Bestsellers
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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Two versions on Audible
- De stephiemav42 en 03-10-21
De: Erik Larson
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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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
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- De: Toby Ord
- Narrado por: Toby Ord
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....
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The 80000hours website is better
- De Cristi en 08-06-20
De: Toby Ord
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Del Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Roy en 04-05-09
De: Les Standiford
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land....
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Mediocre
- De Mona en 11-04-20
De: Timothy Egan
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....
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History lovers dream book.
- De Lynn Fraser en 10-18-18
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Isaac's Storm
- A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- De: Erik Larson
- Narrado por: Richard Davidson
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....
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Two versions on Audible
- De stephiemav42 en 03-10-21
De: Erik Larson
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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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
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- De: Toby Ord
- Narrado por: Toby Ord
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....
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The 80000hours website is better
- De Cristi en 08-06-20
De: Toby Ord
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
- De: Les Standiford
- Narrado por: Del Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....
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A Pleasant Surprise
- De Roy en 04-05-09
De: Les Standiford
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
- De: Timothy Egan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land....
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Mediocre
- De Mona en 11-04-20
De: Timothy Egan
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....
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History lovers dream book.
- De Lynn Fraser en 10-18-18
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- De: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared....
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Tim Samaras Would be Proud
- De Amazon Customer en 05-25-18
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The Longest Minute
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
- De: Matthew J. Davenport
- Narrado por: Traber Burns
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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At 5:12 am on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately forty-eight seconds, shock waves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death, and trapped many alive....
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History told from those who survived
- De BamaState en 12-26-23
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- De: John M. Barry
- Narrado por: Barry Grizzard
- Duración: 4 h y 48 m
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Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....
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Where is the rest of the book?
- De Susie en 10-21-13
De: John M. Barry
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Granite Mountain
- The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
- De: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty - contributor
- Narrado por: John Glouchevitch
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"....
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Thank you Brendan
- De Kenton en 06-07-16
De: Brendan McDonough, y otros
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The Last Fire Season
- A Personal and Pyronatural History
- De: Manjula Martin
- Narrado por: Manjula Martin
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world....
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Hard to get through
- De Erica en 03-15-24
De: Manjula Martin
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The Ends of the World
- Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
- De: Peter Brannen
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids....
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A Kid's Science Book FOR ADULTS!!
- De aaron en 06-15-17
De: Peter Brannen
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Fire Monks
- Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara
- De: Colleen Morton Busch
- Narrado por: Colleen Morton Busch
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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When a massive wildfire surrounded Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, five monks risked their lives to save it. A gripping narrative as well as a portrait of the Zen path and the ways of wildfire, Fire Monks reveals what it means to meet a crisis with full presence of mind....
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An Amazing Perspective on a Terrible Event
- De Peter W. Kalnin en 04-29-24
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Trapped in Earthquake Canyon: Personal Account of Surviving the 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake
- De: Cynthia Roberts Brunnette, Williard Dean Roberts
- Narrado por: Cynthia Roberts Brunnette, Douglas Brunnette
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
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It was the summer of 1959 when the Roberts family decided to take their first vacation in five years. When they reached West Yellowstone, Montana, a fateful decision was made to continue on until they arrived at the majestic Madison Canyon below the Hebgen Lake Dam....
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Wonderful True Educational Book. Loved it! I really enjoyed it.
- De Charlene Kelso en 04-09-24
De: Cynthia Roberts Brunnette, y otros
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Apocalyptic Planet
- Field Guide to the Everending Earth
- De: Craig Childs
- Narrado por: Craig Childs
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different....
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Travel-log of the maybe apocalypses
- De T. Myers en 01-09-14
De: Craig Childs
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Smokejumper
- A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
- De: Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith
- Narrado por: Ned Vaughn
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
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In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world....
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About damn time a book on wildland firefighting was written!!!
- De Jefferer R. Beren en 07-16-15
De: Jason A. Ramos, y otros
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Wave
- A Memoir
- De: Sonali Deraniyagala
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 5 h y 24 m
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On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived....
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Tragic. Raw. Heart-Ripping!
- De CBlox en 03-19-13
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Run the Storm
- De: George Michelsen Foy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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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
- De Kindle Customer en 09-15-18
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- De: Rachel Slade
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- De John A. Tucker en 10-23-19
De: Rachel Slade
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Fire on the Mountain
- The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
- De: John N. MacLean
- Narrado por: John N. MacLean
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
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On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded...
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As a wildland firefighter it's a book that matters
- De Mark en 09-06-13
De: John N. MacLean
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Our Final Warning
- Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
- De: Mark Lynas
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 11 h y 59 m
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Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse....
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One of the best
- De Stephen en 08-15-20
De: Mark Lynas
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The Great Deluge
- Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Kyf Brewer
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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In The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart....
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Unabridged version
- De Leonora en 11-19-06
De: Douglas Brinkley
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- De: Chris Rose
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina....
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- De Gillian en 02-27-15
De: Chris Rose
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Death in the Air
- The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
- De: Kate Winkler Dawson
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 9 h y 30 m
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Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....
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Interesting
- De irene en 11-27-17
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- De: Tristram Korten
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....
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Just average
- De Rickmeister en 03-13-20
De: Tristram Korten
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Sudden Sea
- De: R.A. Scotti
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, Sudden Sea hearkens back to a natural disaster that struck terror in the hearts of many. In this narrative, listeners experience the Great Hurricane of 1938, the most financially destructive storm on record....
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Very professional and interesting
- De Careful Consumer en 08-09-23
De: R.A. Scotti
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Gunflint Falling
- Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
- De: Cary J. Griffith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 9 m
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On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a bizarre confluence of meteorological events resulted in the most damaging blowdown in the region's history. Gunflint Falling tells the story of this devastating storm.
De: Cary J. Griffith
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On the Burning Edge
- A Fateful Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- De: Kyle Dickman
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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On June 28, 2013, a single bolt of lightning sparked an inferno that devoured more than 8,000 acres in Northern Arizona....
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Be on the fire line, and in their heads.
- De Desiree May en 04-29-16
De: Kyle Dickman
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Gunflint Burning
- Fire in the Boundary Waters
- De: Cary J. Griffith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Cary J. Griffith tells the story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll
De: Cary J. Griffith
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- De: Kyle Donovan
- Narrado por: Mike Steele
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- De B Bishop en 04-06-24
De: Kyle Donovan