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The Three Lives of Mary Sutton

A Novel

de Allyson Johnson ...

For fans of Marie Benedict and Rachel Beanland, this debut novel shows a grittier side of the Gilded Age as two young women struggle to find their own way in 1880s New York, where the cards are stacked in favor of men.In 1878, young Mame Sutton escapes her oppressive father through a quick marriage to the charming stage manager of a New York theatre, while her younger sister Lizzie makes the same ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

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For fans of Marie Benedict and Rachel Beanland, this debut novel shows a grittier side of the Gilded Age as two young women struggle to find their own way in 1880s New York, where the cards are stacked in favor of men.In 1878, young Mame Sutton escapes her oppressive father through a quick marriage to the charming stage manager of a New York theatre, while her younger sister Lizzie makes the same
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Julius Caesar

Two Complete Full Cast Performances of Original Shakespeare Text & Modern English

de SparkNotes, William Shakespeare ...

Narrado por Matthew Amendt, Rachel Fowler, Neil Hellegers, Allyson Johnson, JD Jackson, Luis Moreno, Ronald Peet, Ryan Quinn, John Leonard Thompson, Gabra Zackman, Emily Woo Zeller, Suzanne Toren ...

Series series No Fear Shakespeare Audio Recordings
Completo

5 hora 19 minutos

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a
... Leer más
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White Evangelical Racism

The Politics of Morality in America

de Anthea Butler ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

3 hora 44 minutos

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American ... Leer más

$15.99 USD

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American
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First-Year Teaching For Dummies, 2nd Edition

de W. Michael Kelley, Flirtisha Harris, Carol Flaherty ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

13 hora 27 minutos

Make your first year of teaching one to rememberBecoming a new teacher is one of the most fun, exciting, and challenging experiences you'll encounter in your life. Who wouldn't want a little help getting ready before sitting down behind the teacher's desk for the first time?That's where First-Year Teaching For Dummies comes in. You'll find easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to help you ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Make your first year of teaching one to rememberBecoming a new teacher is one of the most fun, exciting, and challenging experiences you'll encounter in your life. Who wouldn't want a little help getting ready before sitting down behind the teacher's desk for the first time?That's where First-Year Teaching For Dummies comes in. You'll find easy-to-follow strategies and techniques to help you
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The Twelve-Mile Straight

A Novel

de Eleanor Henderson ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

17 hora 4 minutos

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a ... Leer más

$39.99 USD

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From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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$2.00 a Day

Living on Almost Nothing in America

de Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

7 hora 15 minutos

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists from a leading national poverty expert who defies convention (New York Times). Edin and Shaefer tell the stories of eight families who live on what is almost unimaginable—an income that falls below the World Bank definition of poverty in the developing world. Their stories need to be heard, especially ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't even think exists from a leading national poverty expert who defies convention (New York Times). Edin and Shaefer tell the stories of eight families who live on what is almost unimaginable—an income that falls below the World Bank definition of poverty in the developing world. Their stories need to be heard, especially
... Leer más
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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice

Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation

de Fania E. Davis ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

2 hora 50 minutos

In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matters, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America.This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Addressing the intersectionality of race and the ... Leer más

$10.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

In our era of mass incarceration, gun violence, and Black Lives Matters, a handbook showing how racial justice and restorative justice can transform the African-American experience in America.This timely work will inform scholars and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Addressing the intersectionality of race and the
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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Fearing the Black Body

The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

de Sabrina Strings ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

7 hora 26 minutos

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred yearsThere is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor black women are particularly stigmatized as "diseased" and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago.Strings weaves together an eye
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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A Conspiracy of Whispers

de Ada Harper ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Series series Whisper
Completo

13 hora 13 minutos

For Olivia Shaw, the danger of her assignments as a deadly Whisper agent is matched only by that of her hidden status: Liv is one of the caricae, extremely rare women capable of bearing children and therefore controlled by the Syndicate's government. When her handler sends her into the Quillian Empire, her mission is complicated by stumbling upon a kidnapping in progress.Liv is drawn deep into ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

For Olivia Shaw, the danger of her assignments as a deadly Whisper agent is matched only by that of her hidden status: Liv is one of the caricae, extremely rare women capable of bearing children and therefore controlled by the Syndicate's government. When her handler sends her into the Quillian Empire, her mission is complicated by stumbling upon a kidnapping in progress.Liv is drawn deep into
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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The Wait

A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

de Meagan Good, DeVon Franklin ...

Narrado por JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

6 hora 12 minutos

President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes all we can do is wait for "the one" to come into our lives. They spent years crossing paths, but it wasn't until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began.Faced with starting a new ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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President/CEO of Franklin Entertainment and former Sony Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes all we can do is wait for "the one" to come into our lives. They spent years crossing paths, but it wasn't until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began.Faced with starting a new
... Leer más

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How Beautiful We Were

A Novel

de Imbolo Mbue ...

Narrado por Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson, Lisa Renee Pitts ...

Completo

14 hora 7 minutos

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.**ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The ... Leer más

$25.00 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.**ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, The
... Leer más

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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

de Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ...

Narrado por Allyson Johnson ...

Completo

10 hora 26 minutos

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook