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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,141 ratings
    • 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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    • Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
    • By: Sheri Fink
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,554 ratings
    • 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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    • A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
    • By: Ted Koppel
    • Narrated by: Ted Koppel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,907 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,960 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
    • By: Amanda Ripley
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster—now revised and updated to address the pandemic, the role of social media in disaster response, and more—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Smartest Kids in the World.

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    • A cop's guide to surviving a civil war, SHTF, or modern urban combat.
    • By: Don Shift
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The western world is devolving into war, hyperinflation, and socio-political chaos making preparation for post-SHTF survival more fraught than ever...

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    • A Story of Disaster and Survival
    • By: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 489 ratings
    • 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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    • The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
    • By: Stephen Puleo
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 375 ratings
    • Around noon on January 15, 1919, a group of firefighters were playing cards in Boston's North End when they heard a tremendous crash....

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    • Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
    • By: Richard Lloyd Parry
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 531 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 420 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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    • How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
    • By: Lewis Dartnell
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • The Knowledge is a brilliantly original guide to the fundamentals of science and how it built our modern world as well as a thought experiment about the very idea of scientific knowledge itself....

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    • By: Anderson Cooper
    • Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 535 ratings
    • Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....

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    • Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
    • By: Jake Johnston
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....

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    • A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
    • By: Kyle Donovan
    • Narrated by: Mike Steele
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • 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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    • The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
    • By: Rebecca Solnit
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • 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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    • The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
    • By: Steve Olson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens....

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    • Love and Partnership with a Search-and-Rescue Dog
    • By: Susannah Charleson
    • Narrated by: Susannah Charleson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,162 ratings
    • After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Susannah Charleson was so impressed by the newspaper photo of an exhausted handler and his search-and-rescue dog that she decided to train a dog of her own....

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    • A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
    • By: Thomas Fisher
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • 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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