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Coal Black Horse

by Robert Olmstead ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

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7 hours 8 min

Author Robert Olmstead's work has been called "brilliant and compelling" by the Chicago Tribune. Here, he takes us back to the Civil War. Robey Child, only 14, must go to the battlefield to bring his injured father home. Clad in a homemade uniform-gray on one side, blue on the other-and riding a powerful coal black horse, Robey sets out on a journey that will make him a man. "... a powerful, ... Read more

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Author Robert Olmstead's work has been called "brilliant and compelling" by the Chicago Tribune. Here, he takes us back to the Civil War. Robey Child, only 14, must go to the battlefield to bring his injured father home. Clad in a homemade uniform-gray on one side, blue on the other-and riding a powerful coal black horse, Robey sets out on a journey that will make him a man. "... a powerful,
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Deadline

by John Dunning ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

7 hours 55 min

John Dunning captured top places on national best-seller lists with The Bookman's Wake, a New York Times notable book of the year that prompted one critic to comment, "John Dunning writes stunningly good mysteries." Deadline is a suspenseful tale that begins in a dusty newsroom, but spins out into a dark world of conspiracy and murder. Although Dalton Walker is an award-winning journalist, his ... Read more

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John Dunning captured top places on national best-seller lists with The Bookman's Wake, a New York Times notable book of the year that prompted one critic to comment, "John Dunning writes stunningly good mysteries." Deadline is a suspenseful tale that begins in a dusty newsroom, but spins out into a dark world of conspiracy and murder. Although Dalton Walker is an award-winning journalist, his
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Rant

An Oral History of Buster Casey

by Chuck Palahniuk ...

Narrated by Stina Nielsen, L.J. Ganser, James Jenner, Kevin R. Free, Alan Nebelthau, Julia Gibson, Norman Dietz, Jonathan Hogan, Melanie Martinez, Angela Rogers, Andrea Gallo, Robin Miles, John McDonough, Cynthia Darlow, George Guidall, Danielle Ferland, James Yaegashi, Johnny Heller, Suzanne Toren, Greg Steinbruner, Ed Sala, Ruth Ann Phimister, Lizzy Cooper-Davis, Richard Poe, Nick Landrum, Henry Strozier, Tom Stechschulte, Nicole Poole, T. Ryder Smith, Andy Paris ...

Unabridged

10 hours 12 min

Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With ... Read more

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Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to build an oral history of his short, violent life. With
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The Orchard Keeper

by Cormac McCarthy ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

8 hours 8 min

The acclaimed first novel from one of America’s most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father.The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the ... Read more

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The acclaimed first novel from one of America’s most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father.The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the
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Pushing the Bear

A Novel of the Trail of Tears

by Diane Glancy ...

Narrated by George Guidall, Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Barbara Caruso, Robert Ramirez, Richard Ferrone, Ed Sala, Kate Forbes, Suzanne Toren, Ruth Ann Phimister, Mark Hammer ...

Unabridged

8 hours 55 min

In 1838, thirteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek-the Trail of Tears-takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina, but ... Read more

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In 1838, thirteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek-the Trail of Tears-takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina, but
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The Man Who Listens to Horses

by Monty Roberts ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

Monty Roberts has traveled the world working with difficult horses. He has trained Queen Elizabeth's yearlings, jittery stallions on movie sets, and million-dollar race horses. In each case, he controls the animal without using force or inflicting pain. Monty's father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order to "break" it. But when he was 13, Monty made a ... Read more

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Monty Roberts has traveled the world working with difficult horses. He has trained Queen Elizabeth's yearlings, jittery stallions on movie sets, and million-dollar race horses. In each case, he controls the animal without using force or inflicting pain. Monty's father, a traditional horse trainer, had taught his son to dominate a horse in order to "break" it. But when he was 13, Monty made a
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Rascal

by Sterling North ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

4 hours 20 min

In 1918 Wisconsin, 11-year-old Sterling North has an almost perfect life. He keeps skunks in the backyard, goes everywhere with his enormous Saint Bernard, and is building a canoe in the living room. The only trouble is life gets a little lonely for him and his father since his mother died. While scouting around the woods one afternoon, he discovers an abandoned, month-old raccoon. Afraid the kit ... Read more

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In 1918 Wisconsin, 11-year-old Sterling North has an almost perfect life. He keeps skunks in the backyard, goes everywhere with his enormous Saint Bernard, and is building a canoe in the living room. The only trouble is life gets a little lonely for him and his father since his mother died. While scouting around the woods one afternoon, he discovers an abandoned, month-old raccoon. Afraid the kit
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Far Bright Star

by Robert Olmstead ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Series series
Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert. "[This] brilliantly expressive, condensed tale of resilience and dusty determination flows ... Read more

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Acclaimed author Robert Olmstead's Far Bright Star "packs a potent emotional wallop" (Booklist). In 1916, aging cavalryman Napoleon Childs leads an expedition into Mexico to capture Pancho Villa and bring him to justice. But Childs' troops are wiped out, and he is left to die alone in the Mexican desert. "[This] brilliantly expressive, condensed tale of resilience and dusty determination flows
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No Easy Answers

Short Stories About Teenagers Making Tough Choices

by Donald R. Gallo ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller, Jeff Woodman, Christina Moore, Ed Sala, Kim Staunton ...

Unabridged

8 hours

This collection of 16 stories from the best writers of young adult fiction, including M.E. Kerr, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Euwer Wolff, and Graham Salisbury provide realistic and positive accounts of today's teens facing moral dilemmas. Young adults will recognize themselves and their friends in these teens who are trying to make the right choices about pregnancy, drug use, peer pressure, and ... Read more

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This collection of 16 stories from the best writers of young adult fiction, including M.E. Kerr, Walter Dean Myers, Virginia Euwer Wolff, and Graham Salisbury provide realistic and positive accounts of today's teens facing moral dilemmas. Young adults will recognize themselves and their friends in these teens who are trying to make the right choices about pregnancy, drug use, peer pressure, and
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Heaven is a Long Way Off

by Win Blevins ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Sam Morgan Rendezvous
Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

Win Blevins has won popular and critical acclaim for his sweeping Western Rendezvous saga. The fourth chapter in the series, Heaven Is a Long Way Off finds Sam Morgan mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way. ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Win Blevins has won popular and critical acclaim for his sweeping Western Rendezvous saga. The fourth chapter in the series, Heaven Is a Long Way Off finds Sam Morgan mourning the loss of his wife Meadowlark and determined to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But his journey is fraught with danger as Mexican authorities, Mojave Indians, and a host of other obstacles stand in his way.
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White Doves at Morning

by James Lee Burke ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

11 hours 16 min

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKETwo young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials ... Read more

$26.99 USD

A riveting evocation of the Civil War, drawn from the true family history of "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post), JAMES LEE BURKETwo young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrants, face the trials
... Read more
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Outer Dark

by Cormac McCarthy ...

Narrated by Ed Sala ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find
... Read more

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