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Ten-year-old Pearl Spence is a daydreamer, playing make-believe to escape life in Oklahoma's Dust Bowl in 1935. The Spences have their share of misfortune, but as the sheriff's family, they've got more than most in this dry, desolate place. They're who the town turns to when there's a crisis or a need. Pearl is proud of her loving, strong family, though she often wearies of tracking down her mentally impaired older sister or wrestling with her grandmother's unshakable belief in a God. Then a mysterious man bent on revenge tramps into her town of Red River.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intense
- By VickyJ on 02-07-21
By: Susie Finkbeiner
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The Wish Giver
- By: Bill Brittain
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 62
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When a strange little man comes to the Coven Tree Church Social promising he can give people exactly what they ask for, three young believers-in-magic each make a wish that comes true in the most unexpected way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Engaging and well-paced
- By Molly on 04-11-11
By: Bill Brittain
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Stealing Freedom
- By: Elisa Carbone
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 164
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Inspired by a true story, here is the riveting novel of a young slave girl's harrowing escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. The moment Ann Maria Weems was born, her freedom was stolen from her. Like her family and the other slaves on the farm, Ann works from sunup to sundown and obeys the orders of her master. Then one day, Ann's family - the only joy she knows - is gone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One one of the best Narrated books I have listen to.
- By Wendy on 09-08-21
By: Elisa Carbone
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The Beekeeper's Son
- Amish of Bee County, Book 1
- By: Kelly Irvin
- Narrated by: Angela Brazil
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Phineas King knows better than to expect anything but shock and pity wherever he shows his face. Horribly scarred from the tragic accident that claimed his mother's life, he chooses to keep his distance from everyone, focusing his time and energy on the bees his family raises. So why does he start finding excuses to seek out Deborah Lantz, the beautiful new arrival in town?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Book lover. No matter what forum.
- By J.C. on 06-21-15
By: Kelly Irvin
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An Unseemly Wife
- By: E. B. Moore
- Narrated by: Natalie Gold
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Not all journeys come to an end.... 1867: Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she can count - a loving husband, an abundant farm, beautiful children, and the warm embrace of the Amish community. Then, the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of free land in the West and inspiring her husband to dream of a new life in Idaho. Breaking the rules of their Order, Ruth’s husband packs up his pregnant wife and their four children and joins a wagon train heading west.
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1 out of 5 stars
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disappointed
- By dave on 01-02-23
By: E. B. Moore
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I Will Send Rain
- A Novel
- By: Rae Meadows
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 47
Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, and in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934, and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma, is struggling as the earliest storms of the Dust Bowl descend. The wheat harvests are drying out, and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We've seen pictures of the Dust Bowl
- By Henwhisperer on 10-12-16
By: Rae Meadows
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
- By: Rae Carson
- Narrated by: Erin Mallon
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 429
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 389
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Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. She has a best friend - who might want to be something more. She also has a secret.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better than expected
- By elenne on 10-11-15
By: Rae Carson
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Each Little Bird That Sings
- By: Deborah Wiles
- Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead, just like that, six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book
- By Amazon Customer on 08-17-20
By: Deborah Wiles
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Promise
- A Novel
- By: Minrose Gwin
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 64
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart - one Black, one White; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager - fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mostly Disappointing
- By Anjoli on 06-15-19
By: Minrose Gwin
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The Mosquito Coast
- By: Paul Theroux
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 264
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Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured messianic genius keeps them alive, his hoarse tirades harrying them through a diseased and dirty Eden towards unimaginable darkness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dreadful in every sense of the word.
- By Joan on 07-12-15
By: Paul Theroux
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
- By: Allan Gurganus
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 49 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dated.
- By edie butler on 04-06-21
By: Allan Gurganus
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Hour of the Bees
- By: Lindsay Eagar
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina - Carol - is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she's never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it!
- By Lucy Manetti on 04-10-17
By: Lindsay Eagar
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Thousand Pieces of Gold
- By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn
- Narrated by: Emily Zeller
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 458
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Lalu Nathoy's father called his thirteen-year-old daughter his treasure, his "thousand pieces of gold," yet when famine strikes northern China in 1871, he is forced to sell her. Polly, as Lalu is later called, is sold to a brothel, sold again to a slave merchant bound for America, auctioned to a saloonkeeper, and offered as a prize in a poker game. This biographical novel is the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for independence and dignity in the American West.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disjointed account of an extraordinary life
- By David on 05-01-15
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
- By: Truman Capote
- Narrated by: Cody Roberts
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Capote’s coming of age story
- By Daniel Diffin on 11-08-23
By: Truman Capote
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The Saturdays
- By: Elizabeth Enright
- Narrated by: Pamela Dillman
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Story5 out of 5 stars 252
The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-year-old Randy who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six-years-old.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent for children and adults
- By Dale on 05-15-04
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- Liza
- 01-16-18
Sugar
This was a good book. And I hope that
more people will listen to it.
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- B. Surkan
- 05-31-18
Memorable performance
Both the book itself and this particular reading were commendable. I've seldom heard a more appropriate and effective reader for the content.
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- Kindle Fire
- 04-26-21
wonderful story
Sugar Sugar Sugar. The Book was hard to stop reading, didn't want the story to end.
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- Holly Ann
- 11-23-15
by 9 year old girl
It was a good story. I liked how it was about freedom and friendship even if you have different colored skin.
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- Valencia
- 06-20-17
Sugar (The Untold Story of Reconstruction)
Wonderful narration voice in telling of a compelling story. Bringing to life a history not usually told.
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- P Clyde
- 07-08-20
Spiritually Uplifting
A Beautiful and Loving story of strength and grace. The bonding of Family and Friends.
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- brenda transon
- 12-27-18
JUST WONDERFUL SWEET AND A LITTLE SAD ALL AT ONCE
THAT LIL SUGAR IS A SWEET HOT MESS. I haven’t smile so much listening to a book in a long while. This story is beautiful just beautiful! Bani’s narrative as always is spectacular. Please order this book u won’t be disappointed.
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- Country Bookworm
- 01-25-18
She's cute
Sugar was cute and a handful. Cute book.
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- Faith Goldberg
- 07-10-23
Lovely Story
Truly a realistic and sweet book about reconstruction in the South. Sugar was a delight to get to know.
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- Monique E. Boehme
- 02-17-22
Loved it! Beautiful, poignant, inspiring story.
My kids and I listened to Sugar for homeschool read aloud. We all loved it. Such a beautiful story, and so well narrated too. Highly recommend!
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