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 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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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
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Almost!
- By Cody on 11-02-24
By: Amanda Ripley
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When It All Burns
- Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
- By: Jordan Thomas
- Narrated by: Jordan Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters.
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A fascinating and informative view view into fire ecology, fire culture and, the politics. Surrounding fire.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-25
By: Jordan Thomas
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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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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The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
- By: Fernando Aguirre
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Modern Survival Manual is based on first hand experience of the 2001 Economic Collapse in Argentina. In it you will find a variety of subjects ...
By: Fernando Aguirre
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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 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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The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
- By: Amanda Ripley
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.
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Almost!
- By Cody on 11-02-24
By: Amanda Ripley
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When It All Burns
- Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
- By: Jordan Thomas
- Narrated by: Jordan Thomas
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters.
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A fascinating and informative view view into fire ecology, fire culture and, the politics. Surrounding fire.
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-25
By: Jordan Thomas
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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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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The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse
- By: Fernando Aguirre
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The Modern Survival Manual is based on first hand experience of the 2001 Economic Collapse in Argentina. In it you will find a variety of subjects ...
By: Fernando Aguirre
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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
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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 Tidetracker on 11-27-15
By: Ted Koppel
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So Others May Live
- Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
- By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
- Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....
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Good content, poor delivery in parts
- By Damien on 01-27-19
By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, and others
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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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Tinder Box
- The Iroquois Theatre Disaster 1903
- By: Anthony P. Hatch
- Narrated by: Matthew Josdal
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Iroquois Theater opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "absolutely fireproof." Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds of victims....
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the narrator destroyed it
- By Callen Liles on 02-23-21
By: Anthony P. Hatch
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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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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
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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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Heat Wave
- A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface
- By: Eric Klinenberg
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over....
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Informative and riveting personal accounts
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-23
By: Eric Klinenberg
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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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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 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
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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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Meltdown
- Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
- By: Joel Levy
- Narrated by: Kris Dyer
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy....
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A less well written version of another book
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-22
By: Joel Levy
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- By Nazir on 05-26-22
By: Scott Carney, and others
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- By: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- By howard bascom on 09-02-21
By: Lizzie Johnson
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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
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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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The Disappearing Act
- The Impossible Case of MH370
- By: Florence de Changy
- Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
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A remarkable piece of investigative journalism into one of the most pervasive and troubling mysteries of recent memory....
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Random Facts in Need of a Coherent Thesis
- By Navillus82 on 03-27-21
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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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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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Donald Trump Causes Pandemic!
- By David on 03-26-22
By: Nick Timiraos
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The Anti-Catastrophe League
- The pioneers and visionaries on a quest to save the world
- By: Tom Ough
- Narrated by: Tom Ough
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant study of the people and their teams who are trying to save the world.
By: Tom Ough
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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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In Deep Water
- The Anatomy of a Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction
- By: Peter Lehner, Bob Deans
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico....
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OUR FRAGILE PLANET
- By DS on 12-20-12
By: Peter Lehner, and others
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country....
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Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning
- By Carole T. on 08-22-12
By: John Kelly
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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
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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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No Idea
- By PL on 08-31-23
By: Juliette Kayyem
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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