The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [family]

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12/26/22

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The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: family

Ellis Parker Butler's The Jack-Knife Man is a warm, quietly comic story of unlikely family and hard-won belonging along the Mississippi River. Peter Lane is an aging drifter who lives alone on a battered houseboat, passing his days with a jack-knife in hand, whittling small wooden figures and keeping to himself. But on a stormy night, a desperate woman arrives at his door with her young son, Buddy - and by morning Peter finds himself with a child to feed, protect, and somehow claim as his own. As Peter and Buddy settle into life on the river, a ragged wanderer named Booge drifts into their orbit, and the three form a makeshift household held together by simple decency, improvised joy, and the little toys Peter carves. Their fragile peace is tested by suspicious townspeople and well-meaning authorities who believe Buddy would be better off anywhere else, forcing Peter to prove he can offer more than shelter - he can offer a future. Tender, humorous, and deeply humane, Butler's novel explores charity without sentimentality and the stubborn courage it takes to love when the world says you should let go.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:09) Chapter 02

(00:37:02) Chapter 03

(00:57:41) Chapter 04

(01:26:32) Chapter 05

(01:55:12) Chapter 06

(02:23:42) Chapter 07

(02:43:00) Chapter 08

(02:53:35) Chapter 09

(03:05:26) Chapter 10

(03:22:41) Chapter 11

(03:31:54) Chapter 12

(04:03:24) Chapter 13

(04:17:31) Chapter 14

(04:36:38) Chapter 15

(04:51:44) Chapter 16

(05:08:37) Chapter 17

(05:28:19) Chapter 18

(05:38:15) Chapter 19

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The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

December 26, 2022

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63m

The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook.

Genre: comedy

The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as they don't have any kids that could cause the neighbors trouble? And oh, luckily they don't have kids because how could Hiram otherwise afford to give his wife, Marthy a new silk dress? Really lucky. The neighbors kids are cute and all but ugh, they are much better off without kids and their expenses and sicknesses and trouble. Except that one boy, well, he's cool, Hiram wouldn't mind having him around and teaching him how to fish. Or maybe the neighbors youngest daughter, shes so nice. All of this superiority changes when they expect a child of their own and then the poor little thing is born. Funny, poignant and oh, so true!

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:02) Chapter 02

(00:36:32) Chapter 03

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The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton ~ Full Audiobook [biography]

December 26, 2022

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99m

The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton audiobook.

Genre: biography

In The Biography of a Grizzly, Ernest Thompson Seton tells the life story of a wild bear with the attention and dignity usually reserved for human heroes. From his first uncertain steps in the mountain forests to his rise as a powerful, wary survivor, the grizzly (often known as Wahb) learns the hard rules of a world shaped by hunger, weather, territory, and relentless danger. Guided by instinct and hard-won experience, he navigates rival predators, shifting seasons, and the ever-tightening presence of people - traps, rifles, poisoned bait, and the steady pressure of settlement. Seton blends vivid natural observation with a dramatic narrative voice, inviting listeners to see the landscape through the bear's senses: scent on the wind, the language of tracks, the promise and peril of open meadows. As Wahb grows older and more formidable, his struggles become as much about memory and caution as about strength, raising questions about what civilization calls 'vermin' and what nature calls a life. This is a gripping, empathetic portrait of endurance at the edge of the human frontier.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:35:04) Chapter 02

(01:04:38) Chapter 03

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