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The help [electronic resource] / Kathryn Stockett.

Stockett, Kathryn. (Author). Spencer, Octavia. (Added Author).

Summary:

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781415961261 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 1415961263 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • Publisher: [New York] : Books on Tape, 2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 18:07:38.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Octavia Spencer.
System Details Note:
Requires OverDrive Media Console
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 260514 KB; MP3 file size: 510526 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Civil rights movements > Fiction.
African American women > Fiction.
Jackson (Miss.) > Fiction.
Genre: DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK.
Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.

Electronic resources


  • Baker & Taylor
    Limited and persecuted by racial divides in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, three women, including an African-American maid, her sassy and chronically unemployed friend, and a recently graduated white woman, team up for a clandestine project.
  • EBSCOhost
    "Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

    Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way.
    Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation.

    Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.


    From the Compact Disc edition."
  • Findaway World Llc
    Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

    Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way.
    Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation.

    Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.
  • Random House Digital
    Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.From the Compact Disc edition.
  • Random House, Inc.
    Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

    Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way.
    Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation.

    Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk.


    From the Compact Disc edition.

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