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The Book of Negroes

A Novel

by Lawrence Hill ...

Lawrence Hill's award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks.The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis ( Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. ( Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr. ( A Raisin in the Sun, ... Read more

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Lawrence Hill's award-winning novel is a major television miniseries airing on BET Networks.The Book of Negroes (based on the novel Someone Knows My Name) will be BET's first miniseries. The star-studded production includes lead actress Aunjanue Ellis ( Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. ( Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men), Oscar and Emmy winner Louis Gossett Jr. ( A Raisin in the Sun,
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N B C University Theater

Sons and Lovers

by D H Lawrence ...

Narrated by Ramsay Hill ...

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59 min

'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and ... Read more

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'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience.Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course. A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents.In its later years it also included short stories and
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Someone Knows My Name

A Novel

by Lawrence Hill ...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written...populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." —Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have ... Read more

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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. "Wonderfully written...populated by vivid characters and rendered in fascinating detail." —Nancy Kline, New York Times Book ReviewKidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo is enslaved in South Carolina but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she becomes a scribe for the British, recording the names of blacks who have
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The Illegal

A Novel

by Lawrence Hill ...

"A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down."— Dallas Morning NewsKeita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State—an imagined country much like our own. A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita must hide ... Read more

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"A gripping political thriller readers may find hard to put down."— Dallas Morning NewsKeita Ali is an elite runner living in Zantoroland, a poor, fictional island that is erupting in political violence. When his father, a journalist, is murdered, Keita escapes to the wealthy nation of Freedom State—an imagined country much like our own. A stateless refugee without documentation, Keita must hide
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Blood

The Stuff of Life

by Lawrence Hill ...

Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but ... Read more

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In this year’s CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today.Blood runs red through every person’s arteries and fulfills the same functions in every human being. The study of blood has advanced our understanding of biology and improved medical treatments, but
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The Midnight Men

by Lawrence Hill ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

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15 hours

Four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1942, Clayton French, a 22-year-old African-American engineer stationed in Camp Livingston, Louisiana, is ordered from his bed and barracks and put on a train with hundreds of other African-American soldiers. After nearly two weeks on a train with no idea of its destination, it turns out that 4,000 African-American soldiers are to be ... Read more

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Four months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1942, Clayton French, a 22-year-old African-American engineer stationed in Camp Livingston, Louisiana, is ordered from his bed and barracks and put on a train with hundreds of other African-American soldiers. After nearly two weeks on a train with no idea of its destination, it turns out that 4,000 African-American soldiers are to be
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Beatrice and Croc Harry

by Lawrence Hill ...

“A book to treasure and share across generations.” —David Chariandy, author of BrotherBeatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forestHow did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues composed in delicate purple handwriting?So begins the adventure of a brave girl ... Read more

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“A book to treasure and share across generations.” —David Chariandy, author of BrotherBeatrice, a young girl of uncertain age, wakes up all alone in a tree house in the forestHow did she arrive in this cozy dwelling, stocked carefully with bookshelves and oatmeal accoutrements? And who has been leaving a trail of clues composed in delicate purple handwriting?So begins the adventure of a brave girl
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Telegrams from Home: Vol. 2

The New Normal

by Lawrence Hill, Amy Stuart, Shaughnessy Bishop Stall, Kevin Chong ...

Series Book 2 - Telegrams from Home
Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the second installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Amy Stuart, Karen Connelly, Eternity Martis, Kevin Chong, and more, these pieces are interwoven with stories from ... Read more

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Kobo Originals and West End Phoenix present the second installment of Telegrams from Home, a collection of stories, reflections, and non-traditional work from some of Canada's greatest literary voices writing on the subject of life under quarantine during COVID-19. Featuring work by Amy Stuart, Karen Connelly, Eternity Martis, Kevin Chong, and more, these pieces are interwoven with stories from
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THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

by Lawrence Hill ...

The Knights Templar transports readers to the heart of the Crusades, where faith and warfare collide. At the center of this gripping historical narrative is Baldwin de Montclare, a devoted Knight Templar, who must navigate the brutal realities of battle while wrestling with the deeper moral and spiritual conflicts of his sacred oath. As Baldwin faces the trials of loyalty, betrayal, and the weight ... Read more

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The Knights Templar transports readers to the heart of the Crusades, where faith and warfare collide. At the center of this gripping historical narrative is Baldwin de Montclare, a devoted Knight Templar, who must navigate the brutal realities of battle while wrestling with the deeper moral and spiritual conflicts of his sacred oath. As Baldwin faces the trials of loyalty, betrayal, and the weight
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Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

An Anatomy of a Book Burning

by Lawrence Hill ...

Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

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Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever
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Any Known Blood

by Lawrence Hill ...

Narrated by Kevin R. Free ...

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15 hours 31 min

Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent-and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the latter-day Cane ... Read more

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Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent-and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the latter-day Cane
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Someone Knows My Name

by Lawrence Hill ...

Narrated by Adenrele Ojo ...

Unabridged

18 hours 3 min

Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination. Aminata is a character who will stir listeners, from ... Read more

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Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguiling heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination. Aminata is a character who will stir listeners, from
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