EPISODE · Jan 6, 2015 · 3 MIN
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
from Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Drama · host Shad Kuhlman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down.' -- John Grisham 'A page-turner.' -- New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/225994 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Narrator: Robert Petkoff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 30 minutes Release date: January 6, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down.' -- John Grisham 'A page-turner.' -- New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the 'company' and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains.
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