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Kirk Winkler
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G.C. Jones
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G.C. "Red" Jones' classic memoir of growing up in rural eastern Kentucky during the Depression is a story of courage, persistence, and eventual triumph. His priceless and detailed recollections of hardscrabble farming, of the impact of Prohibition on an individualistic people, of the community-destroying mine wars of "Bloody Harlan", and of the drastic dislocations brought by World War II are essential to understanding this seminal era in Appalachian history.
The book is published by The University Press of Kentucky. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,627
The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Experience the pleasures and perils of ranching in 20th Century America, through the eyes of a youngster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very dissappointed , too much cussing.
- De Lovelessnomore en 05-29-15
De: Ralph Moody
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Hard Country
- A Novel
- De: Michael McGarrity
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 15 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,646
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,403
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,387
National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory - a job that will forever change his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Country lives up to it's title.
- De mar en 12-14-12
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That Old Ace in the Hole
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 157
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- De Sarah C en 05-30-12
De: Annie Proulx
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The Meadow
- De: James Galvin
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 60
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history. His portraits illuminate the Western character and evolve a sense of place like no other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading the Meadow is almost like reading a poem..
- De Shelby Stephens en 04-30-12
De: James Galvin
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Leaving Cheyenne
- De: Larry McMurtry
- Narrado por: John Randolph Jones
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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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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The Missing
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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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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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- De: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Narrado por: Gwen Hughes
- Duración: 5 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a frontier classic by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widowed young mother who accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming. In Stewart's delightful collection of letters, she describes her homesteading experiences to her former employer, Mrs. Coney.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every woman in the US should read this book.
- De Dolly Jane Prenzel en 03-17-15
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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 253
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 198
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 197
The irresistible tale of 19-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to break a horse was to buck the wild out of it, and broken ribs and tough falls just went with the job. But over several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk in this remote county of eastern Oregon witness Martha's way of talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair---and getting miraculous, almost immediate results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Honest, Wonderful
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Molly Gloss
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Forgiveness
- A Gift from My Grandparents
- De: Mark Sakamoto
- Narrado por: Geoff Sugiyama
- Duración: 7 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Admirable progenitors
- De M. D. Baines en 04-24-18
De: Mark Sakamoto
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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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Tobacco Road
- De: Erskine Caldwell
- Narrado por: Mark Hammer
- Duración: 6 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 113
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 101
Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester’s struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De KEE en 11-28-11
De: Erskine Caldwell
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 206
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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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Grandma Gatewood's Walk
- The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
- De: Ben Montgomery
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,628
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,298
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,288
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown with a change of clothes and less than $200. The next anybody heard from her, this genteel, farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the 2,050-mile Appalachian Trail. And in September 1955, atop Maine's Mount Katahdin, she sang the first verse of "America, the Beautiful" and proclaimed, "I said I'll do it, and I've done it."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring story about a strong amazing woman
- De David Shear en 12-22-14
De: Ben Montgomery
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Maude
- De: Donna Mabry
- Narrado por: Shana Gagnon
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,875
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,672
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,668
In 1906 I was barely over 14 years old, and it was my wedding day. My older sister, Helen, came to my room, took me by the hand, and sat me down on the bed. She said, "You've always been a good girl, Maude, and done what I told you. Now you're going to be a married woman, and he will be the head of the house. When you go home tonight after your party, no matter what he wants to do to you, you have to let him do it. Do you understand?"
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration made listening almost unbearable
- De Sandra en 01-07-16
De: Donna Mabry
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The Reivers
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 238
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 182
One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque story that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucas Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The priests' black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and the three of them are off on a heroic odyssey.
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 days in the life of an eleven year old
- De ruth a anderson en 11-17-09
De: William Faulkner
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Falling from Horses
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
>In 1938, 19-year-old cowboy Bud Frazer sets his sights on becoming a stunt rider in the movies. Fantasizing about rubbing shoulders with the great screen cowboys of his youth, he leaves his home in Echol Creek, Oregon, and heads for Hollywood. On the long bus ride south, Bud meets a young woman who also harbors dreams of making it in the movies, though not as a starlet but as a writer, a real writer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good
- De MJ Strub en 10-26-23
De: Molly Gloss
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Deep Creek
- Finding Hope in the High Country
- De: Pam Houston
- Narrado por: Pam Houston
- Duración: 10 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 556
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 554
On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the Earth, the ranch most of all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most beautiful book I’ve ever read
- De KFratt en 04-26-19
De: Pam Houston
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Growing Up Hard in Harlan County
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Mary J. Horton
- 02-09-23
American History at its Best
Jones is a wonderful story teller. Fast moving and authentic, the authors’s descriptions of farm and coal country life are riveting. My parents lived in Harlin County during the depression. The story is a gift to Americans as it captures beautifully the tough spirit of country folks during difficult times told by a decent hard working man that never gave up. I feel blessed to have heard it.
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- matt gallagher
- 06-26-21
Great book
I love this book being from Kentucky take your mind to a whole different time growing up in farm country some of the old ways are still as there were then growing up hard is exactly what they done back then and there still a lot of that in Kentucky but you learn those ways you can survive Dern near anything still to the day
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