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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

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**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
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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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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

A Novel

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

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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
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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

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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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Independence

A Novel

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ...

Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 1 min

“Divakaruni tells the story of India’s independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant. You will, too.”— Lisa See, #1 New York Times bestselling authorSet during the partition of British ... Read more

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“Divakaruni tells the story of India’s independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant. You will, too.”— Lisa See, #1 New York Times bestselling authorSet during the partition of British
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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

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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
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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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“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
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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

$24.99 USD

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*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...
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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

$25.99 USD

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**“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
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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

$13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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...
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Congo

The Epic History of a People

by David Van Reybrouck ...

"A magnificent, epic look at the history of the region. . . . A monumental contribution to the annals of Congo scholarship" ( Christian Science Monitor).The International BestsellerFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History ... Read more

$18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"A magnificent, epic look at the history of the region. . . . A monumental contribution to the annals of Congo scholarship" ( Christian Science Monitor).The International BestsellerFrom the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History
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Altina the Sword Princess: Volume 6

by Yukiya Murasaki ...

Series Book 6 - Altina the Sword Princess
“There are plenty of ways to defeat a navy that has nothing but its strength going for it...”After going up against High Britannia’s newest weapons, the Empire’s Seventh Army is helplessly defeated. While Regis’s command allows them to barely avoid complete and total annihilation, the Empire remains in a terrible predicament—the only way to stop the enemy invasion is by severing their sea routes, ... Read more

$7.99 USD

“There are plenty of ways to defeat a navy that has nothing but its strength going for it...”After going up against High Britannia’s newest weapons, the Empire’s Seventh Army is helplessly defeated. While Regis’s command allows them to barely avoid complete and total annihilation, the Empire remains in a terrible predicament—the only way to stop the enemy invasion is by severing their sea routes,
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