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    The Twelve-Mile Straight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1024min
    Tender and savage, heartbreaking and hopeful and deeply human, The Twelve Mile Straight will appeal to fans of American classics by Harper Lee, Toni Morrison and William Faulkner. 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 down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best as she can, under the roof of her impulsive father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. It soon becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have imagined. A web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the truth. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hcuk/003056/bk_hcuk_003056_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Skirting Tradition , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 721min
    Sleepy, tradition-bound Riverford, Texas, is startled when a Czech immigrant sharecropper's daughter, Sarah Novak, announces she wants to be a teacher rather than marry. Granted, it is 1895, and a new century is fast approaching, but nothing has changed in Riverford since the end of the war 30 years ago. Mrs. Victoria Hodges steps off the train at the Riverford station, and change arrives in a big way! She's a native Texan who ran off to Europe 20 years ago to become an artist. How she managed to hook wealthy local businessman Hayden Hodges is a mystery to the town, but one thing is certain: She's here to stir up things. Why, she wears Paris fashions, speaks French, wants to build a public library, and supports equal rights for women including rights to education! With this newcomer's help and support, nothing but hard work stands between Sarah and a teaching certificate. Nothing, that is, except Robert Lee Logan, a handsome young banker from Fort Worth with eyes for Sarah. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amy Dietz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/130203/bk_acx0_130203_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Peach Trees Honey Bees & Faded Overalls
    Peach Trees Honey Bees & Faded Overalls ab 2.99 € als epub eBook: Stories Of A Southern Sharecropper's Son. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Biographien & Autobiographien,
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    Experiences in the Southwest
    Experiences in the Southwest ab 23.49 € als Taschenbuch: The Sharecropper's Son Part II. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Belletristik, Briefe & Biografien,
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    My Remembers
    My Remembers ab 22.49 € als Taschenbuch: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Taschenbücher, Wirtschaft & Soziales,
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    Flour Sack Shirts and Homemade Jam
    Flour Sack Shirts and Homemade Jam ab 6.49 € als epub eBook: Stories of a Southern Sharecropper's Son. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Sachthemen & Ratgeber, Familie & Partnerschaft,
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    Bird's Eye View, Hörbuch, Digital, 350min
    Maverick risk-taker and onetime star professor Fritz Tullis has been exiled from academia after a passionate affair with the wrong man's wife. When he retreats to his family's estate in southern Maryland, he refurbishes a run-down sharecropper's shack on the edge of a swamp and spends his time musing and photographing the area's abundant bird life. Most important, he vows to never again get involved with events he can't control. But one morning while photographing birds, he sights a plane with his telephoto lens as it touches down on an airstrip across the bay. It's an open secret that this area, with its multitude of hidden waterways, is becoming a hub for illegal arms and drug trafficking. Fritz witnesses the first in a string of murders involving high-ranking government officials and before he knows it, and against his better judgment, he is digging for the truth. Fritz is about to learn how dangerous "being involved" can be. For as his quiet life gets more complex, people - including some who are near and dear - start to die. And as his involvement in solving these crimes deepens, Fritz senses that he himself is being scrutinized through a telescopic lens, and that someone, somewhere, is plotting his death. Language: English. Narrator: Gregory Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/time/000242/bk_time_000242_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Blind Faith: The Miraculous Journey of Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder's Mother, Hörbuch, Digital, 300min
    Hardship, sacrifice, determination, and ultimate triumph make up Blind Faith, the frank and compelling biography of Lula Hardaway, mother of superstar musician and singer Stevie Wonder. A motherless child born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, Lula was passed from relative to relative, unwanted and unloved. As a teenager she was sent to Chicago where she married a much older man who abused her and forced her to work as a prostitute. Determined to build a better life for her children, she eventually made her escape to Detroit. Although Stevland Judkins was blind virtually from birth, Lula noticed that this little boy impressed everyone with his outgoing personality, his intelligence, charm, and his incredible musical talent. Berry Gordy dubbed the boy Little Stevie Wonder and launched him into musical history when he signed Stevie to his Motown label. When Innervisions won a Grammy award for Album of the Year, in 1973, Stevie Wonder refused to accept the award unless Lula walked with him to the podium where he proclaimed, "her strength has led us to this place." Indeed, it was Lula's drive and her willingness to sacrifice the now for the future that saw them through. Blind Faith is not only the story of the birth of a superstar, but a stirring testament to a mother's love. Language: English. Narrator: Viola Davis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/006334/bk_sans_006334_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Twelve-Mile Straight: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1024min
    From New York Times best-selling 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 truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured. Despite the prying eyes and curious whispers of the townspeople, Elma begins to raise her babies as best she can, under the roof of her mercurial father, Juke, and with the help of Nan, the young black housekeeper who is as close to Elma as a sister. But soon it becomes clear that the ties that bind all of them together are more intricate than any could have ever imagined. As startling revelations mount, a web of lies begins to collapse around the family, destabilizing their precarious world and forcing all to reckon with the painful truth. Acclaimed author Eleanor Henderson has returned with a novel that combines the intimacy of a family drama with the staggering presence of a great Southern saga. Tackling themes of racialized violence, social division, and financial crisis, The Twelve-Mile Straight is a startlingly timely, emotionally resonant, and magnificent tour de force. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Allyson Johnson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006228/bk_harp_006228_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 884min
    For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's "forgotten war" in Korea, by the New York Times best-selling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper's son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy's first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn't even serve him in a bar. While much of America remained divided by segregation, Jesse and Tom joined forces as wingmen in Fighter Squadron 32. Adam Makos takes us into the cockpit as these bold young aviators cut their teeth at the world's most dangerous job - landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier - and a line of work that Jesse's young wife, Daisy, struggles to accept. Deployed to the Mediterranean, Tom and Jesse meet the Fleet Marines, boys like PFC "Red" Parkinson, a farm kid from the Catskills. In between war games in the sun, the young men revel on the Riviera, partying with millionaires and even befriending the Hollywood starlet Elizabeth Taylor. Then comes the war no one expected, in faraway Korea. Devotion takes us soaring overhead with Tom and Jesse and into the foxholes with Red and the marines as they battle a North Korean invasion. As the fury of the fighting escalates and the marines are cornered at the Chosin Reservoir, Tom and Jesse fly, guns blazing, to try to save them. When one of the duo is shot down behind enemy lines and pinned in his burning plane, the other faces an unthinkable choice: watch his friend die or attempt history's most audacious one-man rescue mission. A tug-at-the-heartstrings tale of bravery and selflessness, Devotion asks: How far would you go to save a ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dominic Hoffman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004358/bk_rand_004358_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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