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    • The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation
    • By: Miriam Pawel
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's panoramic history of California and its impact on the nation, from the Gold Rush to Silicon Valley - told through the lens of the family dynasty that led the state for nearly a quarter century....

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    • The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
    • By: Peter Houlahan
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in US history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement....

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    • From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
    • By: Nick Neely
    • Narrated by: Tristan Wright
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 600 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • By: Alistair MacLean
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-24
    • Language: English
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    • 'Earthquake country,' said the Professor. 'San Francisco is geologically and seismologically a city that waits to die. Los Angeles is ringed by earthquake centres – seven massive quakes so far. We have no idea where the next, the monster, will hit…'

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    • One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
    • By: Lizzie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....

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    • A Suburban Memoir
    • By: D.J. Waldie
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic....

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    • A Trasker Thriller (Trasker, Book 1)
    • By: Andrew Mayne
    • Narrated by: James Anderson Foster
    • Series: Trasker, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 786 ratings
    • A shocking act of sabotage draws a retired spy into a deadly conspiracy in an explosive thriller by an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author....

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    • Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3)
    • By: Gray Brechin
    • Narrated by: Gray Brechin
    • Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests....

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    • California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
    • By: Kevin Starr
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years....

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    • Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
    • By: Keramet Reiter
    • Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in US prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend 23 hours a day in featureless cells....

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....

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    • The True Story of a Modern-Day Child Slave
    • By: Shyima Hall, Lisa Wysocky
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Shyima Hall was born in Egypt on September 29, 1989, the seventh child of desperately poor parents. When she was eight, her parents sold her into slavery...

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    • The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
    • By: Benjamin Madley
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter....

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    • By: Gene Stratton-Porter
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This novel, set in 1920s California, tells the tale of Linda Strong who shares her father’s love for the beauty of nature in California. When her parents suddenly pass away, she is left with her sister Eileen, a huge house, and much wealth....

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    • What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future
    • By: Manuel Pastor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more....

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    • California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873
    • By: Brendan C. Lindsay
    • Narrated by: Jim Wentland
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In the second half of the 19th century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state....

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    • Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
    • By: Frances Dinkelspiel
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed, and violence lying in wait....

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