Great Disasters

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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 8,793 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 108 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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    • 1938
    • By: Cherie Burns
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 565 ratings
    • This is the spellbinding hour-by-hour reconstruction of the most destructive and powerful storm ever to strike New England....

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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 214 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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    • 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 171 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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    • 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 249 ratings
    • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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 422 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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    • By: Jim Murphy
    • Narrated by: Taylor Mali
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American history - with damage so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again....

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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 137 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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    • 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 216 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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    • By: William Kent Krueger
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, William Kent Krueger
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • It’s 1927, and the most devastating flood in American history has swelled the Mississippi River to a width of eighty miles. In an attempt to save a family trapped by the rising water, four men in a tiny rowboat battle the treacherous flow....

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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 52 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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    • 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 179 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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    • 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 18 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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    • One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
    • By: Jared Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Jared Sullivan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jared Sullivan presents a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought.

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