Western Life

Mark Scarbrough has been searching for something his entire life. Whether it’s his birth mother, true love, his purpose, or his sexual identity, Mark has been on a constant quest to find out who he really is, with the great Western texts as his steadfast companions. As a boy with his head constantly in a book, desperate to discover new worlds, he can hardly distinguish between their plots and his own reality.

Billy the Kid - born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney - emerges from this audio in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas.

Friendship? Melissa Stone has done a fine job of avoiding her former best friend, Cooper Ford. She was devastated when she discovered her husband was cheating on her and felt doubly betrayed that Cooper had known all along.... Forgiveness. But she can't ignore him forever - especially now that they're working together on a charity project! And as she and Cooper get closer again, she confides in him her plans to start a family - alone.

First her father, then her best friend: two heartbreaking deaths have left Jules to look after both the potato farm Pop has left her and her friend's two children. In this relationally rich novel of faith and hope, a young woman struggles to salvage the farm, honor her promise to a dead friend, and win back the man whose heart she broke. How can one woman handle it all? The answer lies with a God who holds the keys to yesterday, today, and tomorrow....

Welcome to the Lazy Windmill, where guests find that life is what you make it, love is priceless, and family is determined by far more than DNA. Casie Carmichael's accidental dude ranch is well on its way, but the residents of her Hope Springs haven are running wild. With an unwed mother-to-be, a turbulent teen romance, and a bronc-riding grandmother to contend with, the last thing Casie has time for is a romantic relationship. But convincing the recently returned Colt Dickenson that she's not interested in him - or the confusion he causes her - is easier said than done.

After a grizzly bear kills Antonia Valleau's trapper husband, she packs her few worldly possessions, leaves her home in the mountains of Montana, and treks to nearby Sweetwater Springs, seeking work to provide for her two young sons.

Mistaken for the father of his twin brother's child, Liam Wade takes in his fussy infant niece and needs a nanny fast. Hadley Stratton knows all about Liam's reputation with the ladies and really doesn't believe that the baby isn't his! But as she settles in to her role, she begins to see the man beneath the Stetson. And when they're stranded together during a storm, she really gets to know him. Is she just the latest woman to fall for Liam's charms, or are this rich rancher's single days numbered?

Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband's funeral while overlooking one thing: he's not dead. When Suzanne Mullins, 42, gets the call from her father to come back home to Texas, she knows it will mean having to look at the faulty foundations of her parents' marriage as well as her own. Looking her past in the eye once and for all, Suzanne hopes that trusting in God's love and mercy will set all of this craziness straight.

Casie Carmichael is hardworking but softhearted. She has a broken-down mare, two lambs, three lost teens, a busted-up bronco rider, and a whole lot of trouble. Casie has returned home to Hope Springs, South Dakota, to sell the family’s tumbledown ranch with the hope of returning to Sioux Falls and her very practical fiancé. But leaving Hope Springs isn’t quite as easy as she thought it would be, especially since her barn seems to have a homing beacon leading every stray in the territory straight to it.

Mattie Evans, a young veterinarian in rural Kansas, saves a horse injured in a terrible accident. But she also finds herself tending the wounded relationship between a prodigal son and his ailing father. Love, conflict, forgiveness, and renewal drive the first book of the Seasons of the Tallgrass series.

In 1866, Matt Draper is full of ambition but without money or family to help him succeed. On the Western frontier of an ever-expanding America, toiling as a riverboat gambler seems like the best option to raise enough capital to realize his dream of opening a small-town bank. Though gambling is lucrative for Matt, it is also an unsavory enterprise fraught with danger.

Tom Warren, a giant of a man in stature and physical strength, experiencing a deadly tragedy, turns to his new life as a mountain man in the largely unexplored mountain west, facing its many dangers in an attempt to forget his earlier life. Tom soon discovers new friendships among his kind at historic Fort Union, matched only by subsequent dangers and challenges from grizzly bears, renegade fur trappers, an Indian out to kill him and the rescue of an Indian maiden in distress which gains him more deadly enemies.

Das neue Hörbuch der Bestsellerautorin R. J. Palacio (Wunder). Eine abgeschiedene Farm im Jahr 1860: Hier lebt der zwölfjährige Silas mit seinem Vater. Eines Nachts wird er von drei bedrohlichen Reitern geweckt, die seinen Vater mitnehmen. Silas bleibt erschüttert, verängstigt und allein zurück. Nur Mittenwool, ein Geist und Freund des Jungen, steht ihm zur Seite. Als ein Pony vor seiner Tür auftaucht, trifft Silas die mutige Entscheidung, sein Zuhause zu verlassen und sich auf eine gefährliche Reise zu begeben, um seinen Vater zu finden.

Deep in the wilderness sits a beautiful rose-clad cabin. It's a delightful stop for a weary traveler, until he learns its secret.

Eine Farm in Wales, liebenswerte Vierbeiner und die ganz große Liebe!Die Fortsetzung des Hörbuch-Bestsellers "Der Himmel über den Black Mountains". Autorin Caitlin ist eigentlich recht zufrieden mit ihrem Leben in Glasgow: Ihre Krimis sind erfolgreich, ihre Agentin ist ihre beste Freundin und ihre Wohnung ihr ruhiger Schaffensort. Wäre da nur nicht ihr schreckliches Lampenfieber. Bei einer Lesung geht alles schief und am nächsten Tag findet sich Caitlin komplett verkatert in einem Hotelzimmer wieder mit einer Notiz eines rettenden Helfers, der sie fürsorglicherweise dorthin verfrachtet hatte.

Ben Monroe was the ultimate bad boy - and everyone in Haller Creek knew it. But now as a sheriff's deputy, Ben spends his time breaking up bar fights rather than starting them, and staying away from trouble...until Becca Henderson comes back into town. She's just as beautiful as Ben remembers - and just as far out of his reach. Coming home is exactly what Becca Henderson needed. A place of her own, a successful new business, and a chance to reconnect with the sexy cowboy she had a crush on in school. Ben has always blazed his own path and never let anyone stand in his way.

Filled to the brim with action, adventure, plot twists, and gunfight justice - Dockie is not a man to be crossed. This audiobook is filled with the dead, the dying, and those who don’t get in his way - because those who do cross Dockie end up dead. Real dead. This exciting Western tale is told by Chris, the nephew of a tough old pioneer named Dockie Barnett, owner of the C-Bar Ranch. Chris was a city slicker attorney when he first came to visit his Uncle Dockie and Aunt Marsha, but he became one of the C-Bar Ranch family and a real cowboy.

Rylee Phillips learned the hard way that you need to live each day to the fullest. That’s why she came back home to turn the inheritance of her aunt’s old homestead into a bed-and-breakfast. The townsfolk think she’s crazy to take on the task, and maybe she is, but at least she’s smart enough to know she needs help...and the clever ad she places in the local paper is sure to get attention.

Set on the high prairies of Montana, in small towns scattered across vast landscapes, the distances in Broken Field are both insurmountable and deeply internalized. Life is dusty and hard, and men are judged by their labor. Women have to be tougher yet. That’s what sixteen-year-old Josie Frehse learns as she struggles to meet the expectations of her community while fumbling with her own desires.

Romantisch und raubeinig, provokant und sinnlich. Glamour, roter Teppich und Blitzlichtgewitter. Tessa Prescotts Leben ist perfekt. Sie würde es mit nichts und niemandem eintauschen. Nie hätte sie damit gerechnet, dass ein sehr attraktiver, aber äußerst wortkarger Cowboy ihr die unfreiwillige Reise nach Kansas zur Hölle machen würde. Derek Hawkins ist ebenso abweisend wie heiß. Obwohl sie sich plötzlich inmitten eines Blizzards befindet, brennt ihr Herz.