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Bestsellers
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Disasterology
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
- De: Samantha Montano
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis - one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future....
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Great Book
- De Wayne Stedham en 10-11-23
De: Samantha Montano
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- De: Ted Koppel
- Narrado por: Ted Koppel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 11-27-15
De: Ted Koppel
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Disasterology
- Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate Crisis
- De: Samantha Montano
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis - one unprepared to deal with the disasters of today and those looming in our future....
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Great Book
- De Wayne Stedham en 10-11-23
De: Samantha Montano
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- De: Ted Koppel
- Narrado por: Ted Koppel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 11-27-15
De: Ted Koppel
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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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
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The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster - and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together....
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amazing story
- De Dani L en 02-07-21
De: Jon Mooallem
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So Others May Live
- Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
- De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
- Narrado por: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....
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Good content, poor delivery in parts
- De Damien en 01-27-19
De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, y otros
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- De: Nick Timiraos
- Narrado por: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- De NL en 04-17-22
De: Nick Timiraos
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3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- De: Sean Flynn
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...
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a book about a very heroic breed
- De Andy en 06-03-03
De: Sean Flynn
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Retreat Security and Small Unit Tactics
- De: David Kobler, Mark Goodwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Pierce
- Duración: 2 h y 14 m
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Retreat Security and Small Unit Tactics by David Kobler and Mark Goodwin will teach you how to organize your team or neighborhood into a force to be reckoned with....
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Basic Preparedness
- De G Wallace en 10-07-14
De: David Kobler, y otros
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Ten Hours Until Dawn
- The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
- De: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century"....
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A riveting story
- De Christopher en 11-30-07
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- De: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
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Therapeutic
- De Quiltedwings en 05-07-15
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The Emergency
- A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
- De: Thomas Fisher
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....
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Meh
- De chel_c42 en 03-29-22
De: Thomas Fisher
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
- Man, Nature, and Climate Change
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Hope Davis
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to irreversibly change our climate....
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Very well done!
- De Danny J. Lesandrini en 04-21-06
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We Fed an Island
- The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
- De: José Andrés
- Narrado por: José Andrés, Luis A. Miranda Jr.
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed, and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world....
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Great story, difficult listen
- De Luis Baars en 09-20-18
De: José Andrés
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The Deep Dark
- Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
- De: Gregg Olsen
- Narrado por: Gary Roelofs
- Duración: 12 h y 59 m
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For nearly a century, Kellogg, Idaho, was home to America's richest silver mine, Sunshine Mine....
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Started out not so great, but very glad I stayed w
- De farmhouselady en 01-14-20
De: Gregg Olsen
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- De: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- De Nazir en 05-26-22
De: Scott Carney, y otros
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A Storm Too Soon
- A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
- De: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrado por: Charlie Thurston
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....
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Great story ruined by a horrible narrator.
- De Zoltan en 01-08-16
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Every Minute Is a Day
- A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege
- De: Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel
- Narrado por: Robert Meyer, Dan Koeppel
- Duración: 5 h y 23 m
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An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for COVID-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room....
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- De Loretta D. en 02-02-23
De: Robert Meyer, y otros
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- De: Kyle Donovan
- Narrado por: Mike Steele
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Immersive Preparation
- De Heather Jade en 07-21-24
De: Kyle Donovan
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The Plague Year
- America in the Time of COVID
- De: Lawrence Wright
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19 - its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it....
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Balanced Account of a Horrible Year
- De C. Emerson Thompson en 07-14-21
De: Lawrence Wright
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The Devil Never Sleeps
- Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
- De: Juliette Kayyem
- Narrado por: Juliette Kayyem
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today’s foremost thinkers in crisis management....
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An important and thoroughly engaging book
- De Robert S. Taylor en 04-21-22
De: Juliette Kayyem
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Dispatches from the Edge
- De: Anderson Cooper
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....
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Dispatches from the Inner Self
- De W. Rodger Gantt en 11-03-06
De: Anderson Cooper
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria
- The Sinking of the World's Most Glamorous Ship
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner....
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Great!
- De Andrea C. Shebuski en 01-10-21
De: Greg King, y otros
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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Gunflint Burning
- Fire in the Boundary Waters
- De: Cary J. Griffith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Cary J. Griffith tells the story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll
De: Cary J. Griffith