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Prayers the Devil Answers
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- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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Sharyn McCrumb, New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Ballad series, examines one of the most famous public executions in US history in her stunning and powerfully written Depression-era novel.
Years later, after the tragedy, someone remembered the Dumb Supper and what had happened there. That was the cause of it, they said, because the ritual wasn't a game after all. It really was magic, but magic has rules, and she broke them.
Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner.
Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands of the role are even more challenging when she is forced to combat society's expectations for a woman. Soon enough, dark secrets come to light, and Ellie must grapple with small-town superstitions and the tenuous ties she shares with a condemned killer as she carves out a place for herself in an uncertain future.
"There is no one quite like Sharyn McCrumb. No one better either" (San Diego Union-Tribune), and her luscious narrative brings her unforgettable characters to life with the "pure poetry" (The New York Times Book Review) that defines her astounding novels. Prayers the Devil Answers combines masterful historical research and captivating folklore to make an atmospheric and suspenseful tour de force.
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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.
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A gift to be treasured
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Hillary Jordan's mesmerizing debut novel won the Bellwether Prize for fiction. A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
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May this South never rise again.
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Only a few nuclear weapons fell. But in the chaos of famine and plague, there existed a few pockets of order. The strongest of them was the state of Deseret. The climate has changed, and the lake has filled up. There, on the fringes, brave, hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.
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Short Story Collection
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Just Desserts
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Finding herself in over her head with a case involving a politician's infidelities, Memphis-born karate expert Detective Sergeant Savannah Reid is told that she must turn in her badge because she is overweight.
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Confusing title for a great book
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The Vagrants
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Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance.
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Lovely prose, good story, deadly narration
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
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Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and fans alike fell in love with the voice of 99-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and loquacious heroines in American literature. Lucy married at the turn of the 20th century, when she was 15 and her husband was 50. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood.
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Dated.
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In Paradise - her first novel since she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature - Toni Morrison gives us a bravura performance. As the book begins deep in Oklahoma early one morning in 1976, nine men from Ruby (pop. 360), in defense of "the one all-black town worth the pain", assault the nearby Convent and the women in it. From the town's ancestral origins in 1890 to the fateful day of the assault, Paradise tells the story of a people ever mindful of the relationship between their spectacular history and a void.
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MORRISON AT HER MOST COMPLEX
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Under Heaven's Shining Stars
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For three young boys, Liam, Patrick, and Hugo, life in Ireland of the 1960s proves to be both idyllic and flawed. Living in close proximity but leading vastly different lives, the bonds of friendship bind these young men as they grow, dream, and navigate the storms of youth.
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A Modern Irish Catholic Tale
- By Jane Meddaugh on 12-19-20
By: Jean Grainger
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- Dr Jan Bieschke
- 08-04-20
Loved This
Every book I've read by this author only impresses me more. Her command of beautiful and colorful language makes one feel present in the moments as the scenes are so vividly portrayed.
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- Donna
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Yes, buy this book. It is rich with
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readers to listen to just a bit more.
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- Asa
- 09-20-22
Prayers the Devil Answers
Great story telling on the part of the author. Stunner of an ending.
Narration very good. Easy to listen to. Kept my attention.
Highly recommend
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- Lillian T.
- 06-25-17
not a mystery
I have read a lot of Sharyn McCrumb's mysteries and though this one held up to her high standard of storytelling and character development, the term mystery hardly fits. The pace was painfully slow at times. I hope this is not a harbinger of the tone and pace she plans for the next of her historical mystery series. I keep thinking I must have skipped some chapters that would have developed the missing heart of this story. The ending makes his motive for killing his wife seem to be a frivolous affair ("ain't we got fun!") while his love for his wife remained intact. It just doesn't make sense. In the end we are left with a crime not of passion but of incommunicable feelings and a drifting apart.
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- ARW68
- 05-24-17
Sharon never disappoints
I have been a longtime fan of Sharyn McCrumb. I devour her books based in our mountains and foothills. Can't wait for the next one
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-17
Surprising twist.
Loved the story. The narration was great. I didn't want to be interrupted while listening! Very captivating.
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- Lauren
- 02-26-17
Boring
I tried to like this book. I usually quit a book that I don't like but I stuck it out. I enjoyed the narrator and I hoped it would get better as I listened. But it didn't. It was a very boring book. Nothing really happened. The best part of the book was the last 30 seconds.
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- Susan Hartwell
- 05-24-16
Dull as ditch water.
If you like a story with no mystery, uninteresting people and no reason to like or care about them then this book is for you. If not look elsewhere. Try one of Sharyn McCumbs other books they are very good just not this one.
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