| Authors: |
Stockett, Kathryn.
Spencer, Octavia.
Turpin, Bahni.
Lamia, Jenna.
Campbell, Cassandra.
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| Material type: |
CD-Audiobook |
| Subject: |
Jackson (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
African American women -- Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
[Westminster, Md.] : Books on Tape, p2009. |
| Description: |
15 sound discs (18 hr., 8 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| ISBN: |
9781415961254 1415961255 9780143144182 0143144189 |
| Notes: |
Unabridged. |
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Compact disc. |
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Container omits Cassandra Campbell in list of narrators. |
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Read by Jenna Lamia, Bahni Turpin, Octavia Spencer, and Cassandra Campbell. |
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| Rating: |
5 out of 5: They loved it |
| Community reviews |
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Great audio! by Dedra |
| This book and audio were fabulous! The audio has an entire cast of narrators. Characters are wonderful! I couldn't put it down! |
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great book by Peg |
| This book takes you back to Mississippi at the height of the civil rights movement. Great writing and historically fascinating. |
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A true gift to those who read this book. by austinohio |
| A must read for everyone, especially those women who came of age in the sixties -- whether north or south -- who lived through the early days of racial change in the south. This is a book of strength, courage, bravery, determination, resolution, and triumph -- small steps -- that will capture your imagination and keep you reading until the very last word. I so enjoyed it! |
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The Help by PTAMom |
| Eye-opening; a very readable expose of early 1960s culture in the South. This is great to read because it is told from all points of view... you see how black families went along to get along, with jobs, personal safety and their entire families' lives preserved only if they don't cross the line of "appropriate" behavior. The female protagonist crosses that line, and helps us all to see the 1960s clearer. |
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The Help by mellow yellow |
| Set in 60's Mississippi, this book about black maids and their white mistresses is a fascinating (and discomfiting) look at these relationships, as told in several different, very believable voices. I found it hard to put down. |
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the help by wijfjeknipper |
| in een woord super |
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Skeeter by takapuna bookchats |
| Skeeter is interviewing the black maids of a Mississippi town about their work for white families in the 1960s. It is a subversive act and probably dangerous for both parties. |
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Fantastic by heather.volmerding |
| SUMMARY: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. REVIEW: Great adult read with depth, interesting characters, and unexpected twists and turns. Excited to see the movie! |
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| Summary: |
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. But, suddenly, three women, Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter, realize that they are suffocating within the lines. Aibileen is a black maid, raising her seventeenth white child. Her best friend, Minny, is the sassiest woman in Mississippi. And Skeeter Phelan is just back from college, a white woman with a degree but, to her mother's chagrin, no ring on her finger. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, these women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the lives of the women in it. |