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The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by noted African American author Charles Waddell Chesnutt. It is considered to be one the seminal collections of African American literature.
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skip the introduction!
- By Earin on 10-16-18
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The Known World
- By: Edward P. Jones
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 924
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 493
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Story4 out of 5 stars 493
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- By Daniel on 09-03-04
By: Edward P. Jones
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- By: Mark Twain
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,547
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,293
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,225
A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading from a new perspective
- By jb on 11-10-16
By: Mark Twain
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At the Edge of the Orchard
- By: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 548
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Story4 out of 5 stars 495
1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck - in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the 50 apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The performance was superb
- By cheryl retired bookseller on 05-30-17
By: Tracy Chevalier
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May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
- A Novel
- By: Peter Troy
- Narrated by: John Keating, Allyson Johnson, Marrie Kreinik, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4 out of 5 stars 91
Ethan McOwen is an Irish immigrant whose endurance is tested in Brooklyn and the Five Points at the height of its urban destitution; he is among the first to join the famed Irish Brigade and becomes a celebrated war photographer. Marcella, a society girl from Spain, defies her father to become a passionate abolitionist. Mary and Micah are slaves of varying circumstances, who form an instant connection and embark on a tumultuous path to freedom. All four lives unfold in two beautiful love stories, which eventually collide.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Four passionate performances give wings to story
- By Cheimon on 04-26-12
By: Peter Troy
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- By: Ernest J. Gaines
- Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 480
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 402
This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s. Miss Jane Pittman has "endured," has seen almost everything and foretold the rest.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At great listen
- By Susan on 11-11-08
By: Ernest J. Gaines
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Song of the Trees
- By: Mildred D. Taylor
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
With the depression bearing down on her family, there isn't much that Cassie Logan can count on anymore. But there is one thing that hasn't changed - the whispering trees outside her window. Cassie's trees, which have stood for centuries, are a great source of comfort to her. But they are also worth a lot of money. With Cassie's daddy gone to lay tracks for the railroad, it seems like no one can stop Mr. Andersen from forcing Big Ma to sell their valuable trees. How can Cassie sit by and watch them disappear?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful show of brooking no refusal!
- By Missy on 06-14-23
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Cold Sassy Tree
- By: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,910
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- By Chrissie on 07-13-13
By: Olive Ann Burns
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Trials of the Earth
- The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
- By: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- 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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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 623
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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The Sound and the Fury
- By: William Faulkner
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,858
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,397
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,395
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hang in
- By W.Denis on 07-11-05
By: William Faulkner
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Family
- A Novel
- By: J. California Cooper
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story5 out of 5 stars 138
Family is a stunning, often painfully graphic re-creation of the realities of slavery: black women raped by white masters; black children sold to sustain failing plantations - or to satisfy the whims of a petulant mistress; strong men humiliated, whipped, and beaten because of the color of their skin. But it is also the triumphant story of a mother whose loving spirit transcends the barriers of death and time, allowing her to watch over her children and her children’s children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this book
- By legacy329 on 04-30-21
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Tobacco Road
- By: Erskine Caldwell
- Narrated by: Mark Hammer
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 113
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story4 out of 5 stars 101
Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester’s struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By KEE on 11-28-11
By: Erskine Caldwell
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The Trees
- Awakening Land Series, Book 1
- By: Conrad Richter
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
The Trees is the story of an American family in the wilderness - a family that "followed the woods as some families follow the sea." The time is the end of the 18th century, the wilderness is the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River. But principally, The Trees is the story of a girl named Sayward, eldest daughter of Worth and Jary Luckett, raised in the forest far from the rest of humankind, yet growing to realize that the way of the hunter must cede to the way of the tiller of soil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A taste of early frontier life
- By dkh5 on 09-11-21
By: Conrad Richter
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Across Five Aprils
- By: Irene Hunt
- Narrated by: Terry Bregy
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 844
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 692
This compelling classic of a boy's coming of age during the Civil War is based on stories the author's grandfather told her about his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great History book for kids
- By Shannon on 04-02-12
By: Irene Hunt
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Ruth's Journey
- The Authorized Novel of Mammy from Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind
- By: Donald McCaig
- Narrated by: Cherise Boothe
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 450
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Story4 out of 5 stars 446
On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor - an infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah. What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth's life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- By June McCall on 01-26-17
By: Donald McCaig