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Daughter of the White River
- Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (True Crime)
- Narrated by: S. J. Tucker
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The once-thriving houseboat communities along Arkansas' White River are long gone, and few remember the sensational murder story that set local darling Helen Spence on a tragic path. In 1931, Spence shocked Arkansas when she avenged her father's murder in a DeWitt courtroom. The state soon discovered that no prison could hold her. For the first time, prison records are unveiled to provide an essential portrait. Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The legend of Helen Spence refuses to be forgotten - despite her unmarked grave.
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- Chet Kemp
- 10-18-19
Take me to the River
The tragic tale of Helen Spence is brought to life by Ms. Parkinson’s story of houseboat communities on the White River.
Ms. Tucker’s performance gives voice to Helen and all who knew and loved her. I felt as if I was part of that close knit community while listening to this highly enjoyable, yet tragic tale.
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- James P. Nettum
- 04-15-20
True History Presented Like a Folk Tale
I feel like our country has an odd relationship with the Great Depression. My grandparents were children when it happened, and my last grandparent died four years ago shortly after surpassing her hundredth birthday. An entire generation in the US has reached voting age without having that very personal connection to a defining moment of 20th Century history.
Thankfully there are books like Daughter of the White River. It may be categorized as True Crime, but that doesn’t do it justice. (Pun intended.) Yes, many crimes are perpetrated in it. But this is not a story that could be told by a podcast presenting gruesome details, or in the street-to-courtroom format of the various Law and Order shows, or by a series of Joe Friday voice-overs. Because this is very personal history, and the crimes that occurred cannot be neatly categorized as the inciting incident of a traditional narrative.
Daughter of the White River is multiple people’s stories woven together in the years before and after the crimes in question took place. Because most of the people were living in the Arkansas Delta, it is the Delta’s history. The Great Depression is a shadow that slowly blankets everything, consuming everyone’s lives even as unthinkable acts temporarily draw attention away from it. We the readers follow the lives of the Delta’s very real people, and events as mundane as skipping rocks or school are given the same attention as ones that could be considered scandalous. Through these details, we live history on a micro level rather than learn it on an academic one.
Special focus must be given to the narration by S. J. Tucker. Her vocal performance is best described as “earthy”; sometimes rough as tree bark, other times soft as rose petals, and always rich as soil. It is absolutely what a book like this needs. A bombastic performance would make it unbelievably romantic, and a completely subdued one would make it luridly ugly. S. J. Tucker presents it like everyone’s favorite relative speaking under the old oak tree. You accept her words as a simple story, and they stay with you because they are so much more than that.
This is history hidden under the presentation of a folktale. It’s not too short, not too long. It teaches without lecturing. It entertains without exaggerating. And it makes sure we remember what happened not that long ago, when we are at risk of repeating mistakes of the past.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-16-19
Murder on the Arkansas Delta
The Rivers that run through Arkansas have always held a certain magic for me. Growing up in Arkansas, I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing the etherealness of our waters and forests. Listening to Sj Tucker bring Denise’s words to life brought that childhood wonder back for me. I was enthralled in this book the minute I started listening to it. My heart bleeds for Helen and the injustices that befell her. I highly recommend this audiobook and the book itself that is full of historic photos, especially if you are from Arkansas and would like to be brought back to a time, not that long ago, on the Arkansas Delta.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-16-19
Enlightenment
This book gives you a grim look into Arkansas history, It’s very informative. SJ Tucker’s voice brought the story to life for me. I highly recommend this book.
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- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
- 02-13-20
Tragedy Reveals Truth
A review must contain at least 15 words, even if you only need a few.
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- H
- 01-06-22
Great story, terrible narration
This is a fascinating story if you can get last the robotic narration. Morbid, my favorite podcast did an episode on this case and I decided to read this book.
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- matt davis
- 10-30-19
beauty and intrigue
This book was clearly written and then narrated by someone who knows and loves the land in Arkansas. The descriptions of the area drew me in and made me fall in love with it. The story itself was very amazing too. A look into the all to often forgotten history of those who were not wealthy. The story of Helen Spence is uplifting and tragic. This small peek into the life lived in that time and place is not only a treasure to hear but it makes me think. I now want to know more about that place past and present. Those people from then and now with all that has changed. It is a thing I have never looked into before and I regret that. thank you Denice White Parkinson for writing this and also to S.J. Tucker for putting so much love into this work. it was amazing.
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- Zachary Robinson
- 04-20-22
Outstanding
I don't know if I've ever given 15/15 stars before this, but I loved the content, writing style, and narration of this book. I'm an Arkansas native and grew up near the old site of the Pea Farm. I loved learning the state history, as well as learning the story of a very mistreated and misunderstood woman who deserves to be remembered for her bravery, morals, and cleverness.
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- Amy S.
- 01-30-20
Loved it!
From a fellow river rat, write more!! I love my home town enjoyed it alot
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- Patrick
- 09-08-22
Worth Every Second
A tale compellingly told, highlighting a time period that often gets overlooked in favor of others during the depression. Helen’s tale is absolutely worth hearing, and the narration is exquisite. True crime fans will love it, US history fans need to hear it, and the travesties that occurred should never be forgotten, lest we lose ourselves entirely.
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The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”. Yet as this innocent young woman soon discovers, fate can have a double edge. While imprisoned, she falls in love with her interrogator, a Union major who helps her escape.
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Might be better to read this one
- By sssnoo on 10-31-20
By: Paulette Jiles
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Beneath the Same Stars
- A Novel of the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War
- By: Phyllis Cole-Dai
- Narrated by: Elena Marino
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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August 18, 1862: On the Sioux reservation in southwestern Minnesota, Indians desperate for food and freedom rise up against whites in the region. Sarah Wakefield, the wife of a physician, is taken captive with her two babies. Their fate falls into the hands of the warrior Ćaske. As war rages, little does she know how entwined their lives will become.
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Historical Fiction at its Best
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-19
By: Phyllis Cole-Dai
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The Girls in the Stilt House
- A Novel
- By: Kelly Mustian
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Ada promised herself she would never go back to the Trace, to her unbearable life on the swamp, and to her harsh father in Mississippi. But now, after running away to Baton Rouge and briefly knowing a different kind of life, she finds herself with nowhere to go but back home. Matilda, daughter of a sharecropper, is from the other side of the Trace. Doing what she can to protect her family from the whims and demands of some particularly callous locals is an ongoing struggle, so she forms a plan to go north.
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Long winded
- By Marnie on 04-15-21
By: Kelly Mustian
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Greenwood
- A Novel
- By: Michael Christie
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall, calling out from the concrete floor of an empty mansion. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is out of jail, free after being locked up for one of her endless series of environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and violent timber empire.
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tedious boring trite
- By Marc Buchalter on 11-19-21
By: Michael Christie
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O, Pioneers!
- By: Willa Cather
- Narrated by: Alexis O'Donahue
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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On the harsh and wild frontier of the American West, Alexandra Bergson struggles to fulfill her father's dying wish of establishing his family on the Nebraska table lands. Through hard times and abundant, through love and loss, through joy and suffering, Alexandra challenges both her family and the land in her quiet, honest way.
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Fantastic
- By Ryan on 01-19-12
By: Willa Cather
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The Maid's Version
- A Novel
- By: Daniel Woodrell
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been a colossal accident?
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Another Version
- By Mel on 09-09-13
By: Daniel Woodrell
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Enemy Women
- By: Paulette Jiles
- Narrated by: Reba Buhr
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Colley family is made of modest farmers in the Missouri Ozarks. Although Southerners, the Colleys try to remain neutral, a fact ignored by the Union militia who confiscate their livestock, burn their farm, and arrest their daughter, Adair, on charges of “enemy collaboration”. Yet as this innocent young woman soon discovers, fate can have a double edge. While imprisoned, she falls in love with her interrogator, a Union major who helps her escape.
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Might be better to read this one
- By sssnoo on 10-31-20
By: Paulette Jiles
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The Seed Keeper
- A Novel
- By: Diane Wilson
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
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Wonderful Timely Story
- By Mary Aalgaard on 07-25-21
By: Diane Wilson
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This Tender Land
- By: William Kent Krueger
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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1932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs. Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself.
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"Didn't need the underlying social message"
- By Curtis on 09-23-19
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In the Valley
- Stories and a Novella Based on Serena
- By: Ron Rash
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Ron Rash has long been a revered presence in the landscape of American letters. A virtuosic novelist, poet, and story writer, he evokes the beauty and brutality of the land, the relentless tension between past and present, and the unquenchable human desire to be a little bit better than circumstances would seem to allow. In these 10 stories, Rash spins a haunting allegory of the times we live in - rampant capitalism, the severing of ties to the natural world in the relentless hunt for profit, the destruction of body and soul with pills meant to mute our pain.
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AWESOME
- By josie exner on 06-03-21
By: Ron Rash
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The Woods of Fannin County
- By: Janisse Ray
- Narrated by: Janisse Ray
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In the fall of 1945, eight children, all brothers and sisters, vanished from a small rental house in Morganton, Georgia. The oldest was ten and the youngest was a newborn. They were taken by mule and wagon to a shack on a remote mountain in the Blue Ridge foothills of Fannin County, up where it hugs the North Carolina line.
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Engaging and eye opening
- By rhon on 02-19-23
By: Janisse Ray
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Deep River
- A Novel
- By: Karl Marlantes
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 25 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings - Ilmari, Matti, and young Aino - are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier, while Aino devotes herself to organizing the industry's first unions.
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An Epic
- By Brian Hays on 07-31-19
By: Karl Marlantes
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Dalva
- A Novel
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey, Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born, and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians.
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Deeply Moving novel
- By Lynn Smith on 02-28-23
By: Jim Harrison