Tragic Science

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    • The Silent Gods, Book 1
    • By: Justin Travis Call
    • Narrated by: Peter Kenny
    • Series: Silent Gods Series, Book 1
    • Length: 19 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,237 ratings
    • You’ve heard the story before: an orphaned boy, raised by a wise old man, comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil threatening his world. But what if that hero were destined to become the new dark lord? That's new....

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    • A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness
    • By: Jack El-Hai
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Lobotomist explores one of the darkest chapters of American medicine: the desperate attempt to treat the hundreds of thousands of psychiatric patients in need of help during the middle decades of the 20th century....

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    • A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
    • By: Jeff Hobbs
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,907 ratings
    • A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets....

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    • How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All
    • By: Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom - foreword
    • Narrated by: Anna Crowe
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong....

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    • The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader
    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes listeners inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight gang members in prison....

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    • Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy....

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    • From Benefits Street to the Houses of Parliament: One Woman's Fight for Her Tragic Daughter
    • By: Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack, Joy Dove
    • Narrated by: Melanie Crawley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • While Jodey Whiting was stuck in hospital battling pneumonia over Christmas, a letter dropped on her doormat from the Department of Work and Pensions, asking her to attend an assessment. Despite her health problems, the powers-that-be callously halted benefit payments for the mum-of-nine....

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    • The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
    • By: S. C. Gwynne
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 181 ratings
    • From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon comes a “captivating, thoroughly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) tale of the rise and fall of the world’s largest airship....

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    • A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory
    • By: Lawrence Wright
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground....

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    • The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
    • By: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty - contributor
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings
    • The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"....

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    • The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson
    • By: Randall Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Mel Foster
    • Length: 28 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Beginning with his final departure from Neverland, Untouchable takes listeners through Jackson's final four years....

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    • The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt
    • By: Audrey Clare Farley
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • For listeners of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Phantom of Fifth Avenue comes a pause-resisting drama of fortunes, eugenics, and women's reproductive rights framed by the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother....

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    • Memoirs of a Car Tragic
    • By: Chris Harris
    • Narrated by: Chris Harris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • Chris Harris has driven more cars than most people could ever dream of. His vast knowledge is legendary. And now for the first time, Harris is going all out, taking us down the road of his life-long adventure with the automobile....

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    • A Tragic Love Story (A Sea of Echoes)
    • By: Misty D. Waters
    • Narrated by: Amelia Hugh
    • Series: A Sea of Echoes
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • Before a prophecy swept him across the seas, Oskar Dahlin was a mortal among corrupt rulers. He lived with one mandate: protect the innocent. Be their sword, and if necessary, their vengeance. He was a Blade of the Assassin’s Guild, trained in body and mind.

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    • Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities
    • By: Jason Rantz
    • Narrated by: Jason Rantz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Employing on-the-ground reporting and fact-based analysis, prominent radio host Jason Rantz zooms out to conduct a fascinating detailed data-driven study of how liberal policies result in chaos, misery, and (too often) bloodshed....

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    • The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
    • By: John J. Geoghegan
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • When Giants Ruled the Sky tells the true but little-known story of the USS Macon (ZRS-5), the world's largest, most expensive, and most technologically advanced airship of her day, and the four men responsible for conceiving, designing, building, and flying her....

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    • The Tragic Deaths of Jake Gardner and James Scurlock in a Fractured America
    • By: Joe Sexton
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Award-winning journalist Joseph Sexton provides a searing account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests, exploring the complex political and racial mistrust and division of today’s America.

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    • The Tragic Story of Pan American Flight 806
    • By: William Norris
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1974, Pan American Flight 806 was hoping to land safely in Pago Pago, Samoa, but instead plummeted at 140 miles per hour into the jungle floor. The 101 passengers and crew members all survived this devastating crash....

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    • The Tragic Tales of Pandora, Book 1
    • By: Samuel Tucker Young
    • Narrated by: Samuel Tucker Young
    • Series: The Tragic Tales of Pandora, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Derek Agons doesn't care. He's just worried about passing high school. After leaving an extra credit assignment that could save his dying grades—and keep his mom off his back—he stumbles upon a hard truth. The natural disasters aren't so natural....

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    • By: Amitav Acharya
    • Narrated by: RICHARD BHAKTI KLIEN
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • A decade ago, Burma was full of light and hope. Today, it has descended into darkness and despair. The once promising political and opening up of the country has been set back, possibly for a long time. How did this happen?

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