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The Native-Born is Rudyard Kipling in full, booming voice—an ode to homeland, heritage, and the fierce pride of those raised under blazing southern skies. Through vivid imagery and pulsing rhythm, Kipling toasts the people of the far-flung British colonies: the “Sons of the Golden South,” the settlers and workers who carved their lives into vast prairies, tin-roofed towns, and coastlines battered by sun and sea.

She was taken from her world… and thrown into another. Kokuma was born during the second dry season of 1784, in the central African country of Ruanda. Her village, Ngarama, on the Kaginmba River, was just two degrees south of the equator. She was strong, proud, and free. Then the raiders came. Captured and sold into slavery, she survives the horrors of the Middle Passage and finds herself on a plantation in Georgia—where survival means obedience… or death. But Kokuma refuses to be broken. When she fights back and kills the two white men who would destroy her, she becomes a fugitive—...