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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Monday, August 26 through Friday, September 20, 2024
Read by Jim Fleming
Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with enslaved persons and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father’s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.
This book is a story of love and survival set near the end of the Civil War. It contains descriptions of violence and cruelty toward both people and animals, as well as language and descriptive terms that were in common usage at the time. Please be advised.
(Grove Press; ISBN: 0802142842)
Theme: “The Lover’s Waltz” with Jay Unger and Molly Mason (Angel 5561-2)
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Latest Episodes
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Cold Mountain 20 of 20 – Inman Heads North / Epilogue
After three days and nights in the Cherokee village, Inman and Ada have made a plan for the future. He will go north and surrender to the Federals and wait […]
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Cold Mountain 19 of 20 – Ada And Inman Plan Their Future
Inman and Ada must overcome their awkwardness after years spent apart and get past the damage accumulated during those years.
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Cold Mountain 18 of 20 – The Lovers Reunite
Inman arrives at Black Cove to discover only the Georgia boy is living in the house. After the boy shares the story of the killings of Stobrod and Pangle, Inman […]
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Cold Mountain 17 of 20 – Burying the Dead
This chapter contains a graphic description of an injury and may not be suitable for sensitive listeners. Ada and Ruby learn of the killings of Stobrod and Pangle from the […]
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Cold Mountain 16 of 20 – Stobard and Pangle Break Ranks
This chapter contains a graphic description of the death of a bear and its cub and may not be suitable for sensitive listeners. Stobard and Pangle need help from Ruby […]
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Fallen: George Mallory and the Tragic 1924 Everest Expedition by Mick Conefrey
Monday, September 23 through Friday, October 11, 2024
Read by Norman Gilliland
In the years following his disappearance near the summit of Mount Everest in June 1924 at the age of thirty-seven, George Mallory was elevated into a legendary international hero. But who was the real George Mallory?