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The Moonshiner’s Daughter
- Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Publisher's summary
Generations of Sassers have made moonshine in the Brushy Mountains of Wilkes County, North Carolina. Their history is recorded in a leather-bound journal that belongs to Jessie Sasser's daddy, but Jessie wants no part of it. As far as she's concerned, moonshine caused her mother's death a dozen years ago.
Her father refuses to speak about her mama, or about the day she died. But Jessie has a gnawing hunger for the truth - one that compels her to seek comfort in food. Yet all her self-destructive behavior seems to do is feed what her school's gruff but compassionate nurse describes as the "monster" inside Jessie.
Resenting her father's insistence that moonshining runs in her veins, Jessie makes a plan to destroy the stills, using their neighbors as scapegoats. Instead, her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges. As she endeavors to right wrongs old and new, Jessie's loyalties will bring her to unexpected revelations about her family, her strength - and a legacy that may provide her with the answers she has been longing for.
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Ever come across a situation that simply wasn't right - where someone was getting the dirty end of the stick and you wished you could make things right but didn't know how? Fourteen-year-old Jack knows how. Or rather he's learning how. He's discovering that he has a knack for fixing things. Not bikes or toys or appliances - situations...It all starts when Jack and his best friends, Weezy and Eddie, discover a rotting corpse - the victim of ritual murder - in the fabled New Jersey Pine Barrens. Beside the body is an ancient artifact carved with strange designs.
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A Different Drummer
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June 1957. One hot afternoon in the backwaters of the Deep South, a young black farmer named Tucker Caliban salts his fields, shoots his horse, burns his house, and heads north with his wife and child. His departure sets off an exodus of the state’s entire black population, throwing the established order into brilliant disarray. Told from the points of view of the white residents who remained, A Different Drummer stands, decades after its first publication in 1962, as an extraordinary and prescient triumph of satire and spirit.
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A wonderful and moving story
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We Begin at the End
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Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
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Horrible narrator in this audible book
- By M. patton on 03-03-21
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- Cathy Autrey
- 12-02-22
great story
I was a bit disappointed in the end, but still a truly great story.
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- Theresa Black
- 11-22-22
Good book
This book is well written and the speaker is good - I would recommend as it is a good read
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- Chris F.
- 02-04-24
I fell in love with the Sasser family. So much sorrow but they never gave up.
I enjoyed the book and the story. Triumph through tragedy! The Sasser family endured so much but always looked on the bright side.
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- Rebekah Dowis
- 03-06-24
Hmm
This book flowed and was really good, but the ending left me shook. Why end it like that? Erghhhh
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-03-22
Outstanding
Loved how Jesse came to understand and love her daddy. How she took responsibility for her and her brother. How she was at peace when she died.
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- sherri sanders
- 01-31-23
Wonderful!
Loved this book. Love historical fiction. Great story and excellent narration. Highly recommend this book.
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- Donita Murphy-Sims
- 03-29-23
Enjoyable
This had been on my list for nearly two years. I finally took the plunge and enjoyed it. The storyline kept me interested.
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- theresa
- 11-03-23
I wanted to like the story but
There was too much focus on an eating disorder. The story could of been part of Appalachian history but fell very short. All the characters are dysfunctional and their actions at times are ridiculous.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-06-24
Phenomenal
The story keeps you engaged wondering what’s next. It contains all the feelings and emotions a person looks for in a book. The main female character shows personal growth. This book wraps up the ending perfectly.
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- Allie M
- 02-26-21
Excellent Story!
Excellent story about the Between what we perceive and what is reality. I would highly recommend this for any age group.
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