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 161 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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    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 96 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 2,181 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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    • 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 932 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 10 Game-Changing Strategies to Achieve Success and Find Greatness
    • By: Randal D. Pinkett, Jeffrey A. Robinson, Philana Patterson
    • Narrated by: Arnell Powel, Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Black Faces in White Places offers 10 revolutionary strategies for challenging and changing the concept of success for black professionals. Based on the authors' considerable experiences in business, it shows how black professionals can, and must, think and act to get ahead....

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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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    • By: Mike Pride
    • Narrated by: Todd Curless
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • In June of 1861, 46-year-old Harriet Patience Dame joined the Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a matron. No Place for a Woman recounts her dedicated service throughout the Civil War.

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    • A Culture of Place
    • By: Bell Hooks
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which renowned cultural critic Bell Hooks moves from place to place, only to end where she began—her old Kentucky home....

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    • Making My Parents' American Dream Come True
    • By: Elizabeth Pipko
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Pipko
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Think you know Elizabeth Pipko? Guess again. She's been described by many as a rising star in the conservative movement, but how did she get here? And more importantly, did she ever plan to? In Finding My Place, Elizabeth takes us back to the beginning....

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