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Chris Martin ducked through the waiting crowd to peer down into Lockport’s Deep Cut, that fateful autumn evening in 1825. Then in the silence came the sound of Lake Erie waters lapping through the cut to fill the last stretch of the Erie Canal!
Cannon boomed, people cheered, and Chris grinned with pride. The canal was finished, and he had been a part of it! Chris thought of the boats on which he had worked his way from Albany to Lockport—the packet Fast and Fair, the freighter Honest Lad, and the Polly Ann. Then he had pitched in to help dig the last link in the canal that was to span the breadth of New York State, from Albany to Buffalo.
The year before, Chris, his twin sister Kathy, and their two younger brothers had come to live with their great-aunt Jane. But the Martins’ welcome in the bustling Hudson River town had soon been marred by the loss of two 50-dollar notes. Pat O’Malley, the town bully, had found them. Then both he and the purse disappeared. And so Chris had set out for the west, following the canal in search of Pat.
Those were exciting days, and two startling adventures still awaited Chris before he would be reunited with his family when the triumphant eastbound Seneca Chief reached the Albany basin, bringing Lake Erie water to mingle with the Hudson River.
This We-Were-There book is an exciting story about the building of the Erie Canal in 1825. It is based on true historic events, and it provides an entertaining way to learn more about the amazing history of the United States of America.
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- De Lovelessnomore en 05-29-15
De: Ralph Moody
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The Underground River
- A Novel
- De: Martha Conway
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue - until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical fiction audiobook
- De LindaJS en 10-03-17
De: Martha Conway
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As I Lay Dying
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,825
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,430
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,435
One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a captivating and stylistically innovative work. The story revolves around a grim yet darkly humorous pilgrimage, as Addie Bundren’s family sets out to fulfill her last wish: to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Faulkner's As I Lay Dying review
- De Kristina en 11-12-08
De: William Faulkner
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The Boxcar Children Beginning
- The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm
- De: Patricia MacLachlan
- Narrado por: Tim Gregory
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Before they were the Boxcar Children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden lived with their parents on Fair Meadow Farm. Although times are hard, the Aldens are happy - “the best family of all,” Mama likes to say. One day, a blizzard hits the countryside, and a traveling family needs shelter. The Aldens take them in, and the strangers soon become friends. But things never stay the same at the farm, and the spring and summer bring events that will forever change their lives.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unnecessary
- De Nancy W en 06-26-20
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Trials of the Earth
- The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
- De: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrado por: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 712
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 624
Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South - surviving floods, tornadoes, and fires; facing bears, panthers, and snakes; managing a boardinghouse in Arkansas that was home to an eccentric group of settlers; and running a logging camp in Mississippi that blazed a trail for development in the Mississippi Delta.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Long and slow.
- De Ren en 10-31-17
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Freedom's Song
- De: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrado por: Barbara McCulloh
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 97
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 97
Indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing for riverboat passengers since she was a girl. All she wants is to live a quiet, humble life with her family as soon as her seven-year contract is over. However, when she discovers that the captain has no intention of releasing her, she seizes a sudden opportunity to escape - an impulse that leads Fanny to a group of enslaved people who are on their own dangerous quest for liberty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- De Angela Evans en 06-03-24
De: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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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
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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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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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Chasing the North Star
- De: Robert Morgan
- Narrado por: Kevin R. Free, Carra Patterson
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
On a moonless night in the spring of 1851, a young slave makes a bid for freedom with only the North Star to guide him. Best-selling novelist and historian Robert Morgan returns with a stunning new work of historical fiction.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not what we thought
- De bds en 05-07-19
De: Robert Morgan
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 130
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
Claude Wheeler resembles the youngest son of an American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
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The Misadventures of Maude March
- De: Audrey Couloumbis
- Narrado por: Lee Adams
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister, Maude, are orphaned for the second time, they decide to escape their new self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier and an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time, however, the wanted woman isn't a villain out of a dime novel: it's Sallie's very own sister!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A fun book to listen to.
- De Jean en 09-04-13
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The Lighthouse Road
- A Novel
- De: Peter Geye
- Narrado por: Tara Ochs
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 118
The story moves back and forth in time from the arrival of Thea from her isolated village in arctic Norway in search of a new life in the near wilderness of a small town and logging camp on the shore of Lake Superior to the travails of her orphaned son, Odd, some twenty years later. When Thea’s aunt and uncle do not meet her boat as planned, she’s initially left abandoned with no money or prospects and without speaking the language.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator wrecks storyline
- De customer en 12-01-17
De: Peter Geye
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- De: Mark Twain
- Narrado por: Nick Offerman
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12,801
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11,527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11,459
A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading from a new perspective
- De jb en 11-10-16
De: Mark Twain
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The Outlaw Takes a Bride
- De: Susan Page Davis
- Narrado por: Aimee Lilly
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 99
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn't commit. Posing as his recently deceased brother, Mark, Johnny discovers that Mark's mail-order bride is on her way to be wed. Seeing no other option, Johnny makes a fateful decision to go through with the wedding - as Mark.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Detailed, Sweet Romance
- De Lady M en 03-04-15
De: Susan Page Davis
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Foster
- De: Claire Keegan
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 878
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 752
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 749
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household—where everything is so well tended to—and this summer must soon come to an end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that will stay with me a long time
- De CTKG en 11-01-22
De: Claire Keegan
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The Tubman Command
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Cobbs
- Narrado por: Heidi Franklin
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
It’s May 1863. Outgeneraled and outgunned, a demoralized Union Army has pulled back with massive losses at the Battle of Chancellorsville. Fort Sumter, hated symbol of the Rebellion, taunts the American navy with its artillery and underwater mines. In Beaufort, SC, one very special woman, code named Moses, is hatching a spectacular plan. Hunted by Confederates, revered by slaves, Harriet Tubman plots an expedition behind enemy lines to liberate hundreds of bondsmen and recruit them as soldiers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't stop listening!
- De Tashb8 en 06-16-19
De: Elizabeth Cobbs
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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 Quilt Walk
- De: Sandra Dallas
- Narrado por: Kate Reinders
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
It is 1863 and Emily Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that, come spring, their family will leave their farm, family and friends in Quincy, Illinois, and travel the Overland Trail to a new home in Golden, Colorado. Emmy and her mom have mixed feelings about the trip and are saddened by all they must leave behind. The journey by wagon train is long and full of hardships, and Emmy's experiences along the way bring the period of westward expansion, as well as issues facing women, to life for young listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for all ages!
- De Paige en 10-31-18
De: Sandra Dallas
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre We Were There at the Opening of the Erie Canal
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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Historia5 out of 5 stars
- Darvin Zimmerman
- 11-10-22
Entertaining and informative!!
This is a great book to listen to for the whole family! I highly recommend it!
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