Mercy's Rain
An Appalachian Novel
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Narrated by:
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Amber Dekkers
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By:
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Cindy Sproles
About this listen
Mercy Roller knows her name is a lie: there has never been any mercy in her life. Raised by a twisted and abusive father who called himself the Pastor, she was abandoned by the church community that should have stood together to protect her from his evil. Her mother, consumed by her own fear and hate, won't stand her ground to save Mercy either.
The Pastor has robbed Mercy of innocence and love, a husband, and her child. Not a single person seems capable of standing up to the Pastor's unrestrained evil. So Mercy takes matters into her own hands.
Her heart was hardened to love long before she took on the role of judge, jury, and executioner of the Pastor. She just didn't realize the retribution she thought would save her, might turn her into the very thing she hated most.
Sent away by her angry and grieving mother, Mercy's path is unclear until she meets a young preacher headed to counsel a pregnant couple. Sure that her calling is to protect the family, Mercy is drawn into a different life on the other side of the mountain where she discovers righteousness has nothing evil about it—and that there might be room for her own stained and shattered soul to find shelter . . . and even love.
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A gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds them in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion, and place and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters - including a dead girl awaiting the gospel singer’s melodious eulogy, his dysfunctional family, a murderer, the zealous town residents, and a traveling freak show.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The gospel singer
- By L. Welsh on 07-13-22
By: Harry Crews, and others
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The Wolf Road
- By: Beth Lewis
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 348
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Story4 out of 5 stars 349
Everything Elka knows of the world she learned from the man she calls Father, the solitary hunter who took her under his wing when she was just seven years old. He has taught her how to shoot, track, set snares, and start fires - all the skills she needs to survive in a frozen, lawless land where civilization has been destroyed and men are at the mercy of the elements and each other. But the man Elka thought she knew so well is harboring a terrible secret. He's a killer. A monster.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Almost too bloody
- By Melissa Fafarman on 12-06-16
By: Beth Lewis
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Tennessee Bride
- By: Rosanne Bittner
- Narrated by: Loretta Rawlins
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Raised in the hills of Tennessee, Emma Simms dreams of the day she’ll escape her life of poverty to start over in the excitement of Knoxville. But when her mother dies and she’s left with no one but her stepfather, Luke Simms, her dream abruptly becomes a nightmare. Luke plans to send Emma to Knoxville all right - straight to a notorious brothel. River Joe, the mysterious Cherokee-raised frontiersman, knew from the first time he set eyes on the beautiful Emma that he had to have her as his own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me!
- By Anonymous User on 07-09-21
By: Rosanne Bittner
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Gap Creek
- By: Robert Morgan
- Narrated by: Jill Hill
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 243
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 149
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Story4 out of 5 stars 151
Gap Creek is a powerful and touching story of a marriage at the turn of the century. For Julie and Hank, life grinds ever on without pause or concern for hard work. From devastating floods to encounters with intoxicated grifters, they survive the disappointments and triumphs of their new life together. An Oprah Book Club Pick. Browse more Oprah selections.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Painfully beautiful...
- By Eileen on 09-23-03
By: Robert Morgan
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Mudbound
- By: Hillary Jordan
- Narrated by: Ezra Knight, Kate Forbes, Joseph Collins, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,301
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 984
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 990
Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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May this South never rise again.
- By Betty on 03-25-12
By: Hillary Jordan
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Rapture of Canaan
- By: Sheri Reynolds
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 80
Novelist Sheri Reynolds weaves lyrical prose and folksy dialogue into her spellbinding tales. The Rapture of Canaan, a New York Times best-seller, is the moving story of a teenaged girl clashing with her harshly controlled world. Growing up in a closed religious community deep in the rural South, 15-year-old Ninah Huff painstakingly and obediently follows her church’s many rules—she knows that public humiliation follows the smallest transgression
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good story
- By mctoria on 08-15-24
By: Sheri Reynolds
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The Third Mrs. Galway
- By: Deirdre Sinnott
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
It’s 1835 in Utica, New York, and newlywed Helen Galway discovers a secret: Two runaway slaves are hiding in the shack behind her husband’s house. Suddenly, she is at the center of not only the era’s greatest moral dilemma, but her own, as well. Should she be a “good wife” and report the fugitives to her husband? Or will she defy convention and come to their aid? Within her home, Helen is haunted by the previous Mrs. Galway, recently deceased but still an oppressive presence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Never thought I'd enjoy a novel so much.
- By HBvideo on 12-01-21
By: Deirdre Sinnott
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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 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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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What Once Was Lost
- By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrated by: Pilar Witherspoon
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 204
The practice of ministering to the widows and orphans is reflected in this story of Christina Willems, a young woman from Kansas, in 1884, who is determined to reopen the poor farm she manages after a fire devastates the property. She finds opposition from many surprising corners but an unlikely ally in a lumber mill owner who wants nothing more than to hold himself aloof from the world and its troubles. Levi Jonnson agrees to take care of one of the poor farm residents, a young blind boy - and in doing so opens himself up to Christina's world in ways he wouldn't have imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful Listen!
- By Carrie Fancett Pagels on 02-09-14
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Wild Texas Flame
- By: Janis Reams Hudson
- Narrated by: Annie Green
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28
With her ranch on the line and three younger sisters to care for, Sunny Thornton is in no position to take on any more responsibility. But when she learns that the man who was paralyzed saving her life in a bank robbery isn't being cared for, she feels it's her duty to help him. She isn't moved by his attempts to push her away, nor does she care that he is an ex-con. As far as she's concerned, Ash has paid for his crimes. Plus, she can't deny the stirrings inside of her whenever he's near.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good story but...
- By joanie on 09-11-19
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,660
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,027
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,002
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- By Mel on 04-06-15
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Freedom's Song
- By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
- Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 110
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story5 out of 5 stars 96
Indentured servant Fanny Beck has been forced to sing for riverboat passengers since she was a girl. All she wants is to live a quiet, humble life with her family as soon as her seven-year contract is over. However, when she discovers that the captain has no intention of releasing her, she seizes a sudden opportunity to escape - an impulse that leads Fanny to a group of enslaved people who are on their own dangerous quest for liberty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful!
- By Angela Evans on 06-03-24
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer
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Cold Sassy Tree
- By: Olive Ann Burns
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,910
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around fast. If the preacher's wife's petticoat shows, the ladies will make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things take a scandalous turn. That is the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, elopes with Miss Love Simpson, a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee!
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Feel-Good Story
- By Chrissie on 07-13-13
By: Olive Ann Burns
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The Known World
- By: Edward P. Jones
- Narrated by: Kevin Free
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 930
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 498
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Story4 out of 5 stars 498
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor, William Robbins, perhaps the most powerful white man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County. Under Robbins's tutelage, Henry becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. When he dies, his widow Caldonia succumbs to profound grief, and things begin to fall apart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A meandering audiobook...
- By Daniel on 09-03-04
By: Edward P. Jones
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Mrs. Mike
- By: Benedict Freedman, Nancy Freedman
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 871
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 872
A moving love story set in the Canadian wilderness, Mrs. Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of Canada to life and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How could I have missed this all these years?
- By Dale C. Farran on 01-30-10
By: Benedict Freedman, and others
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The Twelve-Mile Straight
- A Novel
- By: Eleanor Henderson
- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the Twelve-Mile Straight, the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that left a man dead and a family irrevocably fractured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great read!
- By S. Clay on 11-01-17
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Sixteen-year-old Lorena Leland’s dreams of a rich and fulfilling life as a writer are dashed when the stock market crashes in 1929. Seven years into the Great Depression, Rena’s banker father has retreated into the bottle, her sister is married to a lazy charlatan and gambler, and Rena is an unemployed newspaper reporter. Eager for any writing job, Rena accepts a position interviewing former slaves for the Federal Writers’ Project. There, she meets Frankie Washington, a 101-year-old woman whose honest yet tragic past captivates Rena.
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Untrue things are rumored of May Rose, but it's true she's too pretty for her own good. Her husband has disappeared, and now she's on her own in a rough town ruled by one of the lumber companies logging the last of West Virginia's virgin forest. The year is 1899, and a woman alone has few options.
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1899 W Virginia Logging Town & Humble Women
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The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people. But when Amanda Rye, a young widowed mother and traveling packhorse librarian, comes through a mountain community hit hard by the nation’s economic collapse, she brings with her hope, courage, and apple pie.
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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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1961. After a longtime resident at Nashville’s historic Maxwell House Hotel suffers a debilitating stroke, Audrey Whitfield is tasked with cleaning out the reclusive woman’s room. There, she discovers an elaborate scrapbook filled with memorabilia from the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. Love notes on the backs of unmailed postcards inside capture Audrey’s imagination with hints of a forbidden romance . . . and troubling revelations about the disappearance of young women at the exposition.
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1969. When Mattie Taylor’s twin brother was killed in Vietnam, she lost her best friend and the only person who really understood her. Now, news that her mother is dying sends Mattie back home, despite blaming her father for Mark’s death. Mama’s last wish is that Mattie would read some old letters stored in a trunk, from people Mattie doesn’t even know. Mama insists they hold the answers Mattie is looking for.
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Author’s Ability to connect us to the people and times, and to God’s love.
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Early one morning in 1929, Mary Seneca Steele spontaneously packs a suitcase, gathers up her son and daughter, and drives away in her abusive and dissolute husband’s brand-new Auburn Phaeton automobile, leaving her privileged life in Charleston behind. It is the beginning of a journey of enlightenment that leads Mary “Sen” to the mountains and mysteries of Appalachia, where she will learn unexpected family secrets, create a new life for herself and her children, and finally experience love and happiness before tragedy will once again test her.
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A Great Southern Tale
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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The McKenzie women, empowered with a formidable history rooted in the foothills of Appalachia, have passed down their folk-healing wisdom through generations. Rosalee, the last living headstrong daughter in Granny McKenzie’s line, soaked up everything she could about the secrets of the forest before a series of tragedies left her alone, without the protection of the women who came before her.
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BORING
- By Jack Kelley on 02-21-23
By: Bobi Conn
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Kinfolk
- By: Sean Dietrich
- Narrated by: Sean Dietrich
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 328
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 310
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1970s, Southern Alabama. Sixty-two-year-old Jeremiah Lewis Taylor, or “Nub,” has spent his whole life listening to those he loves tell him he’s no good—first his ex-wife, now his always-disapproving daughter. Sure, his escapades have made him, along with his cousin and perennial sidekick, Benny, just a smidge too familiar with small-town law enforcement, but he’s never harmed anyone—except perhaps himself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The most beautifully written book I have ever read
- By Kindle Customer on 04-24-24
By: Sean Dietrich
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Fireflies in December
- By: Jennifer Erin Valent
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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This award-winning, coming-of-age gem by Jennifer Erin Valent recounts one farm family's struggle against racial bigotry in Depression-era Virginia. When Jessilyn's parents begin raising her best friend as their own daughter, this kindness toward a dark-skinned orphan triggers threats and violence. While teetering on the brink of womanhood, Jessilyn must learn to be a shining light in a dark world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Audie for Inspirational/Faith based but not
- By Jan on 06-28-12
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A Hundred Crickets Singing
- By: Cathy Gohlke
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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In wars eighty years apart, two young women living on the same Appalachian estate determine to aid soldiers dear to them and fight for justice, no matter the cost.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well written
- By Prairie on 11-29-22
By: Cathy Gohlke
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women
- Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
- By: Kami Ahrens
- Narrated by: Reyna Star
- Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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The Foxfire Magazine, a literary journal first published in 1967 in Rabun Gap, Georgia, was founded on the belief that stories and meaning could be found in Appalachian spaces, not only in classics such as Shakespeare. Filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors, the magazine also featured interviews with relatives and neighbors. These oral histories conducted by students from the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School quickly became the star of the magazine. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive, come twenty-one oral histories from southern Appalachian women.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible book!
- By Anonymous User on 03-11-24
By: Kami Ahrens
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- Ken Pickron
- 09-05-24
Hope
Evil and the hurt it can cause.. Living and having lost loved ones this story gives me hope.
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- janis rowe
- 05-15-23
Beautiful narration
Although it’s a tough story, the author takes you on the journey of heartache and healing with hope. The narration by Amber Dekkers was beautifully done. She handled the many voices well, giving life to each character. I only wish she would have sung the few songs included.
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- Laurie
- 09-29-23
Wonderful narration
This story is heartbreaking and will tug on your emotions. The narrator takes you on a journey of pain and grief but there is a always a bit of hope. The characters are well done !
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- Mom
- 07-21-24
Eye opener
Can really take this book to heart. Forgiveness and trust are so important to us all.
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- Becky
- 11-18-24
Really heavy story
How Mercy handled her life, is hard to understand! Why the mother allowed it is even harder to understand!
Really well done, won't forget about it soon!
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- tracey tomlinson
- 12-10-24
Dark depressing book
Very dark story and difficult to listen to. It just dragged on. I do not recommend this book.
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- Shellie Cook
- 12-03-24
Setting in time and place.
This book was low key preaching the whole time. Was a struggle to finish. Narration was ok. Probably would not recommend.
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