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  • In the Belly of the Congo

    A Novel

    by Blaise Ndala ...
    Translated by Amy B. Reid ...
    **A Brittle Paper Notable African Book of 2023A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo.**April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    In the Belly of the Congo

    by Blaise Ndala ...
    Narrated by Christel Mutombo ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    April 1958.Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven membersof this “human zoo” assembled to put on a show at the foot of the Atomium is the young ... Read more

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    The African Samurai

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    by Craig Shreve ...
    Narrated by Korey Jackson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan’s first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent—for readers of Esi Edugyan and Lawrence Hill.In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kuchinotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. On board is Father ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Ghost Girl, Banana

    A Novel

    by Wiz Wharton ...
    Narrated by Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    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. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Now You See Us

    A Novel

    by Balli Kaur Jaswal ...
    Narrated by Angela Lin ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 11 min

    Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help!From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own.“Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and hope that will keep ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The Night Traveler

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    by Armando Lucas Correa ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 50 min

    Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Stealing

    A Novel

    by Margaret Verble ...
    Narrated by DeLanna Studi ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    “This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book ReviewA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Wild Fires

    by Sophie Jai ...
    Narrated by Sophie Jai ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 48 min

    *WINNER OF THE 2023 FRED KERNER BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS**FINALIST FOR THE 2023 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE*Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it.Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a closed door or written in a notebook stowe... ... Read more

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    Hope and Glory

    A Novel

    by Jendella Benson ...
    Narrated by Kelechi Okafor ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 3 min

    One of the year’s most anticipated by Marie Claire, Essence, Debutiful, & GoodreadsA brilliant debut by a British-Nigerian author—a heartfelt family drama that will delight book club readers and fans of books like The Girl with the Louding Voice and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.“Jendella Benson has drawn such a compelling world. The book and the characters stayed with me long after I'd turned ... Read more

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    Bookworm

    A Novel

    by Robin Yeatman ...
    Narrated by Karissa Vacker ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    **“Imagine if Patricia Highsmith had written The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and instead of heroic daydreams she gave her protagonist murderous ones—that would be Bookworm. Robin Yeatman’s story is subversive, surprising, and satisfying in a way that only the best comic noir can be.”—**Claire Oshetsky, author of ChouetteA wickedly funny debut novel—a black comedy with a generous heart that ... Read more

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    The Chinese Groove

    A Novel

    by Kathryn Ma ...
    Narrated by James Chen ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 14 min

    Anne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good-hearted novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet“Ma’s iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent optimism."—The New York Times Book ReviewEighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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  • King Leopold's Ghost

    A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread.” — Los Angeles Times Book ReviewA National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New Y... ... Read more

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