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The Whole Death Catalog
- A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 15 h y 17 m
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- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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The Worm at the Core
- On the Role of Death in Life
- De: Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, Tom Pyszczynski
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 230
More than 100 years ago, the American philosopher William James wrote that the knowledge that we must die is "the worm at the core" of the human condition - a universally shared fear that informs all our thoughts and actions, from the great art we create to the devastating wars we wage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skeptical at first, but they won me over.
- De Tory Giddens en 06-07-20
De: Jeff Greenberg, y otros
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Dead Presidents
- An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
- De: Brady Carlson
- Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 92
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
In Dead Presidents, NPR host Brady Carlson takes listeners to presidential gravesites, monuments, and memorials to tell the death stories of our greatest leaders. Mixing biography and travelogue, Carlson explores whether William Henry Harrison really died of a cold, why Zachary Taylor's remains were exhumed 140 years after his death, and how what killed James A. Garfield wasn't an assassin's bullet.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dead ends and in depth history.
- De ellie en 03-04-16
De: Brady Carlson
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Ghostland
- An American History in Haunted Places
- De: Colin Dickey
- Narrado por: Jon Lindstrom
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 908
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 810
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 805
Colin Dickey is on the trail of America's ghosts. Crammed into old houses and hotels, abandoned prisons and empty hospitals, the spirits that linger continue to capture our collective imagination, but why? His own fascination piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie homes", Dickey embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A fluffed-up college essay writ large.
- De Gavin en 10-13-16
De: Colin Dickey
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The True History of the Elephant Man
- The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
- De: Michael Howell, Peter Ford
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing man!
- De Carolyn en 02-05-15
De: Michael Howell, y otros
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Printer's Error
- Irreverent Stories from Book History
- De: Rebecca Romney, J. P. Romney
- Narrado por: J.P. Romney
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn't been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Porn for Ye Old Bibliophiles
- De George M. Liveakos en 03-24-17
De: Rebecca Romney, y otros
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- De: Jennifer Wright
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,723
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 8,016
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7,983
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon 34 more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-19th-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- De Kindle Customer en 02-09-17
De: Jennifer Wright
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- De: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrado por: Kristin Kalbli
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very important book.
- De Tyler en 12-07-19
De: Edwidge Danticat
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delusion shattering
- De Matthew A. Burnett en 06-12-20
De: Jesmyn Ward
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Keats
- A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
- De: Lucasta Miller
- Narrado por: Sally Scott
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
Miller, through Keats’s poetry, brilliantly resurrects and brings vividly to life, the man, the poet in all his complexity and spirit, living dangerously, disdaining respectability and cultural norms, and embracing subversive politics. Keats was a lower-middle-class outsider from a tragic and fractured family, whose extraordinary energy and love of language allowed him to pummel his way into the heart of English literature; a freethinker and a liberal at a time of repression, who delighted in the sensation of the moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Romantic Life
- De David en 05-03-22
De: Lucasta Miller
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Red
- A History of the Redhead
- De: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Narrado por: Jacky Colliss Harvey
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 150
Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. An audiobook that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art. With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Pushing Past Stereotypes
- De Troy en 06-09-15
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Ted Hughes
- The Unauthorized Life
- De: Jonathan Bate
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 25 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Ted Hughes, poet laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter writer since John Keats. His magnetic personality and insatiable appetite for friendship, love, and life also attracted more scandal than any poet since Lord Byron.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Phenomenal thanks to narrator!
- De equinox14 en 06-26-16
De: Jonathan Bate
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The Knife Man
- The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery
- De: Wendy Moore
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 13 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 191
In The Knife Man, Wendy Moore unveils John Hunter's murky and macabre world - a world characterized by public hangings, secret expeditions to dank churchyards, and gruesome human dissections in pungent attic rooms. This is a fascinating portrait of a remarkable pioneer and his determined struggle to haul surgery out of the realms of meaningless superstitious ritual and into the dawn of modern medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Bird en 12-02-15
De: Wendy Moore
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Survivor Cafe
- The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
- De: Elizabeth Rosner
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Rosner
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Café offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century human inheritance - not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust, but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book every generation should read
- De J. Faught en 09-29-17
De: Elizabeth Rosner
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Red Land, Black Land
- Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
- De: Barbara Mertz
- Narrado por: Lorna Raver
- Duración: 14 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 316
Esteemed Egyptologist Barbara Mertz updates her widely praised social history of the people of ancient Egypt, which was originally published in 1968. Combining impeccable scholarship with a delightfully personal style, the author reconstructs the life of the Egyptians from birth to death, and beyond death, too.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- De Elizabeth en 04-03-10
De: Barbara Mertz
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Assassination Vacation
- De: Sarah Vowell
- Narrado por: Conan O'Brien, Stephen King, Dave Eggers, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 3,617
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,943
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,927
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other, a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.
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4 out of 5 stars
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extremely entertaining and informative
- De Rachel en 08-17-05
De: Sarah Vowell
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The History and Folklore of Vampires
- The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Jack Chekijian
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vampires from Medieval times to the present
- De MolllyT en 05-14-15
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Psycho USA
- Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 177
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of US history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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True crime enthusiast's dream
- De Athelsten en 08-24-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Fiend
- The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
When 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Graphic descriptions of child torture
- De mobius_spider en 11-13-20
De: Harold Schechter
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The Devil's Gentleman
- Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 167
The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- De Carolina en 02-27-17
De: Harold Schechter
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The Serial Killer Files
- The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 784
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 688
Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real-life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made me feel sick, yet I didn't want it to end
- De Neuron en 02-07-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Maniac
- The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school - one of the most modern in the Midwest - Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite true crime authors flops.
- De John L en 03-14-21
De: Harold Schechter
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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Psycho USA
- Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 179
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 177
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of US history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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True crime enthusiast's dream
- De Athelsten en 08-24-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Fiend
- The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 190
When 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Graphic descriptions of child torture
- De mobius_spider en 11-13-20
De: Harold Schechter
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The Devil's Gentleman
- Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 15 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 167
The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune - hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life Manhattan's Gilded Age, Schechter captures all the colors of the tumultuous legal proceedings.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Book Without an Accompanying Wiki Page Is Always A Treat
- De Carolina en 02-27-17
De: Harold Schechter
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The Serial Killer Files
- The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 18 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 784
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 690
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 688
Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real-life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Made me feel sick, yet I didn't want it to end
- De Neuron en 02-07-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Maniac
- The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Braden Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 318
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 282
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school - one of the most modern in the Midwest - Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorite true crime authors flops.
- De John L en 03-14-21
De: Harold Schechter
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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The Brick Slayer
- Bloodlands collection
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
- Duración: 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 953
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 837
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 829
A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later with the arrest of African American teenager Robert Nixon, igniting racial tensions in an already appallingly divided city. Tortured in custody and portrayed by the press in the most lurid and flagrantly racist terms, Nixon faced an all-white jury. It would be the fastest conviction in the history of Cook County. The case against Nixon is a still-relevant examination of bigotry, suppressed rage, and the making of a murderer.
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1 out of 5 stars
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DIGUSTING EXCUSE FOR A RAPIST AND MURDERER
- De MACXAVIER en 03-13-19
De: Harold Schechter
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Deviant
- The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,746
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,734
From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" ( Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation - and redefined the meaning of the word psycho.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Has its Moments but Overly Salacious
- De Adam en 08-26-16
De: Harold Schechter
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Working Stiff
- Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
- De: Judy Melinek MD, T. J. Mitchell
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 7 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,243
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,908
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,897
Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband and their toddler holding down the home front, Judy threw herself into the fascinating world of death investigation-performing autopsies, investigating death scenes, and counseling grieving relatives. Working Stiff chronicles Judy's two years of training, taking listeners behind the police tape of some of the most harrowing deaths in the Big Apple.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story - but not for the faint of heart!
- De R. Freeman en 08-20-14
De: Judy Melinek MD, y otros
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Ripped from the Headlines!
- The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 229
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 187
Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Look at Films Based on True Crimes
- De Admiralu en 08-06-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Man-Eater
- The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 288
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 253
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 253
In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: "the Man-Eater."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Made me hungry. Just kidding.
- De daniel en 05-01-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
- Bloodlands collection
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
- Duración: 1 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,494
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,163
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,160
At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull. In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets - a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter, Kate, that would make them the stuff of mythic campfire prairie tales.
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5 out of 5 stars
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True Life Crime
- De David Theis en 09-03-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Panic
- Bloodlands collection
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 984
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 857
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 856
During the Depression, economic anxieties found an outlet in a series of child murders that triggered an irrational nationwide hysteria: pedophiliac psychopaths were overrunning the country. As America was brought to rage and fury by the press and the FBI, lynch mobs took to the streets, reason gave way to doomsday scenarios, and one father was even driven to murder his three daughters to “save them” from a degenerate crime wave. A terrifying cautionary essay, Panic explores the combustible mix of unfounded fears, moral crusades, and the dangers of collective thinking.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too sensational
- De Texaspaz en 10-14-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Beauty Slain in Bath: The Titterton Tragedy of 1936
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: James Edward Thomas
- Duración: 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 240
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 217
A story from the anthology Masters of True Crime, which spans murder cases from the beginning of the 20th century to today. This is a must-hear for fans of true crime and will also be compelling to mystery and thriller listeners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad Murder of Young Novelist in 1936
- De Debbie en 01-21-21
De: Harold Schechter
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All the Living and the Dead
- From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
- De: Hayley Campbell
- Narrado por: Hayley Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 334
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 290
Fueled by a childhood fascination with death, journalist Hayley Campbell searches for answers in the people who make a living by working with the dead. Along the way, she encounters mass fatality investigators, embalmers, and a former executioner who is responsible for ending sixty-two lives. She meets gravediggers who have already dug their own graves, visits a cryonics facility in Michigan, goes for late-night Chinese with a homicide detective, and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Noelle en 09-01-22
De: Hayley Campbell
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Hell's Princess
- The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,278
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,279
In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly for the sheer joy of it. Between 1902 and 1908, she lured a succession of unsuspecting victims to her Indiana “murder farm". Some were hired hands. Others were well-to-do bachelors. All of them vanished without a trace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can a book about a serial killer be entertaining?
- De Lori Hanson en 05-08-18
De: Harold Schechter
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Mortuary Confidential
- Undertakers Spill the Dirt
- De: Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie
- Narrado por: Susan Larkin, Allan Robertson
- Duración: 6 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to tell - and a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful read!
- De Grace Adele Spruiell en 12-25-22
De: Todd Harra, y otros
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The Mad Sculptor
- The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 379
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 380
Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again - and enthrall the nation. The young man who committed these murders would come to be known in the annals of American crime as the Mad Sculptor.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Mad Sculptor
- De William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). en 08-03-14
De: Harold Schechter
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Whole Death Catalog
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia3 out of 5 stars
- angela lewis
- 10-16-23
Chapter 2 is also Chapter 3
It seems as though the author uploaded the Chapter 2 content as Chapter 3 as well…
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- Evie M
- 09-25-19
Bathroom literature, not audible book material.
It has a lot of quaint little facts and amusing notations and anecdotes. It also has a lot of references to other materials that don't work when read aloud. For example, after about the 10th "Double You Double You Double You Dot WebsiteNameInEntirety Dot Com Slash File Under Score This Under Score Interesting Under Score Thing Under Score Here Slash Ad Nauseum..." I just couldn't do it anymore. I could see this being a really interesting book to have in physical form. It has great little sections perfect for short term reading (toilet reading is how I think of it) and seems like it might be a good book for someone unsuited to longer, linear storytelling. I returned it, but I could see enjoying it in a different format.
The narrator was enthusiastic. Not bad.
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