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A Tree for America Kindle Edition

by Edd Voss (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
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For the holiday season, long-haul trucker Edd Voss offers this classic, heart-warming tale of big trucks, of Christmas...and of America itself.

Climb up in the cab with Ken Rainey, a truck driver with a love for Christmas, the country he travels, and his life on the road. Along the way, even his passenger -- cynical bureaucrat Robert Anjer -- finds himself caught up in the spirit of the season, as they make the long journey from the little mountain town of Leavenworth, Washington to the nation's capitol.

All to deliver a very special tree...a tree for all Americans.
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Twenty years and over two million miles behind the wheel of a truck have inspired much of my writing. I am a modern day drifter living most of my life on the road learning about the places and people I see. Over the years my curiosity has been aroused by things that I have seen and stories that I have heard. My interests follow a winding path through science fiction, westerns and just plain stories of people who are faced with challenges that they must deal with.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005TL7XBE
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 277 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 70 pages
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Edd Voss

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My grandfather built a house out of sod on the plains of eastern Colorado, my mother was born in that house. I grew up on the front range of the Rockies and when life got rough and I needed guidance, the mountains were where I turned. It was around hundreds of campfires, or on the wind swept summits reaching above the timberline that I found the answers, and strength I needed to carry on. No matter where in the world I found myself the mountains called to me. My goal as a writer is to keep the history, legends and tales alive. Like the storytellers of old I want my tales to entertain as well as educate. The heroes and villains were all a part of the tapestry that was the western expansion. So there will be tidbits of history along with the legends, and a very diverse cast of characters in my tales.

From a review by the author of the bestselling "Hunter" Robert Bidinotto.

Family takes center stage in a number of these stories, and Mr. Voss’s deep love for his own is everywhere evident. Particularly moving are “Christmas on the Mesa,” where a cowboy looking for a lost calf finds more than he bargained for, and “Jo Anna” — a hauntingly sad, stoically restrained, fictionalized retelling of the author’s loss of his own young daughter in a horse-riding accident. Another bit of autobiography is “Airborne: One Man’s Journey,” a vivid account of the grueling training he underwent during his Army days to become airborne-qualified.

Mr. Voss is a product of the American West, and he captures its vast grandeur and legends in such tales as “Apache Tears,” “The Ghost of Hi Jolly,” and “Storm.” But there are surprises, too. “Blind?” is a short story filled with an ominous, tactile sense of creepy menace that would have made a wonderful episode of the old “Twilight Zone” TV series. “Shade” is a futuristic, dystopian thriller that ends all-too-suddenly, with the promise of future episodes that could blossom into a novel. And there’s much more in these pages for you to enjoy.

Edd Voss is an American original. His unique voice rises from the heartland, and his diverse anthology of stories is as sprawling and charming as is the vast country that he explores from the cab of his eighteen-wheeler. This is a terrific collection, and I can’t wait for Mr. Voss’s next book. But you shouldn’t wait a minute longer to buy Rambling

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Vickie Treadway
5.0 out of 5 stars A Story to Warm the Heart
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2006
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A Tree for America, by Edd Voss

Being a former truck driver, I am familiar with the places Edd has written about. So with saying that I want to say... I really enjoyed the story and the setting.

Take a step back and look around at the beauty around you. Take a deep breath and don't take anything for granted. We are just small pieces of this big wide open space we call America. Edd Voss has told a beautiful story of what coming together really means in the Christmas season.

Ken Rainey is the trucker chosen to bring America its' Christmas tree from the Pacific Northwest to Washington D.C. He loves life and looks to the good when at all possible and has a deep understanding of the land he makes his living on as a long haul driver.

Robert Anjer is chosen to ride along to make sure the tree makes it. Much to his own resentment, he has no choice in the matter about having to ride along in the truck. The holidays have no special meaning for him and he'd rather be at home in his apartment.

With this unlikely combination teaming together, Ken realizes that Robert has a lot to learn about America. Ken sets the pace with sharing his knowledge about the trucking industry, for without them our stores would be empty and we wouldn't be able to live the way we live.

Along the way Robert begins to open his eyes to what is around him as they deal with unpredictable weather, see beautiful country in the wide open spaces, and most important, helping people in need. A Tree for America is a story for the whole family and I recommend it to everyone.

Review by, Tory Lynn, author of "My Charming Protector"
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April H.
4.0 out of 5 stars A Christmas Tree's Journey
Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019
A Tree for America
By: Edd Voss

This is a touching story of how different people interact and react to circumstances. It's a chance for the listener to travel across the country with a long haul trucker. It's good to see the kinder and most generous side of the profession. It reminded me of a cross country trip helping to get a friend to her dying fathers bedside. Truckers kept us tucked safely in between and feed us, we were short on money. This made me feel good!!!

The narration was OK. The characters were well portrayed. David Kresser read the book, but didn't quite have the feel for it. A good story anyway.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Robert DeMonbrun
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Christmas Story!
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018
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A great Christmas story about a trucker on the road with a bureaucrat from DC who thinks we're all a bunch of hicks in flyover country. Couldn't put it down. Would make a great Hallmark movie!
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TAC
5.0 out of 5 stars A Feel Good Read!
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2013
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I so enjoyed reading this charming tale! I felt like I was riding right along with Ken and Anjer as they drove across the country to deliver the National Christmas Tree to the White House. This book will warm your heart! It will be on my list to read every year around the holidays! Thank you Mr. Voss!
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Brian
5.0 out of 5 stars good read
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2012
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I like reading tom Clancy novels and such, but reading thus book was a pleasant change of genre. I recommend this book especially this time of the season.
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Joyce A. Edmondson
5.0 out of 5 stars Go and do likewise...
Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2005
A new twist on the classic Christmas story, this is a book that will convict you if you are a "Scrooge," or convince you of the deeper meaning of "real religion" if you already have faith.

As he travels across the country with his companion to deliver a Christmas tree to the White House, Ken Rainey describes the view of America as he sees it. The reader begins to appreciate what America really means to those of us who travel through life in this country--we are free to find the beautiful and reveal it to others, as Ken does, or to destroy its freedom by not caring.

Ken Rainey is a real man who reaches out to the world wherever he travels and offers a helping hand. He is the original "Good Samaritan" who stops along the road to give assistance and save the lives of two people, thus giving the example of love to a fellow traveler, Anjer, whose reluctant heart gradually changes from disbelief and scorn or just indifference and boredom, to belief in the meaning of Christmas. The message of having first received God's grace and forgiveness binding us to "Go and do likewise" is deeply imbedded in this story.

Religion is, after all, simply caring for one's neighbor as oneself. Ken Rainey, an unconscious messenger doing his job, becomes the deliverer of a "change of heart" in Anjer, as well as a Christmas tree to the White House.

Highly recommended for a Christmas gift to someone you love.
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Betty Fasig
5.0 out of 5 stars The Spirit of Christmas is Alive and Well!
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2005
I must tell you that I really enjoyed this book. What a spirit Edd Voss has! I got tears in my eyes as Ken gave up his room for the family stranded in the snowstorm and when he saves the young lady and her nephew from the icy waters. Mr. Voss writes with a lot of heart. I am writing this review for A Tree For America. I hope I can come close to doing it justice. Edd Voss has written a beautiful and heartwarming story that takes you along for the ride across the United States to deliver the nation's Christmas tree to the White House. Along the way you will be treated to the scenery of our great nation and become involved, yourself, in the life on the road. The Spirit of Christmas is alive and well! This is a book that will leave you with a warm feeling and a smile on your face. Beautifully done!

Betty Fasig

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LillyWaterfall
5.0 out of 5 stars The Trucker and The Bureaucrat
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2005
In "A Tree for America" Ken Rainy the trucker, and Robert Angen the bureaucrat are selected to bring the National Christmas Tree from a small town in Washington state, to Our Nations capital. Ken is a trucker who is full of life and shares himself with others. Robert is an angry secret service agent who feels that this job is beneath him. Robert has no happiness his life, and has little use for the joy of Christmas. Ken is a man who gives of himself to anyone who he finds in need. Ken teaches Robert the joy of life. This is a book for the whole family. I plan to read this to my students at Christmas. I hope to see more of Mr. Voss' work in the future.
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