Asha Bandele
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Daughter
- By: Asha Bandele
- Narrator: Asha Bandele
- Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 06, 2008
- Language: English
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Acclaimed memoirist and poet asha bandele writes a startlingly honest work of fiction. Miriam Rivers tries to give her daughter Aya a good life, but also keeps her at an emotional distance. One tragic night while Aya is taking a jog, she is mistaken... Read more
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The Prisoner’s Wife
- By: Asha Bandele
- Narrator: Asha Bandele
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: November 18, 2011
- Language: English
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In her senior year of college, asha bandele and a group of other writers went to a prison to read their works for a Black History Month program. There, she met Rashid, a man who was serving 20 to life for murder, a man who spoke softly and wisely, a... Read more
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Sporting Chance (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation] “International Edition”
Lady Cecelia is to mysteries what a pack of foxhounds is to a fox… and her interference brings her to disaster. But Captain Serrano isn’t about to let her employer—and now her friend—be destroyed. With the help of Lady Cecelia’s nephew and his friends, including Lord Thornbuckle’s adventurous daughter, Heris plots a rescue, while trying to re-balance her own life and recover ...
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I Found You
In a windswept British seaside town, single mum Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her husband fails to come home from work one night, she is left alone in a ...
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The Accidental Apprentice
Sapna Sinha, an ordinary salesgirl in an electronics store in downtown Delhi, is approached by Vinay Mohan Acharya, a billionaire industrialist and one of India’s richest men. He offers to make her CEO of his company. There is only one catch–she must pass seven tests from the “textbook of life.” Thus begins the most challenging journey Sapna has ever undertaken–one that will test her ...
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Madison Morris Is NOT a Mouse!
Mrs. Norrell’s classroom is a truly magical place!
Madison loves helping people. So when it’s time for her class to plan an activism project, she knows this is her chance to prove she’s a leader. But when her ideas
get shot down, she starts to feel small … really small. In fact, Madison turns into a mouse!
Madison is panicked. Leaders do NOT have squeaky voices, whiskers, and tails! To ...
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India 2020
In this ground-breaking vision document, first published in 1998, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan offer a blueprint for India to be counted among the world’s top five economic powers by the year 2020. They cite growth rates and development trends to show that the goal is not unrealistic. Past successes—the green revolution and satellite-based communication linking remote regions of the ...
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The King’s Bed
From two veteran historians comes an intelligent and spirited history of Charles II’s dissolute life and surprising legacy.
To refer to the private life of Charles II is to abuse the adjective. His personal life was anything but private. His amorous liaisons were largely conducted in royal palaces surrounded by friends, courtiers, and literally hundreds of servants and soldiers. Gossip radiated ...
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Betti on the High Wire
Ten-year-old Babo and the other leftover kids live on an abandoned circus camp in a war-torn country. Babo believes her circus-star parents will come back for her any day now, so she is not one bit happy when an American couple adopts her. She hates her new name (Betti) and is confused by everything in America. She’s determined to run away.
But as Betti slowly begins to trust her new family ...
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The Life Heroic
Heroes are superhuman-or, at least, it’s easy to assume that they are when you read ripped-from-the-news stories of derring-do. But, in reality, almost anyone who’s motivated can be a hero, and the heroes who make the biggest impact aren’t always the ones who make headlines. This approachable, research-backed guide will equip kids with the tools they need to become those everyday heroes, ...
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Bo’s Lasting Lessons
There are very few coaches held higher esteem than Bo Schembechler. As coach of the University of Michigan football team, he won 13 Big Ten titles and finished as the winningest coach in their storied history. But beyond the wins and losses, Bo is best remembered for the remarkable impact he had on his players and fans alike.
In Bo’s Lasting Lessons, the coach draws on his years of experience, ...
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Joe Bev au Naturel
Nature comedy, including “The Magic Tree”, “The Tree and the Vegetables”, “The Lazy Bird”, “A Frog in a Frying Pan”, “A Drop of Water”, “The Last Dinosaurs”, “Billy Peck, Tight Rope Waddler”, “Batbird”, “The Little Stone Bird”, “Friends from the Vegetable Patch”, “Colorful Animals”, “The Grumpy Tree”, “Birth of the Turtles”, “The Unfriendly ...
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