True Disasters

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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,612 ratings
    • Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....

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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

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    • An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea
    • By: Michael Tougias
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 666 ratings
    • Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod....

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    • True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
    • By: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,097 ratings
    • This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors....

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    • Restoration Series, Book 3
    • By: Terri Blackstock
    • Narrated by: Susie Breck
    • Series: A Restoration Novel, Book 3
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 570 ratings
    • Book three in a masterful what-if series in which global catastrophe puts a family’s very survival at risk - and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration....

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    • The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
    • By: John N. MacLean
    • Narrated by: John N. MacLean
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded...

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    • A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • In July 1973, Bob Tininenko, his wife Linda, and his brother in-law Jim Fisher set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a 31-foot trimaran, down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but for 72 days, the trio was lost at sea....

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    • A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
    • By: Michael J. Tougias
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 2
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Millie Bobby Brown
    • Narrated by: Millie Bobby Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • It’s 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her.

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    • True Tales of Spells Gone to Hell and Other Occult Disasters
    • By: John Harker
    • Narrated by: Michael E. Smith
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The occult is many things to many people. For some, it is a path to enlightenment....

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    • The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
    • By: Rosalyn Schanzer
    • Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Witches! recounts, in electrifying detail, the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts....

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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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    • 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 337 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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    • Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57
    • By: John N. Maclean
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California....

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    • True Tales of Air Disasters and the People Who Survived Them
    • By: Robin Suerig Holleran, Lindy Philip
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In this collection of true-life survivor tales, people from all walks of life recount their traumatic narrow escapes as engines stalled, fuel ran out, and landings did not go according to plan....

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    • A Novel Based on a True Story
    • By: Matt Bondurant
    • Narrated by: Julia Atwood, Chris Henry Coffey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross....

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    • The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
    • By: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,780 ratings
    • The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of two ships....

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