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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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i honestly don't know what is going in this book
- De Bryntainia Holloway en 09-21-19
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The Color of Lightning
- De: Paulette Jiles
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
- Duración: 13 h y 34 m
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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.
- De Merrilee R en 02-20-17
De: Paulette Jiles
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The Plague of Doves
- De: Louise Erdrich
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James, Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Avoid this Plague
- De Andre en 05-16-08
De: Louise Erdrich
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The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- De: Eudora Welty
- Narrado por: Barbara Rosenblat, Jessica Almasy, Victor Bevine, y otros
- Duración: 32 h y 18 m
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This complete collection includes all of the published stories of Eudora Welty. There are 41 stories in all, including those in the earlier collections A Curtain of Green, The Wide Net, The Golden Apples, and The Bride of the Innisfallen, as well as previously uncollected stories.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Too Good For Audio
- De Yennta en 06-18-12
De: Eudora Welty
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One of Ours
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: Kristen Underwood
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Claude Wheeler resembles the youngest son of an American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by a wife who reserves her ardor for missionary work, and dissatisfied with farming, Claude is an idealist without an ideal to cling to. It is only when his country enters the First World War that Claude finds what he has been searching for all his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cather's writing is impeccable
- De Kelly en 12-20-19
De: Willa Cather
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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- De: Molly Gloss
- Narrado por: Renée Raudman
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 246
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The irresistible tale of 19-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to break a horse was to buck the wild out of it, and broken ribs and tough falls just went with the job. But over several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk in this remote county of eastern Oregon witness Martha's way of talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair---and getting miraculous, almost immediate results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Honest, Wonderful
- De Julie W. Capell en 11-08-09
De: Molly Gloss
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The Lighthouse Road
- A Novel
- De: Peter Geye
- Narrado por: Tara Ochs
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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The story moves back and forth in time from the arrival of Thea from her isolated village in arctic Norway in search of a new life in the near wilderness of a small town and logging camp on the shore of Lake Superior to the travails of her orphaned son, Odd, some twenty years later. When Thea’s aunt and uncle do not meet her boat as planned, she’s initially left abandoned with no money or prospects and without speaking the language.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator wrecks storyline
- De customer en 12-01-17
De: Peter Geye
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A Sweetness to the Soul
- De: Jane Kirkpatrick
- Narrado por: Susan Denaker
- Duración: 17 h y 47 m
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Based on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of 12 faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love. In the years that follow, young Jane finds herself involved in an unusual and touching romance with a dreamer 16 years her senior, struggles to make peace with an emotionally distant mother, and fights to build a family of her own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected Treat
- De Sarah D. en 12-15-11
De: Jane Kirkpatrick
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The Missing
- De: Tim Gautreaux
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 15 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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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
- De Michael L. Wintory en 07-11-09
De: Tim Gautreaux
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The Hamlet
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
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The Hamlet, the first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, is both an ironic take on classical tragedy and a mordant commentary on the grand pretensions of the antebellum South and the depths of its decay in the aftermath of war and Reconstruction. It tells of the advent and the rise of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, a small town built on the ruins of a once-stately plantation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Long, Hot Summer
- De W Perry Hall en 07-30-17
De: William Faulkner
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- De: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- De S. Clay en 11-01-17
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The Underground River
- A Novel
- De: Martha Conway
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 12 h y 34 m
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It's 1838, and May Bedloe works as a seamstress for her cousin, the famous actress Comfort Vertue - until their steamboat sinks on the Ohio River. Though they both survive, both must find new employment. Comfort is hired to give lectures by noted abolitionist Flora Howard, and May finds work on a small flatboat, Hugo and Helena's Floating Theatre, as it cruises the border between the northern states and the southern slave-holding states.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical fiction audiobook
- De LindaJS en 10-03-17
De: Martha Conway
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The Shipping News
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't Explain Why I Love This Book
- De Polly en 03-06-12
De: Annie Proulx
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Goodbye to a River
- De: John Graves
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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In this classic from the Lone Star State, John Graves learns that the river he knew and loved as a youth, the Brazos in north-central Texas, is slated to be dammed at multiple points - and he understands that things will never be the same. Goodbye to a River is a poignant narrative of one man's journey by canoe down the river of his memories. Along the way, he describes the colorful Texas landscape and recounts its rich history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Undoubtedly a great piece of American literature
- De Chris en 04-04-13
De: John Graves
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- De: William Faulkner
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, y otros
- Duración: 31 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 283
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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this audiobook are such classics as "A Bear Hunt", "A Rose for Emily", "Two Soldiers", and "The Brooch".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audiobook Table of Contents (by Chapter)
- De Anonymous User en 09-27-20
De: William Faulkner
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The Abundance
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- De: Annie Dillard
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers and listeners, having been “re-framed and re-hung”, with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.
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For the Time Being
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This personal, philosophical narrative surveys the panorama of our world past and present. Dillard poses questions of natural evil, God, and individual existence. Can one individual really matter? If so, how? Compassionate, enthralling, and always surprising, For the Time Being is the latest work by one of our most original writers - her breadth of knowledge matched by keenness of observation- at her best.
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
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In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze, she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over Puget Sound through summer.
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The Writing Life
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With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer’s life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.
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How Odd--How Poorly Written?!?
- De Gillian en 02-27-15
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The Maytrees
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Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing as they live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too formal for an intimate connection
- De Scarlett en 06-29-07
De: Annie Dillard
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- De: Annie Dillard
- Narrado por: Reader tbd 1
- Duración: 12 h
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
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Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers and listeners, having been “re-framed and re-hung”, with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.
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This personal, philosophical narrative surveys the panorama of our world past and present. Dillard poses questions of natural evil, God, and individual existence. Can one individual really matter? If so, how? Compassionate, enthralling, and always surprising, For the Time Being is the latest work by one of our most original writers - her breadth of knowledge matched by keenness of observation- at her best.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Books, Ignorant Reader
- De Dan en 02-28-04
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
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In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze, she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over Puget Sound through summer.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Narrator
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The Writing Life
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3 out of 5 stars
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How Odd--How Poorly Written?!?
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The Maytrees
- De: Annie Dillard
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Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing as they live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too formal for an intimate connection
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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- Cole
- 10-07-19
Exceptional writing, average narration.
Dillard is exceptional as always. her writing is spectacular and this work specifically is a wonderful example of just how singular she is. I appreciate the choice to have the book narrated by a man. I feel a woman's voice would have been wrong for this story. With that said, there was nothing exceptional about this narrator. It was neither good nor bad.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-18-23
abridged Dillard
abridged version of Annie Dillard's epic set in the Puget Sound of the 19th century. The original novel has the sweep and range of Tolstoy with the social comedy of George Eliott.
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- Roger Conner
- 10-27-08
Unfortunate abridgment
Many of Dillard's psychological insights, stylistically evocative passages, and even needed character background are lost in this abridgment.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-11-23
Abridged version
I must’ve missed the memo or the note this is an abridged version. I was disappointed to discover that! Hard to rate the story now that I realize I didn’t get the whole thing.
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