American Places

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    • By: Tracy Clark
    • Narrated by: Shari Peele
    • Series: Chicago Mysteries, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 162 ratings
    • Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose....

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    • Branch Avenue Boys, Book 2
    • By: Shelly Ellis
    • Narrated by: Alan Ryder
    • Series: Branch Avenue Boys, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Success didn't come easy for three best friends from the streets. And now dangerous choices and reckless desire will push their bond to lethal limits....

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    • Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache
    • By: Keith H. Basso
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • For more than 30 years, anthropologist Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names - where they come from and what they mean to the Apaches....

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    • How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation
    • By: John Matteson
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs
    • Release date: 07-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson illuminates three harrowing months of the Civil War and their enduring legacy for America....

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    • By: Bernice L. McFadden
    • Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,075 ratings
    • Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon....

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    • Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
    • By: J. Drew Lanham
    • Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 241 ratings
    • From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham....

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    • By: Charles de Lint
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Series: Newford, Book 5
    • Length: 19 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Charles de Lint's beloved fictional city of Newford is the backdrop for this riveting urban fantasy which pays homage to ancient Native American legends of secret "animal people" living among us. Lily is a photojournalist in search of the “animal people” who supposedly haunt the city....

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    • A Journey Through Blank Spots on the American Map
    • By: Peter Stark
    • Narrated by: Jay Aaseng
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this fascinating look at the value of nature, the ways humans use and approach it, and what it means to seek out empty places in today's world, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the listener to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska....

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    • The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
    • By: John Szwed
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra - a.k.a. Herman Blount - was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn....

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    • Searching for an American Utopia
    • By: Adrian Shirk
    • Narrated by: Adrian Shirk
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Told in a series of essays that balance memoir with fieldwork, Heaven Is a Place on Earth is an idiosyncratic study of American utopian experiments through the lens of one woman’s quest to create a more communal life in a time of unending economic and social precarity....

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    • Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership
    • By: Wendell Berry
    • Narrated by: Lyle Blaker
    • Series: Port William, Book 8
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The story of the community of Port William is one of the great works in American literature. This collection, the tenth volume in the series, is the perfect occasion to celebrate Berry's huge achievement....

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    • American Historical Family Saga Fiction
    • By: Stephan Bellesini, Adrienne Bellesini
    • Narrated by: Ean Leppin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Evelyn Barton was destined to die in 1825, but a stranger from the future traveled back in time, arriving at Barton Place, an estate that had been in the Barton family since 1743, and then changed everything for Evelyn Barton and her family....

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    • An American History in Haunted Places
    • By: Colin Dickey
    • Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 934 ratings
    • An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes listeners on a road trip through some of the country's most infamously haunted places - and deep into the dark side of our history....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Brandon J. Wolf
    • Narrated by: Brandon J. Wolf
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • From one of the most vital and passionate LGBTQ+ activists comes a powerful memoir about self-discovery, community, love, and resilience in the face of adversity....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Armed Conflict Between the United States of America and Spain That Took Place After the US Intervened in the Cuban War of Independence
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This was the tipping point for the end of the Spanish Empire and the rise of the US as a formidable player on the world stage. Not all Americans were happy with the change, with famous Americans like Mark Twain speaking out about the US occupation of the lands that it was meant to save....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,184 ratings
    • As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia, their headstrong eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition....

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    • The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan's Pech Valley
    • By: Wesley Morgan
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan....

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    • A Coast-to-Coast Tour of the Most Notorious Houses of Homicide
    • By: Steve Lehto
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass, but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses....

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    • An American Place
    • By: Jean Stein
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie Sedgwick, which was edited with George Plimpton. Now, in West of Eden, she turns to Los Angeles, the city of her childhood....

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