02886cam a2200397 4500 528690242 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781482962062 1482962063 f06bffd6-7250-4882-a12f-1df42e28bee6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781538596876 133065 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haley, Alex. Roots [OverDrive] : The Saga of an American Family. Blackstone Publishing, 2013. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 827MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 827MB. Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And in that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree.</p> <p>When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called "the African" who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent twelve years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of "the African"—Kunta Kinte—as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people—slaves and freemen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, a teacher—and one acclaimed author—who descended from Kunta Kinte.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Listen Up Award. Best Audiobooks. Best Fiction for Young Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Dyson, Michael Eric. Brooks Avery. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1138-1/133065-Roots.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/133065-Roots.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F06BFFD6-7250-4882-A12F-1DF42E28BEE6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1138-1/133065-Roots.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/133065-Roots.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F06BFFD6-7250-4882-A12F-1DF42E28BEE6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)