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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- By: Sheri Fink
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- By Cynthia on 09-15-13
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1. Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 09-10-13
- Language: English
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- By Sara on 10-20-08
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2. The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 07-09-08
- Language: English
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- By Susan K Donley on 06-17-05
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3. The Johnstown Flood
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-17-05
- Language: English
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- By: Ted Koppel
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- By Norman B. Bernstein on 11-27-15
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4. Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- Narrated by: Ted Koppel
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 10-27-15
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- By Kathy in CA on 07-05-18
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5. Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 10-24-17
- Language: English
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
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6. Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- By: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- By zachery on 10-09-15
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7. A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- Narrated by: Emily Beresford
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 08-27-14
- Language: English
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- By: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
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Therapeutic
- By Quiltedwings on 05-07-15
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8. Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 01-07-15
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
- A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
- By: Athena Aktipis
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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Is this finally it? The end times? Because from COVID-19 to climate catastrophe to the looming AI revolution—not to mention the ever-growing background hum of rage, fear, and anxiety—it’s starting to feel like the party we call civilization is just about over....
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9. A Field Guide to the Apocalypse
- A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times
- Narrated by: Athena Aktipis
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 04-09-24
- Language: English
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Deep Down Dark
- The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
- By: Héctor Tobar
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
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When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days....
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Profound
- By Deborah on 12-18-14
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10. Deep Down Dark
- The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-07-14
- Language: English
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Critical Hours
- Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
- By: Sandy Stott
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....
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History of Search and Rescue Operations on White Mt.
- By Ronda on 03-07-19
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11. Critical Hours
- Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 02-28-19
- Language: English
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Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- By: Stephen Puleo
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....
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INTERESTING STORY - ABOUT 2x TOO LONG
- By The Louligan on 09-07-14
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12. Dark Tide
- The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-13-13
- Language: English
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
- The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
- By: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
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In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....
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Great!
- By Andrea C. Shebuski on 01-10-21
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13. The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
- The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-07-20
- Language: English
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3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- By: Sean Flynn
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
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On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...
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a book about a very heroic breed
- By Andy on 06-03-03
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14. 3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- Narrated by: Richard Rohan
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 05-02-03
- Language: English
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The Hartford Circus Fire
- Tragedy Under the Big Top
- By: Michael Skidgell
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
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Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies....
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15. The Hartford Circus Fire
- Tragedy Under the Big Top
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 01-17-23
- Language: English
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Run the Storm
- By: George Michelsen Foy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro....
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Struggled to survive this book
- By Kindle Customer on 09-15-18
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16. Run the Storm
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 05-01-18
- Language: English
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Firehouse
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Engine 40, Ladder 35, was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers....
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Short, but gripping
- By peabozzle on 11-11-11
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17. Firehouse
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-22-08
- Language: English
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The Emergency
- A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
- By: Thomas Fisher
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....
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Meh
- By chel_c42 on 03-29-22
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18. The Emergency
- A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
- Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 03-22-22
- Language: English
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Fire on the Horizon
- The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
- By: Tom Shroder, John Konrad
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....
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An incredibly well-told story
- By Shep on 04-06-11
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19. Fire on the Horizon
- The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-01-11
- Language: English
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- By Nazir on 05-26-22
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20. The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 03-29-22
- Language: English
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