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The Worst Day
- A Plane Crash, a Train Wreck, and Remarkable Acts of Heroism in Washington, DC
- Written by: Bruce Goldfarb
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Washington, DC, was in the grips of a historic snowstorm on January 13, 1982 that gridlocked the city when Air Florida 90 crashes into a bridge jammed with traffic and plunges into the iced-over Potomac River. 6 people survive the crash, clinging to wreckage in the icy river as a Park Police helicopter risks a daring rescue in nearly whiteout conditions. As the rescue is taking place, DC’s Metro system suffers its first fatal derailment nearby, with dozens injured.
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The Worst Day
- A Plane Crash, a Train Wreck, and Remarkable Acts of Heroism in Washington, DC
- Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 09-12-25
- Language: English
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Haiti After the Earthquake
- Written by: Paul Farmer
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Edoardo Ballerini, Edwidge Danticat
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.
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Haiti After the Earthquake
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Edoardo Ballerini, Edwidge Danticat
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 16-08-11
- Language: English
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Emergency
- Written by: Neil Strauss
- Narrated by: Neil Strauss
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. ""I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes."" So begins...
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Emergency
- Narrated by: Neil Strauss
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-09
- Language: English
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
- Written by: Brian VanDeMark
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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""The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much...
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Road to Disaster
- A New History of America’s Descent into Vietnam
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 23 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 18-09-18
- Language: English
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Written by: James Bradley
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations from the 19th century to World War II and Mao's ascent. In each of his books, James Bradley has exposed the hidden truths behind America's engagement in...
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The China Mirage
- The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 21-04-15
- Language: English
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Une histoire vraie
- Written by: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Philippe Smolikowski
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Erik Larson dépeint une nouvelle tragédie américaine, s’intéressant cette fois à la folie des hommes qui pensent pouvoir maîtriser les lois de la nature, et au combat héroïque d’Isaac Cline, coupable d’une erreur fatale qu’il paiera au prix fort.
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Une histoire vraie
- Narrated by: Philippe Smolikowski
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 20-11-25
- Language: French
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Catastrophe
- Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion
- Written by: T. Joseph Scanlon
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion—the worst non-natural disaster in North America before 9/11. Written from a scholarly perspective but in a journalistic style accessible to the general listener, this book explores how the explosion influenced later emergency planning and disaster theory.
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Catastrophe
- Stories and Lessons from the Halifax Explosion
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 22 hrs and 1 min
- Release Date: 22-10-24
- Language: English
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Zeitoun
- Written by: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When HurricaneKatrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun - a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four - chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and rescuing those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.
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Zeitoun
- Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release Date: 31-08-09
- Language: English
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The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
- How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
- Written by: Philip L. Fradkin
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
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The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water." This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction vividly shows how, after the shaking stopped, humans, not the forces of nature, nearly destroyed San Francisco in a remarkable display of simple ineptitude and power politics.
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The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906
- How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release Date: 08-10-12
- Language: English
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The Titanic Disaster Hearings
- The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation
- Written by: Tom Kuntz - editor, Michael York
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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On April 1On April 10, 1912, The RMS Titanic embarked on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. But on the night of April 14, the British passenger liner collided with an iceberg, which resulted in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. Merely one day after the Titanic survivors arrived in New York City, a United States Senate committee began an investigation into the wreck of the great "unsinkable" ship.
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The Titanic Disaster Hearings
- The Official Transcripts of the 1912 Senate Investigation
- Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release Date: 13-01-23
- Language: English
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Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- Written by: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
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Just after midnight on October 9, 2017, as one of the nation's deadliest firestorms swept over California's Wine Country, hundreds of elderly residents from two posh senior living facilities were caught in its path. The frailest were blind, in wheelchairs, or diagnosed with dementia, and their community quickly transformed from a palatial complex that pledged to care for them to one that threatened to entomb them. The rescue of the final 105 seniors left behind on an inflamed hillside depended not on employees, but strangers whose lives intersected in a riveting tale of terror and heroism.
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Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Release Date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- Written by: Ed Morales
- Narrated by: Sean Duffy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew...
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- Narrated by: Sean Duffy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release Date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Down in New Orleans
- Reflections from a Drowned City
- Written by: Billy Sothern
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Billy Sothern's Down in New Orleans illustrates, in very human and heartbreaking ways, how the horrors that emerged during and following Hurricane Katrina existed long before the storm. These beautifully composed stories not only reveal the dignity—and amazing grit and grace—of the hurricane's survivors; they also illuminate larger truths about the urgent issues of our day.
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Down in New Orleans
- Reflections from a Drowned City
- Narrated by: David Henry
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release Date: 04-03-10
- Language: English
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The Day the World Ended
- The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
- Written by: Gordon Thomas, Max Morgan-Witts
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In late April 1902, Mount Pelee, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later.
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The Day the World Ended
- The Mount Pelee Disaster: May 7, 1902
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 07-07-20
- Language: English
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- Written by: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
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On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle one. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral first-hand account, Katz takes readers inside the terror of that day, the devastation visited on ordinary Haitians, and through the monumental--yet misbegotten--rescue effort that followed.
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release Date: 05-11-13
- Language: English
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Chicago Calamities
- Disaster in the Windy City
- Written by: Gayle Soucek
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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The story of Chicago is often likened to that of a phoenix rising out of the ashes of the Great Fire. Yet that infamous event was only part of the destruction that has shaped Chicago's identity. This unique history explores the calamities that have befallen the Windy City, such as the 1954 killer water surge that swept in on a calm summer day; the 1967 tornado that ripped through rush hour traffic; the 1886 Haymarket Square riot that put Chicago on the anarchist map; and many other acts of nature and human folly.
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Chicago Calamities
- Disaster in the Windy City
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release Date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Arrastados
- Os bastidores do rompimento da barragem de Brumadinho, o maior desastre humanitário do Brasil [Behind the Scenes of the Brumadinho Dam Collapse, Brazil’s Biggest Humanitarian Disaster]
- Written by: Daniela Arbex
- Narrated by: Rita Mirone
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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No dia 25 de janeiro de 2019, às 12h28, a B1, barragem desativada da Mina do Córrego do Feijão, explorada pela mineradora Vale na cidade de Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, rompeu. Seu rastro de lama, rejeitos de minério e destruição se estendeu por mais de 300 quilômetros, levando torres de transmissão, trens de carga, pontes, casas, árvores, animais e, na contagem oficial da tragédia, a vida de 270 pessoas (ou 272, considerando as duas gestantes entre os mortos).
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Arrastados
- Os bastidores do rompimento da barragem de Brumadinho, o maior desastre humanitário do Brasil [Behind the Scenes of the Brumadinho Dam Collapse, Brazil’s Biggest Humanitarian Disaster]
- Narrated by: Rita Mirone
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 28-07-23
- Language: portuguese
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Rating America's Presidents
- An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was an Absolute Disaster
- Written by: Robert Spencer
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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Donald Trump was elected president pledging to put America first, as any nation's leader should put his or her own people first. There needs to be an America-first reevaluation of him and his predecessors. This book, therefore, rates the presidents not on the basis of criteria developed by socialist internationalist historians, but on their fidelity to the United States Constitution and to the powers, and limits to those powers, of the president as delineated by the Founding Fathers.
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Rating America's Presidents
- An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated, and Who Was an Absolute Disaster
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release Date: 20-10-20
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement
- The Shocking True Story of the Military Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor and the Fourteen Men Responsible for the Disaster
- Written by: Henry C. Clausen, Bruce Lee
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement reveals all of the eye-opening details of Clausen's investigation and is a damning account of massive intelligence failure. To this day, the story surrounding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor stokes controversy and conspiracy theories. This book provides conclusive evidence that shows how the US military missed so many signals and how it could have avoided the events of that fateful day.
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Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement
- The Shocking True Story of the Military Intelligence Failure at Pearl Harbor and the Fourteen Men Responsible for the Disaster
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release Date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- Written by: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria. Weaving a story of shipwrecks and devastated cities, of heroism and folly, Dolin introduces a rich cast of unlikely heroes and puts us in the middle of the most devastating storms of the past, none worse than the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, which killed at least 6,000 people, the highest toll of any natural disaster in American history.
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A Furious Sky
- The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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