The Altamaha River, Georgia's "Little Amazon," is one of the last truly wild places in America. Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak the river, bearing their father's ashes toward...
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Author: Brown, TaylorSummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Hansen, RonSummary:Ron Hansen brings listeners back into the late 1800s and into Billy the Kid's boyhood as a ranch hand trying to wrest a fortune from an unforgiving landscape. We are with Billy in every gunfight...
Genre: Biographical fiction, Western fiction -
Author: Matthiessen, PeterSummary:Matthiessen reveals a complex historical struggle between American Indians and the United States government and how it influenced the events that lead to the imprisonment of Leonard Peltier.
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Author: Harrison, JimSummary:Jim Harrison's magnificent trilogy of short novels--Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name--explores the theme of revenge and survival, adding up to an extraordinary vision...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Brand, MaxSummary:After finding a wolf with a price on its head caught in his traps, Dave Reagan rescues the animal with the hopes of earning some much-needed respect. But his cousins attempt to collect on the...
Genre: Western fiction -
Author: L'Amour, LouisSummary:This volume presents eight of Louis L'Amour's ever popular short stories, including "Mistakes Can Kill You," "The Man from the Battle Flat," "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," "The One for the Mojave...
Genre: Short stories, Western fiction -
Author: Poore, MichaelSummary:A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. "Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman...
Genre: Romance fiction -
Author: Sheinkin, SteveSummary:When superstar athlete Jim Thorpe and football legend Pop Warner met in 1904 at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, they forged one of the winningest teams in American football...
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Author: Greenberg, AndySummary:From Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg comes the true story of the desperate hunt to identify and track an elite team of Russian agents bent on digital sabotage In 2014, the world witnessed the...
Genre: Computer science, True crime stories -
Author: Kincaid, Gregory D.Summary:For George and Mary Ann McCray, watching their disabled son Todd move out is unbearable--even though he's in his twenties. But Todd has a dog named Christmas and an entire community ready to help...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author:Summary:This anthology presents forty narratives, both nonfiction and fiction, that together capture the impact and complexity of Alzheimer's and other dementias on patients as well as their...
Genre: Medicine, health and fitness -
Author: Brooks, BillSummary:When a devastating winter kills John Henry Cole's livestock, he's forced to move on, but not in the direction he expected. Cole and Teddy Green, a Texas ranger, seek to question a woman about her...
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Author: Lock, NormanSummary:Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, just as the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward, he encounters many famous and colorful...
Genre: Historical fiction, Western fiction -
Author: Stegner, WallaceSummary:Bo Mason, his wife, and two boys live a transient life of poverty, drifting from place to place, seeking a living. The conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the American...
Genre: Historical fiction, Western fiction -
Author: Wheeler, LisaSummary:
Buildings, bridges, and books don't exist without the workers who are often invisible in the final product, as this joyous and profound adapted-for-audio picture book reveals from acclaimed author...
Genre: Juvenile fiction, Science fiction