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Two Southern soldiers, recently back from Vietnam, struggle to resume their lives amid dangerous and deep-rooted prejudice
Thomas Laidlaw returns home from Vietnam with nothing much in mind but to tend his acreage, live apart, and get lost in the roots music he grew up with. Laidlaw’s childhood friend Rodney Redmon is doubly burdened: Not only is he scarred from the war, he is also a black man living in a prejudiced area of Tennessee. Redmon’s homecoming from the war included time in jail - the result of his being framed for real estate fraud by racist forces within the local establishment. Once released, he and Laidlaw rekindle their friendship and both veterans try to put the war behind them. But when a group of local Klansman emerges, the violence that haunts them may prove impossible to escape.
Masterful in its execution and stunning in its emotional resonance, Soldier’s Joy is a riveting portrait of two damaged souls struggling to achieve solace despite the demons of their past.
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The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just outstanding!
- By Rich on 08-18-12
By: Matt Bondurant
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- By: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 426
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Story4 out of 5 stars 377
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, tarnished by modern politics
- By Phil on 04-28-21
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Dry Bones in the Valley
- A Novel
- By: Tom Bouman
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 131
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 133
In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic background, excellent narration.
- By Patricia McKinney on 03-11-15
By: Tom Bouman
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The Orchard Keeper
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 352
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 315
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 314
One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contains the embryo of McCarthy's future greatness
- By Darwin8u on 06-12-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Widow Town
- By: Joe Hart
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over 40 years. Sheriff MacArthur Gray resides in the future but lives in the past. His world views have chased him from a large metropolis to his home town, but there is no sanctuary to be found after he arrives. Because people are dying and only he can see the truth. A psychopath has somehow survived and is thriving.
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3 out of 5 stars
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widow Town
- By Michelle on 07-25-19
By: Joe Hart
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The Ploughmen
- A Novel
- By: Kim Zupan
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,305
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,189
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,176
At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two men - a killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputy - sitting across fromeach other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: JohnGload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of 77, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration; and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriff's department, who draws the overnight shift after Gload's arrest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perceptive Narration
- By Abby Elvidge on 09-22-16
By: Kim Zupan
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Lay Down My Sword and Shield
- By: James Lee Burke
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,528
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,265
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,252
Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney Hackberry Holland yields to the myriad urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat - and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Publisher's Summary is Anemic
- By Cat F. on 02-25-10
By: James Lee Burke
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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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The Moonshine War
- By: Elmore Leonard
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 331
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 335
Dual Meaders, Doc Taulbee, and their gang of city slickers set out to steal thousands of dollars worth of homemade Kentucky Whiskey from Son Martin, a hell-raising country boy, during the midst of Prohibition.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Elmore Leonard
- By David I. Williams on 01-28-12
By: Elmore Leonard
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Alternate Routes
- By: Tim Powers
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 130
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4 out of 5 stars 108
Something weird is happening to the Los Angeles freeways - phantom cars, lanes from nowhere, and sometimes unmarked off-ramps that give glimpses of a desolate desert highway - and Sebastian Vickery, disgraced ex-Secret Service agent, is a driver for a covert supernatural-evasion car service. But another government agency is using and perhaps causing the freeway anomalies, and their chief is determined to have Vickery killed because of something he learned years ago at a halted Presidential motorcade. Reluctantly aided by Ingrid Castine, a member of that agency, and a homeless Mexican boy....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible perfection!
- By LISA K OMEARA on 09-04-18
By: Tim Powers
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Descent
- By: Tim Johnston
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, R.C. Bray
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,511
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,344
From the day Caitlin vanishes the lives of her family members are irrevocably altered, each assuming blame for that day's tragic events. As the initial days of hope are replaced by weeks of anxiety and despair, they find themselves increasingly isolated, each wondering: Is she still alive? Will we ever know what happened?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Even a Monkey Knows the Value of a Stick
- By tooonce72 on 01-09-15
By: Tim Johnston
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Horseman, Pass By
- By: Larry McMurtry
- Narrated by: Kerin McCue
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 120
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Story4 out of 5 stars 121
Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional, old-frontier morals—in contrast to his stepson, Hud. Homer’s grandson Lonnie is torn between emotions for his father and grandfather as he struggles to define his own identity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Early book by McMurtry and it shows it.
- By lee on 02-19-11
By: Larry McMurtry
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Sometimes a Great Notion
- By: Ken Kesey
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 30 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 853
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 730
A literary icon sometimes seen as a bridge between the Beat Generation and the hippies, Ken Kesey scored an unexpected hit with his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. His successful follow-up, Sometimes a Great Notion, was also transformed into a major motion picture, directed by and starring Paul Newman. Here, Oregon’s Stamper family does what it can to survive a bitter strike dividing their tiny logging community. And as tensions rise, delicate family bonds begin to fray and unravel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes a Great Novel Pops up out of Nowhere
- By Mr. Eyuz on 06-07-19
By: Ken Kesey
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The Auctioneer
- Valancourt 20th Century Classics
- By: Joan Samson
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 603
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 530
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Story4 out of 5 stars 528
In the isolated farming community of Harlowe, New Hampshire, John Moore and his wife, Mim, work the land that has been in his family for generations. But from the moment the charismatic Perly Dinsmore arrives in town and starts soliciting donations for his auctions, things begin slowly and insidiously to change in Harlowe. As the auctioneer carries out his terrible, inscrutable plan, the Moores and their neighbors will find themselves gradually but inexorably stripped of their freedom, their possessions, and perhaps even their lives....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable
- By pineapple67 on 11-08-19
By: Joan Samson
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- By: David Wroblewski
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 840
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 759
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Story4 out of 5 stars 765
Filled with breathtaking scenes, the elemental north woods, the sweep of seasons, an iconic American barn, a fateful vision rendered in the falling rain. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a meditation on the limits of language and what lies beyond, a brilliantly inventive retelling of an ancient story, and an epic tale of devotion, betrayal, and courage in the American heartland.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Devastatingly Dark Story
- By Knitme23 on 02-07-15
By: David Wroblewski
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