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    Coon Dogs and Outhouses, Volume 2: Tall Tales from the Mississippi Delta , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 289min
    Sometimes I stop and try to figure out where the stories come from and why I write the way I do. I'm sure much of it is a result of the land I grew up on and the people who were trying to scratch a living from it. One of my earliest memories is of a large fire in the middle of the cotton field. It was wintertime, and I was helping Daddy burn chunks of stumps and roots that had accumulated during the crop season. It was a new ground farm only recently drained and released from the clutches of the brackish water of a Mississippi bayou. The soil was buckshot - rich, black, and grainy - unlike the light-colored, sandy loam of the old Delta. But the type of soil doesn't matter. If he stays in contact with it long enough, the land will brand a man as surely as the red-hot iron brands a Western calf. I'm sure the flat, almost treeless bayou-studded Delta of my early years - and later its replacement, Mississippi's rolling, red-clay hills - both placed their marks on me. My family had long been people of the soil, and although I chose another profession, I have always been aware of the pull of the land. And then there were the people - those quirky, down-to-earth folk who saw the world and their place in it through a different set of lenses. My family tree had plenty of these sitting on all the branches, and there were plenty more just down the road or over the hill. And in our rural society, they could not hide. Everyone knew them and knew all about them. And the stories of their quirky escapades and misadventures were told and retold until they took on lives of their own. For, you see, that's the way the common history was kept alive and where much of our entertainment came from - through the stories. It was the Depression, and very few areas were as economically depressed as the rural South. The road in front of our house was dirt (mud when it rained), and with no electric lights and no plumbing, we lived a bare and stark existence. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Carta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052877/bk_acx0_052877_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Coon Dogs and Outhouses, Volume 1: Tall Tales from the Old South , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 310min
    Luke Boyd's first collection of 25 short stories reflects the folk humor and local color that are hallmarks of Southern writing. His storytelling is part remembrance of a culture that is gradually fading, part recollection of lessons learned over a lifetime. His matter-of-fact style and clarity of detail are cut from the cloth of the oral tradition that flourished in the rural South of his upbringing. He deftly places the hilarious story of chain saw-toting Phinos Ledbetter and his botched baptism at the East Fork Southern Missionary Baptist Church alongside the powerful memory of an uncle known by the poor tenant farmhands he served only as "The Jesus Doctor". These unforgettable characters are depicted so clearly and accurately as to leave the listener guessing which stories are fact and which are imagined. And whether the teachers in these tales are smudged with the dust of chalk or caked with the mud of the field, their lives and lessons are faithfully recorded here in straightforward prose that evokes a special time and place. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Carta. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/053073/bk_acx0_053073_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Answer as a Man: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1271min
    New York Times best seller: In early 1900s Pennsylvania, the ambitious son of Irish immigrants pursues the American Dream in the face of injustice and intolerance. Fourteen-year-old Jason Aloysius Garrity is now of age to work full-time in a Pennsylvania coal factory, earning four dollars a week. His family left their hardscrabble life in Ireland to create a better one in America. But their shanty-like home on a street filled with outhouses, horse manure, and the ever-present odor of noxious gas is a hell all its own. Yet Jason possesses the passion and principles that will lift him out of the abject poverty surrounding his widowed mother, fanatically religious younger brother, and manipulative crippled sister.   With World War I looming on the horizon, Jason begins to make his way in Belleville’s burgeoning business world. He marries beautiful, wealthy Patricia Mulligan, unaware that their union is built on a deception that will have far-reaching consequences not only in his life, but in the lives of his three children.   Filled with unforgettable characters, this masterful retelling of the Book of Job depicts one man’s will to succeed amidst the slings and arrows of fortune. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Aaron Abano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/053528/bk_adbl_053528_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Winter Is My Middle Name , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 263min
    Join Danny and his friends as they have many misadventures in a southwestern Pennsylvania steel town during the late 1950s and early 60s. The story has many memorable and odd characters. It was a much simpler time; there were no cell phones, computers, or video games. People still gathered around the radio to listen to Superman and Fiber Magee and Molly. If they were lucky enough to have a TV, it was black and white and all kitchen appliances were white. There was no Internet. The closest thing to Amazon was the Sears catalog, where you could order anything from a toy train to a Craftsman House. Sputnik, Echo, and who knows what were circling the earth. The local dump provided everything kids needed to keep them occupied. There were areas in town that still had outhouses. They were poor but didn't know it. Kids could roam the neighborhood without any worries. Their parents would tell them "Come home when the streetlights come on". If you are looking for a book like War and Peace or Moby Dick, then look somewhere else. This book is more like Jean Shepherd's A Christmas Story; if it were a movie it would be rated 'G' for general audiences. Whether you are 12 or 112, I am sure you are going to enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed writing it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kathy Garver. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/099627/bk_acx0_099627_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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