The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
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Narrated by:
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Christina Moore
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By:
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Karen Cushman
About this listen
Moving is the last thing the outspoken 12-year-old, Lucy, wants to do. Reaching California, the Whipples set up a crude boardinghouse, and Lucy is put to work washing, cleaning, and baking pies in the rough mining town of Lucky Diggins. There are no books, no school - nothing but dust and drunken miners. With each day, the homesick Lucy is more and more determined to take life into her own hands and return to New England.
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple is her firsthand account of her struggles in a rough and tumble land. Newbery Award-winning author Karen Cushman paints a vivid picture of life in the gold fields. Dispelling the idea that only men went there to seek their fortune, Cushman focuses on the women and families who created homes and towns from a harsh landscape.
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Gap Creek is a powerful and touching story of a marriage at the turn of the century. For Julie and Hank, life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. From devastating floods to encounters with intoxicated grifters, they survive the disappointments and triumphs of their new life together. An Oprah Book Club Pick. Browse more Oprah selections.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully beautiful...
- By Eileen on 09-23-03
By: Robert Morgan
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The Misadventures of Maude March
- By: Audrey Couloumbis
- Narrated by: Lee Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 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.
- By Jean on 09-04-13
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Cataloochee
- By: Wayne Caldwell
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4 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!
- By Cynthia J. Hakansson on 02-27-09
By: Wayne Caldwell
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Ava's Man
- By: Rick Bragg
- Narrated by: Rick Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 454
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Story5 out of 5 stars 451
With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South. This time he’s writing about his grandfather Charlie Bundrum, a man who died before Bragg was born but left an indelible imprint on the people who loved him. Drawing on their memories, Bragg reconstructs the life of an unlettered roofer who kept food on his family’s table through the worst of the Great Depression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- By Kate on 08-12-03
By: Rick Bragg
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Mrs. Mike
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- 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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Chasing the North Star
- By: Robert Morgan
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Carra Patterson
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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
- By bds on 05-07-19
By: Robert Morgan
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Narrated by: Gwen Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 172
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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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Hard Gold (I Witness)
- The Colorado Gold Rush of 1859: A Tale of the Old West
- By: Avi
- Narrated by: Alston Brown
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
Early Whitcomb's family needs a miracle. Their Iowa farm has been in the family for generations, but a long drought has withered their savings and left them in debt - and in danger of foreclosure. Early's uncle, Jesse, thinks he has the solution: to head West and dig for gold. Fueled by reports of prospectors striking it rich in the Rocky Mountains, Jesse can't think about anything but gold. Early is wild to go with him, as much for the adventure as for the gold. But the journey costs money - more than the boys can afford....
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
- By Uki Dominque Lucas on 04-09-19
By: Avi
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Trials of the Earth
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- By: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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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.
- By Ren on 10-31-17
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A Sweetness to the Soul
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- Narrated by: Susan Denaker
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 92
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Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of 12 faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer 16 years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Treat
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By: Jane Kirkpatrick
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The Saturdays
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- Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
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- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 260
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Story5 out of 5 stars 259
The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-year-old Randy who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six-years-old.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for children and adults
- By Dale on 05-15-04
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- By: Rae Meadows
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We've seen pictures of the Dust Bowl
- By Henwhisperer on 10-12-16
By: Rae Meadows
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
- By: Rae Carson
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 432
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 391
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 394
Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend - who might want to be something more. She also has a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By elenne on 10-11-15
By: Rae Carson
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Clearing in the Wild
- By: Jane Kirkpatrick
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Young Emma Wagner chafes at the constraints of Bethel colony, an 1850s religious community in Missouri that is determined to remain untainted by the concerns of the world. A passionate and independent thinker, she resents the limitations placed on women, who are expected to serve in quiet submission.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a clearing in the wild
- By katie on 07-21-09
By: Jane Kirkpatrick
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Walk In My Soul
- By: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrated by: Laurie Klein
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart.
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1 out of 5 stars
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i honestly don't know what is going in this book
- By Bryntainia Holloway on 09-21-19
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-02-18
I liked it....
it was good it did get a tad boring. the story was a great story.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Amy
- 10-26-10
A great Gold Rush read
I really liked The Ballad of Lucy Whipple. It made reading about the Gold Rush interesting, and I loved the main character, Lucy. She has a lot of spunk and is very determined.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Rachel Howe
- 05-08-22
Interesting take on the Gold Rush
The story is based around a little girl who is forced to go to California with her mother and siblings. It follows her woes and homesickness for Massachusetts. I really enjoyed the story. Lucy is a bit sassy and is constantly skirting her responsibilities because she would rather read her books and dream about returning home. Eventually Lucy discovers her purpose in life and the value of home and family. I would recommend co-reading with younger children, just so you can explain certain topics. In one part of the story they name about 30 different names for alcohol and in another they bring up the word sex when a preacher says he’s not that kind of man. I believe these parts could have been left out and were unnecessary in a children’s book. Other than that I thoroughly enjoyed the book
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Scott
- 05-01-23
Excellent book on historical fiction
The story combines California gold rush historical events and discoveries and the experiences of real people and combines it all with a set of fictional characters who bring the story to life.
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