Ordinary Wolves
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Neill Thorne
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By:
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Seth Kantner
About this listen
Iñupiaq Eskimo and white culture collide in this national bestselling novel of life in the contemporary Alaskan wilderness
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead. But this is the only world Cutuk Hawcley has ever known. Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by hunting, fishing, and trading. And yet, though he idolizes the indigenous hunters who have taught him how to survive, when he travels to the nearby Inupiaq village, he is jeered and pummeled by the native children for being white.
When Cutuk ventures into the society of his own people, two incompatible realities collide, perfectly capturing "the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture." In a powerful coming of age story, a young man isolated by his past must choose between two worlds, both seemingly bent on rejecting him (Louise Erdrich).
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- Kate Shugak, Book 1
- By: Dana Stabenow
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,230
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,873
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,873
Eighteen months ago, Aleut Kate Shugak quit her job investigating sex crimes for the Anchorage DA’s office and retreated to her father’s homestead in a national park in the interior of Alaska. But the world has a way of beating a path to her door, however remote. In the middle of one of the bitterest Decembers in recent memory ex-boss — and ex-lover — Jack Morgan shows up with an FBI agent in tow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kate & Mutt Kick Ass
- By Rusty on 08-29-16
By: Dana Stabenow
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Once Upon a River
- By: Bonnie Jo Campbell
- Narrated by: Susan Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 183
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Story4 out of 5 stars 164
A finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bonnie Jo Campbell is a rising star in contemporary fiction. Hailed by Booklist as a female Huckleberry Finn, Campbell’s heroine is 16yearold Margo Crane. Complicit in her father’s death, Margo flees home for the Stark River. And as she follows the current, she learns the ways of the world from the eccentric characters she meets.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Great Narrator - Horrific story
- By J. Kromrie on 11-04-20
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 119
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- By Susan L. Stewart on 04-21-12
By: Annie Proulx
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Raft of Stars
- A Novel
- By: Andrew J. Graff
- Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 456
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 397
It’s the summer of 1994 in Claypot, Wisconsin, and the lives of 10-year-old Fischer “Fish” Branson and Dale “Bread” Breadwin are shaped by the two fathers they don’t talk about. One night, tired of seeing his best friend bruised and terrorized by his no-good dad, Fish takes action. A gunshot rings out and the two boys flee the scene, believing themselves murderers. They head for the woods, where they find their way onto a raft, but the natural terrors of Ironsforge gorge threaten to overwhelm them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad
- By Lukester454 on 05-03-21
By: Andrew J. Graff
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The Meadow
- By: James Galvin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history. His portraits illuminate the Western character and evolve a sense of place like no other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading the Meadow is almost like reading a poem..
- By Shelby Stephens on 04-30-12
By: James Galvin
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The Lightest Object in the Universe
- A Novel
- By: Kimi Eisele
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4 out of 5 stars 72
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time.......
- By Chester Johnson on 07-18-19
By: Kimi Eisele
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Vacationland
- By: Sarah Stonich
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 48
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 43
On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge - only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images "reflected across the mirrors of memory and water", much as the linked stories of Vacationland cast shimmering spells across distance and time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reminded me of home
- By jill on 06-02-13
By: Sarah Stonich
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Sunrise
- Sky King Ranch, Book 1
- By: Susan May Warren
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 144
Pilot Dodge Kingston has always been the heir to Sky King Ranch. But after a terrible family fight, he left to become a pararescue jumper. A decade later, he's headed home to the destiny that awaits him. That's not all that's waiting for Dodge. His childhood best friend and former flame, Echo Yazzie, is a true Alaskan - a homesteader, dogsledder, and research guide for the DNR.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narration
- By Suzi Roberts on 01-29-22
By: Susan May Warren
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Reservation Restless
- By: Jim Kristofic
- Narrated by: Jim Kristofic
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
In the powerful and haunting lands of the Southwest, rainbows grow unexpectedly from the sky, mountain lions roam the desert, and summer storms roll over the Colorado River. As a park ranger, Kristofic explores the Ganado valley, traces the paths of the Anasazi, and finds mythic experiences on sacred mountains that explain the pain and loss promised for every person who decides to love. After reconnecting with his Navajo sister and brother, Kristofic must confront his own nightmares of the Anglo society and the future it has created.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is a gift to see the world through Jim's eyes
- By Josh Boyle on 06-23-21
By: Jim Kristofic
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The Royal Wulff Murders
- By: Keith McCafferty
- Narrated by: Rick Holmes
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 864
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 795
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 780
A local fisherman lands more than he bargained for when he pulls a dead body out of Montana’s Madison River. Sheriff Martha Ettinger takes on the case and soon comes into the company of reclusive artist, Montana newcomer, and ex-PI Sean Stranahan. After teaming up to investigate, Martha and Sean soon uncover evidence that the murder has ties to one of the state’s biggest industries: fly fishing.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I like this series set in Montana
- By L. O. Pardue on 11-14-16
By: Keith McCafferty
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If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?
- Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of Suburbia
- By: Bill Heavey
- Narrated by: Ian Patrick Williams
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 412
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 359
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 358
Whether he is accidentally cooking his brain with hand warmers or yanking his lure away from a trophy fish just before it takes the bait, Bill Heavey can do no right. For almost a decade, he has chronicled his incompetence on the back page of Field & Stream, where his hilarious dispatches about life as a hapless outdoorsman who lives in suburbia have earned him legions of fans.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Jon Hiltz on 07-21-18
By: Bill Heavey
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The Ninth Metal
- The Comet Cycle, Book 1
- By: Benjamin Percy
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 150
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Story4 out of 5 stars 131
The town of Northfall, Minnesota, will never be the same. Meteors cratered hardwood forests and annihilated homes, and among the wreckage a new metal was discovered. This “omnimetal” has properties that make it world-changing as an energy source…and a weapon. John Frontier returns for his sister’s wedding to find his family embroiled in a cutthroat war to control mineral rights and mining operations. His father rightly suspects foreign leaders and competing corporations of sabotage, but the greatest threat to his legacy might be the US government.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everyone Will Enjoy This Except My Mother
- By Liv Rosin on 06-04-21
By: Benjamin Percy
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Miracle Country
- A Memoir
- By: Kendra Atleework
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But it came at a price.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best memoir I've read
- By Patricia on 08-15-20
By: Kendra Atleework
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- By: T. C. Boyle
- Narrated by: T. C. Boyle
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 90
Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed Bag
- By AuntGert on 09-22-20
By: T. C. Boyle
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A Solitude of Wolverines: A Novel of Suspense
- Alex Carter Series, Book 1
- By: Alice Henderson
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 268
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 264
While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly lost and wandering in the wilds.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed in Where the Story Went
- By Debbie on 06-15-22
By: Alice Henderson
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- Aakatchaq
- 08-05-24
Solitary and Moving
This is a beautifully written novel that hold loneliness and longing of not only Inuit culture, but of self and life.
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