Adjoa Andoh
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English
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Description
1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge...
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English
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If your body could talk, is a book, written for women, struggling to find time for their bodies, written by a woman, who has been there and experienced it firsthand. If your body could talk is, a collection of letters written from your body to you.
Ask yourself the question, if your body could talk what would it say?
"Did you hear me at dinner tonight when I was trying to signal that we were full?"
"I felt so good after you did that workout today....
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Maya Angelou's poignant, powerful autobiography, starring Adjoa Andoh, Indie Gjesdal and Pippa Bennett-Warner.
Abandoned by their parents, Maya and her older brother Bailey are sent to live with their grandmother and uncle in the small Southern town of Stamps in Arkansas. Struggling with rejection, they endure the prejudice of their white neighbours and suffer several racist incidents.
One day,
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Series
Wizards vs. Aliens volume 5
Language
English
Description
With Benny in America, Katie contacts Tom to express her belief that the Blackberry Theatre is haunted. Tom believes otherwise and is proven correct. A tear in the Line of Twilight has brought the witch Old Bethesta back to the Dayside.
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English
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Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.