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A finalist for the National Book award, Ivan Doig, who has published 11 books, has been hailed as the "West's preeminent literary novelist" by the Denver Post.
Critic reviews
"The Whistling Season is a book to pass on to your favorite readers: a story of lives of active choice, lived actively." (Publishers Weekly)
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The summer of 1899 is HOT in Calpurnia Virginia Tate's sleepy Texas town, and there aren't a lot of good ways to stay cool. Her mother has a new wind machine from town, but Callie might just have to resort to stealthily cutting off her hair, one sneaky inch at a time. She also spends a lot time at the river with her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist. It turns out that every drop of river water is teeming with life - all you have to do is look through a microscope!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Lovely Coming of Age Story
- By Julie on 03-13-12
By: Jacqueline Kelly
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Carrying Albert Home
- The Somewhat True Story of a Woman, a Husband, and Her Alligator
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando, where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed, and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields, married to Homer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely Delightful!!
- By Sharon on 03-01-16
By: Homer Hickam
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High Country Bride
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 615
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 610
One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will inherit Triple M ranch. Now, three distinctly different, equally determined cowboys are searching high and low for brides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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good book but not what was in the summary:
- By Zandra Zavalza on 01-30-16
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Springwater
- By: Linda Lael Miller
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
Evangeline Keating came West because she had to: after her husband's passing, she needed to build a new life for her young daughter, and marrying a stranger from Montana Territory was her best chance. After a difficult winter journey, she arrives at an isolated outpost called Springwater Station. But the handsome man who's come for her is not her husband-to-be, and Evangeline soon finds herself thrust into a most inconvenient - and highly improper - arrangement.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Prolific foul language and graphic descriptions
- By Les Raymond on 03-04-20
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Justin Morgan Had a Horse
- By: Marguerite Henry
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
In the early years of our country, a poor school teacher, Justin Morgan, receives a horse and her tiny colt in payment for some work. He wishes he had been given money instead. Hoping that he might sell both horses for a fair price, he asks his student, Joel, to break in the colt. To his surprise, young Joel soon discovers that this small, brown creature has special abilities: "Bub" can pull more than a team of oxen, and he can run faster than a racehorse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Loved Classic
- By E. on 10-14-15
By: Marguerite Henry
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
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- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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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Territory
- By: Emma Bull
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer, Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4 out of 5 stars 94
Tombstone, 1881: site of one of the richest strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like lay lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim it and defend it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic book with a great big BUT...
- By Melisa on 09-06-16
By: Emma Bull
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The Grey Horse
- By: R. A. MacAvoy
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Set against the colorful and magical backdrop of Ireland, The Grey Horse chronicles a time when the Irish people suffered under harsh English overlords who sought to destroy their culture and way of life. Into the Irish town of Carraroe, a magnificent, completely grey stallion appears. The horse brings with him the promise of better times and magical happenings, for he is actually the shape-shifted form of Ruairi MacEibhir, journeyed to a time of danger in order to win the hand of the woman he loves.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good enough irish tale
- By Ellenaeddy on 03-20-13
By: R. A. MacAvoy
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- By: Ivan Doig
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 376
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 316
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Story5 out of 5 stars 311
A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Early work by a favorite author
- By Doggy Bird on 09-06-14
By: Ivan Doig
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The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
- By: Tiffany Baker
- Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 507
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4 out of 5 stars 237
Truly Plaice, an overly large and ungainly girl, is the polar opposite of her sister, Serena Jane, the epitome of feminine perfection. With their parents dead, Truly and Serena Jane are separated: Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh...
- By Victoria on 02-25-09
By: Tiffany Baker
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Room for Hope
- By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 515
Neva Shilling has a heavy load of responsibility while her husband travels to neighboring communities and sells items from his wagon. In his absence, she faithfully runs the Shilling Mercantile, working to keep their business strong as the Depression takes its toll, and caring for their twins. When a wagon pulls up after supper, Neva and her children rush out - and into the presence of the deputy driving a wagon carrying three young children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing! My new favourite!! One of my best!!!
- By JasmineNj on 10-07-16
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Plots and Pans
- By: Kelly Eileen Hake
- Narrated by: Sharilynn Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
Order dictates Tucker Carmichael’s life - his orders. On a cattle drive, a moment’s hesitation can mean death. The Chisholm Trail is dirty, dangerous, and no place for women. After years at school, Jessalyn Culpepper has come home and is determined to show everyone that a woman can manage everything from cooking to cattle - whether they like it or not! Tucker tries to manage his partner’s headstrong sister, horrified when she wants to join the cattle drive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sweet Story, if a Mite Predictable
- By C. ALLINGER on 03-25-14
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Beneath a Prairie Moon
- By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 367
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 320
Abigail Brantley grew up in affluence and knows exactly how to behave in high society. But when she is cast from the social registers due to her father's illegal dealings, she finds herself forced into a role she never imagined: tutoring rough Kansas ranchers in the subjects of manners and morals so they can "marry up" with their mail-order brides. Mack Cleveland, whose father was swindled by a mail-order bride, wants no part of the scheme to bring Eastern women to Spiveyville, Kansas, but as time goes by, his heart goes out to the teacher.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved
- By Amanda on 04-10-18
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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The Pale Blue Eye
- By: Louis Bayard
- Narrated by: Charles Leggett
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 425
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 372
When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. Landor is something of a legend among his peers, noted for an uncanny, Holmesian ability to read people. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion—that the man Landor is looking for is a poet—Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it
- By Amazon Customer on 10-25-15
By: Louis Bayard
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Fair Play
- By: Deeanne Gist
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 135
Saddled with a man's name, the captivating Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man's profession. As a doctor at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, she is one step closer to having her very own medical practice - until Hunter Scott asks her to give it all up to become his wife.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Total flop!
- By irishred507 on 02-26-17
By: Deeanne Gist
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Didn't really care for it.
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A Time in the Mountains.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Like a warm blanket on a chilly night.
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A River Runs Through It is a universal story of family love and a lyrical masterpiece, as beautiful as the great trout rivers of western Montana upon which it is set. Its beauty is especially evident through the "near-perfect match" of reader Ivan Doig and author Norman MacLean.
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Disappointed
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The Quest for Balance
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In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana. In Maclean’s autobiographical novella, it is the river that makes them realize that life continues and all things are related.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the Movie- and the Short Story is Better!
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,702
In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Three years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel is tending the grave of her newly lost infant when she hears a baby’s cries on the wind. A boat has washed up on shore carrying a dead man and a living baby.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story.....terrible narrator.
- By Sandra on 08-14-12
By: M. L. Stedman
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Silver Sparrow
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Coleman Williams, Heather Alicia Simms
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,862
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Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, Silver Sparrow revolves around James Witherspoon's two families - the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them knows they are sisters. It is a relationship destined to explode when secrets are revealed and illusions shattered. As Jones explores the backstories of her rich yet flawed characters - the father, the two mothers, the grandmother, and the uncle - she also reveals the joy, as well as the destruction, they brought to one another's lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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underwhelming ending
- By Keisha on 01-17-13
By: Tayari Jones
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The Spectator Bird
- By: Wallace Stegner
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,931
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,716
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,709
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "killing time before time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. But a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he had taken years before.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Joyce on 09-15-13
By: Wallace Stegner
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- Misty
- 09-27-11
Felt like i knew the characters personally
Grew quite attached to the brother character. Was a little disappointed with the ending - not as happily-ever-after as I like, but acceptable. Character flaws seemed a out weigh the context of the book - but the writing was good and I got used to the narrator. It was a one-time read, enjoyable, worth the $4.95 sale price.
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- Becky
- 03-15-17
disappointed
Had the makings of a GREAT STORY
but fell short for me.I think this is a series so I didn't pay much but I won't continue.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Misi
- 03-02-15
A delight!
Ivan Doig is a master of descriptive writing, his words bring the prairie and its inhabitants to life. A truly charming story, refreshing in its depiction of a simpler time yet astoundingly beautiful language. I loved every minute and will listen to again, without doubt!
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- Linda G McDonough
- 08-01-18
Great story annoying reader
It is another wonderful Ivan Doig masterpiece. However, I did not like the reader. It was especially difficult to Listen to as I had just finished Ivan Doig’s biography House of Sky, which was read by a wonderful reader.I was able to get through the book and enjoy it by increasing the reading speed to 1.25.
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- Nancy
- 01-21-12
Hmmmm
I had no idea what to expect from this book or this author and was very pleasantly surprised for the first 11 hours. During the last a good listen became a really stupid story.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- mary j miller
- 02-06-11
NOT a pity party
How refreshing to listen to a good story about a family that's no disfunctional. I enjoyed the book very much. They characters were engaging, the reading was good. A few good laughs and a little mystery.
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- Angie
- 03-25-22
Very good.
I enjoyed this very much. Not knowing what it was about made it even better, I think. In the end, my educational beliefs align nicely with the story.
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- B. Blackford
- 06-11-23
A Fun Listen
Really easy to listen and enjoy getting to know this Montana community. It’s a humorous and well written intimate look into the life of a Montana family
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- MJN
- 08-10-07
Well Done!
Truly a wonderful experience to read this book. Ivan's words brought even the most ordinary everyday circumstances of a century ago to such vibrant life that I was living right beside a family I have come to know so well I now miss them. Frequently I caught myself in awe of his eloquence. The narration was superb. Well Done!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Dot
- 04-28-16
Historic picture of 1910
Exactly what I needed; expansive scenes with finely crafted characters and a true sense of the pine boarded school house.
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