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ARC AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: The Black Girls Left Standing by Juliana Goodman

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Publication Date:  June 28, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA AA fiction  Narrators:  Ariel Blake Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  8 hours 43 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her fr...

READING CHALLENGE AUDIO BOOK REVIEW: 7 Days in June by Tia Williams

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Publication Date:  June 1, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   AA Literature/ Romance Narrators:  Mela Lee Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:  10 hours 32 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Seven days to fall in love, 15 years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again... Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award‑winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid ...