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All Over But the Shoutin'

by Rick Bragg ...

Narrated by Rick Bragg ...

Abridged

2 hours 41 min

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the ... Read more

$9.00 USD

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a hard-drinking man with a murderous temper and the
... Read more
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The Mailman

My Wild Ride Delivering the Mail in Appalachia and Finally Finding Home

by Stephen Starring Grant ...

Narrated by Stephen Starring Grant ...

Unabridged

9 hours 37 min

The triumphant New York Times bestseller!“Warm and oddly patriotic...A working-class hero is something to be.” —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAn uproarious and “utterly charming” (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply abo... ... Read more

$25.99 USD

The triumphant New York Times bestseller!“Warm and oddly patriotic...A working-class hero is something to be.” —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesAn uproarious and “utterly charming” (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who he was, gave him purpose, and educated him deeply abo...
... Read more
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Wastelands

The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

by Corban Addison ...

Narrated by Rob Shapiro ...

Unabridged

16 hours 16 min

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John GrishamThe once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard ... Read more

$22.50 USD

"Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John GrishamThe once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard
... Read more
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Til Death Do Us Bard

A heart-warming tale of marriage, magic, and monster-slaying

by Rose Black ...

Narrated by Owen Findlay ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

Legends & Lattes meets Kings of the Wyld in this sweet, queer, light fantasy, in which a grumpy ex-adventurer must come out of retirement to save the kingdom... after he saves his sunshiny bard husband.Marriage isn't always sunshine and unicorns... sometimes it's monsters and necromancy.It's been almost a year since Logan 'The Bear' Theaker hung up his axe and settled down with his sunshiny bard ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Legends & Lattes meets Kings of the Wyld in this sweet, queer, light fantasy, in which a grumpy ex-adventurer must come out of retirement to save the kingdom... after he saves his sunshiny bard husband.Marriage isn't always sunshine and unicorns... sometimes it's monsters and necromancy.It's been almost a year since Logan 'The Bear' Theaker hung up his axe and settled down with his sunshiny bard
... Read more
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Horpal

by La. Si. Jadhav ...

Narrated by Anvay Bendre ...

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min

लेखक ल. सि. जाधव यांच्या या आत्मकथनात त्यांनी मातंग समाजाचे व्यावसायिक व सामाजिक जीवन, त्यांच्या अंधश्रद्धा व त्यांचे दैन्य, अत्यंत अभावग्रस्त स्थितीतही माणुसकी जपण्याची त्यांची धडपड या सगळ्यांचे पूर्वग्रहरहित दृष्टिने तसेच सहृदयतेने चित्रण केले आहे. वाचकांच्या सामाजिक जाणिवा समृद्ध करणारं आत्मकथन. ... Read more

$12.30 USD

लेखक ल. सि. जाधव यांच्या या आत्मकथनात त्यांनी मातंग समाजाचे व्यावसायिक व सामाजिक जीवन, त्यांच्या अंधश्रद्धा व त्यांचे दैन्य, अत्यंत अभावग्रस्त स्थितीतही माणुसकी जपण्याची त्यांची धडपड या सगळ्यांचे पूर्वग्रहरहित दृष्टिने तसेच सहृदयतेने चित्रण केले आहे. वाचकांच्या सामाजिक जाणिवा समृद्ध करणारं आत्मकथन.
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The Forgotten Girls

A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

by Monica Potts ...

Narrated by Monica Potts ...

Unabridged

7 hours 40 min

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth Macy, author of DopesickGrowing up gifted and working ... Read more

$20.00 USD

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different?“The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it’s the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in the most rugged, ultra-religious, and left-behind places in America.”—Beth Macy, author of DopesickGrowing up gifted and working
... Read more
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The Country Village Allotment

Escape to Little Bramble in this feel-good, heartwarming summer read

by Cathy Lake ...

Narrated by Julie Teal ...

Series series Country Village
Unabridged

8 hours 54 min

A heartwarming and uplifting summer read for fans of Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley, by the author of The Country Village Christmas Show, The Country Village Summer Fete and The Country Village Winter Wedding.At eighty-two years old Zelda Grey is tired. Tired of how much slower she is physically and mentally. Tired of technology. Tired of being alone since her beloved cat, Flint, died just before ... Read more

$71.99 USD

A heartwarming and uplifting summer read for fans of Heidi Swain and Phillipa Ashley, by the author of The Country Village Christmas Show, The Country Village Summer Fete and The Country Village Winter Wedding.At eighty-two years old Zelda Grey is tired. Tired of how much slower she is physically and mentally. Tired of technology. Tired of being alone since her beloved cat, Flint, died just before
... Read more
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Far from Home

by Sheila Newberry ...

Narrated by Joan Walker ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming winter listen from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry.Ipswich, 1923After an unlucky start in her first role as a nursemaid, sixteen-year-old Elin Odell looks forward to seeing in the New Year at home. Little does she know, her family is changing and she has no idea what ... Read more

$71.99 USD

For fans of Katie Flynn and Sheila Jeffries, Far From Home Home is a heart-warming winter listen from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry.Ipswich, 1923After an unlucky start in her first role as a nursemaid, sixteen-year-old Elin Odell looks forward to seeing in the New Year at home. Little does she know, her family is changing and she has no idea what
... Read more
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Sognet

by Thorkild Gravlund ...

Narrated by Jonna Hjerl ...

Unabridged

10 hours 36 min

Thorkild Gravlunds lille roman tager os med tilbage til starten af det tyvende århundrede og viser os, hvordan bøndernes liv forløb. Her har man levet i pagt med naturen i århundreder, men de seneste år er tingene begyndt at forandre sig. Teknologiske fremskridt og moderne ideer er lige så stille ved at nå ud til det lille vestsjællandske sogn, og det sætter gang i en både spændende og skræmmende ... Read more

$15.29 USD

Thorkild Gravlunds lille roman tager os med tilbage til starten af det tyvende århundrede og viser os, hvordan bøndernes liv forløb. Her har man levet i pagt med naturen i århundreder, men de seneste år er tingene begyndt at forandre sig. Teknologiske fremskridt og moderne ideer er lige så stille ved at nå ud til det lille vestsjællandske sogn, og det sætter gang i en både spændende og skræmmende
... Read more
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Hillbilly Highway

The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class

by Max Fraser ...

Narrated by Lyle Blaker ...

Unabridged

10 hours 8 min

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by
... Read more
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Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh ...

Narrated by Sarah Smarsh ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

*Finalist for the National Book Award**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Instant New York Times Bestseller**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways... ... Read more

$25.99 USD

*Finalist for the National Book Award**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Instant New York Times Bestseller**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways...
... Read more
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Don Prusòt e il ballo a palchetto

by Giuseppe Grinza, Giuseppe Grinza ...

Narrated by Daniele Ridolfi ...

Unabridged

6 hours 7 min

Campagna piemontese, anni Cinquanta. Il paesino di Pravorino è in preda al panico. La signorina Benita, responsabile della neo formata Pro Loco, ha deciso di rivoluzionare la festa del paese. Ok che lei porta i pantaloni alla zuava ed è quindi chiaramente una progressista ribelle ma che lo facesse solo nella sua vita privata, no? Che senso ha stravolgere una festa così storica, così tradizionale ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Campagna piemontese, anni Cinquanta. Il paesino di Pravorino è in preda al panico. La signorina Benita, responsabile della neo formata Pro Loco, ha deciso di rivoluzionare la festa del paese. Ok che lei porta i pantaloni alla zuava ed è quindi chiaramente una progressista ribelle ma che lo facesse solo nella sua vita privata, no? Che senso ha stravolgere una festa così storica, così tradizionale
... Read more
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Interstate 69

The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway

by Matt Dellinger ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

12 hours 45 min

New Yorker contributor and decade-long staffer Matt Dellinger uses the controversy surrounding Interstate 69 as a lens through which to examine middle America's current political, social, and economic landscape, including hot-button issues like NAFTA and the country's troubled infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, ... Read more

$20.99 USD

New Yorker contributor and decade-long staffer Matt Dellinger uses the controversy surrounding Interstate 69 as a lens through which to examine middle America's current political, social, and economic landscape, including hot-button issues like NAFTA and the country's troubled infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee,
... Read more
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Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy ...

Narrated by Martin Shaw ...

Abridged

2 hours 54 min

Hardy’s classic ‘pastoral tale’ of wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, the faithful shepherd, the lonely widower and the dashing but faithless soldier.An immediate success when it was first published in 1874, Thomas Hardy’s ‘pastoral tale’ of the wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene, her three suitors – the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, the lonely widower Farmer ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Hardy’s classic ‘pastoral tale’ of wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, the faithful shepherd, the lonely widower and the dashing but faithless soldier.An immediate success when it was first published in 1874, Thomas Hardy’s ‘pastoral tale’ of the wilful and capricious Bathsheba Everdene, her three suitors – the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, the lonely widower Farmer
... Read more
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Norwich

One Tiny Vermont Town's Secret to Happiness and Excellence

by Karen Crouse ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

4 hours 36 min

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post).In Norwich, Vermont—a charming town of organic farms and clapboard colonial buildings—a culture has taken root that ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country, Norwich gives “parents of young athletes a great gift—a glimpse at another way to raise accomplished and joyous competitors” (The Washington Post).In Norwich, Vermont—a charming town of organic farms and clapboard colonial buildings—a culture has taken root that
... Read more
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You Only Live Once

The laugh-out-loud, feel-good romantic comedy from Maxine Morrey

by Maxine Morrey ...

Narrated by Gloria Sanders ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

Discover the unforgettable and utterly uplifting love story, from the award-winning top 50 bestseller Maxine MorreyPerfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Sophie Kinsella.When Lily’s husband dies, she moves to the edge of a tiny village, settling into a solitary life, her only real company her brother and his family. A quiet life becomes her safe space, with no risk of getting hurt.When her ... Read more

$25.92 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover the unforgettable and utterly uplifting love story, from the award-winning top 50 bestseller Maxine MorreyPerfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlane and Sophie Kinsella.When Lily’s husband dies, she moves to the edge of a tiny village, settling into a solitary life, her only real company her brother and his family. A quiet life becomes her safe space, with no risk of getting hurt.When her
... Read more
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Second Chances at Cherry Tree Cottage

A feel-good read from the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish Midwife

by Jo Bartlett ...

Narrated by Emma Powell ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

From the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish MidwifeWhen Scarlett West’s useless husband, Luke walks out one day and never returns, she’s left to try and make a new life for herself and her four-year-old daughter, Ava. But with debts mounting, there’s only one place she can go…Returning home to the village where she grew up, Scarlett starts to slowly rebuild her life. Their cottage is ... Read more

$25.92 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From the top 10 bestselling author of The Cornish MidwifeWhen Scarlett West’s useless husband, Luke walks out one day and never returns, she’s left to try and make a new life for herself and her four-year-old daughter, Ava. But with debts mounting, there’s only one place she can go…Returning home to the village where she grew up, Scarlett starts to slowly rebuild her life. Their cottage is
... Read more
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Rough and Plenty

A Memorial

by Raymond A. Rogers ...

Narrated by Jeff Schwager ...

Series series Life Writing
Unabridged

9 hours 55 min

As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who ... Read more

$29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who
... Read more
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The Gunpowder and Glory Girls

The Bomb Girls 4

by Rosie Archer ...

Narrated by Helen Lloyd ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Bomb Girls
Unabridged

9 hours 28 min

The war is drawing to a close, but the munitions girls are still hard at work in the factory. Gladys, who's been promoted to overseer, has been feeling lonely lately. Her daughter has moved away, and a lot of her friends have left Gosport too. Then an act of kindness towards Goldie, a homeless teenager, provides Gladys with a new friend and lodger.But Goldie has run away from her dangerous family ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The war is drawing to a close, but the munitions girls are still hard at work in the factory. Gladys, who's been promoted to overseer, has been feeling lonely lately. Her daughter has moved away, and a lot of her friends have left Gosport too. Then an act of kindness towards Goldie, a homeless teenager, provides Gladys with a new friend and lodger.But Goldie has run away from her dangerous family
... Read more
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Fragile Neighborhoods

Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time

by Seth D. Kaplan ...

Narrated by Ron Butler ...

Unabridged

6 hours 11 min

This urgent exploration of why American society is in trouble—and how to fix it, starting with the places we call home—is an “essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation.” (Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class)The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we ... Read more

$24.99 USD

This urgent exploration of why American society is in trouble—and how to fix it, starting with the places we call home—is an “essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation.” (Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class)The neighborhoods we live in impact our lives in so many ways: they determine who we
... Read more
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Garbage Land

On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Royte, Jennifer Aquino ...

Unabridged

11 hours 44 min

Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on ... Read more

$27.99 USD

Out of sight, out of mind ... Into our trash cans go dead batteries, dirty diapers, bygone burritos, broken toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... But where do these things go next? In a country that consumes and then casts off more and more, what actually happens to the things we throw away?In Garbage Land, acclaimed science writer Elizabeth Royte leads us on
... Read more
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The Rural Voter

The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America

by Nicholas Jacobs, Daniel M. Shea ...

Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

Unabridged

16 hours 26 min

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump's surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into
... Read more
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Noche de bodas

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez ...

Narrated by Rafael Baena Zapatero ...

Series series Narrativa breve de Blasco Ibáñez
Unabridged

50 min

Un joven cura de pueblo sufre una verdadera crisis vital cuando, al salir del seminario, despierta el deseo en él y debe enfrentarse a la fuerza de sus sentimientos y al peso de las decisiones que tomó para salir de la miseria. Un retrato humano acerca de la fuerza de la pasión, y una aproximación muy naturalista al mundo rural del que proviene el protagonista. "Noche de bodas" es uno de los ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Un joven cura de pueblo sufre una verdadera crisis vital cuando, al salir del seminario, despierta el deseo en él y debe enfrentarse a la fuerza de sus sentimientos y al peso de las decisiones que tomó para salir de la miseria. Un retrato humano acerca de la fuerza de la pasión, y una aproximación muy naturalista al mundo rural del que proviene el protagonista. "Noche de bodas" es uno de los
... Read more
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Radiance of the Ordinary

Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews that Bind

by Tara Couture ...

Narrated by Tara Couture ...

Unabridged

8 hours 27 min

For most of her youth and early adulthood, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. When her mother left the house, Tara would beg her to stay, certain that death was right around the corner. As the threat loomed in her mind, distraction in its many forms became her only relief.In her twenties, determined to manifest her long-time dream of owning a farm, Tara worked alongside a cattleman, Richard, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

For most of her youth and early adulthood, Tara Couture had a deep fear of death. When her mother left the house, Tara would beg her to stay, certain that death was right around the corner. As the threat loomed in her mind, distraction in its many forms became her only relief.In her twenties, determined to manifest her long-time dream of owning a farm, Tara worked alongside a cattleman, Richard,
... Read more

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