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    Shadows Everywhere , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
    Twelve tales of mystery from the pen of best-selling author John Lutz, Shadows Everywhere collects much of the author's early work. You'll meet everyone from a “hardscrabble farm woman” to a volatile trucker with an explosive cargo, a cliff driver with dreams of gold, and women who are digging for it. Not every PI is a good guy, and not every villain gets his due. These tales twist and turn, surprise and entertain. Flowing from the imagination of a master story-teller, the stories in Shadows Everywhere are a classic glimpse into the worlds of a rare talent. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul Christy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016267/bk_acx0_016267_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Reef: Galactic Football League Novellas, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 391min
    Chaiyal "the Heretic" North, former intergalactic heavyweight champ, flees the wrath of crimelord Gredok the Splithead by going to a place Gredok can't reach - the Reef. A frontier planetoid where citizens try to scratch a living from the rock, the Reef is a lawless land ruled by the strong and the vicious.For Chai, it's a hardscrabble life vastly removed from his former super-stardom. No more media, no more octagon, no more bright lights, and no more mods. When he hits rock bottom, he must carve out a new existence free from the weight of his past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Scott Sigler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/151441/bk_acx0_151441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Curse of the Spanish Gold: The Mountain Men, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 530min
    In 1829, Jacob and Martin left Kentucky to become mountain men, trappers of the Rocky Mountains. The rugged mountains that lay beyond America’s frontier remained mostly unexplored. In those days, when beaver were plentiful and buffalo roamed freely, the killing was good. The two young men would also find that life would be hardscrabble in the high frontier. They would face grizzly bears and hostile Indians. And they would risk horse wrecks and mountain storms to trade their furs each year at the rendezvous. Curse of the Spanish Gold is the story of two adventurers who lived hard in the earliest days of the Wild West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clay Lomakayu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/101136/bk_acx0_101136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Crossed Arrows: The Mountain Men, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 528min
    In 1829, Jacob and Martin left Kentucky to become Mountain Men, trappers of the Rocky Mountains. The rugged mountains that lay beyond America's frontier remained mostly unexplored. In those days, when beaver were plentiful and the buffalo roamed freely, the killing was good. The two young men would also find that life would be hardscrabble in the high frontier. They would face grizzly bears and hostile Indians. And they would risk horse wrecks and mountain storms to trade their furs each year at "rendezvous". Crossed Arrows is the story of two adventurers who lived hard in the earliest days of the Wild West. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Clay Lomakayu. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/094474/bk_acx0_094474_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 509min
    Gallo Be Thy Name is the portrait of an American dynasty that rose from hardscrabble poverty in the early 1900s to become the most successful wine company in the world through toil, cunning, and crime. From selling ³Dago Red² to Al Capone during Prohibition to conquering America¹s wine market with such plonk as Thunderbird and Ripple, and from the Great Depression to the roiling farm labor movements of the 60s and 70s, the Gallos rode the turbulent currents of history to triumph, with iconic brothers Ernest and Julio steering the ship. But beneath the E. & J. Gallo Winery¹s carefully polished surface is a sweeping story of passion and power, swirling with rumors of murder. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Grainger Hines. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000172/bk_pnix_000172_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Skeleton’s Knee: The Joe Gunther Mysteries, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 660min
    When a reclusive market gardener's death proves to stem from a 20-year-old bullet wound, Lieutenant Joe Gunther is presented with a very cold homicide to solve. But who was the victim exactly? A deeply private man eking out an ascetic existence from a hardscrabble mountain field, Abraham Fuller was virtually unknown to his neighbors, in the manner of someone pursuing more than mere solitude. The discovery of a bag full of unmarked bills and a body buried in the garden patch suggests that Fuller had motives beyond misanthropy. With someone willing to kill to ensure that old secrets remain buried, the case may not be so cold after all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tom Taylorson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/008487/bk_blak_008487_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Most They Ever Had , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 255min
    In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers. In these real-life stories, Rick Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rick Bragg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003431/bk_blak_003431_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Big Rock Candy Mountain , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1538min
    Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Based largely on his own childhood, Stegner has created a masterful, harrowing saga of a family trying to survive during the lean years of the early 20th century. It is the conflict between the hardscrabble existence and Bo's pursuit of the frontier myth and of the American dream that gives the book such resonance and power. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Bramhall. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003647/bk_blak_003647_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hillbilly Women , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 358min
    “This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.”First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of 19 women in 20th-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day struggles for survival to the personal triumphs of their hardscrabble existence. They are wives, widows, and daughters of coal miners; factory hands, tobacco graders, cotton mill workers, and farmers; and women who value honest labor, self-esteem, and dignity. Shining a much-needed light into a misunderstood culture and identity, the stories within reflect the universally human struggle to live meaningful and dignified lives. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017086/bk_adbl_017086_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Settler's Life : A Plains Life, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 446min
    Sarah Clark’s family endured the hardship of a wagon train journey to pursue their dream of land ownership in Kansas. The family of four scratches out a hardscrabble life on the windswept plains. Happily expecting another child, Sarah is bereft when the baby is stillborn. When a stagecoach robbery and shoot-out take her husband’s life, Sarah must make life-altering decisions. To keep a deathbed promise to his best friend, Mark Hewett faces possible incarceration and is forced to lie to Sarah, whom he has come to love. Can Mark keep his word and still save the family who now relies solely on him? Necessary deception holds the potential for disaster as the family struggles to survive. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elizabeth Kelly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142057/bk_acx0_142057_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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