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 54 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....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • 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 8,837 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"....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 146 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....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • 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 248 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 112 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....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • 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 254 ratings
    • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • 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 300 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....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • 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 566 ratings
    • This is the spellbinding hour-by-hour reconstruction of the most destructive and powerful storm ever to strike New England....

    Regular price: $11.87

    • 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 ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • 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...

    Regular price: $3.99

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    • By: Jim Murphy
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Award-winning author Jim Murphy whisks you back in time to witness the disastrous 1871 Chicago fire....

    Regular price: $9.45

    • 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....

    Regular price: $17.09

    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 635 ratings
    • On September 1, 1894, two forest fires converged on the town of Hinckley, Minnesota, trapping over 2,000 people. Daniel J. Brown recounts the events surrounding the fire....

    Regular price: $15.75

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    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 538 ratings
    • Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

    Regular price: $14.24

    • The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....

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    • How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South
    • By: Caroline Grego
    • Narrated by: Diana Blue
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: John Watts
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • An action filled short story where a couple opens a hotel on Catalina Island and it becomes popular with upscale visitors. Two couples take ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • 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 336 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....

    Regular price: $28.79

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