Town Histories

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,289 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
    • By: Jim DeFede
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,083 ratings
    • When 38 jetliners bound for the US were forced to land at Gander International Airport on September 11, the population of this small town swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000....

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    • The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
    • By: Rachel Louise Martin
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt court mandated desegregation....

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    • A Collection of Western Stories
    • By: Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 589 ratings
    • Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Diane Chamberlain
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,921 ratings
    • North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold - until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately....

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    • Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
    • By: Barney Hoskyns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country"....

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    • By: Lisa M. Russell
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever....

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    • Memoir of a 1920s Childhood
    • By: Clement T. "Bud" Mertens
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Enjoy charming tales of yesteryear… Take a look at life in the early 20th century through the eyes of a young boy. A natural storyteller, Bud ...

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    • By: Dan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Jack Turner comes back to Culpepper to give a series of lectures for his old history professor. Within days, he starts having bizarre experiences ...

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Gary Sinise
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,493 ratings
    • Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938....

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    • Blood Libel in an American Town
    • By: Edward Berenson
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On Saturday, September 22, 1928, Barbara Griffiths, aged four, strayed into the woods surrounding the upstate village of Massena, New York. Hundreds of people looked everywhere for the child but could not find her....

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    • A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
    • By: James Loewen
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design....

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    • Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy....

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    • How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
    • By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
    • Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • In 1979, the self-titled debut album by the B-52s burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination....

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    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,978 ratings
    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

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    • The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
    • By: T. D. Allman
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity’s most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones.

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    • A Tim Colter Western, Book 3
    • By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Series: Tim Colter, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The latest blazing, breakneck adventure in the Tim Colter Western series by the bestselling legends of historical Westerns in which the assassination of President Grant is on the line.

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