{"id":12974,"date":"2022-05-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12974"},"modified":"2022-05-12T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T15:20:44","slug":"classic-tales-retold-read-with-your-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=12974","title":{"rendered":"Classic tales retold – read with your ears!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Get ready for week 3 of Audiofile SYNC season by registering free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Thursday through Wednesday this summer you can download either or both featured audiobooks onto your Sora shelf and listen to them online whenever you like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you miss any AudioSYNC titles during their free download time, just check your local public library<\/a> or independent bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week: classics retold take us back to vital roots of relationships:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never Look Back<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (free Sora download 5\/5-5\/11\/22)
by Lilliam Rivera<\/a> | Read by Almarie Guerra, Samuel Maria Gomez<\/a>
Published by Recorded Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth centers Afro-Latinx characters in the Bronx today: upbeat, suave Pheus who serenades all the girls and Eury who’s troubled by the spirits that haunt her after she survived Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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W<\/em><\/strong>hen Morning Comes<\/em><\/strong> <\/a> (free Sora download 5\/5-5\/11\/22)
by Arushi Raina<\/a> | Read by Jamie Bloch, John Fleming, Patience Mpumiwana, Tony Ofori<\/a>
Published by ECW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romeo and Juliet set in the apartheid struggles of 1976 South Africa: a white boy from the best school in Johannesburg falls in love with a black girl from the poor side of the city in the time leading up to the bloody Soweto Youth Uprising<\/a> for racial justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What other classic retellings would make great audiobooks?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get ready for week 3 of Audiofile SYNC season by registering free here. Every Thursday through Wednesday this summer you can download either or both featured audiobooks onto your Sora shelf and listen to them online whenever you like. If you miss any AudioSYNC titles during their free download time, just check your local public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19,50,30],"tags":[316,163,127,22,7,4,20,5,16,18,44,39,49,86,277,186,31,193,276,205,15,198,21,285,35,33,3,8,263],"class_list":["post-12974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","category-legends","tag-african","tag-african-american","tag-audiobooks","tag-behavior","tag-beliefs","tag-belonging","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-music","tag-myth","tag-new-york","tag-non-us-author","tag-prejudice","tag-puerto-rican","tag-race","tag-relationships","tag-retelling","tag-self-image","tag-south-africa","tag-surprises","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12974"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12986,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12974\/revisions\/12986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}