Butter in the Well: A Scandanavian Woman's Tale of Life on the Prairie, Book 1

Prairie Bloomin': Butter in the Well, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Linda K. Hubalek
• Narrated By Ann M. Richardson
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Popular Kansas author Linda K. Hubalek continues the story of a Swedish immigrant family featured in the Butter in the Well series with the second book Prairie Bloomin'. Prairie Bloomin' features the 1889 to 1900 diary of daughter Alma Swenson, as she grows up on the farm her parents homesteaded. Even though born on the same farm in two different centuries, the main character of Prairie Bloomin', Alma Swenson Runneberg, and the author shared uncanny similarities while growing up in the Smoky Valley region of central Kansas.

Planting Dreams: Planting Dreams, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Linda K. Hubalek
• Narrated By Ann M. Richardson
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This first book in the Planting Dreams series portrays Swedish immigrant Charlotta Johnson as she ponders the decision about leaving her homeland, how they will travel to America, and worries about her family’s future in a new country.

The Last Midwife

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 11 mins)
• By Sandra Dallas
• Narrated By Pilar Witherspoon
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Colorado, 1880. Gracy Brookens has delivered hundreds, maybe thousands of babies in her lifetime. The only midwife in a small mining town tucked in the Tenmile Range, Gracy is a gifted and important resource for the women of her hardscrabble community. For years she has advised expectant mothers through their pregnancies, guided them through the tortures of labor, and then helped them heal.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Garth Stein
• Narrated By Christopher Evan Welch
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Why we think it’s a great listen: If you’ve ever loved a dog - or even patted a dog - this book, told from the perspective of man’s best friend, will tug at your heartstrings...and won’t let go until long after Welch performs the last word. Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively and by listening very closely to the words of his master.

Mrs Queen Takes the Train

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 33 mins)
• By William Kuhn
• Narrated By Simon Prebble
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An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn - author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books - Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts.

Whistling Woman

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Caitlyn Hunter, Christy Tillery French, C. C. Tillery
• Narrated By Carol Herman
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In the waning years of the 19th century, Bessie Daniels grows up in the small town of Hot Springs in western North Carolina. Secure in the love of her father, resistant to her mother's desire that she be a proper Southern belle, Bessie is determined to forge her own way in life. Or, as her Cherokee great-grandmother Elisi puts it, to be a whistling woman. Life, however, has a few surprises in store for Bessie....