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Audiobooks by Irene Bennett Brown
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In 1900 a steadfast and feisty young woman, Jocelyn Belle Royal, joins a mule drive to earn back her Kansas, Flint Hills farm lost to the bank. Entanglements over the mules, outlaws, women's suffrage, and a disagreement over the governor's mansion, test her mettle to the limit. Jocelyn can't give up if 'home' will ever again be more than a few belongings tied in a shawl, all that she owns. Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award.
Celia Landrey is guiding her last walking-tour of the season in historic Pass Creek. Myriad tasks await her attention, such as planning her wedding to handsome cowboy real estate agent, Jake Flagg. Discovery of Smoke Allenby's bones wasn't on the agenda. But there they are, turned up in the removal project of an old underground fuel tank at Jolly Hoffman's service station. A situation Celia, town leader, can hardly ignore. Before he abruptly disappeared 60 years previously, half the town was in love with the charismatic drifter named Smoke Allenby. Older folks in the community knew the charming lothario back then, but when it comes out that Allenby was murdered, they're not talking. What secrets do they hide? Are they protecting one of their own? There are threats against Celia for her investigation, but she's determined to separate the innocent from the guilty-halt an eruption of serious trouble. She just wishes she knew whose skin she's trying to save.
Amity Whitford dared to stake her own claim on the endless plains of Western Kansas. She built her homestead, Dove's Nest, with her bare hands. But the ravages of the sun and drying winds took their toll.
Ardensville Kansas, 1924. Jessy Faber, the switchboard operator in this small town, can't believe that the Ku Klux Klan has come to such a small, placid, beautiful town, yet that seems to be the case. The Klan is out to get anyone that they believe is not 100% American. Jessy's friends are among the townspeople being persecuted. Though Jessy has always been a shy "morning glory' type she discovers unexpected strength in herself as she confronts the Klan. And as a result, she also finds that she now has the means to face a personal crisis from deep in her past.
Hillary Germaine had plans for her seventeenth summer. She was going to find a "total" guy and have a magical romance. To her horror, on her seventeenth birthday, just before the summer began, her parents gave her a plane ticket to Oregon.
Clare Hobb is weary of the strict boundaries her uncles impose at the family conclave, Hobb's Mills. She's in love with Larkin Wade, a handsome farmer her uncles disdain. During one of many trysts between Clare and Larkin, they find her beloved, brain-damaged father, Frank, vainly attempting to aid his brother, Samuel, who has been fatally injured in a wagon runaway accident.
In 1924 a 17-year-old girl tries to rebuild her life after a personal tragedy by taking a job as switchboard I operator in a small town far from home. Instead of a haven, however, she finds her new community in the grip of fanatic prejudices that force her to take a stand for what she knows is right.
In 1888, hard-working twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, tormented because of a disfiguring harelip, takes her invalid grandmother to live on the Kansas farm that her drifter father has abandoned.
Calla's story is the story of the joys of first love, the pain of first rejection, and the self-knowledge that comes when we pull ourselves together again.
In the 1800s, young Hank's dream of moving west and becoming a cowboy is hindered by his responsibilities to his family. But he makes friends with a mute boy who has a secret.
The Morans had to have that cow, for Larnie's sickly mother was about to have a child, and the infant would need milk. Out here in the empty prairie of 1875, only a cow could save its life. But Larnie could not-would not-ask her Papa to get Bessie back for her. She bridled the family's old white mule and rode off bareback after the cow.
