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A true story of growing up on a farm in Ohio in the 1930s. The author was one of 10 children in this family.
Excerpt:
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"After the show was over, we would walk around the streets several times to see who was there. Then we would buy a double-dip ice cream cone and still have a nickel left to buy candy.
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"After the war started, the government rationed gas, sugar, coffee, shoes, and meat. They issued books with stamps in them for each item that was rationed. Each adult and child got a book. You had to have a stamp, or they wouldn't permit you to buy the item."
The book includes many vintage photographs of the author and her family as they were growing up during the Great Depression and World War II era.
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- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 106
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
As foreclosure fragments her family, five-year-old Mildred and her three siblings find refuge with her grandparents enjoying a modest retirement. When the "little heathens" flush the seniors and their child-rearing skills out of retirement, the grandparents deploy tough but loving bedtime schedules, Bible and prayer routines, and plenty of character-building chores. Having no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Makes you appreciate today's living
- De Susan en 03-11-11
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Running on Red Dog Road
- And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood
- De: Drema Hall Berkheimer
- Narrado por: Bailey Carr
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 156
Gypsies, faith-healers, moonshiners, and snake handlers weave through Drema's childhood in 1940s Appalachia after her father is killed in the coal mines, her mother goes off to work as a Rosie the Riveter, and she is left in the care of devout Pentecostal grandparents. What follows is a spitfire of a memoir that feels like a novel with intrigue, sweeping emotion, and indisputable charm. Drema's coming of age is colored by tent revivals with Grandpa, poetry-writing hobos, and traveling carnivals, and through it all, she serves witness to a multi-generational family.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narrator’s attempt at a southern accent distracting to story
- De Ryan C. Bango en 01-05-22
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Pearl in a Cage
- Woody Creek, Book 1
- De: Joy Dettman
- Narrado por: Deidre Rubenstein
- Duración: 20 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
On a balmy midsummer's evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife, Gertrude Foote, is roused from her bed when the woman is brought to her door. Try as she might, Gertrude is unable to save her, but the baby lives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pearl in a Cage
- De Verita en 06-16-17
De: Joy Dettman
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Coop
- A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting
- De: Michael Perry
- Narrado por: Michael Perry
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 208
Last seen sleeping off his wedding night in the back of a 1951 International Harvester pickup, Michael Perry is now living in a rickety Wisconsin farmhouse. Faced with 37 acres of fallen fences and overgrown fields, and informed by his pregnant wife that she intends to deliver their baby at home, Perry plumbs his unorthodox childhood - his city-bred parents took in more than 100 foster children while running a ramshackle dairy farm - for clues to how to proceed as a farmer, a husband, and a father.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh
- De dpenney en 12-22-16
De: Michael Perry
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Like Family
- Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir
- De: Paula McLain
- Narrado por: Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
This powerful and haunting memoir details the years Paula McLain and her two sisters spent as foster children after being abandoned by both parents in California in the early 1970s. As wards of the State, the sisters spent the next 14 years moving from foster home to foster home. The dislocations, confusions, and odd pleasures of an unrooted life form the basis of one of the most compelling memoirs in recent years - a book in the tradition of Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of My Youth and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A famous writer describes her life growing up in foster care
- De Nancy C. en 12-21-18
De: Paula McLain
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 203
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- De Susan L. Stewart en 04-21-12
De: Annie Proulx
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That Old Ace in the Hole
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 159
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, when he takes a job with Global Pork Rind - his task to locate big spreads of land in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles that can be purchased by the corporation and converted to hog farms.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Doesn't work as a novel
- De Sarah C en 05-30-12
De: Annie Proulx
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An Hour Before Daylight
- Memories of a Rural Boyhood
- De: Jimmy Carter
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carter
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In an American story of enduring importance, former President Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rare view of rural America
- De Samantha en 07-05-03
De: Jimmy Carter
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Housebroken
- Admissions of an Untidy Life
- De: Laurie Notaro
- Narrado por: Laurie Notaro
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 122
Number-one New York Times best-selling author Laurie Notaro isn't exactly a domestic goddess - unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband's daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband's not on it). Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- De Carlie en 07-28-16
De: Laurie Notaro
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She Got Up Off the Couch
- De: Haven Kimmel
- Narrado por: Haven Kimmel
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 273
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 187
When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and ridden her rickety bicycle down the road. Her dad was off somewhere, gambling or "working." And Zippy was lost in her own fabulous world of exploring the fringes of Moorland, Indiana.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great fun !!
- De Kim en 04-20-11
De: Haven Kimmel
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Nothing with Strings
- NPR's Beloved Holiday Stories
- De: Bailey White
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 4 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The mundane and the miraculous stand side by side in these sketches and stories of Southern small-time life by the author of Quite a Year for Plums.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real jewel.
- De Mary en 12-31-08
De: Bailey White
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Ava's Man
- De: Rick Bragg
- Narrado por: Rick Bragg
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 644
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 442
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 439
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
- De Kate en 08-12-03
De: Rick Bragg
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Father and I Were Ranchers
- Little Britches # 1
- De: Ralph Moody
- Narrado por: Cameron Beierle
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,895
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,557
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,558
The Moody family moves from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Experience the pleasures and perils of ranching in 20th Century America, through the eyes of a youngster.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Very dissappointed , too much cussing.
- De Lovelessnomore en 05-29-15
De: Ralph Moody
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Trials of the Earth
- The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
- De: Mary Mann Hamilton
- Narrado por: Barbara Benjamin Creel
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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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.
- De Ren en 10-31-17
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Goodbye, Vitamin
- A Novel
- De: Rachel Khong
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 4 h y 59 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 299
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 268
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 267
Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, 30-year-old Ruth quits her job, leaves town, and arrives at her parents' home to find that situation more complicated than she'd realized. Her father, a prominent history professor, is losing his memory and is only erratically lucid. Ruth's mother, meanwhile, is lucidly erratic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hello Sweet Sweet Book
- De Syd Young en 08-06-17
De: Rachel Khong
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Ellen Foster
- De: Kaye Gibbons
- Narrado por: Ruth Ann Phimister
- Duración: 3 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 108
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy." So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise, funny, affectionate and true, Ellen Foster is, as Walker Percy called it, "The real thing. Which is to say, a lovely, sometimes heart/wrenching novel...."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!!
- De Jo en 04-06-18
De: Kaye Gibbons
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Money Secrets of the Amish
- Finding True Abundance in Simplicity, Sharing, and Saving
- De: Lorilee Craker
- Narrado por: Lorilee Craker
- Duración: 4 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 54
Take one thoroughly modern gal with a recessionary income problem, mix with the practices of a culture that has proved to be recession-proof, and what have you got? A financial planner in a straw hat. When writer Lorilee Craker learned that the Amish are not just surviving but thriving in the economic downturn, she decided to find out why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Listening Pleasure!
- De Yaz en 08-04-11
De: Lorilee Craker
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 25
Owls Do Cry is one of the classics of New Zealand literature, and has remained in print continuously for 50 years. A fiftieth anniversary edition was published in 2007.
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4 out of 5 stars
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Growing Up Country
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- annelyons
- 03-21-18
great job/ great book
loved this book and narration the voice acting was outstanding loved the story of the $3 dress
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- Deedra
- 04-16-16
Growing Up Country
I really enjoyed listening to Lynne Parish read these memoirs starting in the 1930's.It is very interesting to hear how things were in the good,or bad,old days.Ms Corwins family is very lucky that someone wrote it all down.
I was gifted this book for an honest review.
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