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(0)Patricia R. Floyd
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Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as ... a lantern. You, an object. An object to sell. Ashley Bryan goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that CAN'T be bought or sold -- dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his "workers",...
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Recorded Books, Inc
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2021
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English
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Stormy Weather was chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of 2001. In it, Macavity Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Paula L. Woods crafts a masterful mystery featuring Charlotte Justice, a scrupulous detective in the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide Division. During the tense aftermath of the Rodney King riots, pioneering African American filmmaker and social activist Maynard Duncan dies of natural causes—or so it seems. But Charlotte...
