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Bahni Turpin
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Nalo Hopkinson
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In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue is renamed Haiti, a group of women gather to bury a stillborn baby. Led by a lesbian healer and midwife named Mer, the women's lamentations inadvertently release the dead infant's "unused vitality" to draw Ezili - the Afro-Caribbean goddess of sexual desire and love - into the physical world.
As Ezili explores her newfound powers, she travels across time and space to inhabit the midwife's body - as well as those of Jeanne, a mixed-race dancer and the mistress of Charles Baudelaire living in 1880s Paris, and Meritet, an enslaved Greek-Nubian prostitute in ancient Alexandria.
Bound together by Ezili and "the salt road" of their sweat, blood, and tears, the three women struggle against a hostile world, unaware of the goddess's presence in their lives. Despite her magic, Mer suffers as a slave on a sugar plantation until Ezili plants the seeds of uprising in her mind. Jeanne slowly succumbs to the ravages of age and syphilis when her lover is unable to escape his mother's control. And Meritet, inspired by Ezili, flees her enslavement and makes a pilgrimage to Egypt, where she becomes known as Saint Mary.
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In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is...different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something.
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Beautiful and Boring, Both.
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Zorba the Greek
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A wonderful tale of a young man’s coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 and made into an unforgettable movie with Anthony Quinn. Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines, and loves his way through a life dedicated to fulfilling his copious appetites. Zorba is irresistible in this charming audio production by veteran narrator George Guidall.
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Drink life to the lees
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The New Moon's Arms
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Calamity is confronting two big transitions: the death of her beloved father and the beginning of menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her gift for finding lost things. Suddenly, she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air, most notably a four-year old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems. Then, Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.
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What a joy
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Desired
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Three women loved him. Two betrayed him. One fulfilled his destiny. Desired tells the story of the legendary strongman through the eyes of the three most important women in his life. The fiercely loving Jewish mother who nags him toward greatness … and rebellion. The impoverished Philistine girl, Amara, who becomes Samson’s bride. And the emotionally damaged seductress—the legendary Delilah—who becomes the instrument of his destruction and the key to his tragic triumph.
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really cool perspective on this story
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Sold
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Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all that remains of the family's crops, Lakshmi's stepfather says she must leave home and take a job to support her family.
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Perfectly Haunting....
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When Lady Saren defies her father’s command to marry the vicious Lord Khasar, she is sealed in a tower with only her serving maid, Dashti, for company. In their cramped, dark space Dashti pours her thoughts into a daily journal while pitiless solitude engulfs them. At first the girl is optimistic: they have food aplenty, candles for light, and even a visit from Lady Saren’s true love, Khan Tegus - though he can only call to them from outside their walls. But their circumstances soon grow desperate.
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I charming little book.
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Kabu kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short-story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella cowritten with New York Times best-selling author Alan Dean Foster, six additional original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.
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FANTASTIC!
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Yemen in 1920: After passage of the Orphan's Decree, any unbetrothed Jewish child left orphaned will be instantly adopted by the local Muslim community. With her parents' health failing, and no spousal prospects in sight, Adela Damari's situation looks dire until her uncle arrives from a faraway city, bringing with him a cousin and aunt who introduce Adela to the powerful rituals of henna tattooing.
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historical fiction, read like an autobiography.
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Fifteen-year-old Amari witnesses the murder of her family and the destruction of her remote African village. She endures countless humiliations as she is beaten, branded, and forced to board a slave ship. The atrocities continue as she struggles through endless days of backbreaking work and daily degradation on a plantation.
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Wonderful Story
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During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city frantic with disease.
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Good book, unbearable narration
- By Maura on 07-29-18
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In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives an unusual creature - and meets a most extraordinary woman - in this much-lauded, atmospheric debut that examines our capacity for wonder, obsession, and desire. One September evening in 1785, Jonah Hancock hears an urgent knocking on his front door near the docks of London. The captain of one of Jonah’s trading vessels is waiting eagerly on the front step, bearing shocking news. On a voyage to the Far East, he sold the Jonah’s ship for something rare and far more precious: a mermaid.
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Gave up
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Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn’s life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to the Harlem living rooms and kitchen tables where May is sometimes forced to operate on her patients, this fascinating novel lays bare the heart of a woman who changed the face of medicine.
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Really Enjoyed!
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By: Kuwanna Haulsey
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- Avery
- 06-01-24
The historic figures given a voice
I loved the meaning of salt with the God's and learning about the ppl of Haiti and French poets and Dusky Mary of Egypt
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- sherri mccoy
- 04-15-19
confusing
bounced around from story to story too much. I got really bored toward the end and couldn't wait for it to be over.
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- Torrance M.
- 03-19-21
Didn't want it to end!
I finished the book a week ago and cannot get the voices of the characters out of my head! The narration is exquisite! And each character a jewel. It started off a bit difficult with the bouncing around between the different times and storylines told in 1st person, but once my brain figured out what the author was doing, I was hooked. And this is we're the narration was just so wonderful! Between the author's descriptions and the narrators different voices, listening was like floating away.
And I loved the ending! Just finished another book and hated the ending because everything was left undone. You could tell that it's a hopefull book one.
The Salt Roads is complete. I was left wanting to know more, to find out what happens next, but nothing was left undone. I was surprised at how quickly, effortlessly, and eloquently the author ended the book. How it all came together and the picture it left behind of these women, these African women...
I have no connection to thier story's, other than a belief that we all come from one place, and that all of our humanities are intertwined and same. The humanity displayed in this novel left my soul smiling. I think I'll go and listen to it again
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- Valerie D. Pegram
- 12-04-18
Salt Roads
I was disappointed in this story. The narration was excellent. I love this particular narrator's beautiful voice and inflections, outstanding! But the story itself was difficult to follow and left me wondering what she was really trying to say. I often struggled to get through, and then I'd think okay I got it....but not really.
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- niesha turner
- 07-26-19
Not sure how to feel
I really struggled to finish this book. I wanted to love it but the story changes just wouldn't let me. I wanted more depth and more of each story. maybe if it would have been a book of short stories, I would have liked it more.
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- Palin
- 05-21-19
Raw truths
This book is incredible. I was sucked into the narrative of each of the women and each of the Gods that inhabited them. The truths of slavery and desire and repression and control and freedom were so salient that I couldn't resist the urge to "feel" it all.
Nalo illustrstes that salt, the taste of blood, sweat, tears, and the essence of a lover, is the essence of the sea that carried the slave ships, and also “the white man’s obeah” that bound the slaves to the new land. In reality, the salt roads were trade routes, essential connections between distant lands. In the same way, the gods travel the salt roads within the “storystream."
In the midst of turmoil, these powerful black women carved out a delicious pleasure in the midst of a horrible pain inflicted on them by some chosen masters and some forced- including god.
Although there was some abrupt juxtaposition, I feel this also lended to the value, complexity and intensity of the character lives in this story. As they were abruptly removed from their lives and their worlds changed without notice.
I could go on about this book, but rather I encourage you to listen for yourself.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-14-19
Loved the narrators and story
Great overall story.. a little confusing but I think thats just because I was listening and not reading. I love when history merges with fiction
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- Monique
- 03-06-23
Love this book!
The narrator stole my heart from the first word. The story line maintained my interest the entire time.
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- Lauren
- 02-02-19
such an incredible book
A must-read book with afro-futurist, historical and magical realist themes. If you enjoy this book, you will also enjoy her book The Midnight Robber Queen.
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- Kindle Customer
- 03-15-20
Quite a great read
This was a great read, I couldn’t even think of any dislikes about it after I finished. For being fiction the theological aspects were well researched. 2 thumbs up
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