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Billy Doyle, a 12-year-old boy, is caught in a horrible life in the middle of the 1930s Great Depression. Billy's parents take him to his aunt and uncle to live on a farm in a secluded community in rural Ohio. His aunt and uncle offer love and respect to Billy. He meets a special man through the blessing of heaven and is taught the most important lessons in life. Along the way, Billy makes friends and learns that, to God, all lives matter. He witnesses a change in himself and what it means to be a friend. He comes to see that his love for family, friends, God, and country are the things that matter the most.
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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.
- By Dolly Jane Prenzel on 03-17-15
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One of Ours
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Louis B. Jack
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 75
This is One of Ours, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Willa Cather, America’s greatest writer of the prairie heartland. It is set in rural Nebraska in the early 20th century prior to the first World War that enveloped Europe and eventually the United States. The story focuses on the young Claude Wheeler, a well-to-do farmer’s son who secretly longs for something to take him away from the hum-drum agrarian life he has inherited. As he prepares to take over his family’s farm business, war intrudes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Opened my heart
- By georgette bartell on 06-28-19
By: Willa Cather
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Christmas with Tucker
- By: Greg Kincaid
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
In this heartwarming novel, Greg Kincaid, the best-selling author of A Dog Named Christmas, revisits the early life of one of that book’s protagonists and brings us a holiday tale of redemption, hope, and forgiveness. It’s 1962, and as Christmas approaches so does one of the worst snow and ice storms in Kansas history. Without utilities and emergency services, it is a dangerous time for the residents of Cherokee County. For the McCray family, it is even worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Snow Days on the Farm
- By Debbie on 12-02-14
By: Greg Kincaid
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The Moonflower Vine
- A Novel
- By: Jetta Carleton
- Narrated by: Natalie Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 106
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
On a farm in western Missouri, during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive, comfort, forgive - and, ultimately, they will come to cherish all the more fiercely the bonds of love that hold the family together.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I didn't want it to end!!!
- By Amanda H. on 01-20-21
By: Jetta Carleton
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- By: Robert Hillman
- Narrated by: Daniel Lapaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 77
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Listener beware
- By Little old lady from Iowa on 06-11-23
By: Robert Hillman
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Coop
- A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
- By: Michael Perry
- Narrated by: Michael Perry
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 209
Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with 37 acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood - his city-bred parents took in more than 100 foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm - for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- By dpenney on 12-22-16
By: Michael Perry
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Maude
- By: Donna Mabry
- Narrated by: Shana Gagnon
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,872
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,671
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,667
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
- By Sandra on 01-07-16
By: Donna Mabry
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A Christmas Haven
- By: Cindy Woodsmall, Erin Woodsmall
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
Old Order Amish Ivy Zook is wrestling with her need to shed her community's ways so she can grow the business of her dreams: planning parties. As long as she's stuck living without modernization, she can barely get her business on its feet. But if she leaves too soon, she'd cause trouble for her sister, Holly, who is planning her wedding to Joshua Smucker. All of their plans become twice as complicated when an old car crashes into the storefront of Greene's Pharmacy, carrying a Swartzentruber (ultra-conservative sect) Amish man, Arlan, and his very ill sister.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Christmas Haven
- By mary goodman on 05-25-21
By: Cindy Woodsmall, and others
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The Brides of the Big Valley
- 3 Romances from a Unique Pennsylvania Amish Community
- By: Wanda E. Brunstetter, Jean Brunstetter, Richelle Brunstetter
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 120
In an area of Pennsylvania called The Big Valley, a uniquely blended Amish community thrives in which three distinct groups of Amish identify themselves by the colors of their buggies' tops - white, black, or yellow. Join New York Times best-selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter, her daughter-in-law, and her granddaughter in experiencing the stories of three young women who search for faith and love within this special place.
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3 out of 5 stars
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stilted dialogue
- By CS Seepe on 12-02-19
By: Wanda E. Brunstetter, and others
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Little Heathens
- Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
- By: Mildred Armstrong Kalish
- Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 124
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
As foreclosure fragments her family, five-year-old Mildred and her three siblings find refuge with her grandparents enjoying a modest retirement. When the "little heathens" flush the seniors and their child-rearing skills out of retirement, the grandparents deploy tough but loving bedtime schedules, Bible and prayer routines, and plenty of character-building chores. Having no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes you appreciate today's living
- By Susan on 03-11-11
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- Holly Davis
- 02-15-23
Loved it!
This is a great book help understand the teach the importance of values. It took me back to the early 1900’s. Learning of a simpler time where life was challenging in a completely different way then today. I thought the book flowed well and taught great lessons of love, kindness and hard work! The story is unpredictable and fun.
It was easy to listen to, the narrator did a great job.
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