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Narrated by:
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Don W. Jenkins
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By:
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Jack London
About this listen
A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend Anna Strunsky. Despite the progressive attitude toward women, the novel focuses on the racial superiority of Anglo-Saxons.
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When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-15
By: Louis Bayard
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The Monstrumologist
- By: Rick Yancey
- Narrated by: Steven Boyer
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 771
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 680
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 679
Dr. Warthrop is a scientist who tracks and studies real-life monsters. Assisted by his 12-year-old apprentice, Will Henry, Dr. Warthrop discovers a pod of Anthropophagi and launches a hunt to destroy the foul beasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reader Be Warned
- By Eddie on 01-25-15
By: Rick Yancey
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Destry Rides Again
- By: Max Brand
- Narrated by: J. P. O'Shaughnessy
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87
Harry Destry was a rough-and-tumble fighter who never lost a battle. But after six years in jail for a robbery he didn't commit, he comes back a changed man. The townsfolk believe he's beaten. They think all the fight's gone right out of him. And that's exactly what Destry wants them to think....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged doesn't mean unedited
- By Chris Haynes on 08-15-13
By: Max Brand
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- By: Cameron Judd
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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
- By That Man They Call Shad on 05-05-21
By: Cameron Judd
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The Mark of the Beast
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
- Length: 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 285
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 255
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Story4 out of 5 stars 254
When a carousing Englishman disgraces the consecrated effigy of Hanuman, a leprous "Silver Man" marks him with a hideous curse. The ensuing night brings new terrors to the house of the doomed man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must listen again
- By uffdasuzanne on 10-06-17
By: Rudyard Kipling
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The Virginian
- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 248
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 224
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
He is the Virginian-the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literature, a near-mythic figure whose idealized image has profoundly influenced our national consciousness. This enduring work of fiction marks the birth of a legend that lives with us still.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I could have read it better
- By Emily Adams on 09-29-20
By: Owen Wister
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Mrs. Mike
- By: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 868
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 869
A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- By Dale C. Farran on 01-30-10
By: Benedict Freedman, and others
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Victory
- By: Joseph Conrad
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 106
From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, sad and powerful
- By Darwin8u on 01-20-13
By: Joseph Conrad
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The Lightkeeper
- By: Susan Wiggs
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories. A beautiful stranger washes ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Penniless and pregnant, Mary Dare is a woman who carries painful memories of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story was wonderful. Did not like narration
- By Bette Moody on 06-05-23
By: Susan Wiggs
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Treasure Island
- By: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Narrated by: Timothy West
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
First conceived during a rainy summer holiday in the Highlands of Scotland in an attempt to amuse his stepson, Treasure Island began with the map. Young Lloyd Osbourne had drawn a crude version of an island, and Stevenson, looking over the boy's shoulder, began to elaborate, christening various curves and smudges the famed names of Skeleton Island and Spyglass Hill and finally adding the three red crosses marking the buried treasure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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1st Rate Narrator
- By flashcraft on 03-05-16
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A Shadow on the Glass
- By: Ian Irvine
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 110
Once there were three worlds, each with their own human species. Then, fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charon. Desperate, on the edge of extinction, they changed the balance between the worlds forever. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled heritage, is forced to steal an ancient relic in repayment of a debt. It turns out to be the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has ever seen.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not quite good enough.
- By Scott S. on 03-13-12
By: Ian Irvine
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The Virginian
- A Horseman of the Plains
- By: Owen Wister
- Narrated by: Robert G. Slade
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
In this romantic and raw adventure set in the untamed wilderness of Wyoming of 1886, an anonymous college graduate ventures out west where he encounters gun fights, lynching, cattle rustlers, high-stake poker games, Indian attacks, and a brave, honest and imposing cowboy known simply as the Virginian. Presented as the archetypal, ideal hero of the "western" genre (which was novelized for the very first time in this same book), the Virginian, a foreman at Shiloh Ranch, carries a strong sense of justice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Good Book of Perpetual Period Small Talk
- By wbiro on 02-06-21
By: Owen Wister
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The Continent
- By: Keira Drake
- Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
For her 16th birthday, Vaela Sun receives the most coveted gift in all the Spire - a trip to the Continent. It seems an unlikely destination for a holiday: a cold, desolate land where two nations remain perpetually locked in combat. Most citizens lucky enough to tour the Continent do so to observe the spectacle and violence of battle, a thing long vanished in the peaceful realm of the Spire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazing!!
- By Newtothis on 05-29-18
By: Keira Drake
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Code of the West
- A Western Story
- By: Zane Grey
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man's heart while he's eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister's best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Western Romance
- By Richard Bretzing on 06-09-24
By: Zane Grey