Hopeful Listens in Times of Crisis
For those times when life itself seems precarious, history can be a source of comfort, inspiration, and strength. I have collected stories of the past when oncoming tragedies were somehow mitigated, avoided, or just plain gotten through when people pulled together. Miraculously, ordinary people often rise to the occasion within the confines of their professional work (shout-out to all the contemporary hospital workers and those keeping service industries moving during the COVID-19 crisis.) Although it’s frightening when change needs to happen fast (sometimes there are ten minutes of warning or ten days, other times decades of error have led to disaster), selfless people can adapt together. Most importantly, where there’s life, there’s hope. Here are my suggested all-is-not-lost listens to highlight real stories of lives snatched from the jaws of looming disaster. — Christina, Audible Editor
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  • Rising Water Audiolibro Por Marc Aronson arte de portada

    • Rising Water

    • The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
    • De: Marc Aronson
    • Narrado por: Vikas Adam
    • Duración: 2 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-19-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • 2018
    • Twelve boys and their soccer coach trapped by a flash flood in a cave in Thailand seemed to be in a hopeless situation, yet international teamwork, human ingenuity, and the creative application of technology saved the day.

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  • Deep Down Dark Audiolibro Por Héctor Tobar arte de portada

    • Deep Down Dark

    • The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
    • De: Héctor Tobar
    • Narrado por: Henry Leyva
    • Duración: 13 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-07-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 903 calificaciones
    • 2010
    • Thirty-three miners trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine, although desperate, didn’t panic. The unsung hero of their rescue was their teamwork and care for each other in—literally—dark times.

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  • Fly by Wire Audiolibro Por William Langewiesche arte de portada

    • Fly by Wire

    • The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson
    • De: William Langewiesche
    • Narrado por: David Drummond
    • Duración: 6 h y 1 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-14-09
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 calificaciones
    • 2009
    • In January 2009, Chesley Sully Sullenberger presided over a crew that gave us the Miracle on the Hudson. This audio, narrated by David Drummond, shows that no disaster is automatic if and when a competent professional steps in to care for others.

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  • The Only Plane in the Sky Audiolibro Por Garrett M. Graff arte de portada

    • The Only Plane in the Sky

    • An Oral History of September 11, 2001
    • De: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrado por: full cast
    • Duración: 15 h y 55 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-10-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,685 calificaciones
    • 2001
    • Having lived through September 11th on 23rd Street in Manhattan, I don’t often bring it up. However, this compelling oral history—winner of the 2019 Audiobook of the Year Audie Award—reminded me that the largest one-day boatlift in human history was accomplished in New York harbor by all the public and private craft ferrying people to safety on September 11, 2001.

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  • An Imperfect Offering Audiolibro Por James Orbinski arte de portada

    • An Imperfect Offering

    • Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
    • De: James Orbinski
    • Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
    • Duración: 14 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-28-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 calificaciones
    • 1994
    • A list about competent professionals mitigating or avoiding loss of life would be incomplete without this audio by a member of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the group that won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. COVID-19 might not be analogous to the Rwandan genocide, but this audio suggests ways to stay calm and help each other – and the world—in times of chaos and fear.

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  • Flight 232 Audiolibro Por Laurence Gonzales arte de portada

    • Flight 232

    • A Story of Disaster and Survival
    • De: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrado por: Victor Bevine
    • Duración: 13 h y 20 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-07-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 488 calificaciones
    • 1989
    • I’m trying to do an earnest list on a serious topic, here, but this audio is my guilty pleasure—despite the sad subject—for its you-are-there storytelling from multiple points of view, in a brilliant and taut narration by Victor Bevine. Surely a plane crashing in a cornfield should be a total disaster…but in 1989 swift thinking by the pilot and crew, and cooperation from passengers, saved nearly half the people who were doomed.

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  • How to Survive a Plague Audiolibro Por David France arte de portada

    • How to Survive a Plague

    • The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
    • De: David France
    • Narrado por: Rory O'Malley
    • Duración: 24 h y 28 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-29-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 323 calificaciones
    • 1980s
    • Enough said….except to highlight Rory O’Malley’s excellent performance about the beginning of the end of the AIDS crisis, the time before PWAs had access to life-saving drug therapies.

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  • Apollo 13 Audiolibro Por Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger arte de portada

    • Apollo 13

    • De: Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
    • Narrado por: Fred Sanders
    • Duración: 16 h y 15 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-10-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,351 calificaciones
    • 1970
    • Remember when the NASA engineers on a deadline figured out how to make an oxygen scrubber to keep Jim Lovell and the other two astronauts alive long enough to get back to Earth? Well…that story feels a little like the dearth of ventilators during the COVID-19 crisis. The fact that Mission Control found a way to keep astronauts breathing in 1970 gives me hope that humanity 2020 can figure out manufacturing ventilators at scale.

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  • This Is Chance! Audiolibro Por Jon Mooallem arte de portada

    • This Is Chance!

    • The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
    • De: Jon Mooallem
    • Narrado por: Ray Porter
    • Duración: 8 h y 22 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-24-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 calificaciones
    • 1964
    • For all you working parents out there, worried about the health of your families and also trying to work (or find work) in a chaotic world, here’s the story of Genie Chance, who, by doing her (part time!) job, guided the entire city of Anchorage toward safety and hope by using her voice.

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  • The Miracle of Dunkirk Audiolibro Por Walter Lord arte de portada

    • The Miracle of Dunkirk

    • De: Walter Lord
    • Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
    • Duración: 10 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-14-09
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 828 calificaciones
    • 1940
    • Not a natural disaster, exactly, but ordinary citizens rallied and took to their boats to prevent a great loss of life when 335,000 Allied troops were trapped between the English Channel and the German Army. As a story of human ingenuity and discipline, Dunkirk makes my list.

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  • The Underground Railroad Records Audiolibro Por William Still, Ta-Nehisi Coates - introduction, Quincy T. Mills - editor arte

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