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Books narrated by Phyllis Barber

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  • The Precarious Walk

    Essays from Sand and Sky

    •Author was inducted into the Nevada Writers' Hall of Fame and has appeared on NBC's Today Show. Her previous book was featured as a Top 10 Read by the Chicago Review of Books•Barber's broad perspective on her Mormon roots parallels that of Flannery O'Connor on her Catholic worldview•A wide–ranging essay collection that adds a distinctly feminine voice to the literature of the West•Barber ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raw Edges

    A Memoir

    When Phyllis Barber’s thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. Raw Edges is her moving account of the “lean years” that followed her divorce. It is interwoven with a narrative of the marriage of two gifted people that begins with “sealing” in a Mormon temple, endures through the birth of four sons and the development of two careers, and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Desert Between Us

    A Novel

    Series Book 1 - Western Literature and Fiction Series
    2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, FictionThe Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to help ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • To the Mountain

    One Mormon Woman's Search for Spirit

    Written by an award-winning writer, this spiritual memoir is distinguished by the author’s Mormonism and literary prose. In a series of thought-provoking, personal essays, Phyllis Barber provides an engaging account of how she left her original Mormon faith and eventually returned to it decades later. Her journey begins in the 1990s. In search of spiritual healing and a deeper understanding of the ... Read more

    $18.49 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Desert Between Us, The

    A Novel

    Narrated by Phyllis Barber ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 22 min

    **2020 Reading the West Book Awards, Longlist for Fiction2020 Association for Morman Letters Finalist, Fiction**The Desert Between Us is a sweeping, multi-layered novel based on the U.S. government’s decision to open more routes to California during the Gold Rush. To help navigate this waterless, largely unexplored territory, the War Department imported seventy-five camels from the Middle East to ... Read more

    $38.41 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Path and the Gate

    Mormon Short Fiction

    The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi describes the journey to eternal life as going through a gate of ordinances and traveling a “straight and narrow path.” Twenty-three authors took that gospel roadmap passage as a prompt to write “a Mormon story.” They responded with a surprisingly wide range of realistic and fantastic tales. Many are human reactions to unexpected steps on the path: a lifetime of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Picnic In the Ruins

    Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards"Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus ReviewsAnthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • It Needs to Look Like We Tried

    A Novel

    "Todd Robert Petersen is crazy–talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre, frightening times." —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and TrajectoryA domino chain of failures draws Todd Robert Petersen's characters together in these interconnected stories, despite hopes, dreams, and their best–laid plansEveryone ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Picnic in the Ruins

    Narrated by Eliana Marianes ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist ... Read more

    $38.48 CAD

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    Poems

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  • Undiscovered

    by Debra Winger ...
    Celebrated for her indelible, Oscar-caliber performances in some of the most memorable films of the 1980s and 1990s, Debra Winger, in Undiscovered, her first book, demonstrates that her creative range extends from screen to page. Here is an intimate glimpse of an artist marvelously wide-ranging in her gifts.In fact, as this beguiling book reveals, Winger is that rare star who dared to resist the ... Read more

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  • This Is the Place

    Women Writing About Home

    Edited by Margot Kahn ...
    A thought-provoking collection of personal essays about homeWhat makes a home? What do equality, safety, and politics have to do with it? And why is it so important to us to feel like we belong? In this collection, 30 women writers explore the theme in personal essays about neighbors, marriage, kids, sentimental objects, homelessness, domestic violence, solitude, immigration, gentrification, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD