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Cogan's Woods
- A Celebration of Hunting, Family, and Kentucky
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's Summary
This lyrical account of a beloved time and place celebrates a father-son relationship. In Cogan’s Woods, Ron Ellis fondly recalls annual August hunting trips with his father: heading toward the great forests of Kentucky in the passenger seat of the family Mercury, exploring the foggy woods and hills above the Ohio River. While they searched for game, Ellis’ father imparted his wisdom to his son, passing on a legacy of appreciation for the natural world. This lyrical account of a beloved time and place celebrates a father-son relationship nurtured by a landscape that shapes the men and draws them back year after year.
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- Lady in the Pink House
- 11-23-21
Delightful
What a dear reminiscence of a special father and son relationship. I really loved it.
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- Gregory
- 09-30-18
Like I was there.
This book was wonderful. The author's style really takes you there, hunting in 1960s Kentucky. I have found many good hunting books on audible and this is one of my favorites. Ray Childs is also one of my favorite narrators. If you enjoyed his narration, check out his other narrated hunting book by Gene Hill.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cold Mountain (Unabridged)
- By M. Dunn on 02-09-04
By: Charles Frazier
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The Orchard Keeper
- By: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrated by: Ed Sala
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 233
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Story4 out of 5 stars 232
One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in pre-World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Contains the embryo of McCarthy's future greatness
- By Darwin8u on 06-12-13
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Provinces of Night
- By: William Gay
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after 20 years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can posion a man's soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Story and Narration a perfect match
- By 99hedys on 10-03-15
By: William Gay
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The Fool’s Progress
- An Honest Novel
- By: Edward Abbey
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 22 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West Virginia. Accompanied only by his dying dog and his memories, the irascible warhorse (a stand-in for the "real" Abbey) begins a bizarre cross-country odyssey - determined to make peace with his past-and to wage one last war against the ravages of "progress".
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5 out of 5 stars
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They found the perfect narrator for Ed Abbey
- By Amazon Customer on 09-14-18
By: Edward Abbey
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The Lost Country
- By: William Gay
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the finest novels I have read!
- By Donald B. Eager on 09-06-21
By: William Gay
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The Keepers of the House
- By: Shirley Ann Grau
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,700
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,364
Abigail was the last keeper of the house, the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now, in the name of all her brothers and sisters, she must take her bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them, persecuted them, but could never destroy them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Pyewacket on 12-12-07
By: Shirley Ann Grau
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Claiming Ground
- By: Laura Bell
- Narrated by: Laurie Birmingham
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
A transcendent memoir from an author of rare talent, Laura Bell’s Claiming Ground recounts Bell’s time living mostly alone in the hills of Wyoming, where she herded sheep and cattle and battled isolation. A journey to the heart of self, Bell’s work sparkles with shimmering prose and remarkable insight.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing
- By Rand Hall on 11-01-16
By: Laura Bell
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The Wettest County in the World, or Lawless
- A Novel Based on a True Story
- By: Matt Bondurant
- Narrated by: Erik Steele
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 421
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 419
The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just outstanding!
- By Rich on 08-18-12
By: Matt Bondurant
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Country Dark
- By: Chris Offutt
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Book
- By cecile dixon on 04-16-18
By: Chris Offutt
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The Meadow
- By: James Galvin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 58
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history. His portraits illuminate the Western character and evolve a sense of place like no other.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reading the Meadow is almost like reading a poem..
- By Shelby Stephens on 04-30-12
By: James Galvin
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Ceremony
- By: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 582
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Story4 out of 5 stars 487
Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth a re-read
- By Mariah on 02-02-09
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Dry Bones in the Valley
- A Novel
- By: Tom Bouman
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 156
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 132
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 134
In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border, Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead, Henry’s search for the killer will open old wounds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Authentic background, excellent narration.
- By Patricia McKinney on 03-11-15
By: Tom Bouman
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
- The World as Home
- By: Janisse Ray
- Narrated by: Janisse Ray
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 115
Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along US Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood spent in rural isolation and steeped in religious fundamentalism grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine ecosystem that once covered the South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful yet poignant
- By Sarah Tomaka on 09-04-19
By: Janisse Ray
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Goodbye to a River
- By: John Graves
- Narrated by: Henry Strozier
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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
- By Chris on 04-04-13
By: John Graves
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Hell at the Breech
- By: Tom Franklin
- Narrated by: Larry Pine
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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