Land Memoir

Five years ago, Lonnae O’Neal grabbed some seeds for her backyard garden, including seeds for Bibb lettuce. She had no idea how deeply she’d wind up digging, or how far she would travel. Lonnae’s fourth great-grandmother, Keziah, was enslaved by the Kentucky Bibb family, including John Bigger Bibb, who developed the Bibb lettuce strain, which remains a culinary darling more than 150 years later.

One hundred fifty years ago, the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail. The Chisholm Trail follows the McCoys' vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the American diet, and the national and international beef trade.

Children of the Stone chronicles Ramzi's journey - from stone thrower to music student to school founder - and shows how through his love of music he created something lasting and beautiful in a land torn by violence and war. This is a story about the power of music, but also about freedom and conflict, determination and vision.

In this witty, wise, heartwarming memoir, Blant Hurt, a 50-something flatlander with urban sensibilities, buys a ratty weekend cabin up in the dark heart of the Ozark Mountains. His new wife has a passing familiarity with this rugged area, but still. What are they doing? Their cabin is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Then there's the local land baron who aspires to build a giant sand mine on their doorstep.

Story Tim: Adventure Land contains tales from the life of Tim A. Cummins. It features short stories from his life growing up in Kenya as well as when he worked as a TV photographer for WTOC-TV news in Savannah, Georgia. Tim's life may seem unbelievable at times. He gets chased by elephants, was nearly eaten by lions, fought off pythons, nearly frozen on top of Mount Kenya, and was almost burned alive!

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from Kentucky southward to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, on a similar whim, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir's journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir's time. Channeling Muir, he uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South's natural riches.

One-year-old Berna Bolyn’s family moved to the most remote mountaintop in northeastern Oklahoma. The family of eight had 400,000 acres of Ozark National Forest at their backs and a cluster of Klan families within a 10-mile radius. Two Cherokee land grant families lived four miles away. At age five, Berna was left to care for her elderly parents. It was the summer she learned to survive. It was the summer she ran with the wolves and witnessed a terrifying ceremony in the valley far below, where burning torches formed a large circle. Then, huge flames rose in the shape of a cross.

In When Heaven Touches Earth, Alisha Landes invites you on a deeply personal and spiritual journey that explores the mysterious intersection between the heavenly and the earthly. Drawing from her own life experiences — including sacred moments at her mother’s deathbed and encounters during worship that felt like glimpses of glory — Alisha weaves together scripture, testimony, and reflection to reveal how heaven often breaks through the veil of this world.

Berna González Harbour firma una deslumbrante narración biográfica sobre el artista que mejor supo retratar nuestro país: Francisco de Goya.

Diego González es un documentalista que habla dormido. Está casado con una sonidista que trata de descifrar lo que dice en sueños. Se muda a Barcelona, pero el pasado lo alcanza como una pesadilla. La visita de un viejo conocido, el periodista Adalberto Anaya, trastoca su reciente tranquilidad. Anaya - quien ha vigilado a Diego durante años con la atención casi desmedida de un admirador - lo culpa de haber hecho un documental para entregar a un narco.

From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments, from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, and the devastating Haiti earthquake to historic elections and high-profile interviews with everyday Americans. Drawing on her own unique background and consciousness as well as her experiences as a journalist at the front lines of the most provocative issues in today's society.

A collection of short stories covering a 70-year span, from childhood events to adulthood lessons, this easy-to-listen-to collection includes a bonus story exclusively for Audible and a special interview in which the author sits down with producer Alison Larkin and, in a world gone mad, talks about the simple things that really matter.

Was macht eine, die aus einem Ort namens Tittenkofen stammt, aber nicht so ausschaut? Die auf dem Bauernhof aufwächst, aber eigentlich auf die Bühne will? Klar, sie nimmt's mit Humor und wird Komikerin. Monika Gruber erinnert sich an ihre Kindheit und Jugend auf dem Land bei Erding. Sie erzählt teils bitterböse, teils rührend-nostalgische Geschichten, in denen sie grantelt, witzelt, schwelgt und auch lästert, aber nie denunziert, denn dazu liebt sie Land und Leute zu sehr

The stories in this book are all of real encounters, ranging from backstage encounters in universities that reveal the social world of academe to lessons learned from anxiety-ridden sororities girls to a transforming encounter with a Black man who grew from a child working at jobs such as a chicken-catcher at nights to support his family and became successful and wealthy to the point that he was able to buy the movie theater that forced him to sit in the balcony when he was young.

The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn't tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country's deadliest gangsters. Relentless in his desire to catch, prosecute, and convict Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation's most determined cop-gangster battle since Melvin Purvis hunted, confronted, and killed John Dillinger. In his crusade to bring Bulger to justice, Fitzpatrick faced not only Whitey but also corrupt FBI agents, along with political cronies and enablers from Boston to Washington....

More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents – by land, sea and air – have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places in the world. Adventureholic tells the stories of Neil’s most unforgettable and daring adventures yet.

"The land of little joys" is a book aimed at those who love their place of origin, for those who have been absent for short or long periods and felt the need to go back, to those who never abandoned it despite everything, because in it there are only small joys that at least limit the degree of general dissatisfaction of those who live there.

Somalia was Tom Pecora's first deployment as a CIA Protective Operations Cadre (POC) officer, responsible for providing protective operations support in hostile areas of the world. He later headed up a series of the Agency's undisclosed protective operations teams. From 1989 until his retirement in 2013, he was assigned to multiple war zones across Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, doing the kind of work few are even aware exists.

Eines Tages wirft der Unternehmensberater Markus Weber seine heile Welt über den Haufen und stürzt sich Hals über Kopf in ein Abenteuer. Er setzt sich auf sein Fahrrad und fährt los - durch 26 Länder, bis nach Togo. Seine Reise führt ihn durch verlassene osteuropäische Dörfer und über zermürbende Sandpisten in Westafrika. Er fährt per Anhalter durch die Sahara, radelt durch den unerschlossenen guineischen Regenwald und schmuggelt sich in Liberia über geschlossene Grenzübergänge.

Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible. In Wilderness of Hope Grover recounts his fly-fishing experiences with a strong evocation of place, connecting those experiences to the ongoing national debate over public lands.