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A Test of Faith: The Sequel to That Gentile Girl
- Emma Peterson, Book 2
- Narrated by: Linda Chism
- Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
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Emma has finally found her promised land, but her newfound happiness ends with the arrival of a single letter.
Her beloved new husband, Stephen, has been called to return to England to gather more pioneers. Before him lay thousands of miles of mountains, plains, and ocean. Before her lay the impossible challenges of frontier Utah and the raising of Stephen’s three motherless children.
Renegade Indians, voracious grasshoppers, and near starvation threaten to destroy her family in Stephen’s absence. But their greatest challenge comes as Stephen returns, a man forever marred by trail conditions no human should ever face. Can the two them survive their greatest trial–a test of love all but lost?
Buy A Test of Faith today to follow one young woman’s inspiring tale of courage and resilience against the backdrop of Utah’s darkest hour.
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In 1851, Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mispronunciations
- By R. Brown on 06-07-18
By: Margot Mifflin
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Ordeal by Hunger
- By: George R. Stewart
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 162
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The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846, 87 people, men, women, and children, set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Changing
- By Gyropilot on 06-03-08
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- By: Elinore Pruitt Stewart
- Narrated by: Gwen Hughes
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader is a frontier classic by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, a widowed young mother who accepted an offer to assist with a ranch in Wyoming. In Stewart's delightful collection of letters, she describes her homesteading experiences to her former employer, Mrs. Coney.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every woman in the US should read this book.
- By Dolly Jane Prenzel on 03-17-15
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Crockett of Tennessee
- A Novel Based on the Life and Times of David Crockett
- By: Cameron Judd
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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From humble beginnings in rural Tennessee to his heroic death defending the Alamo, frontiersman, adventurer, and politician David Davy Crockett embodies the spirit and ideals of the national character. Even during his lifetime, tales of the sharpshooting, skilled woodsman were - to his delight - told, retold, and elaborated on. As a US congressman, the former Creek War militiaman steadfastly opposed President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I highly recommend
- By That Man They Call Shad on 05-05-21
By: Cameron Judd
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City of Tranquil Light
- A Novel
- By: Bo Caldwell
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Will Kiehn is seemingly destined for life as a humble farmer in the Midwest when, having felt a call from God, he travels to the vast North China Plain in the early twentieth century. There he is surprised by love and weds a strong and determined fellow missionary, Katherine. They soon find themselves witnesses to the crumbling of a more than two-thousand-year-old dynasty that plunges the country into decades of civil war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What We're Here For
- By Annette on 10-14-10
By: Bo Caldwell
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Isle of Woman
- By: Piers Anthony
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 48
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At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fire worker who raised his kind of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator killed my interest.
- By Charlene Caalim on 12-28-20
By: Piers Anthony
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A Joyful Christmas
- 6 Historical Stories
- By: Cynthia Hickey, Liz Johnson, Vickie McDonough, and others
- Narrated by: Carolyn Molloy
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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A Christmas collection to warm the heart. Grab a warm cup of tea and watch as romance is kindled and joy is restored to broken lives during six bygone-era Christmas celebrations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming!
- By Smile on 12-16-23
By: Cynthia Hickey, and others
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Into the Forest
- A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
- By: Rebecca Frankel
- Narrated by: Natalie Pela
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 237
In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids—until they were liberated by the Red Army in 1944. After the war, they trekked across the Alps into Italy, where they settled as refugees before eventually immigrating to the United States.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story with an added benefit
- By Scottsville Stu on 12-30-21
By: Rebecca Frankel
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The Rush
- America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
- By: Edward Dolnick
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves - for the first time ever - to imagine a future of ease and splendor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it. Want to hear more of Clarks work.
- By Carlos on 01-11-16
By: Edward Dolnick
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My Life as an Indian
- By: James Willard Schultz
- Narrated by: Brian V. Hunt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 200
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Beautiful, tender, haunting, and full of excitement, this is the memoir of famed author, explorer, Glacier Park guide, trader, and historian of the Blackfoot Indians, James Willard Schultz. With the Blackfoot woman, whom he deeply loved, from 1880 to 1903, Schultz lived the life of a Blackfoot Indian with Nat-ah-ki and her people. During this time, he began writing for magazines, at times running a trading post, and working as a guide in the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compassionate Story
- By Ann Holmes on 09-13-18
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Grizzly Killer: The Making of a Mountain Man
- By: Lane R Warenski
- Narrated by: Chase Bradley
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 357
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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When Zach Connors and his pa left their Kentucky homestead in the summer of 1824 to see the Rocky Mountains, he didn't realize he would never see his childhood home again or that he would find love, friendship, fame, and a new home in this wild and harsh wilderness. After a grizzly kills his pa, Zach struggles to survive a cold and brutal winter alone. After killing a rouge grizzly and fighting hostile Indians on his own, he becomes known as Grizzly Killer and is respected throughout the West. Along with his dog, Jimbo, whom the Indians call the Great Medicine Dog, he finds Running Wolf, an injured Ute warrior, and together they fight off a hostile war party. They rescue two Shoshone sisters from the brutality of a French trapper and take them as wives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A mighty righteous Grizz killer. Not worth the money
- By Slade on 07-30-19
By: Lane R Warenski
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The Captured
- A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
- By: Scott Zesch
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,280
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On New Year's Day in 1870, 10-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comanches, he thrived in the rough nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years living in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled upon his great-great-great-uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch traveled across the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A taste of real life on the prairies of the west.
- By Philell72 on 10-04-12
By: Scott Zesch
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Maybe You Will Survive
- A Holocaust Memoir
- By: Aron Goldfarb, Graham Diamond
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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In Graham Diamond's collaboration with Aron Goldfarb, the reader feels the struggles of people trying to survive during the Holocaust. The author recounts his experiences in Poland during the Holocaust, when he escaped from a forced labour camp and, with his brother, hid in underground holes on the grounds of an estate controlled by the Gestapo.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not accurate in all ways
- By Dinner on 05-11-20
By: Aron Goldfarb, and others
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The Children's Blizzard
- By: David Laskin
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next the sky exploded in a raging chaos of horizontal snow and hurricane-force winds. Temperatures plunged as an unprecedented cold front ripped through the center of the continent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Account of 1888 Prairie Blizzard
- By Mary Burnight on 01-09-17
By: David Laskin
What listeners say about A Test of Faith: The Sequel to That Gentile Girl
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- Laura
- 11-07-23
Inspirational Novella
I enjoyed the second book of the "Emma Peterson" series more than the first one. This story picked up shortly after the first one ended. Emma and Stephen got married, but Stephen has been asked to leave his family to return to England to inspire others in his faith. While he was gone, Emma faced many of the obstacles that pioneers faced in the days of old. I admired Emma's spirit and her growth. I liked her character arc. I was drawn into the hardships that she faced. Linda Chism's narration was fine, and her performance improved as the story progressed. I was given a free copy of the audiobook, and I have voluntarily posted this review.
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- Nemesis
- 11-15-23
Relentless trials on the Utah frontier!
In Linda Chism's "A Test of Faith: The Sequel to That Gentile Girl," Emma Peterson faces relentless trials on the Utah frontier while her husband, Stephen, confronts a perilous journey. Chism's writing and narration, performed by the author herself, beautifully capture the resilience of love in the harshest of circumstances. A compelling tale of courage and endurance, highly recommended for fans of historical fiction.
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- Teresa Raidt
- 11-28-23
Love and Faith
A story of faith, love, sadness and strength. The trials and triumphs of pioneers always amazes me! This short story is told beautifully of a woman early in the USA’s growth. Recited are her struggles faith, her strength to keep on moving forward and her love of those around her.
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