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Camron Wright
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Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Mean Chey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. Life would be hard enough without the worry for their chronically ill child, Nisay, and the added expense of medicines that are not working. Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. The Rent Collector is a story of hope, of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption. It demonstrates that even in a dump in Cambodia - perhaps especially in a dump in Cambodia - everyone deserves a second chance.
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- Narrated by: Purva Bedi
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.
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A Story that stays with you
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By: Thrity Umrigar
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Tears of the Desert
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- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
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Halima Bashir was born into the Zaghawa tribe, whose customs have remained unchanged for centuries, in the remote western deserts of Sudan in the region of South Darfur. Halima's father named his daughter after the traditional medicine woman of the village, and she grew up in a happy and close-knit childhood environment. Her father became a wealthy man by his tribe's standards, so he could afford to send Halima to school and university. Halima went on to study medicine, and at 24 she returned to her tribe and began practicing as their first ever qualified doctor.
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A story that takes you there
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By: Halima Bashir, and others
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The Vine of Desire
- By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil's attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America - and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
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Vine of desire
- By Mz Shantay on 03-27-21
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The Voice
- An Ephemera Novella
- By: Anne Bishop
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
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In a small village outside the city of Vision, the people know no sorrow or grief. But this seemingly idyllic community is hiding a terrible secret. As a young child, Nalah did not know why she was told to bring a cake to the mute girl known as the Voice whenever she was upset, only that doing so made her feel better. Now grown, Nalah understands the dark truth, and yearns to escape from the oppressive village that has been her life-long home.
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Doesn't hold up
- By Linda on 05-22-13
By: Anne Bishop
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Praise Song for the Butterflies
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- Narrated by: Robin Miles
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Abeo Kata lives a comfortable, happy life in West Africa as the privileged nine-year-old daughter of a government employee and stay-at-home mother. But when the Katas' idyllic lifestyle takes a turn for the worse, Abeo's father, following his mother's advice, places the girl in a religious shrine, hoping that the sacrifice of his daughter will serve as atonement for the crimes of his ancestors. Unspeakable acts befall Abeo for the 15 years she is held in the shrine. When she is finally rescued, broken and battered, she must struggle to overcome her past.
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Searing!
- By Susie Bright on 09-05-18
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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
- By: Bianca Marais
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Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a 10-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred...until the Soweto Uprising.
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Completely wrong accents
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By: Bianca Marais
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Diamond Head
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Told through the eyes of the Leongs' secret-keeping daughters and wives and spanning the Boxer Rebellion to Pearl Harbor to 1960s Hawaii, Diamond Head is a breathtakingly powerful tale of tragic love, shocking lies, poignant compromise, aching loss, heroic acts of sacrifice, and miraculous hope.
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- By Gina on 09-06-15
By: Cecily Wong
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The Song Poet
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Bee lost his father as a young boy and keenly felt his orphanhood. He would wander from one neighbor to the next, collecting the things they said to each other, whispering the words to himself at night until one day a song was born. Bee sings the life of his people through the war-torn jungle and a Thai refugee camp. But the songs fall away in the cold, bitter world of a Minneapolis housing project and on the factory floor until, with the death of Bee's mother, the songs leave him for good.
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Beautiful, full of sadness, power, and heart.
- By Melissa L. Magana on 04-27-17
By: Kao Kalia Yang
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Secret Daughter
- By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
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Debut novelist Shilpi Somaya Gowda pens this compelling tale about two families, worlds apart, linked by one Indian child. After giving birth to a girl for a second time, impoverished Kavita must give her up to an orphanage. The baby, named Asha, is adopted by an American doctor and raised in California. But once grown, Asha decides to return to India.
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A Must Read
- By Stephanie on 06-08-11
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She Would Be King
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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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Beautiful example of magical realism.
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My Soul to Keep
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When Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach. Soon, as people close to Jessica begin to meet violent, mysterious deaths, David makes an unimaginable confession: More than 400 years ago, he and other members of an Ethiopian sect traded their humanity so they would never die, a secret he must protect at any cost.
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A Book I Can't Keep
- By Mistsofjade on 07-19-20
By: Tananarive Due
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- D.K.
- 05-06-18
great book
This author is terrific. Love the way he writes. The reader of the book was also excellent. This is a beautiful book. Brought tears to my eyes. Loved it.
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- James
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The best book I’ve read in a long time.
I love the story. From beginning to end it was captivating and came full circle.
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- charles
- 04-08-18
great book
I loved this book and all the beautiuly woven stories throughout it's pages. definitely read
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- Donna
- 03-05-15
Great read!
I really enjoyed this book. The narrative was perfect with the characters in the story. Just like the book talks about, this is a great literacy book. There are truly stories all around us. So glad my friend recommended this book!
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- 05-09-16
Great audio and book
Loved this book - read it; audio it but don't miss out! Do it now you will be pleased!
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- karen henson
- 10-15-16
Fantastic!!!
This story will move your heart in many ways. The author did a fantastic job brining the characters to life, giving the reader a true sense of what life without privilege can be like. It is a story of joy, determination, selflessness, dispair, and fortitude.
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- Nancy Huerter
- 08-04-17
Absolutely wonderful
This was a much more hopeful book than I expected a book set in a garbage dump to be. A wonderful balance of hope and pain, truth and reality.
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- Working4two
- 07-11-18
A poignant tale
What sounded like a tale of sadness grew into a beautiful lesson at every turn. Lessons in history of life in Cambodia, lessons in literature, lessons in spirituality, and most of all a lesson that, in all things there is a story, and what you first see may not be the correct conclusion.
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- A.Y.
- 01-10-19
Unexpectedly hooked!
Although the beginning was a bit slow, I loved this story and the reader's voice. I enjoyed learning a bit about Cambodian history.
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- Nancy Lerandeau
- 04-24-20
Amazing Story
I absolutely loved this book. It is heart warming at the same time it depicts the saddest themes-poverty, a sick child, awful living conditions. The heroine and her husband struggle, but are bolstered by their love for each other and for their child. Enter the rent collector who changes their lives as they change hers.
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