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Narrado por:
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Mark Bramhall
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Norman Lock
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In this panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes face to face with Crazy Horse his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the rest of his days.
By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history.
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 467
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 466
Acclaimed as the greatest novel ever written about the War Between the States, this searing Pulitzer Prize-winning book captures all the glory and shame of America's most tragic conflict in the vivid, crowded world of Andersonville, and the people who lived outside its barricades. Based on the author's extensive research and nearly 25 years in the making, MacKinlay Kantor's best-selling masterwork tells the heartbreaking story of the notorious Georgia prison where 50,000 Northern soldiers suffered.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worthy of the Pulitzer
- De Gillian en 03-22-15
De: MacKinlay Kantor
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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 819
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 710
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Read it rather than listen
- De Anonymous en 08-31-18
De: Charles Frazier
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Far North
- A Novel
- De: Marcel Theroux
- Narrado por: Yelena Schmulenson
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 281
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 144
My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spellbinding!
- De Joan en 01-14-10
De: Marcel Theroux
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Darwinia
- De: Robert Charles Wilson
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 70
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle was an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving an America now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not much about Darwinia.
- De Clavaine en 10-02-09
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- De: Cameron Judd
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend
- De That Man They Call Shad en 05-05-21
De: Cameron Judd
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The Half-Made World
- De: Felix Gilman
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 16 h y 48 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 108
The world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror and violence that cripples the population with fear. The only hope at stopping them has seemingly disappeared - the Red Republic that once battled the Gun and the Line, and almost won. Now they're just a myth, a bedtime story parents tell their children, of hope.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible Story, Terrible Narrator
- De Aaron en 10-21-10
De: Felix Gilman
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Raintree County
- De: Ross Lockridge Jr.
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 43 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life - from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great American novel, seriously!
- De Kirk McElhearn en 02-04-09
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Finn
- A Novel
- De: Jon Clinch
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
One hundred and twenty years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn’s father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women’s underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Now, in a resonant and remarkable new novel, Jon Clinch tells the story of how the brutal and explosive Finn met his end in a room jammed with the telltale artifacts of his strange and mysterious life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finn brought to life in Clinch's homage to Twain.
- De Darrell en 03-21-12
De: Jon Clinch
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Independent People
- De: Halldór Laxness
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 20 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 369
This magnificent novel - which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature - is now available to contemporary American audiences. Although it is set in the early 20th century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I am so confused about this introduction
- De George M en 09-10-18
De: Halldór Laxness
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North and South
- North and South Trilogy, Book 1
- De: John Jakes
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 30 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,038
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,695
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,698
Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Captivating novel of the Civil War
- De 9S en 01-12-13
De: John Jakes
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Little Big Man
- De: Thomas Berger, Larry McMurtry - introduction
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker, Scott Sowers, Henry Strozier
- Duración: 20 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,689
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,522
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2016. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives, and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It's a Good Day to Listen
- De Dubi en 05-21-15
De: Thomas Berger, y otros
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Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
- De: Kelly Link - editor, Gavin J. Grant - editor
- Narrado por: Sarah Coomes, Nico Evers-Swindell, Shannon McManus, y otros
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.
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4 out of 5 stars
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MMMM, Orca Bacon
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 09-14-13
De: Kelly Link - editor, y otros
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The Bell Messenger
- De: Robert Cornuke
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Adventurer and author Robert Cornuke delivers an archaeological thriller that crosses the globe and spans two centuries. With these hopeful words, a dying Confederate lad bequeaths his Bible to the Union soldier who just shot him: "Be God's messenger as I have been." And so begins the journey of Elijah Bell's cherished Bible as it travels the world, transforming hearts wherever it goes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nice Historical Fiction
- De Michael & Cora en 09-16-24
De: Robert Cornuke
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 521
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 371
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 369
The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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Hard Gold (I Witness)
- The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
- De: Avi
- Narrado por: Alston Brown
- Duración: 3 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- De Uki Dominque Lucas en 04-09-19
De: Avi
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Look Homeward, Angel
- De: Thomas Wolfe
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 26 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 532
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 433
The works of Thomas Wolfe cemented his legacy as one of the very best of the American Southern writers. Wolfe's largely autobiographical novel features Eugene Gant, who pines for a more expansive life after being born to a father whose bouts of maniacal raving are fueled by a prodigious appetite for drink.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Of The Gret Novels Of The 20th Century
- De Eric en 02-22-09
De: Thomas Wolfe