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Robert Jackson Bennett makes a stunning debut with this deliciously dark tale sure to hold readers in its menacing thrall. The grinding poverty brought on by the Great Depression is nowhere more apparent than in the untold thousands looking for work along America’s railroad system. But one man haunting the rail camps has been moved by an entirely different brand of desperation: revenge.
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From the Cormac McCarthy Playbook
- De J. Cons en 08-09-10
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The Orchard Keeper
- De: Cormac McCarthy
- Narrado por: Ed Sala
- Duración: 8 h y 7 m
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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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- De Darwin8u en 06-12-13
De: Cormac McCarthy
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Ride the Wind
- De: Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Narrado por: Laurie Klein
- Duración: 29 h y 55 m
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In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever.
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nice book but the narrator could be better.
- De mamaD en 07-31-10
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The Bounty Hunters
- De: Elmore Leonard
- Narrado por: Josh Clark
- Duración: 7 h y 59 m
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The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One -- Dave Flynn -- knows war, the land, and the nature of his prey. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. But there's a different kind of war happening in Soyopa. And if Flynn and his young associate choose the wrong allies -- and the wrong enemy -- they won't be getting out alive.
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The Bounty Hunters
- De Jean en 12-27-10
De: Elmore Leonard
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Walk on Earth a Stranger
- De: Rae Carson
- Narrado por: Erin Mallon
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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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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Better than expected
- De elenne en 10-11-15
De: Rae Carson
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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A Penguin Classic. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: The tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.
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Generally Good Stories, Some are Great
- De Michael en 06-18-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Last Crossing
- A Novel
- De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Narrado por: John Henry Cox, John Keating, Colin Lane, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key era in American history, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Told through flashbacks and alternating points of view, The Last Crossing is about redemption, about seeking and finding, about human feelings and strengths, about personal honor, and about that moment in life when we must decide to cross over and surrender to love.
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A Very Dark Story
- De Virginia en 04-05-04
De: Guy Vanderhaeghe
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Comanche Moon
- De: Anita Mills
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
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Can a rough Texas Ranger overcome a woman’s hardened heart? Amanda Ross returns from her Boston finishing school to claim the Texas ranch her parents died fighting to protect. Determined to protect the sprawling ranch that has been in her family for generations, Amanda hates the Comanche people for taking away her only family. Clay McAlester may be a Texas Ranger, but he identifies most strongly with the Comanche people that raised him.
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They Don't Write them Like this Anymore...
- De D. Fields en 10-31-18
De: Anita Mills
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The Wettest County in the World, or Lawless
- A Novel Based on a True Story
- De: Matt Bondurant
- Narrado por: Erik Steele
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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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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Just outstanding!
- De Rich en 08-18-12
De: Matt Bondurant
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The Iron Tiger
- De: Jack Higgins
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond’s career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight - a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can complete the job, his plane and supplies are burned, stranding him in the Himalayas. Now, with his plane grounded, he must deliver a Tibetan leader’s son to safety over land. With the advancing Chinese enemy hot on his heels, Drummond’s final mission becomes a suspense-filled struggle for survival across the world’s most rugged terrain.
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absolutely fabulous
- De Tom en 06-17-21
De: Jack Higgins
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Dust Off the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Paul Howarth
- Narrado por: David Linski
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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The author of the acclaimed Only Killers and Thieves returns to turn-of-the-century Australia in this powerful sequel that follows the story of brothers Tommy and Billy McBride, the widow of their family’s killer, Katherine Sullivan, and the sadistic Native Police officer Edmund Noone.
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Australian historical fiction at its finest!
- De Matthew S. Hill en 05-13-23
De: Paul Howarth
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Flint
- A Novel
- De: Louis L'Amour
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America—and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime, and Buckdun, a notorious assassin, is there to back his play.
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Timeless!
- De David C en 05-10-23
De: Louis L'Amour
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No Man's Land
- A Novel
- De: Simon Tolkien
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London comes to a sudden and tragic end when his mother is killed in a workers' protest march. His father, Daniel, is barely able to cope with the loss. But a job offer in the coal mining town of Scarsdale presents one last chance, so father and son head north. The relocation is hard on Adam: the local boys prove difficult to befriend, and he never quite fits in. Meanwhile tensions between the miners and their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, escalate, and finally explode.
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Highly recommend
- De Melinda en 05-14-17
De: Simon Tolkien
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Trinity
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 34 h y 13 m
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From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost.
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FINALLY!!!!
- De Meaghan Bynum en 04-02-18
De: Leon Uris
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Creatures of the Kingdom
- Stories of Animals and Nature
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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In 16 wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature's most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth's lands and seas to a ridiculous armadillo's assault on a bit of Texas real estate that paid off handsomely.
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Animals of the Kingdom
- De Greg en 02-04-24
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Into the Bright Sunshine
- Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
- De: Samuel G. Freedman
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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A triumph of scholarship.
- De Charles Garrettson en 05-13-24
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Dust Off the Bones
- A Novel
- De: Paul Howarth
- Narrado por: David Linski
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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The author of the acclaimed Only Killers and Thieves returns to turn-of-the-century Australia in this powerful sequel that follows the story of brothers Tommy and Billy McBride, the widow of their family’s killer, Katherine Sullivan, and the sadistic Native Police officer Edmund Noone.
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Australian historical fiction at its finest!
- De Matthew S. Hill en 05-13-23
De: Paul Howarth
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Flint
- A Novel
- De: Louis L'Amour
- Narrado por: MacLeod Andrews
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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He left the West at the age of seventeen, leaving behind a rootless past and a bloody trail of violence. In the East he became one of the wealthiest financiers in America—and one of the most feared and hated. Now, suffering from incurable cancer, he has come back to New Mexico to die alone. But when an all-out range war erupts, Flint chooses to help Nancy Kerrigan, a local rancher. A cold-eyed speculator is setting up the land swindle of a lifetime, and Buckdun, a notorious assassin, is there to back his play.
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Timeless!
- De David C en 05-10-23
De: Louis L'Amour
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No Man's Land
- A Novel
- De: Simon Tolkien
- Narrado por: Christian Coulson
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Adam Raine is a boy cursed by misfortune. His impoverished childhood in turn-of-the-century London comes to a sudden and tragic end when his mother is killed in a workers' protest march. His father, Daniel, is barely able to cope with the loss. But a job offer in the coal mining town of Scarsdale presents one last chance, so father and son head north. The relocation is hard on Adam: the local boys prove difficult to befriend, and he never quite fits in. Meanwhile tensions between the miners and their employer, Sir John Scarsdale, escalate, and finally explode.
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Highly recommend
- De Melinda en 05-14-17
De: Simon Tolkien
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Trinity
- De: Leon Uris
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 34 h y 13 m
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From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost.
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FINALLY!!!!
- De Meaghan Bynum en 04-02-18
De: Leon Uris
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Creatures of the Kingdom
- Stories of Animals and Nature
- De: James A. Michener
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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In 16 wonderful stories, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James A. Michener burrows deep into the secret lives of animals and the hidden world of nature. Here he sheds light on nature's most awesome and beguiling handiwork, from the sublime shaping and reshaping of earth's lands and seas to a ridiculous armadillo's assault on a bit of Texas real estate that paid off handsomely.
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Animals of the Kingdom
- De Greg en 02-04-24
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Into the Bright Sunshine
- Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
- De: Samuel G. Freedman
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
- Duración: 17 h y 9 m
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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A triumph of scholarship.
- De Charles Garrettson en 05-13-24
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- De: Angus Konstam
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard. As unforgettable as his savage career was, much of Blackbeard's life has been shrouded in mystery - until now. Drawing on vivid descriptions of Blackbeard's attacks from his rare surviving victims, pirate expert Angus Konstam traces Blackbeard's career from its beginnings to his final defeat in a tremendous sea battle near his base at Ocracoke Island
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It’s alright
- De B. Williams en 02-26-21
De: Angus Konstam
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Augustus
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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A mere 18 years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power—Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony—young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man’s dream to liberate a corrupt Rome.
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The son of Caesar calls to you.
- De Darwin8u en 05-16-15
De: John Williams
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
- De: Willa Cather
- Narrado por: David Ackroyd
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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In 1851, Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows—gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
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A beautiful story, perfectly read
- De Eugene en 01-25-17
De: Willa Cather
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The Winds of War
- De: Herman Wouk
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 45 h y 48 m
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Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.
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A Masterpiece
- De Robert en 05-24-13
De: Herman Wouk
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Stoner
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Robin Field
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.
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A story of sadness and serenity
- De Anton en 10-13-12
De: John Williams
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Butcher's crossing
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Federico Vellani
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Sono gli anni Settanta dell'Ottocento. Will Andrews, dopo tre anni a Harvard, lascia il Massachusetts e, pieno di vaghi sogni e aspirazioni emersoniane verso la Natura Selvaggia, va all'Ovest. Si trova così a Butcher's Crossing, poco più che un rozzo accampamento ai margini del nulla abitato da uomini duri, sempre in cerca di un modo per fare soldi, o per scialacquarli. È proprio uno di questi individui che racconta all'ex studente di una meravigliosa valle nascosta tra le Rocky Mountains, popolata di immense mandrie di bisonti che non hanno mai conosciuto l'odore, o il fucile, dell'uomo.
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Black River Orchard
- A Novel
- De: Chuck Wendig
- Narrado por: Xe Sands, Brittany Pressley, Sean Patrick Hopkins, y otros
- Duración: 22 h y 18 m
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It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.
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- De kisa en 11-09-23
De: Chuck Wendig
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A Separate Peace
- De: John Knowles
- Narrado por: Scott Snively
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Now a modern classic, this story of two boys' friendship at an exclusive New Hampshire prep school as it parallels the inescapable and escalating atmosphere of World War II, is intense and engaging to the last word.
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How can one fault a Classic like this?
- De Theodore en 06-02-13
De: John Knowles
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Doxology
- A Novel
- De: Nell Zink
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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Pam, Daniel, and Joe might be the worst punk band on the Lower East Side. Struggling to scrape together enough cash and musical talent to make it, they are waylaid by surprising arrivals - a daughter for Pam and Daniel, a solo hit single for Joe. As the ‘90s wane, the three friends share in one another’s successes, working together to elevate Joe’s superstardom and raise baby Flora. On September 11, 2001, the city’s unfathomable devastation coincides with a shattering personal loss for the trio. In the aftermath, Flora comes of age, navigating a charged political landscape.
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Extraordinary
- De David en 08-31-19
De: Nell Zink
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Why Save Alexander
- De: Phillip Telfer
- Narrado por: Phillip Telfer
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Can a hardcore gamer survive a real-world crisis? Seventeen-year-old Alex Brooks is obsessed with becoming an e-athlete. What teen wouldn’t want to make a million dollars playing video games professionally? Especially if you’ve got a real shot at it like Alex. His mom, a television producer in Hollywood, casts her son in a reality show about young gaming hopefuls seeking fame and fortune. This gives him great exposure in the industry. On top of that, His dad owns an up-and-coming tech business that is about to launch a revolutionary product. Life couldn’t be better - or could it?
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Mind Movie
- De Kelly Mack McCoy en 01-10-22
De: Phillip Telfer
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Kitchen Chinese
- A Novel About Food, Family, and Finding Yourself
- De: Ann Mah
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Kitchen Chinese, Ann Mah's funny and poignant first novel about a young Chinese-American woman who travels to Beijing to discover food, family, and herself, is a delight complete with mouthwatering descriptions of Asian culinary delicacies, from Peking duck and Mongolian hot pot to the colorful, lesser known ants in a tree, that will delight foodies everywhere. Mah's tale of clashing cultures, rival siblings, and fine dining is an unforgettable, unexpectedly sensual listening experience.
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Love the Culture! love the coming to terms.
- De BarbieAlaska en 10-01-20
De: Ann Mah
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Nothing but the Night
- De: John Williams
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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First published in 1948, Nothing but the Night marked the auspicious beginning of John Williams' career as a novelist. In the person of Arthur Maxley, Williams investigates the terror and the waywardness of a man who has suffered an early traumatic experience. As a child, Maxley witnessed a scene of such violence and of such a nature that the evocation of Greek tragedy is inescapable. Now, years later, we move through a single significant day in the grown Arthur Maxley's life, the day when he is to meet his father, who has been absent for many years.
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John Williams is a certified wizard
- De Andy P. en 10-28-23
De: John Williams
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Great story, bad narration.
I enjoyed the story a lot but he narration was terrible, overly theatrical and very hard to hear at times because of mumbling and low volume. Made it nearly impossible to listen in a vehicle. I prefered to listen at home rather than when traveling
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“You’re no better than the things you kill.”
Imagine a compact, undigressive Moby-Dick about buffalo hunters instead of whalers. Both Melville’s epic and John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing (1960) depict an obsessive leader who takes men with him away from civilization to kill impressive wild creatures. A big difference between veteran buffalo hunter Miller and Captain Ahab is that the former hasn’t been mutilated by a bull buffalo, and his holocaust of a hunt has nothing to do with revenge. In that way, Williams’ novel is more terrible than Melville’s, because Miller is not existentially struggling against “whiteness” etc. but is merely a man with enough powder, lead, and endurance to kill thousands of buffalo.
After twenty years in Boston and three years at Harvard, William “Will” Andrews, whose Unitarian lay minister who encouraged him to read Emerson more than the Bible, arrives at the aptly named Butcher’s Crossing on the Kansas prairie. The “town” is an inchoate collection of six shabby structures and a few tents, reeking of manure, dust, heat, and buffalo hide brine pits. What on earth is Will doing there?! He wants to leave cities to experience wilderness and nature and become a transparent Emersonian eyeball, a free and clean part of God. Will his expectations be fulfilled when he goes on a buffalo hunt with the experienced, laconic hunter Miller, his Bible reading, whisky drinking, one-handed right hand man Charlie, and the unpleasant, pessimistic, skilled buffalo skinner Schneider? Miller claims to know a pristine hidden valley in the Colorado mountains where they will find thousands of prime wild buffalo, the hides of which ought to be bring thousands of dollars. All they need is a little capital with which to outfit their team, which Andrews, having received a bequest from an uncle, is eager to provide.
The novel, then, has some usual western genre features. A young, innocent, sensitive guy from the east goes west to experience nature and hooks up with a seasoned, capable, practical hunter and his grizzled one-handed sidekick. A shrewd businessman and a good prostitute appear. A handful of Indians make a miserable cameo. A quest ensues for an elusive mountain valley sheltering a vast herd of buffalo. But in its philosophical underpinnings and questionings, the novel is not a usual western.
The story is introduced by a pair of epigraphs, one by Emerson from “Nature” (a positive view of nature as blessing people with the sanctity of religion) and one by Melville from The Confidence-Man (a negative view of nature as freezing us to death or making us idiots). The dueling epigraphs and novel remind me of Melville’s annotated copy of Emerson’s essays on microfilm I read in graduate school, where he wrote in the margin at one point something like, “I pity the fool who follows this!” Williams (I believe) is more in Melville’s camp regarding nature.
And at times the book doesn’t feel like a usual western:
“In his mind were fragments of Miller’s talk about the mountain country to which they were going, and those fragments glittered and turned and fell softly in accidental and strange patterns. Like the loose stained bits of glass in a kaleidoscope, they augmented themselves with their turning and found light from irrelevant and accidental sources.”
The novel is sensual. Williams writes vivid details involving the five senses of activities like smelling a rotting buffalo carcass, being thirsty, climbing a steep mountain too quickly, being lost in a blizzard, submersing oneself in a fast cold river, shaving after eight months in the wilderness, looking at a woman’s nude body, and so on. Concise, poetic writing: “A patch of turning aspen flamed a deep cold in the green of the pine,” and “The sip of whisky seared his throat as if a torch had been thrust into it.”
Many vivid details, too, about the “craft” of buffalo hunting: making bullets, sharpening knives, shooting buffalo, skinning buffalo, dressing buffalo, stacking hides, thawing frozen thongs in a bucket of pee, and, of course, plenty of details of the buffalo’s body, like “His head lowered, his upturned curving horns, shiny in the sunlight, bright against the dark mop of hair that hung over his head.”
It is at times an awful novel. Miller’s knowledge that Indians use every part of the buffalo, even down to making beautiful and clever and fine bone toys and implements from them, does not prevent him from becoming “an automaton” in a non-stop orgy of killing them for nothing more than their hides. Far from using every part of the buffalo in the service of life, they sprinkle strychnine on the myriad carcasses to kill wolves. Although Charlie hates wolves as the devil’s creatures, Miller’s destruction of the buffalo is a cold, mindless response to the life in which he has immersed himself.
I regret that the point of view character and moral center of the novel Will doesn’t evince a little more discomfort with the holocaust of over 4,000 buffalo, but I suppose that just makes him a 19th-century rather than a 21st-century man.
Butcher’s Crossing shares with Williams’ historical academia novel Stoner (1965) his careful writing and psychological insights. Butcher’s Crossing is a literate western, and it must be quite disturbing to anyone who loves animals alive more than dead.
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- Tyler Quinn
- 01-28-19
An American West classic
Truly an American classic. Few things set the US apart as the gritty and expansive Western drive. Williams truly captures the naive dreams, the insatiable greed and the all consuming wild in all its gripping detail. Beneath the mosaic of scenes are elemental forces and the very recognizable characters that reflect parts of us all. The narration was one of the best I’ve heard. Anthony Heald’s voice matched the emotion of the description so perfectly. He truly enhanced the story.
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- Abyasun
- 05-08-24
Exceptional
I listened this book all the way back from Florida to NY when I rented a car to drive back home after 6 of my flights were cancelled in two days during a weather storm over the Atlantic last June. I enjoyed the read and the narration. And recently, I read the print book. I listened to the audio version again while reading the book. Williams’s take on the grand theme of American West could not be better illustrated than this through a set of unforgettable characters. The frontiersmen’s endurance in the face of myriad odds, the search for self, Buffalo, one of the most captivating stories of 19th American West when it almost came to become extinct due to overhunting, individualism, hunt for fortune in the West, and disappointment are among the appealing themes that decorate this epic nature tale. Whatever defines the myths and grand themes of American West exist in this narrative, in this book. Blood, lust, human conflict, an abandoned love story, and many sub-themes empower Williams’s book. And what a read and narration! One of the best in Audible’s library of audiobooks.
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- John
- 02-24-15
Terrific book
This is a great novel, beautifully written and the plot picks up and gets quite suspenseful. Highly recommended.
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- Kevin
- 01-02-24
A literary work of art
John Williams has become one of my favorite writers. Stoner is amazing as well. His books are not amazing stories or filled with larger than life characters. His prose is not flamboyant nor overly simplistic.
His books simply “are.” They are subtle and unforgiving. They are exact. They are quite near perfect, in my opinion, precisely for the fact that I believe every word of them and forget I’m reading at the same time.
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- Ian C Robertson
- 02-22-16
A Tiring Listen
I say this was a tiring read (not a tiresome one) for the sheer scale of the endeavour that the little group of four huntsmen endure. There is great thirst, distance, freezing snows, exhausting work in deplorable conditions to be read. It made me tired listening and at times I felt myself involuntarily dozing off from exhaustion, felt vicariously for these pioneers. I guess that endeavour is what built the countries that we now enjoy and there is some reason to take pride in it. There is also reason to reflect upon the waste (all those buffalo slaughtered) and the misfortune that courted every step. Williams captures all of that and, for that reason alone, his account is a worthy read. I can't say that I enjoyed the listen, but that was no fault of the writing, the reading or the underlying importance of the pioneer spirit. Heald captures the latter well, for example. For me, it was too real (if that is possible) and I am tiring just thing about it.
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- Joseph Keiffer
- 05-12-17
Coming of age in the Wild West
Innocent from Boston goes on a buffalo hunt. (Mostly) imperturbable mentor leads the hunt, along with half-wit dipsomaniac/Jesus freak and nihilistic buffalo skinner - who does not survive the adventure. At the end, the Bostonian has grown up, the mentor has learned a hard lesson and the simple man of faith still has his faith. Everyone says "My God!" at least once. A reader is laboriously schooled in the ways of the cowboy. I liked "Stoner" much better. Perhaps I haven't been out west enough to appreciate it.
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- Tim Martin
- 05-03-20
A baptism of fire, and a bucket of blood
A wonderful surprise - I thought I was just going in for a well-received Western yarn, and came out a John Williams fan-boy. What writing, what characterisations, what wilderness! I won't lie to you: Buffalo die. Lots. But context is everything - the harsh scenes of slaughter and survival are counterbalanced by moments of emotional beauty and searing vistas. Butcher's Crossing is often mentioned in the same sentence as Cormac McCarthy, and with good reason.
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- Unknown
- 05-28-21
The Horror
Excellent novel. Extremely well read.
It and Stoner are an immense monument to futility and nothingness, finely written.
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