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Moonrise Over New Jessup

A Novel

de Jamila Minnicks ...

"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil ... Leer más

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"With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil
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Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami

de Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O'Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, Nathan Blum, Emily Doyle, Nina McConigley, Jamila Minnicks, Andrew Porter, Ehsaneh Sadr, Cal Shook, Jane Smiley, Terese Svoboda, Tochi Onyebuchi, Hannah Rose Roberts, Dorsey Craft, Kevin Dublin, Barbara Hamby, Vandana Khanna, Khaled Mattawa, Campbell McGrath, David Romtvedt, Martha Ronk, Emily Schulten, Rob Shapiro, Jaz Sufi, Othuke Umukoro, Conor Watkins-Xu, Ellie Eberlee ...

The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited ... Leer más

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The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited
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Moonrise Over New Jessup

de Jamila Minnicks ...

Narrado por Karen Chilton ...

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10 hora 47 minutos

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have ... Leer más

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Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have
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Wade in the Water

A Novel

de Nyani Nkrumah ...

Narrado por Eboni Flowers, Teri Schnaubelt ...

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10 hora 17 minutos

“An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah’s Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and the precious heart and soul of a young girl deserving love.”—Diane McKinney-Whetstone, author of Our Gen and Tumbling“Fearless. . . . Vividly bring[s] to life rural 1980s Mississippi.”—People“A dreamy, ... Leer más

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“An impressive debut. Emotionally honest with lyricism and charm to spare, Nyani Nkrumah’s Wade in the Water depicts in riveting detail a racially charged Mississippi town, the secrets it holds, and the precious heart and soul of a young girl deserving love.”—Diane McKinney-Whetstone, author of Our Gen and Tumbling“Fearless. . . . Vividly bring[s] to life rural 1980s Mississippi.”—People“A dreamy,
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Hungry Ghosts

A Novel

de Kevin Jared Hosein ...

Narrado por Don Warrington ...

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12 hora 38 minutos

LONGLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION“This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page.” — Hilary MantelFrom an unforgettable new voice in ... Leer más

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SWANSEA UNIVERSITY DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEWINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION“This is a deeply impressive book, and I think an important one. Its intensity, its narrative attack, the fascinations of its era and setting, make it impossible to tear the attention away. Energy and inventiveness distinguish every page.” — Hilary MantelFrom an unforgettable new voice in
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Daughter in Exile

A Novel

de Bisi Adjapon ...

Narrado por Anniwaa Buachie ...

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11 hora 59 minutos

The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with ... Leer más

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The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US, and the challenges she must overcome.Lola is twenty-one, and her life in Senegal couldn’t be better. An aspiring writer and university graduate, she has a great job, a nice apartment, a vibrant social life, and a future filled with
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Nightbloom

de Peace Adzo Medie ...

Narrado por Jessica Sarkodie, Ekua Ekumah, Sarah Dorgbadzi ...

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12 hora 46 minutos

**Inseparable when they were girls but now estranged, cousins Akorfa and Selasi have to repair the silences between them or lose each other forever in this moving novel set in Ghana and America from the author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife.“Stunning.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Nobody’s Magic**When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they ... Leer más

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**Inseparable when they were girls but now estranged, cousins Akorfa and Selasi have to repair the silences between them or lose each other forever in this moving novel set in Ghana and America from the author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife.“Stunning.” —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Nobody’s Magic**When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls in Ghana, they were more than just cousins; they
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Neruda on the Park

A Novel

de Cleyvis Natera ...

Narrado por Imani Russell, Annette Amelia Oliveira, Alma Cuervo ...

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13 hora 33 minutos

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times ... Leer más

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times
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Carmen and Grace

A Novel

de Melissa Coss Aquino ...

Narrado por Almarie Guerra, Melanie Mendez ...

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15 hora 16 minutos

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE“I was crying like I lost my best friend as I finished. . . . This book is an act of love . . . It will break you apart and remind you that we can all be put back together again, stronger, and wiser than before.” — XOCHITL GONZALEZ, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingAn emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama about two ... Leer más

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE“I was crying like I lost my best friend as I finished. . . . This book is an act of love . . . It will break you apart and remind you that we can all be put back together again, stronger, and wiser than before.” — XOCHITL GONZALEZ, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies DreamingAn emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama about two
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The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro

A Novel

de Viola Ardone ...

Narrado por Cassandra Campbell ...

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8 hora 57 minutos

From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro ... Leer más

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From the internationally bestselling author of The Children’s Train comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro
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Ghost Girl, Banana

A Novel

de Wiz Wharton ...

Narrado por Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong ...

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12 hora 15 minutos

Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. ... Leer más

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Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family.
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The Most Secret Memory of Men

de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ...

Narrado por Leon Nixon ...

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14 hora 56 minutos

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe first Sub-Saharan African winner of France's top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery, ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDThe first Sub-Saharan African winner of France's top literary prize, the Goncourt.In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer in Paris, discovers a legendary book from the 1930s, The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. No one knows what became of its author, once hailed as the "Black Rimbaud," after the book caused a scandal. Enthralled by this mystery,
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