Passiontide
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Ami Okumura Jones
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Burt Caesar
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Martina Laird
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Monique Roffey
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When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands.
The quiet calm of Ash Wednesday morning. Carnival is over. Everyone on the small island of St. Colibri is sleeping peacefully. Everyone except Sora Tanaka, a young pan player lying under the cannonball tree. Sora, a professional musician, had been visiting St. Colibri to take part in the island’s famous steel pan competition. But Sora isn’t asleep; she’s dead: brutally murdered, and still in her costume. And as the women of this island know all too well, Sora is far from the first woman to be killed, and she probably won’t be the last, either. In fact, the problem of women being killed on the island is so bad, there’s even a dedicated unit within the police department: OMWEN, the Office for Murdered Women, headed by Inspector Cuthbert Loveday.
In this powerful new rewriting of the detective novel, Sora’s death is the last straw and the beginning of something much larger, a "revolution" some are calling it. The event draws together four women who have never before seen each other as allies: a friend of the victim, the organizer of a sex workers’ collective, a local activist, and the prime minister’s wife. Tenderly, sometimes hilariously, Passiontide chronicles how these women join forces and find new ways to help one another.
©2024 Monique Roffey (P)2024 Random House AudioCritic reviews
"Monique Roffey's Passiontide skillfully intertwines elements of documentary, mythology, grassroots feminism and farce to craft a riveting narrative centered on women seizing control of their destinies. Guided by its intricately drawn characters and razor-sharp characterization, the novel captivates readers from its opening pages to its compelling conclusion." —Roger Robinson, author of A Portable Paradise, winner of the TS Eliot Prize for poetry
"Passiontide is a resounding testament to the rebellious spirit and bravery of Caribbean women. This is an urgent and deeply necessary novel about women reclaiming their own power and future in the face of gender-based violence. Monique Roffey has written a firebrand womanist text, a battle cry, a rousing vision of change for a better, possible world. By the end of this book, I was ready to join the revolution." —Safiya Sinclair, author of How to Say Babylon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
"Monique Roffey is a trailblazer of Caribbean literature, and I will read anything she writes. Passiontide is a reckoning, a protest, and a prayer. I’m writing this from Trinidad, in the aftermath of another murdered woman, asking myself the same question Roffey’s characters ask: which of us will be next? And yet, even as Passiontide captures the pain-laced lives of our women, the book still holds hope in its heart. Maybe, through our shared courage, we can change." —Breanne Mc Ivor, author of The God of Good Looks
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Naomi Kelly will do anything to make her new brand consulting business a success. When she lands a career saving contract to rebrand the Mukherjee family’s failing local bazaar, she knows there can be no mistakes. But as the “oops” baby of a free-spirited Bengali mother, Naomi’s lack of connection to her roots represents everything Gia Mukherjee disdains. Enter, Dev Mukherjee.
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A charming debut!
- By Smitty711 on 09-17-24
By: Aurora Palit
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Zetas Till We Die
- By: Amber Brown, Danielle Brown
- Narrated by: Inés del Castillo, Ariel Blake
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s been ten years since Priscilla and her Zeta Phi Zeta sorority sisters graduated college. Ten years since they were all in the same room together. Ten years since one of them died. And now Lupé’s killer has been released from prison on a technicality, days before their ten-year reunion. Priscilla decides that the party must go on; Lupé would have wanted it to. And besides, an epic reunion bash might be the perfect distraction. Back together, the Zetas party like it’s 2012, and it’s wild, just the way it used to be. Maybe too wild.
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Engaging read!
- By AJ Holmes on 10-23-24
By: Amber Brown, and others
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Mademoiselle Eiffel
- A Novel
- By: Aimie K. Runyan
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Claire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away. It’s soon made clear that Gustave expects Claire to fill her mother’s place as caregiver to the younger children and as manager of their home.
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The narration had me speeding up to get through it.
- By Hawk on 11-09-24
By: Aimie K. Runyan
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Illicit Temptations
- By: Katee Robert
- Narrated by: Alexa Elmy, Samantha Cook
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Becka Baudin gets what she wants, and she wants Aaron Livingston—but only for a quick affair. Weeks later, her coveted freedom starts to disappear thanks to a plus sign on a pregnancy test. Aaron insists she move in to his penthouse and commit to a relationship, but Becka demands he give her space without pushing for more. They are total opposites—with different jobs, interests, lives. But their chemistry keeps pushing them together…for better or for worse?
By: Katee Robert
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The Scorned Wife
- By: Theo Baxter
- Narrated by: Eve Passeltiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Amelia was deeply in love with her husband, Sam. Until she discovered he was having an affair with her younger sister, Cara. Ever since, Amelia has had to sit by at family events while her sister and ex-husband flaunt their passionate relationship. Tired of being seen as a loser, Amelia hires stunningly handsome actor, Damon Chase, to stand in as her boyfriend. A plan that works better than she ever hoped as pathologically competitive Cara throws herself at Damon, causing an acrimonious breakup with Sam.
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hmmm..what shall I say
- By Aleah on 10-03-24
By: Theo Baxter
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Nonfiction
- A Novel
- By: Julie Myerson
- Narrated by: Nancy Peterson
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you're gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway. Two parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother-a novelist-attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother.
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Addiction's Impact on a Family
- By Suzanna on 10-03-24
By: Julie Myerson
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Blackheart Man
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light and thus secure a spot for himself on Chynchin’s Colloquium of scholars. However, unexpected events prevent that from happening. Fifteen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbor to force a trade agreement on Chynchin. Veycosi tries to help, hoping to prove himself with a bold move, but quickly finds himself in way over his head.
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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The Other Mrs. Eden
- By: Becky Alexander
- Narrated by: Josie Charles
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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I never imagined I'd be living in Jemima Eden's world. As her new assistant, I'm suddenly part of a life I've only ever dreamed of. After years of barely scraping by, juggling temp jobs and failed auditions, it feels like my chance to finally be someone. But the closer I get to Jemima, the more I realise that her glossy life is just another performance. Behind the dazzling smile and happy marriage to her thoughtful husband George, there's a darkness I never expected.
By: Becky Alexander