Disaster Nonfiction

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    • The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
    • By: Harold Schechter
    • Narrated by: Braden Wright
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 339 ratings
    • Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first - and worst - mass murders in American history....

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    • A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
    • By: John Withington
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • This audiobook is a comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day....

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    • Discoveries, Disasters (and What the Neighbors Thought)
    • By: Kathleen Krull
    • Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
    • Length: 1 hr and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, Lives of the Explorers reveals these fascinating adventurers as both world-changers and real people....

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    • Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
    • By: Tristram Korten
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....

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    • The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (The True Rescue Series, Book 1)
    • By: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half by the force of the storm....

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    • What Was?
    • By: Stephanie Sabol, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Eric Sharp
    • Series: What-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young listeners can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered 75 years later....

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    • The True Story of the World War II Sinking of "The Children's Ship"
    • By: Deborah Heiligman
    • Narrated by: Marisa Calin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII....

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    • A Remarkable True Survival Story in 80-Foot Seas (The True Rescue Series, Book 2)
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 2
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive....

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    • Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away....

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    • Jennifer Doudna and the Race to Understand Our Genetic Code
    • By: Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young listeners....

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    • Tragedy Under the Big Top
    • By: Michael Skidgell
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies....

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    • The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
    • By: Marc Aronson
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This is the incredible true story of the 12 boys trapped with their coach in a flooded cave in Thailand and their inspiring rescue. Award-winning author Marc Aronson brings us the backstory behind how this astounding rescue took place....

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    • Avalanche Rescue Dog
    • By: Cosmic
    • Narrated by: Corey Carthew
    • Series: Superpower Dogs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Whistler, British Columbia, dogs can be found riding chairlifts, perched on skiers' shoulders, and even descending from helicopters - all in the race against time to save people caught in the path of an avalanche....

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    • By: Amie Jane Leavitt
    • Narrated by: Anonymous
    • Length: 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Air travel is one of the safest methods of transportation, but when a disaster happens, it captures the public's imagination. Learn about how airplanes are built, how researchers investigate a crash, how engineers are making planes safer, and more....

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    • By: Sean McCollum
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • When the Titanic was built, many people thought the massive ship was unsinkable. Today it rests on the ocean floor. Learn about why ships sink and how past disasters and modern technology have led to safer ships....

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    • Mission Earth, Volume 8
    • By: L. Ron Hubbard
    • Narrated by: Full Cast
    • Series: Mission Earth, Book 8
    • Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • Global warming...reversed. The energy crisis...over. The greatest problem on Earth...solved. Voltarian Royal Officer of the Fleet Jettero Heller has it all figured out. And he’s devised a daring and ingenious plan to make it all happen...if he lives to see the day....

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