{"id":9640,"date":"2018-06-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2018-06-14T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:51:11","slug":"tales-of-despair-hope-listen-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9640","title":{"rendered":"Tales of despair & hope – listen up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many stories of enslavement and escape – here are two to read with your ears!<\/p>\n

Thank you to the publishers of these audiobooks for making them freely available each week through http:\/\/www.audiobooksync.com\/.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Download either or both titles by clicking on the link from Thursday through Wednesday (14-20 June 2018), then listen to them whenever you want.<\/p>\n

\"CDMy Name Is Not Friday <\/em><\/strong>(download here<\/a> free 14-20 June 2018)
\nby Jon Walter<\/a>
\nRead by Dion Graham<\/a>
\nPublished by Scholastic Audio<\/a><\/p>\n

During the Civil War, young free-man Samuel stands up for his brother and is sold from their Northern orphanage into Southern slavery where he vows to remember his own name and regain his freedom.<\/p>\n

Come August, Come Freedom: the Bellows, the Gallows, and the Black General Gabriel <\/strong><\/em>(download here<\/a> free 14-20 June 2018)\"CD<\/em>
\nby Gigi Amateau<\/a>
\nRead by J.D. Jackson<\/a>
\nPublished by Candlewick on Brilliance Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Born into slavery, talented blacksmith Gabriel is inspired by Haitian revolutionaries to organize enslaved people of Virginia to rebel in 1800 – a little-known true story.<\/p>\n

This Juneteenth<\/a>, what other historical stories of rebellion and freedom should we be hearing?
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So many stories of enslavement and escape – here are two to read with your ears! Thank you to the publishers of these audiobooks for making them freely available each week through http:\/\/www.audiobooksync.com\/.\u00a0 Download either or both titles by clicking on the link from Thursday through Wednesday (14-20 June 2018), then listen to them whenever […]<\/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":[157,237,19,50],"tags":[90,163,127,4,75,11,20,5,37,16,18,43,71,49,15,21,33,3,8,209,59,261],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","category-historical","tag-abandonment","tag-african-american","tag-audiobooks","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-growing-up","tag-kidnapping","tag-memories","tag-relationships","tag-self-image","tag-survival","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-virginia","tag-war","tag-washington-dc"],"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\/9640","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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}