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“anna jean mayhew”

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  • Tomorrow's Bread

    by Anna Jean Mayhew ...
    From the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conflicts of gentrification—a moving story of loss, love, and resilience.In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Dry Grass of August

    A Moving Southern Coming of Age Novel

    by Anna Jean Mayhew ...
    In the segregated South, a young girl’s life is changed forever: “A beautifully written literary novel [and] a real page-turner.” —Lee Smith, New York Times-bestselling author of Blue MarlinOn a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard along with Jubie are her three siblings, her ... Read more

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    The Dry Grass of August

    by Anna Jean Mayhew ...
    Narrated by Karen White ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in the throes of segregation and what it will mean for a young girl on her way to adulthood—and for the woman who means the world to her.On a scorching day in August 1954, thirteen-year-old Jubie Watts leaves Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family for a Florida vacation. Crammed into the Packard ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Tomorrow's Bread

    by Anna Jean Mayhew ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks and poverty, along with well-maintained houses like the one Loraylee Hawkins shares with her young son, Hawk, her Uncle Ray, and her grandmother, Bibi. ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Jew Store

    A Family Memoir

    by Stella Suberman ...
    Narrated by Donna Postel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    In 1920, in small-town America, the ubiquitous dry goods store was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as "the Jew store." That's how Stella Suberman's father's store, Bronson's Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee, was known locally. The Bronsons were the first Jews to ever live in that tiny town of one main street, one bank, one drugstore, one picture show, one feed and seed, one ... Read more

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    Chai Tea Sunday

    by Heather A. Clark ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    Critics and audiences alike have hailed Heather A. Clark's Chai Tea Sunday as a rich and powerful debut novel. Here, 30-something Nicky Fowler tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered marriage after it is destroyed in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy. Traveling to Kenya to volunteer at an orphanage, Nicky hopes that her fragile spirit can be repaired. Aided by chai-fueled conversations with ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Our Daily Bread

    by Lauren B. Davis ...
    Narrated by Damhnait Doyle ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 6 min

    A novel about what happens when we view our neighbours as “The Other” and the transformative power of unlikely friendships, Our Daily Bread is inspired by the true story of the Goler Clan of Nova Scotia.The Erskine Clan, long shunned by the people of Gideon, live in secrecy and isolation on North Mountain. For generations, the clan’s children have suffered unspeakable acts of abuse, incest and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Purchase

    by Linda Spalding ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family' s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his ... Read more

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    A Thread of Truth

    by Marie Bostwick ...
    Narrated by Pam Ward, Renée Raudman ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Cobbled Court Quilt Series

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    Come home to Marie Bostwick’s poignant novel of new beginnings, old friends, and the rich, varied tapestry of lives fully lived.At twenty-seven, having fled an abusive marriage with little more than her kids and the clothes on her back, Ivy Peterman figures she has nowhere to go but up. Quaint, historic New Bern, Connecticut, seems as good a place as any to start afresh. With a part-time job at ... Read more

    $32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

    by Heidi W. Durrow ...
    Narrated by Emily Bauer, Karen Murray, Kathleen McInerney, Multiple Narrators ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Orphaned and alone, Rachel is taken under the wing of her strict African-American grandmother and moved to a mostly black community where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and astonishing beauty start to attract a troubling level of attention. As the terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her own self-image in a world that wants to see her as either Black ... Read more

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    The O'Briens

    by Peter Behrens ...
    Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 5 min

    The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming ... Read more

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    Boot Language

    A Memoir

    by Vanya Erickson ...
    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 58 min

    In order to survive her childhood, Vanya Erickson was forced to become fluent in two languages: her Christian Scientist mother’s honeyed versions of the truth; and her rancher father’s hard-as-the-scrape-of-his-bootheels words, which stung like the back of his hand. Long version: From the outside, Vanya’s childhood of riding horses with her father in the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and ... Read more

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