanist Prose
- De: Alice Walker
- Narrado por: Lynnette R. Freeman
- Duración: 14 h y 9 m
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Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that remains both timely and relevant. In these thirty-six essays, Walker contemplates her own work and that of other writers, considers the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, and writes vividly and courageously about a scarring childhood injury.
De: Alice Walker
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Meridian
- A Novel
- De: Alice Walker
- Narrado por: Susan Dalian
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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Meridian Hill, a dedicated and courageous young activist in the 1960s, works to create peace and understanding through her civil rights work, touching the lives of all those she meets even when her health begins to deteriorate. With the old rules of Southern society collapsing around her, her coworkers quitting and moving to comfortable homes and lives, and others turning to more violent means of achieving change, Meridian fights a lonely battle to reaffirm her own humanity—and that of all her people.
De: Alice Walker
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Roots
- The Saga of an American Family
- De: Alex Haley
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 27 h y 36 m
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Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible book
- De Randy en 06-30-23
De: Alex Haley
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Women of Brewster Place
- De: Gloria Naylor
- Narrado por: Tonya Pinkins
- Duración: 3 h y 7 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 266
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In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak-inner city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects—a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful human experiences with simple eloquence and uncommon intuition in this touching and unforgettable listen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Abridged!
- De Annoyance en 11-07-17
De: Gloria Naylor
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The Joy Luck Club
- De: Amy Tan
- Narrado por: Gwendoline Yeo
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk—they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders. With wit and sensitivity, this novel explores the deep, complicated, and sometimes painful connections between mothers and daughters.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Joy Luck - abridged
- De Leslie Teicholz en 03-16-04
De: Amy Tan
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All But My Life
- De: Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Narrado por: Gerda Weissmann Klein - introduction, Barbara Rosenblat
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's experience as a slave laborer for the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. This moving memoir was the inspiration for the Academy Award-winning documentary One Survivor Remembers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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All time favorite book
- De YoungKitty en 07-06-18
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- De: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrado por: Ruby Dee
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- De Mel en 04-06-15
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The Handmaid's Tale: Special Edition
- De: Margaret Atwood, Valerie Martin - essay
- Narrado por: Claire Danes, full cast, Margaret Atwood, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32,651
After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wait! It Mightn't Be What You Think--
- De Gillian en 04-05-17
De: Margaret Atwood, y otros
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Twelve Years a Slave
- De: Solomon Northup
- Narrado por: Louis Gossett Jr.
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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In this riveting landmark autobiography, which reads like a novel, Academy Award and Emmy winner Louis Gossett, Jr., masterfully transports us to 1840s New York; Washington, D.C.; and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and 12 years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Twelve Years a Slave, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've waited for this a long time
- De Book Reader en 04-04-13
De: Solomon Northup
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- Radiah Butler
- 06-03-20
Beautiful
I've see the move. The book is outstanding.
Will listen again. Thank you for this .
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-11-19
Amazing
This book is completely amazing and eye-opening. It made me laugh and cry and I already want to read/listen to it again.
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- Your Grandma
- 06-25-20
Best Story Ever
I have seen the movie many times but the book has so much more depth! It is an incredible story and a treat to hear it read by the woman who wrote it.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-19-19
awesome listening to the story and enjoyed the ch.
i enjoyed listening to this story they had a way of keeping you envoled loved it
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- Jarelis
- 10-29-19
Loved it!
Great narration. Emotional and heartfelt story. Intimitate like reading a diary or personal letters. Loved it!
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- Mother of 3 Athletes
- 05-09-20
Love it!
The story is a true journey! while audible had static issues at various points that required a reply. The color purple is magic that many young black girls ought to read
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- ManMan's Sister
- 02-13-20
Great Book!
I love love love this book! Way better than the movie and funny too! Awesome
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- Sara Brunner
- 11-16-19
WOW
This book is incredible. Hearing the author read it though... you can feel it instead of just listening.
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- Gwenell Williams
- 09-19-20
Better than the Book
I love the book better than the movie Ms. Walker read it so well I cried and laughed.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-19-20
my favorite book and movie
I absolutely love this book. I listened to it from beginning to end without stopping completely in a trance
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