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Grover Gardner
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Paulette Jiles
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National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows.
Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act "civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
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- De: Tom Franklin
- Narrado por: Larry Pine
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends - mostly poor cotton farmers - form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible. The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pull up them breeches, son
- De W Perry Hall en 02-04-14
De: Tom Franklin
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Walk In My Soul
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 14 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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i honestly don't know what is going in this book
- De Bryntainia Holloway en 09-21-19
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The Last Crossing
- A Novel
- De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Narrado por: John Henry Cox, John Keating, Colin Lane, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Very Dark Story
- De Virginia en 04-05-04
De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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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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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 290
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 212
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 214
This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this audiobook are such classics as "A Bear Hunt", "A Rose for Emily", "Two Soldiers", and "The Brooch".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Table of Contents (by Chapter)
- De John McKinney en 09-27-20
De: William Faulkner
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Drums Along the Mohawk
- De: Walter D. Edmonds
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 21 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,547
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,394
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,390
Drums along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds' masterpiece, is not only the best historical novel about upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper, it was also number one on the bestseller list for two years, only yielding to the epic Gone with the Wind. This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Robert en 09-06-15
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The Hamlet
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 202
The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Long, Hot Summer
- De W Perry Hall en 07-30-17
De: William Faulkner
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
A Penguin Classic. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: The tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Generally Good Stories, Some are Great
- De Michael en 06-18-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 193
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 185
This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Peacock
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Sitting in a jail cell on the eve of his hanging, April 1, 1875, freedman Persimmon "Persy" Wilson wants nothing more than to leave some record of the truth - his truth. He may be guilty but not of what he stands accused: the kidnapping and rape of his former master's wife. In 1860 Persy had been sold to Sweetmore, a Louisiana sugar plantation, alongside a striking light-skinned house slave named Chloe. Their deep and instant connection fueled a love affair and inspired plans to escape their owner, Master Wilson, who claimed Chloe as his concubine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful
- De Kevin A Bacon en 02-04-18
De: Nancy Peacock
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Cataloochee
- De: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrado por: Scott Sowers
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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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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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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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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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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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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Deadwood Gulch
- De: Ralph Compton
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
Deadwood Gulch stars bounty hunter Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers. When Cas returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down the thunder on all those responsible.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good western
- De Richard en 01-02-08
De: Ralph Compton
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To a God Unknown
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 479
Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Steinbeck; Terrible and Beautiful
- De Michael en 04-28-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Andersonville
- De: MacKinlay Kantor
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 37 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 536
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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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The Legend of Bass Reeves
- Being the True and Fictional Account of the Most Valiant Marshal in the West
- De: Gary Paulsen
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 3 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Cowboy stories and movies about the Wild West are full of amazing characters. Yet many of the lawmen we think of as heroes were anything but - some were violent scoundrels and outlaws themselves. Among all the lawmen of the frontier, one man stands out as a true hero: Bass Reeves. In his day, Bass Reeves was the most successful federal marshal in the United States. True to the mythical code of the West, he never drew his gun first. He rounded up hundreds of outlaws and was shot at countless times but was never hit. Bass Reeves was born into slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Real hero of the Wild West
- De Michael Wood en 02-11-15
De: Gary Paulsen
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Simon the Fiddler
- A Novel
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 807
In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, 23-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This story takes you away!
- De Brian M en 08-15-20
De: Paulette Jiles
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The Color of Lightning
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 13 h y 34 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 448
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 448
A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post - Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
- De Merrilee R en 02-20-17
De: Paulette Jiles
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Stormy Weather
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Colleen Delany
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work. And in every small town, their mother, Elizabeth, does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home. But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gives Grapes of Wrath a great companion!!!
- De Bill en 10-17-12
De: Paulette Jiles
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Chenneville
- A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John’s beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story bad narration
- De Taryn en 02-19-24
De: Paulette Jiles
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Lighthouse Island
- A Novel
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 14 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
See the rain forests...northern beauty, misted nights. Come to Lighthouse Island.... In the coming centuries, the world's population has exploded and covered the Earth with endless cities. Animals are nearly all gone. Drought plagues the land and cloudy water is issued by the quart. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years. On this urban planet the only relief from the overcrowding, the petty informers, and the harsh rule of the big Agencies is the television in every living space, offering dreams of vanished waterfalls and the promise of virtual vacations in green spaces for the lucky few.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De J. Wolff en 02-28-19
De: Paulette Jiles
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Enemy Women
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Reba Buhr
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”. Yet as this innocent young woman soon discovers, fate can have a double edge. While imprisoned, she falls in love with her interrogator, a Union major who helps her escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Might be better to read this one
- De sssnoo en 10-31-20
De: Paulette Jiles
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Simon the Fiddler
- A Novel
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 812
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 807
In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, 23-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This story takes you away!
- De Brian M en 08-15-20
De: Paulette Jiles
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The Color of Lightning
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 13 h y 34 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 448
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 448
A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post - Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
- De Merrilee R en 02-20-17
De: Paulette Jiles
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Stormy Weather
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Colleen Delany
- Duración: 11 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 126
The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work. And in every small town, their mother, Elizabeth, does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home. But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gives Grapes of Wrath a great companion!!!
- De Bill en 10-17-12
De: Paulette Jiles
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Chenneville
- A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil War was over, but tragedy awaited. John’s beloved sister and her family had been brutally murdered. Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal, slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story bad narration
- De Taryn en 02-19-24
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Lighthouse Island
- A Novel
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
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General4 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 42
See the rain forests...northern beauty, misted nights. Come to Lighthouse Island.... In the coming centuries, the world's population has exploded and covered the Earth with endless cities. Animals are nearly all gone. Drought plagues the land and cloudy water is issued by the quart. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years. On this urban planet the only relief from the overcrowding, the petty informers, and the harsh rule of the big Agencies is the television in every living space, offering dreams of vanished waterfalls and the promise of virtual vacations in green spaces for the lucky few.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- De J. Wolff en 02-28-19
De: Paulette Jiles
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Enemy Women
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Reba Buhr
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 206
The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”. Yet as this innocent young woman soon discovers, fate can have a double edge. While imprisoned, she falls in love with her interrogator, a Union major who helps her escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Might be better to read this one
- De sssnoo en 10-31-20
De: Paulette Jiles
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A Reliable Wife
- De: Robert Goolrick
- Narrado por: Mark Feuerstein
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 1,251
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 591
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 591
When a wealthy man first meets his mail-order bride in 1907, he realizes this statuesque beauty is anything but a "simple missionary's daughter." But he doesn't know of her devious plan to leave Wisconsin as a rich widow. Nor does she know of the furious demons he longs to unleash during the lonely months of snowbound isolation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Homage to Walt
- De Pamela Harvey en 10-16-09
De: Robert Goolrick
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The Thicket
- De: Joe R. Lansdale
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 442
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 411
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 410
Jack Parker knows all too well how treacherous turn-of-the-century East Texas can be. His parents did not survive a smallpox epidemic. His grandfather was murdered. Now his sister Lula has been kidnapped by a criminal who may believe wearing a dead man's clothes protects them both from death. With bounty hunter Shorty, a charismatic and cunning dwarf, and Eustace, a gravedigging son of an ex-slave, the heartbroken young Jack sets off on an epic quest to rescue his sister from the corrupt men who control much of the new territory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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JESUE FORGIVES, SO WHY NOT ENJOY YOURSELF
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 11-11-14
De: Joe R. Lansdale
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
- De: Lucy Adlington
- Narrado por: Lucy Adlington
- Duración: 12 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 642
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 572
At the height of the Holocaust, 25 young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - mainly Jewish women and girls - were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. This fashion workshop - called the Upper Tailoring Studio - was established by Hedwig Höss, the camp commandant’s wife, and patronized by the wives of SS guards and officers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected given description and preview
- De Kaeli Mathes en 09-24-21
De: Lucy Adlington
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The Homesman
- A Novel
- De: Glendon Swarthout
- Narrado por: Candace Thaxton
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 328
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 302
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and minds were broken by a life of bitter hardship. A "homesman" must be found to escort a handful of them back East to a sanitarium. When none of the county’s men steps up, the job falls to Mary Bee Cuddy - ex-teacher, spinster, indomitable and resourceful.
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1 out of 5 stars
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hugely disappointing
- De Marina en 04-27-14
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Cloudstreet
- De: Tim Winton
- Narrado por: Peter Hosking
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 433
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 347
Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch. For 20 years they roister and rankle, laugh and curse until the roof over their heads becomes a home for their hearts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magic for my city
- De Matilda en 01-18-12
De: Tim Winton
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Refuge
- A Novel
- De: Dot Jackson
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 14 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 920
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 915
Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand-new Auburn Phaeton automobile, leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind. It is the beginning of a journey of enlightenment that leads Mary “Sen” to the mountains and mysteries of Appalachia, where she will learn unexpected family secrets, create a new life for herself and her children, and finally experience love and happiness before tragedy will once again test her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Southern Tale
- De B. Newman en 01-09-20
De: Dot Jackson
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God Save Texas
- A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Lawrence Wright
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 955
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 854
God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation has produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best book about Texas
- De Jake Salinas en 06-07-18
De: Lawrence Wright
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Stella by Starlight
- De: Sharon M. Draper
- Narrado por: Heather Alicia Simms
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 398
Stella lives in the segregated South - in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can't. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn't bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they're never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect marriage of voice and text
- De Anne Macdonell en 03-01-15
De: Sharon M. Draper
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The Perfect Nanny
- A Novel
- De: Sam Taylor, Leïla Slimani
- Narrado por: Finty Williams
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 471
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 427
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 432
When Myriam decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their son and daughter. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family’s chic Paris apartment, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more dependent on one another, jealousy, resentment, and suspicions mount, shattering the idyllic tableau.
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3 out of 5 stars
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not what I expected based on the hype
- De Jenn en 03-22-19
De: Sam Taylor, y otros
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True Grit
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: Donna Tartt
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,425
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,084
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6,083
Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So worth it!
- De Tommygaus en 12-29-10
De: Charles Portis
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A Man Called Justice
- Silent Justice, Book 1
- De: John Deacon
- Narrado por: A.T. Chandler
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 399
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 317
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 317
Justice is a drifter with no fear and no memory, trailed by a violent past. Nora is a beautiful widow bravely raising her young son on an isolated New Mexican ranch. When a ruthless cattle baron pushes longhorns into the valley, Justice vows to protect Nora and her boy. But how can he succeed against thirty hired guns… including the four outlaws who left him for dead?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Home run!
- De Charlie en 08-30-22
De: John Deacon
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Plainsong
- De: Kent Haruf
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,174
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,055
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,052
A high school history teacher in a small Colorado town, Guthrie is raising his two young sons alone. Thoughtful and honest, he is guiding them through a world that is not always kind. Victoria, one of his students, is pregnant, homeless, and vulnerable to the scorn of the town. When Guthrie helps two elderly ranchers take the young woman into their home, an unlikely extended family is born.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Grim Living In A Small Town
- De Sara en 08-11-15
De: Kent Haruf
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- Zoe Rose Wolf
- 10-12-20
A gorgeous, perfect book
I’ve never written a review before. But this was such a wonderful, gorgeous, perfect book and the narrator was so exactly right, I had to say. I was swept away
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- Sheryl
- 04-24-21
Excellent story and perfect performance.
This story was excellent, and Grover Gardner was the perfect narrator! Thank you!
As an aside, Hollywood should be ashamed to have made such a disgraceful, lazy, dishonest movie purely to exploit an exceptional author’s work.
Appalling!
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- Liana
- 11-16-20
Amazing
I loved this story from the first word to the last! I highly recommend listening. Narrator is great and the story comes to life.
I wanted to read this before seeing the upcoming movie with Tom Hanks. I could see him perfectly in this role and am very much looking forward to the movie.
Please do read this book it is wicked good.
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- Dave L
- 07-22-21
Captured My Heart
Fabulous story with great narration.
As a people, we continue to become better to all our citizens.
The work must continue
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- Andrea
- 03-14-21
Excellent, Unique Story
Loved it, listened straight thru, wished it didnt have to end! Great story and narration, historical, educational, interesting, captivating!
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- Lyn
- 08-28-21
news of the world
this was one of the best books I've listened to. what a great story with a great ending.I really enjoyed it. can't wait to see the movie.
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- idji
- 05-09-21
Excellent all around
Enjoyed this story very much! The characters were alive The travel thru Texas took you back to anther time, placing you in the dusty trail. I can usually put a ‘book’ down for awhile but this one I wanted to finish.
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- R. Howell
- 09-28-21
Held my attention start to finish
I listen while doing needlework and was fully absorbed in the story. The narrator’s voice drew me in and I felt is if he was in fact the protagonist, Captain Kidd.
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- M. Burke
- 05-01-21
news of the world
I enjoyed listening to this book and recommend it as a wonderful book to hear
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- Greg Babin
- 07-26-21
Great story
Great plot and performance, I highly recommend. Really enjoyed the story and the ending
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