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The Walking Drum
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
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Warrior, lover, and scholar Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time.
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Best of Louis L'Amour!!
- By Jamie on 04-25-11
- The Walking Drum
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Curless
Great detailed history!
Reviewed: 08-27-24
Love all the accurate historical facts throughout this book! A great story filled with detail enhancing the story line. We completely enjoyed this book from start to finish and everything in between!
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The Californios
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
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Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu - until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor is that her late husband found gold in the wild and haunted California hills, but the only clue to its whereabouts lies with an ancient, enigmatic Indian.
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It's not required to be Irish to believe.
- By Nvr2old on 07-06-17
- The Californios
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Erik Singer
Authentic area description
Reviewed: 06-27-24
The area around Malibu, the the sea approaches, the surrounding mountains and hills are covered very accurately in this story. The legends and stories around the area are still talked about by the local old timers during their yarns to people asking questions. Very enjoyable story.
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Fair Blows the Wind
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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His father killed by the British and his home burned, young Tatton Chantry left Ireland to make his fortune and regain the land that was rightfully his. Schooled along the way in the use of arms, Chantry arrives in London a wiser and far more dangerous man. He invests in trading ventures, but on a voyage to the New World his party is attacked by Indians and he is marooned in the untamed wilderness of the Carolina coast. It is in this darkest time, when everything seems lost, that Chantry encounters a remarkable opportunity....
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A swashbuckling adventure
- By rahhenry on 01-04-20
- Fair Blows the Wind
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: John Keating
Challenging and intense
Reviewed: 03-29-24
We really enjoyed the detailed historical analysis of this project by Louis L'Amour proving his penchant for accuracy to the time and place he is writing about. Verifying his work helps one understand the great lengths the author takes to write these stories from early years of conflicts between Ireland, Spain, and England, with a few smaller countries at times. Being of Irish and Scottish descent myself with my wife being German and French we both enjoyed the story and learned about our history from it. We truly appreciate this famous writer for the effort and research that was put into this work.
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Ride the Dark Trail: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Terrence Mann
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers. In Ride the Dark Trail L'Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land from falling into the wrong hands.
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Another part of the Sackett family tree heard from.
- By Nvr2old on 07-03-17
- Ride the Dark Trail: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Terrence Mann
Great authentic story!
Reviewed: 03-11-24
I truly enjoyed the easy pace the reader of this story used because it matched my idea of how Logan Sackett would actually have talked telling his own story. Excellent story line keeping with the basic truth of how people like these would have lived during that era. Being born and raised in East Tennessee in the late 40's and 50's on very similar true stories from a family spread across Overton, Fentress and ones touching those I learned to love Louis L'Amour's story telling as he called himself a Troubadour. In my life experiences, and a lot of my kin, we all read his books when he used various writers names for different magazines, short stories, and fodder for various companies. A legend while he lived and we appreciate his legacy being carried on by his family. Our children are in their 50's and they all have L'Amour's books, cassette tapes, and DVD's, etc., and they got my wife and I (54 years married) listening to all L'Amour's stories on Audible like they do. We have trouble reading due to eye surgeries but our hearing is hanging in there for now. Great feeling to hear these stories we have read over and over during the years.
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The Sky-liners: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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The Sackett boys weren't out to make a reputation, it just happened that way. They had crossed Black Fetchen and lived to tell about it. Now Fetchen was coming for them with the most expensive hired guns in the country. But the Sacketts were no strangers to trouble. They knew what guns were and how to use them, and one thing was sure, when the showdown came, the Sacketts would be ready, and someone was going to die.
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Love the Sacketts!
- By Janie on 03-26-13
- The Sky-liners: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
Authentic story of trail drive moving cattle
Reviewed: 02-20-24
Really loved the complete storyline with winning, losing, relationships of both good and bad. Could very well have happened just the way this story is told. Growing up in the 1950's in East Tennessee on a 350 acre cattle farm in the mountains and working like dogs with no electricity, no plumbing, just a house built from the trees we harvested from our land to clear the land for our cattle. Hunting, fishing, robbing bee hives, and working for neighbor farmers shoveling waste matter, it was a hard life but so rewarding. I love this author's stories because I am comfortable with them. I knew my first girlfriend a day less than a month and ask her to marry me, we were married 5 months latter and are getting ready to celebrate our 54th anniversary, as in this story you meshed with someone and you most likely married them no long after. The way most of the people I grew up with did and the bulk are still married unless one or both have passed away.
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Ep 1: Day of Terror: Undercover In Manhattan
- By: Novel
- Narrated by: David Harewood
- Length: 51 mins
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In 1993, Emad Salem, a recent Egyptian immigrant to the US, was recruited by the FBI to infiltrate a New-Jersey-based radical Islamist cell. He risked everything to help disrupt what could have been the deadliest ever terrorist attack on US soil.
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Engaging
- By Samuel Cardozo on 11-16-24
- Ep 1: Day of Terror: Undercover In Manhattan
- By: Novel
- Narrated by: David Harewood
Tremendous Patriotic Acts of an Immigrant!
Reviewed: 12-06-23
Such dedication and commitment to his adopted country was shown by this Egyptian Immigrant who had served years in his old homeland's military to then move to the USA and truly risk his life and his family's lives because he believed the oath he made to the United States when hen became a citizen to learn of a terror plot and share it with the FBI only to have the upper brass of the FBI discount his loyalty and fire him from the team investigating the terror plot. He remained committed to the Ideals of Freedom so strongly that he went beyond what even natural born citizens would have done to protect his new adopted country! Great true historical story about true American values from an Immigrant! Congratulations to this man for believing the words he swore at the Inauguration Day of his becoming an American Citizen turned Hero!
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Mistletoe Murders 2
- By: Ken Cuperus
- Narrated by: Cobie Smulders, Raymond Ablack, Anna Cathcart, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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When Emily Lane isn’t busy running her charming Christmas-themed store, “Under the Mistletoe”, located in the quaint tourist town of Fletcher’s Grove, she finds herself compelled to investigate not so quaint local murders. On the surface, Emily is a perfectly lovely, good-natured puzzle-solver and mystery lover. But she is hiding a secret past from everyone in town. And when Emily begins her personal investigations, Detective-Constable Sam Wilner, a smart and attractive cop—with a crush on Emily that is not completely unrequited—begins to wonder if there’s more to Emily than meets the eye.
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Love cobie smulders as a narrator!
- By julia fairchild on 11-20-23
- Mistletoe Murders 2
- By: Ken Cuperus
- Narrated by: Cobie Smulders, Raymond Ablack, Anna Cathcart, Jean Yoon, Enrico Colantoni, Kevin Hanchard, full cast
Well written story with great suspense to keep us focused!
Reviewed: 12-06-23
We really enjoyed the overall storyline that unfolded over the numerous episodes of the series and would love for it to have continued on after Detective Sam recovered from his gunshot wound and followed up with the newfound love story between him and Emily. What happened after the person Emily was hiding from walked in her house when she thought it was Sam? Help!
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Ep 1: Cindy Murphy
- By: Emma Weatherill
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
- Length: 32 mins
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It’s 1999 and Cindy Murphy is your regular New Jersey mom. Except she’s not. She’s a deep cover spy trained up by Moscow Center to infiltrate the US government.
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Excellent Podcast! Intriguing and Well-Performed.
- By DtownAmazoner on 09-19-24
- Ep 1: Cindy Murphy
- By: Emma Weatherill
- Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
Great Authentic Documentary!
Reviewed: 12-04-23
We were hesitant to listen to this documentary because typically they are too cut up from the jumping back and forth between the narrative and the reality of what happened. This was remarkably different than what we were expecting to hear. We played the introduction and I was really impressed with it so I asked my wife (of 53&1/2 years) how she felt. She is the one that typically dislikes documentaries and leaves the room, however, she instantly said that she was very interested in hearing this. We were very happy that we heard this true historically accurate story and the fact that is in such recent times. Thank you for your focus on accurate information and the details that are frequently overlooked that truly make a documentary like this much more relevant to us today and gives us some great follow-up on the characters after the heart of the overall story.
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Ride the River: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Jamie Rose
- Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home - until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take advantage of her by any means necessary. Echo will need all of her wits to best this scoundrel and make it back home in one piece.
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Cute Story -- Boring Narrator
- By Lady M on 04-28-13
- Ride the River: The Sacketts
- A Novel
- By: Louis L'Amour
- Narrated by: Jamie Rose
My wife's favorite L'Amour book!
Reviewed: 11-21-23
This is another example of a book that has been thoroughly researched and written with great accuracy based on actual facts, places with a clear understanding of the times being written about. Being born in that area of East Tennessee and having hunted the woods in that area in the 1950's it was like being at home in the woods acting like our hunting dog for my father and older brothers. Great memories for sure!
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Stories of the Golden West, Book 3
- By: Jon Tuska, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, and others
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane, Tom Weiner
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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A collection of classic Western tales including Tappan's Burro by Zane Grey, Jargan M by Max Brand and The Trail to Crazy Man by Louis L'Amour.
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The Trail to Crazy Man
- By Alan on 09-16-16
- Stories of the Golden West, Book 3
- By: Jon Tuska, Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, Max Brand
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane, Tom Weiner
Outstanding Story/Great Reader!
Reviewed: 11-18-23
This is a classic Louis L'Amour Story with guns, horses, fierce fistfights, and a fair Lady being cheated or some other offense. Very authentic settings in the great west!
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