Great Disasters

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    • How the Great Flood of 1913, America’s Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever
    • By: Geoff Williams
    • Narrated by: Jim Vann
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The incredible story of a flood of near-Biblical proportions - its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America’s natural-disaster policies for the next century....

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    • My Life inside 'The Room', the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
    • By: Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell
    • Narrated by: Greg Sestero
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,833 ratings
    • The Disaster Artist is Greg Sestero's laugh-out-loud funny account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and friendship to make "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • Disaster and Triumph on the World's Greatest Scientific Expedition
    • By: Stephen R. Bown
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • The 18th-century story of the world's largest, longest, and best-financed scientific expedition of all time, triumphantly successful, gruesomely tragic, and never before fully told....

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    • The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, the Navy's Greatest Sea Disaster
    • By: Richard F. Newcomb
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In 12 minutes, some 300 men went down with her....

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    • What Caused Them And How We Prevent Future Ones
    • By: Bob Mayer
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Green Berets are "Masters of Chaos." What makes us elite is our planning. We prepare not only for the mission but for all the things that could go ...

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    • A True Story from a Hotter World
    • By: John Vaillant
    • Narrated by: Alan Carlson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • From the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind....

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    • The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
    • By: Gary Krist
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the story of two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, hit by a devastating avalanche....

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    • A Post Apocalyptic Adventure
    • By: Kevin Partner
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-25
    • Language: English
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    • The first book in a now complete series. Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final...

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    • The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Jacob York
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows....

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    • Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
    • By: Douglas Brinkley
    • Narrated by: Kyf Brewer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • In The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley, a New Orleans resident and professor of history at Tulane University, rips the story of Katrina apart....

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    • By: John Watts
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • An action filled short story where a couple opens a hotel on Catalina Island and it becomes popular with upscale visitors. Two couples take ...

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    • Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
    • By: Al Roker, William Hogeland
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas'sGulf Coast....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....

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    • The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
    • By: Stephen Puleo
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • 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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    • The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
    • By: John Kelly
    • Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 424 ratings
    • 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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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the 20th century, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will....

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