After Midnight
A Short Story Collection
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A family destroyed by a house fire. A badly scarred boy plays the fire out of a banjo. A middle-aged bare-knuckle fighting champion learns some prizes are worth more than money. An orphan boy who steals to feed his hunger, and not just for food. A pretty young girl home from the big city wearing a ruby necklace and matching earrings harboring a terrible tale.
As the flag goes up each morning at a national cemetery, a crew works to maintain the graves of deceased veterans. What secrets do they uncover?
These stories are as gentle as a punch to the gut, as subtle as a slug of morning bourbon. Yet in an authentic, often tender way, reveal a vibrant yet violent America that provides insights into the news headlines of today.
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Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- De Susan L. Stewart en 04-21-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
- De: Rebecca Wells
- Narrado por: Judith Ivey
- Duración: 14 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 997
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 990
When Vivi and Siddalee Walker, an unforgettable mother-daughter team, get into a savage fight over a New York Times article that refers to Vivi as a "tap-dancing child abuser", the fallout is felt from Louisiana to New York to Seattle. Siddalee, a successful theater director with a huge hit on her hands, panics and postpones her upcoming wedding to her lover and friend, Connor McGill. Vivi's intrepid gang of lifelong girlfriends, the Ya-Yas, sashay in and conspire to bring everyone back together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As usual the book is better than the movie
- De Denzil and Judy's Account en 03-25-10
De: Rebecca Wells
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 663
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 462
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 459
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful Story of Family
- De Bobbie-Jo en 09-17-03
De: Rick Bragg
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Horseman, Pass By
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: Kerin McCue
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 151
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 127
Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals—in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer’s grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Early book by McMurtry and it shows it.
- De lee en 02-19-11
De: Larry McMurtry
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 173
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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real life
- De Richard M. en 10-05-22
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Cataloochee
- De: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
Debut novelist Wayne Caldwell's Cataloochee -a rich, vivid, arresting work beginning at the dawn of Reconstruction - sprawls across the succeeding generations like the vast green mountains of its rural North Carolina setting. Best-selling author Charles Frazier calls it "a brilliant portrait of a community and a way of life long gone, a lost America." This enthralling saga evokes the full color spectrum of mountain life, from lights to darks and every shade in between.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love It!
- De Cynthia J. Hakansson en 02-27-09
De: Wayne Caldwell
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The Missing
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
In this spellbinder by critically acclaimed author Tim Gautreaux, Sam Simoneaux returns from World War I to rebuild his life. But when a girl is snatched from the New Orleans department store where he's working, he hops aboard a Mississippi steamboat to find her - and dredges up ghosts from his painful past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Missing
- De Michael L. Wintory en 07-11-09
De: Tim Gautreaux
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Ironweed
- De: William Kennedy
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 200
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 164
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally – and fatally – dropping his infant son. Now, in 1938, Francis is back in town, roaming the old familiar streets with his hobo pal, Helen, trying to make peace with the ghosts of the past and the present.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Darkly Lovely
- De Michael en 07-22-17
De: William Kennedy
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Of Mice and Minestrone
- Hap and Leonard: The Early Years (Hap and Leonard)
- De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, Kasey Lansdale - contributor, Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Hap Collins looks like a good ol’ boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is Black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Inseparable friends, Hap and Leonard climb into the boxing ring, visit their families, get in bar fights, and just go fishing - all the while confronting racists, righting wrongs, and eating a whole lot of delicious food.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wringing every last drop
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 04-08-23
De: Kathleen Kent - introduction, y otros
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De S. Clay en 11-01-17
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Cold Sassy Tree
- De: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 13 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,920
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- De Chrissie en 07-13-13
De: Olive Ann Burns
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Leaving Cheyenne
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: John Randolph Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 597
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 481
As the world enters a new century, three teenagers forge a future for themselves on the wild Texas grasslands: Gideon Fry, torn between going his way and following his father's footsteps; Johnny McCloud, whose restless spirit finds its solace traversing an open range; and Molly Taylor, the woman they both love. Rugged, bold and volatile, the three of them come of age in this tender and intimate novel of the heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and sincere novel
- De Paul en 05-22-09
De: Larry McMurtry
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Sometimes a Great Notion
- De: Ken Kesey
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 755
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 747
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- De Mr. Eyuz en 06-07-19
De: Ken Kesey
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Signals: New and Selected Stories
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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Whistling in the Dark
- A Novel
- De: Lesley Kagen
- Narrado por: Lesley Kagen
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 516
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 478
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 478
Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. But like her Granny always said, actions speak louder than words. And Sally would have to agree with her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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One of the worst books I've read in a long time
- De Dianne en 08-13-21
De: Lesley Kagen
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The Rabbit Factory
- De: Marshall Karp
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte, James Jenner
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 157
Marshall Karp is an acclaimed playwright known for his witty sense of humor and crackling dialogue. His debut novel The Rabbit Factory stars the irreverent LAPD detective duo of Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs. Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bizarre but engaging mystery.1st-rate performance.
- De MidwestGeek en 12-19-12
De: Marshall Karp
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The Nick Adams Stories
- De: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrado por: Stacy Keach
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. The writer was, of course, Ernest Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams. The now-famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent - a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Let Nick Adams introduce you to Ernest Hemingway
- De Paul en 04-04-12
De: Ernest Hemingway