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This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Very Dark Story
- By Virginia on 04-05-04
By: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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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 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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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The Color of Lightning
- By: Paulette Jiles
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 505
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 437
A soaring work of the imagination based on oral histories of the post - Civil War years in North Texas, Paulette Jiles's The Color of Lightning is at once an intimate look into the hearts and hopes of tragically flawed human beings and a courageous reexamination of a dark American history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach.
- By Merrilee R on 02-20-17
By: Paulette Jiles
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Creede of Old Montana
- By: Stephen Bly
- Narrated by: Rusty Nelson
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Creede of Old Montana follows the exploits and heartbreaks of Avery John Creede, an ex-cavalry soldier, as he tramps along the upper Missouri River in search of four army pals who didn't show up for a scheduled reunion. Throughout Creede's confrontations and adventures, three things remain constant: his courage, his rock-solid faith, and his wounded heart. He knows the first two will never change. And at 42, he's not sure the third ever will either.
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3 out of 5 stars
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okay
- By BlueSouthernSky on 09-06-17
By: Stephen Bly
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The Missing
- By: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 15 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4 out of 5 stars 32
In this spellbinder by critically acclaimed author Tim Gautreaux, Sam Simoneaux returns from World War I to rebuild his life. But when a girl is snatched from the New Orleans department store where he's working, he hops aboard a Mississippi steamboat to find her - and dredges up ghosts from his painful past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Missing
- By Michael L. Wintory on 07-11-09
By: Tim Gautreaux
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Way of the Wolf
- The Vampire Earth, Book 1
- By: E. E. Knight
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel, E. E. Knight (Introduction)
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 953
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 607
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Story4 out of 5 stars 609
Louisiana, 2065. A lot has changed in the 43rd year of the Kurian Order. Possessed of an unnatural and legendary hunger, the bloodthirsty Reapers have come to Earth to establish a New Order built on the harvesting of enslaved human souls. They rule the planet. They thrive on the scent of fear. And if it is night, as sure as darkness, they will come.
On this pitiless world, the indomitable spirit of mankind still breathes in Lieutenant David Valentine.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
- By Kevin McLaughlin on 11-26-08
By: E. E. Knight
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Vengeance Road
- By: Erin Bowman
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
When Kate Thompson's father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the 18-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, she gets closer to the truth about herself and must decide if there's room for love in a heart so full of hate.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hunting for a gold mine
- By RueRue on 06-28-16
By: Erin Bowman
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Demon's Pass
- By: Robert Vaughn, Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Parker Stanley's family had a dream: to start a new life in the Far West. But en route, a Cheyenne band slaughters his parents and abducts his sister. Then cowboy Clay Springer rides to the rescue - and comes up with an idea. He's got a team ready to deliver goods to the Mormons in Utah, but he's short on funds for supplies. He knows that Parker managed to hold on to his family's savings, so he suggests a 50-50 partnership. With a three-wagon, seven-man team, Parker and Clay will traverse the barren land, but out in the wilderness, Parker's sister needs saving - and he has vowed to find her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good Story!
- By Josh on 06-25-23
By: Robert Vaughn, and others
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Beneath A Dakota Cross
- Fortunes of the Black Hills, Book 1
- By: Stephen Bly
- Narrated by: Jerry Sciarrio
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
When locals threaten the lives and property of his family. Brazos abandons his Texas homestead for a new ranch in the West he has seen in a dream. It's a war against corrupt lawmen, wild outlaws, and bitter winter weather as Brazos wrestles with his newfound hunger for gold and the burning desire to be reunited with his family. He must test himself against the untamed frontier, confront the greedy miners who try his Christian convictions, and find the new home God showed him Beneath a Dakota Cross.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family Friendly Western . . . Great Listen
- By Debbie on 01-01-17
By: Stephen Bly
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Hard Country
- A Novel
- By: Michael McGarrity
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,542
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,308
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,292
National best-selling author and New Mexico native Michael McGarrity takes listeners to the wild territory of the late 19th-century American Southwest for this epic tale. After the deaths of his wife and brother, John Kerney gives up his West Texas ranch and heads south in search of a new home. Soon Kerney is offered work trailing cattle to the New Mexico Territory - a job that will forever change his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard Country lives up to it's title.
- By mar on 12-14-12
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The Bell Messenger
- By: Robert Cornuke
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Adventurer and author Robert Cornuke delivers an archaeological thriller that crosses the globe and spans two centuries. With these hopeful words, a dying Confederate lad bequeaths his Bible to the Union soldier who just shot him: "Be God's messenger as I have been." And so begins the journey of Elijah Bell's cherished Bible as it travels the world, transforming hearts wherever it goes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it!
- By Pamela on 12-26-10
By: Robert Cornuke
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The Goodnight Trail
- The Trail Drive, Book 1
- By: Ralph Compton
- Narrated by: Scott Sowers
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Former Texas Rangers Benton McCaleb, Will Elliot, and Brazos Gifford ride with Charles Goodnight as he rounds up thousands of ornery, unbranded cattle for the long drive to Colorado. From the Trinity River brakes to Denver, they’ll battle endless miles of flooded rivers, parched desert, and whiskey-crazed Comanches. And come face-to-face with Judge Roy Bean and legendary gunslingers like Clay Allison. For McCaleb and his hard-riding crew, the drive is a fierce struggle against the perils of an untamed land. A fight to the finish where the brave reach glory - or die hard.
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1 out of 5 stars
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lose of key parts of the story
- By caveman on 06-04-12
By: Ralph Compton
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Deadwood
- A Novel
- By: Peter Dexter
- Narrated by: J. Rodney Turner
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 133
Deadwood, Dakota Territories, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, Chinese immigrants, and various other entrepreneurs and miscreants, he finds himself pursued by a vicious sheriff, a perverse whore man bent on revenge, and a besotted Calamity Jane.
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1 out of 5 stars
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What the hell is it with Narrators of Westerns?
- By Kevin on 06-10-19
By: Peter Dexter
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The Floor of Heaven
- A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush
- By: Howard Blum
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 176
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 147
It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures – gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian fighters, cowboys, and lawmen –are now victims of their own success. They are heroes who’ve outlived their usefulness.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A major disappointment
- By Joshua on 05-03-14
By: Howard Blum
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
- bob orca
- 06-09-09
Not Castenada
I thought this would be an interesting blend of Hockensmith and Carlos Castenada but instead it was weak in both parts. The mountain man scenes were clearly made by someone who'd never spent time in the woods and the spiritual parts seemed disconnected and uninteresting. Not recommended.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Kathy
- 06-17-09
DISAPPOINTING
I was very disappointed with this book. It seem to ramble and had a very weak plot. I regret buying it.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- John
- 08-26-09
Terrible
I have never reviewed a book before but was compelled to with this one. The book is awful! Worst book I have ever tried to listen to. Don't know why I made it to the end. Guess I couldn't believe that something wasn't going to happen that made sense but it never did. Don't waste your money on this book!
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Richard
- 07-09-09
Very disappointing
Like most of the characters in this novel, I gambled and lost. I took a chance on this book, hoping it would be another Lonesome Dove...but I was very disappointed. There were no likeable characters, it was a little too surrealistic for me, and I only endured til the end hoping to discern a plot. The story wasn't even a good substitute for the local talk radio on a morning commute.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- Kipling Cummins
- 03-24-22
Entertaining
Pleasantly shocked with how well the author meshed the world of western expansion with the spirit world.
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