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Publisher's summary
When tangles ensue, will you respond with fight or flight? Why?
As Turtle Dove Done Drooped His Wings: A Gullah Tale of Fight or Flight begins, Turtle Dove coos affirmations to do his best with the newly established Audubon Rookery. But other Lowcountry birds preen and strut to show themselves as more capable. The group is engaged in a spiritual journey, in which they must overcome interpersonal and organizational dysfunctions to create Thrust, a platform showcasing cultural heritage, pride, and resilience.
The story entices adult and high school readers with awareness of Gullah Geechee language, beliefs, and connections with global cultures of the African Diaspora.
Can you hold out to see what the end will be for the Great Council of Birds throughout Day Seven of their spiritual journey for this short listen?
Turtle Dove Done Drooped His Wings is book two in the in the stirring Geechee Literature Series by Ron Daise. Gullah Geechee history and heritage are explored with inspiration and vision.
Buy Turtle Dove Done Drooped His Wings: A Gullah Tale of Fight or Flight to discover how the power of words and story can bridge some of the deepest divides in human nature.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- By Daniel on 09-03-04
By: Edward P. Jones
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Walking the Choctaw Road
- Stories from Red People Memory
- By: Tim Tingle
- Narrated by: Tim Tingle
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
- Abridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
In Walking the Choctaw Road, Tim Tingle reaches far back into tribal memory to offer a deeply personal collection of stories woven from the supernatural, mythical, historical, and oral accounts of Choctaw people living today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic Story Telling!
- By Cara on 01-17-13
By: Tim Tingle
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The Third Mrs. Galway
- By: Deirdre Sinnott
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23
It’s 1835 in Utica, New York, and newlywed Helen Galway discovers a secret: Two runaway slaves are hiding in the shack behind her husband’s house. Suddenly, she is at the center of not only the era’s greatest moral dilemma, but her own, as well. Should she be a “good wife” and report the fugitives to her husband? Or will she defy convention and come to their aid? Within her home, Helen is haunted by the previous Mrs. Galway, recently deceased but still an oppressive presence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never thought I'd enjoy a novel so much.
- By HBvideo on 12-01-21
By: Deirdre Sinnott
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Lighthouse
- By: Eugenia Price
- Narrated by: Tessa Richards
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
Raised in post-Revolution Granville, Massachusetts, James Gould could only imagine the beauty and warmth of the lands to the south. It was there that he longed to build bridges and lighthouses from his very own designs and plans. His gripping story unfolds as Gould follows his dream to the raw settlement of Bangor on the Penobscot River, St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, lawless Spanish East Florida, and back - at last and finally - to St. Simons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Local history come to life!
- By the Island on 05-07-21
By: Eugenia Price
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Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
- Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Aunjanue Ellis
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 614
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 528
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick is an outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African-American folk culture. Brought together for the first time in one volume, they include eight of Hurston’s "lost" Harlem stories, which were found in forgotten periodicals and archives. These stories challenge conceptions of Hurston as an author of rural fiction and include gems that flash with her biting, satiric humor, as well as more serious tales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writer - Great Reader
- By Avid Listener on 09-09-20
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The Pastures of Heaven
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
Today, nearly 40 years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as Penguin Classics. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- By Dan Harlow on 07-07-13
By: John Steinbeck
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The Beast That Never Was
- By: Caren J. Werlinger
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
Lise’s father is dead, and the life of plenty and freedom that she has known as the daughter of the King’s Huntsman is gone. She must now live a life of duty to her mother and sisters, helping them to cope in their altered circumstances. But where her mother would have her wed a childhood friend to secure their future, Lise knows that is not what she longs for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic fairytale remade into a lesbian romanc
- By Army Vet on 01-28-22
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Dessa Rose
- A Novel
- By: Sherley Anne Williams
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
This is the story of an extraordinary friendship between two remarkable women, both caught in the shadow of slavery in the 19th-century South. One is an escaped black slave under sentence of death; the other is white, yet committed to end the horrors her neighbors accept as a matter of course. Ruby Dee's passionate and sensitive readings gives a poignant sense of reality to this magnificent novel of courage, daring and love.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One Star from Perfect
- By Marty on 01-26-18
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Rain of Gold
- By: Victor Villaseñor
- Narrated by: Johnny Rey Diaz
- Length: 30 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 436
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 390
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Story5 out of 5 stars 391
Rain of Gold is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny that pulses with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa's revolution to the days of Prohibition in California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you Victor again!
- By cynthia g on 09-24-20
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Barracoon
- The Story of the Last ""Black Cargo""
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,354
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,941
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,927
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage 50 years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile.
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3 out of 5 stars
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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The Tubman Command
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Cobbs
- Narrated by: Heidi Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
It’s May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with massive losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fort Sumter, hated symbol of the Rebellion, taunts the American navy with its artillery and underwater mines. In Beaufort, SC, one very special woman, code named Moses, is hatching a spectacular plan. Hunted by Confederates, revered by slaves, Harriet Tubman plots an expedition behind enemy lines to liberate hundreds of bondsmen and recruit them as soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't stop listening!
- By Tashb8 on 06-16-19
By: Elizabeth Cobbs
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"A Free Woman on God's Earth": The True Story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the Slave Who Won Her Freedom
- By: Jana Laiz, Ann-Elizabeth Barnes
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A Free Woman on God's Earth is the story of Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman, the enslaved African woman who had the courage and conviction to speak what was in her heart, suing for her freedom in a Massachusetts court of law. In gaining her own freedom, she set the stage for the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Legendary Folk Hero Brought To Life
- By cfifly on 09-25-15
By: Jana Laiz, and others