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Bestsellers
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Sheri Fink
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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
By: Amanda Ripley
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: David McCullough
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Ted Koppel
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: Serhii Plokhy
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Rebecca Solnit
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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
- Unabridged
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Performance
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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
By: Sheri Fink
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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
By: Amanda Ripley
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The Johnstown Flood
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: David McCullough
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Ted Koppel
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: Serhii Plokhy
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Rebecca Solnit
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Scott Carney, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Stephen Puleo
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Disasterology
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
- By: Samantha Montano
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis - one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future....
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This should have been a better book
- By Soudant on 09-09-24
By: Samantha Montano
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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
- Unabridged
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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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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- By: Kyle Donovan
- Narrated by: Mike Steele
- Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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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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light on facts. and assumes the reader is male, Christian, and MAGA
- By A. C. on 09-14-24
By: Kyle Donovan
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- By: Nick Timiraos
- Narrated by: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- By NL on 04-17-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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33 Men
- Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners
- By: Jonathan Franklin
- Narrated by: Armando Valdez Kennedy
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Having had unparalleled access to the Chilean mine disaster, award-winning journalist Jonathan Franklin takes readers to the heart of a remarkable story....
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Excellent
- By James on 11-23-15
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The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- By: Juliette Kayyem
- Narrated by: Juliette Kayyem
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....
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An important and thoroughly engaging book
- By Robert S. Taylor on 04-21-22
By: Juliette Kayyem
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Tom Shroder, and others
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Firehouse
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Mel Foster
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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
By: David Halberstam
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A Sea in Flames
- By: Carl Safina
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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A Sea in Flames is Carl Safina's blistering account of the months-long manmade disaster that tormented a region and mesmerized the nation....
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1st half good, rest is opinionated BS
- By GG on 08-24-18
By: Carl Safina
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Run to Failure
- BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
- By: Abrahm Lustgarten
- Narrated by: Mark Moseley
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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It was Big Oil's nightmare moment, and the dominoes began falling years before the well was drilled....
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What you DON'T know about BP
- By Karen on 09-06-13
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Personal Effects
- What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
- By: Robert A. Jensen
- Narrated by: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead....
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Very informative and eye-opening
- By Mollie on 07-02-22
By: Robert A. Jensen
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Dispatches from the Edge
- By: Anderson Cooper
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....
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Dispatches from the Inner Self
- By W. Rodger Gantt on 11-03-06
By: Anderson Cooper
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Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- By: Jake Johnston
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
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I loved this book !! Winds of peace and conciosness are blowing, says BBQ, Jimmy Cherizezs.
- By Anonymous User on 08-10-24
By: Jake Johnston
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The Big Truck That Went By
- How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster
- By: Jonathan M. Katz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jonathan M. Katz
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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This story angered and cheered inside me
- By rifenbc on 03-01-19
By: Jonathan M. Katz
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- By: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- By howard bascom on 09-02-21
By: Lizzie Johnson
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- By: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
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Internal workings of the NRC
- By Eduards J. Vucins on 05-11-14
By: Susan Stranahan, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Sean Flynn
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So Others May Live
- Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
- By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
- Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....
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Good content, poor delivery in parts
- By Damien on 01-27-19
By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, and others
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it....
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Balanced Account of a Horrible Year
- By C. Emerson Thompson on 07-14-21
By: Lawrence Wright
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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
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Michael Skidgell
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Thomas Fisher
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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
- Unabridged
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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
By: Greg King, and others