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Forty Acres Deep
- Narrated by: Michael Perry
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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When farmer Harold wakes to find his wife dead beside him in bed and snow threatening to crush the last life from his dwindling farm, he takes drastic steps toward a fresh start. Set in a world of stark wintry beauty, Forty Acres Deep is the brief, unrelenting tale of one person's attempt to make sense of a world he no longer recognizes while pitilessly calling himself into account. Seamed with grim humor and earthy revelations, it is an unforgiving story...and yet leaves open the idea that we might surrender to hope.
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Five thousand years out of the Labyrinth, the Minotaur finds himself in the American South, living in a trailer park and working as a line cook at a steakhouse. No longer a devourer of human flesh, the Minotaur is a socially inept, lonely creature with very human needs. But over a two-week period, as his life dissolves into chaos, this broken and alienated immortal awakens to the possibility for happiness and to the capacity for love.
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The author is a professor of English
- By ShySusan on 11-16-11
By: Steven Sherrill
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This House of Sky
- Landscapes of a Western Mind
- By: Ivan Doig
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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A nominee for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig's brilliant memoir shares the experiences and culture that shaped his early years and made him fall in love with the West. From his childhood in a family of homesteaders through the death of his mother and his move to Montana to herd sheep, Doig shows his intimate connection with the American West.
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Early work by a favorite author
- By Doggy Bird on 09-06-14
By: Ivan Doig
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
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- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- By C. Wilson on 01-11-17
By: John Steinbeck
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Jagger
- Steele Shadows Investigations, Book 1
- By: Amanda McKinney
- Narrated by: Jack Calihan, Stephanie Nemeth-Parker
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Feared just as much on the streets as at a crime scene, homicide detective Max Jagger has dedicated his life to one thing: speaking for the dead. Everyone and everything else be damned, including his own demons. During one of the most oppressive heat waves to hit the small, southern town of Berry Springs, the former Navy SEAL is called to a scene where a real estate heiress is found standing over a dead body, holding the murder weapon.
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Great read!
- By Anissa Minatra on 07-06-22
By: Amanda McKinney
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Widow Town
- By: Joe Hart
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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A breakthrough research project has detected an active gene present in all known psychopaths and developed a vaccine to make it completely dormant. Society has rejoiced the extinction of the sociopathic mind. There hasn’t been a serial killing in America in over 40 years. Sheriff MacArthur Gray resides in the future but lives in the past. His world views have chased him from a large metropolis to his home town, but there is no sanctuary to be found after he arrives. Because people are dying and only he can see the truth. A psychopath has somehow survived and is thriving.
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widow Town
- By Michelle on 07-25-19
By: Joe Hart
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Crimes in Southern Indiana
- Stories
- By: Frank Bill
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With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill’s southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.
By: Frank Bill
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Fire and Ice: A Liam Campbell Mystery
- Liam Campbell Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Dana Stabenow
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In this mystery series by Dana Stabenow, the Edgar Award-winning author returns to the Alaskan setting she's famous for, with a wonderful character - state trooper Liam Campbell. Liam's just been transferred from Anchorage to the small fishing village of Newenham, Alaska - where a local pilot seems to have lost his head.
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A quick heads up!
- By Dr. Daniel Chapman on 05-30-14
By: Dana Stabenow
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The Voice of the Night with Short Story, "Silence"
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Pavi Proczko, Kirby Heyborne
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No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. Colin was so shy; Roy was so popular. Colin was fascinated by Roy - and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day, Roy asked his timid friend: “You ever killed anything?” From that moment on, the two were bound together in a game too terrifying to imagine - and too irresistible to stop.
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can not believe dean koontz wrote this book
- By Anonymous User on 10-05-21
By: Dean Koontz
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Govt Cheese
- By: Steven Pressfield
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People who have read my books, particularly “The War of Art” and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked with guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars I’m hoping may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it down. Let me tell the parts I normally leave out.
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Another Great Work by a great storyteller
- By Vales Tales on 12-11-22
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What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an 82-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit - often with his young daughters in tow - author Michael Perry is about to find out. Toiling in a shop Perry describes as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and - now and then - batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives.
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I've listened to it four times!
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Another in a series (including From the Top, Roughneck Grace, Million Billion, and Peaceful Persistence) of collected brief essays by New York Times best-selling author and humorist Michael Perry.
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- Caleb L.
- 02-16-23
Devastating. Honest. Real.
Don’t be fooled by Perry’s other more light-hearted works. This mighty little book is deep & heavy. It’s a fast read, but you’ll probably need to pause & mull a poignant truth, consider an all-too-familiar pattern… heck, maybe just cry. Read it, but warn your heart first - especially if you know rural life, isolation, or depression.
Even if you don’t know those realities first-hand, prepare yourself before cracking into this one. You’re going to walk away looking at the world a little differently and with new compassion. It may be a work of fiction, but you’ll be seeing Harold at gas stations and coffee shops for a long time. You’ll find yourself giving him your most kind and warm smile - and wondering about him after you leave - and hoping beyond hope that you provided some warmth… which is really just something this world needed more of anyway.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-13-23
Solemn and Real
The author captures those gut wrenching feelings so well. You want to help the character, shake him and say let's work on this, but not sure he'd listen. A really good read.
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- Eric
- 09-30-24
Self reflection
This book Really made me reflect on the wonderful relationship I have with my wife.
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- David W. Cooper
- 03-15-23
Unexpected
Michael Perry’s works are usually filled with bits of often self effacing humor. Not so with this dark story of a man feeling alone, isolated, and regretful. Perry’s skillful turn of phrase portrays the downward path of despair powerfully. An important read.
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- Nick
- 07-19-23
A good story by any author, but amazing by Michael
Dark, deep, and complex. I am from a small town in Wisconsin and relate so well to Perry's writing. In this book, which is such a departure from his others, Perry weaves the complexities of change, loss, sadness, thoughtfulness, stubborness, honesty, and about a dozen other life challenges, into a haunting portrayal of coping with our world, our choices, and our mental health. This was such a wonderfully sad and beautiful book.
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- MJ
- 01-18-24
The last of a kind
Mr Perry the author put in perspective of how a 8 stanchion dairy farmer is diapering, and at the same time, how loneliness can swallow you whole. He shows how we sometimes don't see who we are hurting. And how that hurt can come back to hurt us. it shoes how he has everything he has basically wanted out of life. He has his own hermitage basically. But now realizes that his own selfishness to be isolated has also affected the wife he once had. It also shows how he wanted to make a right in his life towards his dead wife in the end by giving everything away. The book is a beautiful epitaph to a dying breed of farmers out there. And maybe to the Men of Northern Wisconsin.
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- Christiana
- 02-16-23
Great listen!
Loved all of it!
It’s dark, but it’s good.
Being read by the author made it all the better.
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- Michael C. Schwartz
- 01-07-24
A story that is unpredictable
This was a good story, A man dealing with his demons. A deep look into himself and the world around him!
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- Ed Schiltgen
- 05-19-24
Tough topic, but masterfully shines light on growing concern in rural farming communities
Growing up on a small town farm, and watching my father selling the cows and recently rent the crop land, brings a flood of emotions. I could relate to the hardships of the main character, though not to his extreme, and felt the realness of each day. Amazing detail.
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