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After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with 12 new stories and eight from previous collections. Most are set in his beloved Louisiana, many hard by or on the Mississippi River, others in North Carolina, and even in midwinter Minnesota. But generally it's heat, humidity, and bugs that beset his people as they wrestle with affairs of the heart, matters of faith, and the pros and cons of tight-knit communities.
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Perfection! Amazing writer/amazing reader
- De Monique en 01-08-19
De: Tim Gautreaux
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The Lost Country
- De: William Gay
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the navy and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with D. L. Harkness, a predator in all the ways there are.
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One of the finest novels I have read!
- De Donald B. Eager en 09-06-21
De: William Gay
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Fourth of July Creek
- A Novel
- De: Smith Henderson
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Jenna Lamia
- Duración: 15 h y 41 m
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After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral 11-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed.
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The Ghost of Tom Joad & the Wrath of Grapes
- De Mel en 06-30-14
De: Smith Henderson
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Close Quarters
- De: Larry Heinemann
- Narrado por: Richard Ferrone
- Duración: 11 h y 10 m
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In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells his story of the war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier.
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Not Good
- De Jeff en 06-29-13
De: Larry Heinemann
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A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories
- De: T. C. Boyle
- Narrado por: T. C. Boyle
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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Few authors write with such sheer love of story and language as T. C. Boyle, and that is nowhere more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and always entertaining short stories. Here are 14 new tales previously unpublished in book form. By turns mythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, ironic and moving, Boyle's stories have mapped a wide range of human emotions. The stories here reflect his maturing themes.
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Mixed Bag
- De AuntGert en 09-22-20
De: T. C. Boyle
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Descent
- De: Tim Johnston
- Narrado por: Xe Sands, R.C. Bray
- Duración: 11 h y 31 m
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From the day Caitlin vanishes the lives of her family members are irrevocably altered, each assuming blame for that day's tragic events. As the initial days of hope are replaced by weeks of anxiety and despair, they find themselves increasingly isolated, each wondering: Is she still alive? Will we ever know what happened?
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Even a Monkey Knows the Value of a Stick
- De tooonce72 en 01-09-15
De: Tim Johnston
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Crimes in Southern Indiana
- Stories
- De: Frank Bill
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill’s southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.
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Battleborn
- De: Claire Vaye Watkins
- Narrado por: Ali Ahn, Morgan Hallett, Laura Knight Keating, y otros
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Like the work of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Richard Ford, and Annie Proulx, Battleborn represents a near-perfect confluence of sensibility and setting, and the introduction of an exceptionally powerful and original literary voice. In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it.
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Wonderful magnificent stories beautifully told
- De Pedro Ramirez en 12-03-15
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Way of the Wolf
- The Vampire Earth, Book 1
- De: E. E. Knight
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel, E. E. Knight (Introduction)
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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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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Its what you expect, and thats not a bad thing.
- De Kevin McLaughlin en 11-26-08
De: E. E. Knight
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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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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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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- De Susan L. Stewart en 04-21-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Two for Texas
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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This James Lee Burke novel, featuring Son Holland - the great-grandfather of Burke's Billy Bob Holland - as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow, is now available in audio.
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So Good... and a bonus! Clete is here!
- De Tim en 01-04-13
De: James Lee Burke
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
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Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.
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Bought all Burkes's Audiobooks- Wish Not this one
- De Clif en 03-09-10
De: James Lee Burke
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Flags on the Bayou
- A Novel
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Dana Gourrier, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.
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Difficult Engagement, Stretching Credulity
- De Craig en 07-19-23
De: James Lee Burke
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To the Bright and Shining Sun
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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In this novel, Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between family honor and the lure of seedy watering holes, must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark and atavistic heritage of the Cumberland Mountains.
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Classic!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-09-13
De: James Lee Burke
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Cimarron Rose
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene—until a local guitarist, Lucas Smothers, lands in jail for raping and murdering a young woman. As Billy Bob gathers information to defend him, the evidence soon points to the son of a wealthy local businessman. In the ensuing battle, money is pitted against the law. But a deeper struggle also arises, for Lucas is Billy Bob’s illegitimate son.
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It was okay
- De Dawn Y en 06-13-23
De: James Lee Burke
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Heaven's Prisoners
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of the Louisiana bayou. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life - and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception and homegrown crime.
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- De Richard J. Strasma en 01-03-16
De: James Lee Burke
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Two for Texas
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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This James Lee Burke novel, featuring Son Holland - the great-grandfather of Burke's Billy Bob Holland - as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow, is now available in audio.
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- De Tim en 01-04-13
De: James Lee Burke
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The Lost Get-Back Boogie
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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Released from prison after two years for manslaughter, Iry heads to Montana for a fresh start on a ranch owned by a prison buddy's father. He also hopes to nail down a song he's been working on, unable to get quite right. But soon new troubles bring tragic consequences, and it will take a lot more than a soulful tune to ease the pain.
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Bought all Burkes's Audiobooks- Wish Not this one
- De Clif en 03-09-10
De: James Lee Burke
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Flags on the Bayou
- A Novel
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews, Michael Crouch, Dana Gourrier, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous.
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Difficult Engagement, Stretching Credulity
- De Craig en 07-19-23
De: James Lee Burke
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To the Bright and Shining Sun
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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In this novel, Burke brings his brilliant feel for time and place to a stunning story of Appalachia in the early 1960s. Here Perry Woodson Hatfield James, a young man torn between family honor and the lure of seedy watering holes, must somehow survive the tempestuous journey from boyhood to manhood and escape the dark and atavistic heritage of the Cumberland Mountains.
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Classic!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-09-13
De: James Lee Burke
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Cimarron Rose
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene—until a local guitarist, Lucas Smothers, lands in jail for raping and murdering a young woman. As Billy Bob gathers information to defend him, the evidence soon points to the son of a wealthy local businessman. In the ensuing battle, money is pitted against the law. But a deeper struggle also arises, for Lucas is Billy Bob’s illegitimate son.
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It was okay
- De Dawn Y en 06-13-23
De: James Lee Burke
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Heaven's Prisoners
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 3 h y 15 m
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Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective's badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of the Louisiana bayou. But a plane crash on the Gulf brings a young girl into his life - and with her comes a netherworld of murder, deception and homegrown crime.
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- De Richard J. Strasma en 01-03-16
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White Doves at Morning
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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In a startling departure, James Lee Burke has written an epic story of love, hate and survival set against the tumultuous background of the Civil War and Reconstruction. At the center of the tale are James lee Burke's own ancestors, Robert Perry, who comes from the slave-owning family of wealth and privilege, and Willy Burke, born of Irish immigrants, a poor boy who is as irreverent as he is brave and decent. Despite personal and political conflicts, both men join the Confederate Army, determined not to back down.
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Where's Will?
- De Luke en 03-01-17
De: James Lee Burke
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Clete
- A Dave Robicheaux Novel
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Will Patton
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Clete Purcel—private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans Police Department, and war veteran with a hard shell and just a few soft spots—is Dave Robicheaux’s longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete leaves his car at the local car wash, only to return to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade from Mexican cartels to Louisiana, it feels personal—his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold it.
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Nightwoods
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Will Patton
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Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human nature that have made him one of the most beloved and celebrated authors in the world. Now, with his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young woman who inherits her murdered sister’s troubled twins, Frazier has created his most memorable heroine. Before the children, Luce was content with the reimbursements of the rich Appalachian landscape....
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Beautiful writing and powerful narration
- De MB2312 en 10-20-11
De: Charles Frazier
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Harbor Lights
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axtell, y otros
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Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge
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Virtue Signaling
- De Malandro en 01-30-24
De: James Lee Burke
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Half of Paradise
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Mark Zeisler
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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In this intense, fascinating story, Burke follows the lives of three young Louisiana men, each of whom finds himself in desperate circumstances. There's Avery Broussard, the last survivor of a family of once-prosperous land owners, who has a weakness for alcohol; J.P. Winfield, a poor singer and guitar player who rises to fame as a country music star, only to be destroyed by drug addiction; and Toussaint Boudreaux, a Black longshoreman who moonlights as a heavyweight boxer.
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Excellent early Burke ruined by terrible narration
- De Bull en 12-07-13
De: James Lee Burke
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The Trackers
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office.
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So Good
- De Ray Stewart en 04-28-23
De: Charles Frazier
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Thirteen Moons
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Will Patton
- Duración: 15 h y 44 m
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This magnificent novel by one of America's finest writers is the epic of one man's remarkable journey, set in 19th-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life. At the age of 12, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home.
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Best Novel of 2006!
- De Thomas en 10-23-06
De: Charles Frazier
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Varina
- A Novel
- De: Charles Frazier
- Narrado por: Molly Parker
- Duración: 12 h y 7 m
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With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives.
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Read it rather than listen
- De Anonymous en 08-31-18
De: Charles Frazier
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Jesus Out to Sea
- Stories (Unabridged Selections)
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Ron McLarty
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In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke elegantly marries his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style and complex, fascinating character portraits. The backdrop of the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast proves to be a versatile setting for Burke's stories, which cover the scope of the human experience, from love and sex to domestic abuse, to war and death and friendship.
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Change of Pace
- De Daniel McAfee en 03-18-08
De: James Lee Burke
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The Convict and Other Stories
- De: James Lee Burke
- Narrado por: Steven Boyer, Louis Moreno, Richard Poe, y otros
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"America's best novelist" ( The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals of the Deep South – the people, the crime, the hope and despair infused in the bayou landscape. This stunning anthology takes us back to where Burke's heart and soul beat -- the steamy, seamy Gulf Coast -- in complex and fascinating tales that crackle with violence and menace, meshing his flair for gripping storytelling with his urbane writing style.
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Haven't read a a Jee Burke I didn't like
- De Toni R. en 09-15-12
De: James Lee Burke
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The Wild Inside
- A Novel of Suspense
- De: Christine Carbo
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
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For fans of Louise Penny, C. J. Box, and Nevada Barr comes a haunting crime novel set in Glacier National Park, where one man finds himself on a collision course with the dark heart of the wild and the even darker heart of human nature.
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Brutal animal torture
- De L en 11-21-16
De: Christine Carbo
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The Raven Boys
- De: Maggie Stiefvater
- Narrado por: Will Patton
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It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them - not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.
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Predictable Prep Boy Meets Witchy Girl
- De FanB14 en 01-29-13
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- Marty
- 08-25-12
Love JLB
Would you consider the audio edition of Lay Down My Sword and Shield to be better than the print version?
Yes
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James Lee Burke should only let Will Patton read his books for him. His voice is smooth, with good ups and downs. Knows just where to put the right ? on the words. I could listen all day to Will Patton reading JLB books.
Great, keep them coming....faster.....
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- Trip von Minden
- 02-02-18
Will Patton's Performance Saves It
The main character, Hackberry Holland, is a very difficult to like drunk through most of the book. If it had not been for Burke's descriptive prose and Patton's excellent reading, I doubt that I would have finished it. However, I stuck it out through the end, and I am glad I did. It is definitely worth reading if you are a fan of James Lee Burke, but it is not as good as his more recent work.
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- sldmsen2
- 09-12-18
Wonderful
There isn't anyone I know with a greater mastery of words. Always a visual vacatiosn.
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- Frank Bubba Henson
- 04-15-22
Is there any better lyrical western author?
You can’t beat Will Patton serving up the poetry, cadence, and wisdom in James Lee’s work. Never have I heard a reader more suited to an author; no other reader can do Burke like Will does. Let me say right here — whenever at such time as my own paltry scribblings get public, please god, let Will Patton read them aloud, at least to my family and friends, under a cool gallery out front.
I love anything with the Holland clan, and this Hack was very interesting — a different kind of Holland. The section on his POW experience in Korea has to have been noted somewhere for its authenticity and strength of narrative. It is exemplary and should be excerpted in any book that recalls the horrible time that those men had in such camps.
James Lee Burke is a national Treasure. And so is Will Patton. This duo makes Texas seem like a new planet full of wonders, dangers, and moral challenges.
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- Paul
- 03-20-12
Way too much verbage
Is there anything you would change about this book?
Take out all the descriptive stuff and tell the story
What do you think your next listen will be?
don't know
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Will Patton?
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Did Lay Down My Sword and Shield inspire you to do anything?
Not read any more books by this author
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- carol edwards
- 02-06-23
Fantastic book!
I love James Lee Burke, but this was my first in this series of books!! Will listening to them all now!! Hack is my new hero!!
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- Cathy Ward
- 11-21-23
A Texas story
Will Patton and James Burke set a scene you cannot leave nor can you forget.
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- Cat F.
- 02-25-10
The Publisher's Summary is Anemic
The Publisher's summary reads like a romance novel when this is is classic James Lee Burke: Intellent story telling based on deep introspection and human nature. Dark poetry in hot, steamy Texas in the time when "Negro" was considered polite language and Hispanics were ignored. A preclude to Rain Gods, it explains many character mysteries and painful memories. Will Patton, the narrator, layers language with meaning and tonality like silk over callouses.
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- David
- 04-13-14
A character study--not a polemic or crime fiction
It is pretty difficult to forgive the self-destructive, often self-righteous subject of this powerful character study, at least until you have reached the promising denouement. Burke never soft pedals the negative aspects of Hackberry's alcoholism and self-hatred. What he does do is expose its roots in the Korean War back story, making us relive with Holland a soul destroying history in a visceral and horrifying series of memories. He does, nonetheless, have redeeming qualities even at his lowest points--a love for horses and a compassion for the helpless which he finds inescapable even while he is single-mindedly gunning the engine in his flight to his own annihilation. And a burning hatred for hypocrisy. In fact, it is this last which fuels his descent as his lingering sense of guilt concerning his final "failure" under North Korean torturers makes it impossible for him to wear a mask of respectability in the here and now.
This is not an easy book to read, and different auditors have obviously come away with widely divergent reactions. As for me, while I don't think this is Burke's finest work (that is a very high bar), I was able to engage deeply with Hack even while desperately wanting to slap him up side the head and lock him in his room. Even at his most repugnant, there was something there worth loving, and most of us have experienced that enough times in our lives to be able to relate. In addition, Burke's brilliantly poetic use of landscape and atmosphere is already in evidence in this early work. He also does a nice job of playing powerfully on the themes of hypocrisy and real cowardice which run throughout his later novels. By the last page, I was very satisfied and even moved.
I would not, however, recommend this as a first read in the Burke oeuvre. I would suggest you get to know the later Hackberry and come back to this as very interesting back story.
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- CajunTad
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Love Mr.Burke and Mr. Patton,"BRAVO"!!!!!
as usual Mr Burke does a fantastic job of making the characters in the land and the ambiance Texas come to life and Mr Patton job of reading this book is beyond marvelous loved it loved it loved it
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