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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
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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
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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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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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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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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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
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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
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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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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Performance
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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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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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Overall
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Performance
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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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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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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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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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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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When the Dust Settles
- Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
- By: Lucy Easthope
- Narrated by: Lucy Easthope
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Lucy Easthope lives with disaster every day. When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, she's the one they call. In her moving memoir, she reveals what happens in the aftermath....
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brilliant!
- By Yuliya on 05-19-23
By: Lucy Easthope
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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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Into a Raging Sea
- Great South African Rescues
- By: Tony Weaver, Andrew Ingram
- Narrated by: Chris Van Rensburg
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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On 1 October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in one of the worst shipping disasters in decades....
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Book’s description is for another book
- By Ba on 03-09-21
By: Tony Weaver, and others
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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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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- By: Henry Fountain
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- By Debby A Davis on 08-18-17
By: Henry Fountain
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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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A must read for anyone interested in Haiti
- By Matthew Smith on 04-02-24
By: Jake Johnston
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The Deep Dark
- Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....
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Started out not so great, but very glad I stayed w
- By farmhouselady on 01-14-20
By: Gregg Olsen
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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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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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Inflamed
- Abandonment, Heroism, and Outrage in Wine Country's Deadliest Firestorm
- By: Anne E. Belden, Paul Gullixson, Lauren A. Spates - contributor
- Narrated by: Janet Metzger
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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Gripping
- By Christina Webster on 04-24-24
By: Anne E. Belden, and others
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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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We Fed an Island
- The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
- By: José Andrés
- Narrated by: José Andrés, Luis A. Miranda Jr.
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed, and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world....
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Great story, difficult listen
- By Luis Baars on 09-20-18
By: José Andrés
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Run the Storm
- By: George Michelsen Foy
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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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The Boys in the Cave
- Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand
- By: Matt Gutman
- Narrated by: Matt Gutman
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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From ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and information comes the definitive account of the story that gripped the world: the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave miles underground for nearly three weeks....
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Wanted much more about what happened inside
- By Scott T. Hards on 12-22-18
By: Matt Gutman
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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Rescue
- Refugees and the Political Crisis of our Time
- By: David Miliband
- Narrated by: David Miliband
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Sixty-five million people are fleeing for their lives. The choices are urgent, not just for them but for all of us....
By: David Miliband
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A Nation Forsaken
- EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe
- By: F. Michael Maloof
- Narrated by: Mike Ortego
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States is more vulnerable than ever to an EMP attack that could shut down the country overnight, resulting in tens of millions of deaths and a 19th-century lifestyle for Americans for the foreseeable future....
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Excellent information and well written book.
- By Alan on 05-18-14
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Hero Dogs
- How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners
- By: Wilma Melville, Paul Lobo
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The true story of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, by retired physical education teacher Wilma Melville, and the amazing dogs and their handlers who faced off with devastating catastrophes from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina....
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Heroes Every One
- By Artnlibsmom on 09-14-20
By: Wilma Melville, and others
New releases
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Resilient Families
- Empowering Your Family to Withstand and Recover from Disasters
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into an empowering journey of preparedness, resilience, and survival with this compelling new eBook, "Resilient Families." Drawn from a broad spectrum of resources, this captivating book offers not only an intriguing read but also a wealth of knowledge on the significant role of families in disaster preparedness. The book opens with an enlightening discourse about Disaster Risk Reduction, continuing to a robust exploration of Resilience Framework, providing a critical foundation to your understanding. Progressively dive deeper into the types of natural and human-made disasters and ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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United We Rise
- How Community Building and Cooperation can Rebuild a Post-Meteor-Impact World
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cataclysmic challenges are not new to human history. In our groundbreaking eBook, "United We Rise," we plunge headfirst into an imaginative, post-apocalyptic scenario where an unprecedented catastrophe, a meteor impact, has obliterated normalcy. The trajectory of human survival is rewritten, making it an unforgettable narrative experience for readers worldwide. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the disaster, the book draws a compelling narrative through humanity's collaborative response. It balances the bleak landscape of desolation with the hopeful thread of unity, showing how to ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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Disaster Ready
- Essential Preparedness Strategies for Any Disaster
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Introducing Disaster Ready, the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in the face of any disaster. This comprehensive eBook is your one-stop-shop for all things emergency preparedness. With a comprehensive 20-chapter guide, Disaster Ready covers everything you need to know to keep yourself and those around you safe and secure during disasters of all types. Chapter 1 lays the foundation for your knowledge by discussing the various types of disasters and how they can affect you. From there, you'll move into risk assessment to determine what disasters are most likely in your area and how to...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
By: Athena Aktipis
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- By: Scott Crow
- Narrated by: Chris Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities from white militias and police brutality.
By: Scott Crow
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The Survival Blueprint
- How to Prepare Your Family for Disaster
- By: Damian Brindle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you prepared for the unknown? Do you really know how to keep your family safe should the worst happen? Make no mistake, preparedness isn't paranoia...it's common sense that we've lost. Every day, we take precautions like wearing seatbelts and insurance. Why should our most fundamental human needs, especially food, water, shelter, and security, be any different? Disasters can flip your world upside down in an instant. Preparedness is the key to right the world again. But this book isn't for doomsday preppers. It's for responsible people like you who want peace of mind in a chaotic world....
By: Damian Brindle
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Resilient Families
- Empowering Your Family to Withstand and Recover from Disasters
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into an empowering journey of preparedness, resilience, and survival with this compelling new eBook, "Resilient Families." Drawn from a broad spectrum of resources, this captivating book offers not only an intriguing read but also a wealth of knowledge on the significant role of families in disaster preparedness. The book opens with an enlightening discourse about Disaster Risk Reduction, continuing to a robust exploration of Resilience Framework, providing a critical foundation to your understanding. Progressively dive deeper into the types of natural and human-made disasters and ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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United We Rise
- How Community Building and Cooperation can Rebuild a Post-Meteor-Impact World
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cataclysmic challenges are not new to human history. In our groundbreaking eBook, "United We Rise," we plunge headfirst into an imaginative, post-apocalyptic scenario where an unprecedented catastrophe, a meteor impact, has obliterated normalcy. The trajectory of human survival is rewritten, making it an unforgettable narrative experience for readers worldwide. Beginning with the immediate aftermath of the disaster, the book draws a compelling narrative through humanity's collaborative response. It balances the bleak landscape of desolation with the hopeful thread of unity, showing how to ...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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Disaster Ready
- Essential Preparedness Strategies for Any Disaster
- By: Barrett Williams, ChatGPT ChatGPT
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Introducing Disaster Ready, the ultimate guide to surviving and thriving in the face of any disaster. This comprehensive eBook is your one-stop-shop for all things emergency preparedness. With a comprehensive 20-chapter guide, Disaster Ready covers everything you need to know to keep yourself and those around you safe and secure during disasters of all types. Chapter 1 lays the foundation for your knowledge by discussing the various types of disasters and how they can affect you. From there, you'll move into risk assessment to determine what disasters are most likely in your area and how to...
By: Barrett Williams, and others
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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
- Unabridged
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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. The good news? It’s always felt that way.
By: Athena Aktipis
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- By: Scott Crow
- Narrated by: Chris Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities from white militias and police brutality.
By: Scott Crow
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The Survival Blueprint
- How to Prepare Your Family for Disaster
- By: Damian Brindle
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Are you prepared for the unknown? Do you really know how to keep your family safe should the worst happen? Make no mistake, preparedness isn't paranoia...it's common sense that we've lost. Every day, we take precautions like wearing seatbelts and insurance. Why should our most fundamental human needs, especially food, water, shelter, and security, be any different? Disasters can flip your world upside down in an instant. Preparedness is the key to right the world again. But this book isn't for doomsday preppers. It's for responsible people like you who want peace of mind in a chaotic world....
By: Damian Brindle
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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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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- By B Bishop on 04-06-24
By: Kyle Donovan
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Prepping for the day the SHTF: A complete bug-out and survival plan for life after doomsday.
- By: Ken Benton
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Bad times may be coming. We all know that, right? But what are we doing about it to prepare? What can we do? We are not talking about localized natural disasters, which are temporary situations and relatively easy to recover from. These bad times, which may very well loom on the horizon as we speak, could render all the money in our bank accounts worthless. When the trucks stop rolling, there is no more food. Even if you have some stored up, how long will it last? The cities figure to become a pretty ugly place after a severe SHTF event. They will be unsafe, and crowds are extremely bad for...
By: Ken Benton
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Corporate Crime, Corporate Violence
- By: Michael J. Lynch
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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A revised and extended edition of the popular Crimes Against Health and Safety, this classic dissects the popular myths promoted by traditional criminology, uncovers who the real criminals are, and the extent of their dreadful crimes. The authors have written a new Introduction specially for this Kindle edition. CONTENTS: 1.Quiet Violence. 2.Corporate Crime: Definition and History. 3.Calling a Crime a Crime. 4.Conventional Laws for Unconventional Crimes. 5.Regulating Health and Safety. 6.Green Criminology: Corporate Violence and the Environment. 7.Explaining Corporate Violence. 9....
By: Michael J. Lynch
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From Crisis to Recovery: Strategic Planning for Response, Resilience, and Recovery
- By: Doherty George W.
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- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
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Crises Happen... Will You Be Ready? Crises affect people on many different levels, including psychological well-being. The 2004/2009 tsunamis, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are among events continuing to affect millions of lives daily. Potential events like Avian and Swine Flu pandemics, global warming/climate change and threats of spreading unrest in the Middle East are concerns weighing heavily on all. Planning and coordination are important components of responses to crises, disasters, and critical incidents. Resilience, recovery from crises, community ...
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Taking Charge in Troubled Times: Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
- By: John Durkin
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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November 8-11, 2006, the Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Institute held their Annual four-day Disaster Mental Health Conference. The theme of the conference was "TAKING CHARGE IN TROUBLED TIMES: Response, Resilience, Recovery and Follow-up." This edition contains the major papers presented at the conference and summaries of additional presentations. They address some of the major crisis events confronting our societies in recent years, namely, large disasters such as hurricanes Katrina and Rita; case studies such as Abu Ghraib, and traumatic events such as a night club suicide ...
By: John Durkin
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Crisis in the American Heartland: Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1)
- By: George W. Doherty
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- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis? Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical that mental health professionals and first responders in rural areas become aware of recent research, training and approaches to crisis intervention, traumatology, compassion fatigue, disaster mental health, critical incident stress management, post-traumatic stress and related areas in rural ...