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The Night Watchman
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
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Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
New York Times Best Seller
Washington Post, Amazon, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, Kirkus, Chicago Public Library, and Good Housekeeping Best Book of 2020
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, DC, this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a master craftsman.
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run”?
Since graduating high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. She makes jewel bearings at the plant, a job that barely pays her enough to support her mother and brother. Patrice’s shameful alcoholic father returns home sporadically to terrorize his wife and children and bully her for money. But Patrice needs every penny to follow her beloved older sister, Vera, who moved to the big city of Minneapolis. Vera may have disappeared; she hasn’t been in touch in months, and is rumored to have had a baby. Determined to find Vera and her child, Patrice makes a fateful trip to Minnesota that introduces her to unexpected forms of exploitation and violence, and endangers her life.
Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue, her niece and Patrice’s best friend Valentine, and Stack Barnes, the white high school math teacher and boxing coach who is hopelessly in love with Patrice.
In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction from this revered cultural treasure.
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Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his. Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker. Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own.
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To complicate his fears, his quiet life changes when a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, difficult, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda.
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This is Pulitzer material, folks
- By Malcolm on 02-03-05
By: Louise Erdrich
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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
- A Novel
- By: Colson Whitehead
- Narrated by: JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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When Elwood Curtis, a black boy growing up in 1960s Tallahassee, is unfairly sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, he finds himself trapped in a grotesque chamber of horrors. Elwood’s only salvation is his friendship with fellow “delinquent” Turner, which deepens despite Turner’s conviction that Elwood is hopelessly naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble.
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Who spoke for the black boys?
- By Darwin8u on 02-06-20
By: Colson Whitehead
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Night Watch
- A Novel
- By: Jayne Anne Phillips
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Theo Stockman, Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.
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Beautifully written historical novel
- By shastamax on 01-14-24
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The Master Butcher's Singing Club
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
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What happens when a trained killer discovers, in the aftermath of war, that his true vocation is love? Having survived the killing fields of World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns home to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action.
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Erdrich's
- By Larry on 01-09-05
By: Louise Erdrich
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Louise Erdrich's The Red Convertible
- Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008: Thalia Book Club
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Amy Goodman
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
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Louise Erdrich ( The Plague of Doves) talks about her latest collection of stories with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The book features skillfully woven, multigenerational stories of family entanglements, desperate passions, and dangerous choices. Sonia Manzano performs an excerpt.
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Disappointed
- By Lauryn Robertson on 09-27-17
By: Louise Erdrich
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So Big
- By: Edna Ferber
- Narrated by: Karen Commins
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Selina sees beauty everywhere, including in the fields of cabbages. She has a natural curiosity about farming and oversteps the woman's traditional role by having the audacity to ask the men questions. She soon marries Pervus DeJong, a farmer. Selina eagerly offers suggestions for operational improvements, but Pervus ignores her, preferring to use the unprofitable farming methods employed by his father.
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Poor performance but better than nothing
- By Reademandweep on 02-28-20
By: Edna Ferber
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Future Home of the Living God
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backward, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant.
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“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum”
- By Mel on 11-27-17
By: Louise Erdrich
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LaRose
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
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North Dakota, late summer, 1999. Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence - but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else, a blur he saw as he squeezed the trigger. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty Ravich.
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Grief and Love
- By Mel on 07-09-16
By: Louise Erdrich
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The Beet Queen
- A Novel
- By: Louise Erdrich
- Narrated by: Pallas Erdrich
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, Mary seeks refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her husband, while Karl gets back on the train. So begins an exhilarating forty-year saga brimming with colorful, unforgettable characters: ordinary Mary, who will cause a miracle; seductive Karl, who lacks his sister's gift for survival; Sita, their lovely but disturbed cousin; and the half-Native American Celestine James, who will become Mary’s best friend.
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A listen to look forward to
- By Kindle Customer on 11-12-23
By: Louise Erdrich
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
By: Hernan Diaz
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March
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Richard Easton
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable man" (Sue Monk Kidd). With "pitch-perfect writing" (USA Today), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs.
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Great book, greatly narrated
- By Paula on 07-30-06
By: Geraldine Brooks
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- Anonymous User
- 02-17-21
Another Triumph for Erdrich
Yet another love letter to the ancestors both brutal and poetic well worth your time
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- Julie
- 03-26-20
Great story
I loved listening to the author and the story of the Native Americans was heart warming.
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- teddie maphet
- 03-29-20
I really enjoyed this novel
loved it! beautifully narrated.i wonder if the name of the senator was real. i will have to google "Watkins"i
I really enjoyed it
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- Vena
- 09-10-20
Amazing
Simpler times and complicated histories make for a beautiful story about a people who continue...I loved this book to no end.
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- Peter S. Brock
- 12-19-20
Gorgeous
Louise Erdrich transported me to a place and people I could not help but love, every one of them, as dear as family. I found myself rooting for each of them to find the peace and love they so richly deserved, and gave. Thank you Ms. Erdrich for telling a story so rich and inspiring.
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- Alexander Chips Warrington
- 07-25-21
Loved It
Louise Erdrich is an incredible writer. I'm often disappointed in the languaging of highly-recommended books. Not so here. Characters are well developed. Elements of the story are finely woven. Images presented refuse to vacate the mind. Subject matter that could be rendered hopeless and depressing contains elements of spirit and beauty. While reading this in our book club, it received a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Well done.
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- Diane
- 04-11-21
Beautiful, moving and poetic
I have longed to discover a writer that could excite me like Margaret Atwood, to read (or listen) books that I didn’t want to put down. The Night Watchman drew me in and I fell in love with the characters and looked forward to listening to Louise Erdrich reading to me just like a book I couldn’t put down. Amazing storyteller and makes me want to learn more of this heartbreaking history.
I’m sad it’s over but excited to discover her other writings.
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- Jen Schu
- 04-12-21
Written with love
I would recommend this book especially on audio which features the author as the narrator.
The story was crafted with love and I did learn a lot about the Turtle Mountain Reservation and their fight to keep their home. I was fascinated by the Mormons’ thoughts on the indigenous of North America as I had not read on that topic in the past. It was dreadful reading about what Patrice and Vera endured both having been exploited in some way. I walked away learning about the experiences of the Chippewa & Erdrich’s gift for storytelling evoked such a empathetic response from this reader. Looking forward to reading more by this author.
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- Marie B
- 10-29-21
Ms Erdrich could write a novel on each character
Ms Erdrich could write a novel on each character in this story. There are so many tales to tell
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- Bob
- 11-23-21
story kept my interest. narration was fabulous
t'was moving to see the other side of indigenous peoples. I wonder if it has changed
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