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The highly anticipated return of Tony Earley, celebrated author of Jim the Boy
Two decades after his debut collection Here We Are in Paradise heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, the rueful, bittersweet, and riotous stories of Mr. Tall reestablish him as a mythmaker and tale spinner of the first rank.
These stories introduce us not only to ordinary people seeking to live extraordinary lives, but also to the skunk ape (a southern variant of Bigfoot), the ghost of Jesse James, and a bone-tired Jack the Giant Killer. Whether it's Appalachia, Nashville, the Carolina Coast, or a make-believe land of talking dogs, each world Earley creates is indelible.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 661
The best stories pull readers in and keep them turning the pages, eager to discover more—to find the answer to the question: "And then what happened?" The true hallmark of great literature is great imagination, and as Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio prove with this outstanding collection, when it comes to great fiction, all genres are equal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something for Everyone
- By Nicole on 05-24-17
By: Neil Gaiman - author/editor, and others
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Wish You Well
- By: David Baldacci
- Narrated by: Norma Lana, David Baldacci
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,476
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,207
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,211
It is 1940 and a tragedy sends Lou and her little brother, Oz, along with their invalid mother, from New York City to the rugged mountains of Southwest Virginia to live with their great-grandmother. The story is told with both heartbreaking elegance and large doses of touching humor as the lives of Lou and Oz are changed forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not your usual Baldacci
- By John on 06-07-07
By: David Baldacci
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Prodigal Summer
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,800
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,088
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,085
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing!
- By Lily on 10-12-08
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Bag of Bones
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,921
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,940
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,929
Even four years after the sudden death of his wife, best selling novelist Mike Noonan can't stop grieving, nor can he return to his writing. He moves into his isolated house by the lake, which becomes the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here - and what do they want of Mike Noonan?
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite King Novel
- By Michael on 12-26-02
By: Stephen King
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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 197
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 176
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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 Prince of Frogtown
- By: Rick Bragg
- Narrated by: Rick Bragg
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 198
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Story5 out of 5 stars 199
Rick Bragg closes his circle of family stories with an unforgettable tale about fathers and sons inspired by his own relationship with his 10-year-old stepson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This guy can write.
- By colleen on 03-08-14
By: Rick Bragg
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Oral History
- By: Lee Smith
- Narrated by: Full Cast
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century. Researching an assignment for an Oral History course, Jennifer drives to the town where her mother and father grew up. Raised by a stepmother, the young college student wonders why her father never talks of her real mother and is intrigued by the mystery of her heritage. One by one, the Cantrells tell of lives filled with vitality, colored by the land and family history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a treat!
- By Linda on 02-17-12
By: Lee Smith
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Harry's Trees
- By: Jon Cohen
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 993
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 873
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 871
Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the Endless Mountains of Pennsylvania. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her mother, Amanda, are struggling to pick up the pieces from their own tragic loss of Oriana’s father. Discovering Harry while roaming the forest, Oriana believes that he holds the key to righting her world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent surprise
- By Em's MOM on 04-18-20
By: Jon Cohen
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Those Across the River
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 869
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 782
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 784
Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate - the Savoyard Plantation - and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Recording glitches, but a great gruesome tale
- By Wild Wise Woman on 09-11-11
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Nightwoods
- A Novel
- By: Charles Frazier
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,080
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 952
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Story4 out of 5 stars 941
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful writing and powerful narration
- By MB2312 on 10-20-11
By: Charles Frazier
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Last Summer Boys
- A Novel
- By: Bill Rivers
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
Summer 1968. When thirteen-year-old Jack Elliot overhears the barbershop men grousing, he devises a secret plan to keep his oldest brother, Pete, from the draft. If famous boys don’t go to war, he’ll make his brother their small town’s biggest celebrity. Jack gets unexpected help when his book-smart cousin Frankie arrives in their rural Pennsylvania town for the summer. Together, they convince Jack’s brothers to lead an expedition to find a fighter jet that crashed many winters ago—the perfect adventure to make Pete a hero.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Read!
- By Vickie Yates on 08-11-22
By: Bill Rivers
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Blue Hole Back Home
- By: Joy Jordan-Lake
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 74
Shelby Lenoir Maynard, nicknamed Turtle, has never much trusted girls her own age, spending her days instead with her brother and his pack of friends. But when a mysterious Sri Lankan girl of Moorish descent moves to town, Turtle invites her to their secret haven: the Blue Hole. Turtle could not have imagined how much that simple gesture would alter the rest of her life, or the lives of those she loves. As tensions rise, it becomes clear there are those in Pisgah Ridge who reject the presence of anyone different - and those who would welcome the new refugee family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent! Best listen of 2018
- By Helen E. Raleigh on 04-03-18
By: Joy Jordan-Lake
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Ava's Man
- By: Rick Bragg
- Narrated by: Rick Bragg
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 634
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 432
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Story5 out of 5 stars 429
Journalist Rick Bragg has built a soaring monument to the grandfather he never knew, and in the process created a powerfully intimate piece of American history as it was experienced by the working people of the deep South, a glorious record of a life of character, tenacity and indomitable joy, and an unforgettable tribute to a vanishing culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply moving
- By Kate on 08-12-03
By: Rick Bragg
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Shadow Show
- All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
- By: Sam Weller - editor, Mort Castle - editor
- Narrated by: George Takei, Edward Herrmann, Kate Mulgrew, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4 out of 5 stars 159
Ray Bradbury - peerless storyteller, poet of the impossible, and one of America's most beloved authors - is a literary giant whose remarkable career spanned seven decades. Now 26 of today's most diverse and celebrated authors offer new short works in honor of the master; stories of heart, intelligence, and dark wonder from a remarkable range of creative artists.
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5 out of 5 stars
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THE MAN WHO FORGOT RAY BRADBURY
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-27-17
By: Sam Weller - editor, and others