Bestsellers
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Torched
- How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.
- By: Jonathan Vigliotti
- Narrated by: Jonathan Vigliotti
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will rebuild ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. In Torched, Vigliotti brings readers inside the inferno...
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Lifts the smoke with solid reporting
- By S. S. Felzenberg on 05-14-26
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,748
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Performance1,519
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Story1,514
Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....
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Best as a Listen
- By Cynthia on 01-28-15
By: Sebastian Junger
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Firestorm
- The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
- By: Jacob Soboroff
- Narrated by: Jacob Soboroff
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance124
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Story124
Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...
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Written by a Democrat for Democrats-Winds did it!
- By SandraSoCal on 05-17-26
By: Jacob Soboroff
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance215
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Story215
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented...
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Mediocre
- By Mona on 11-04-20
By: Timothy Egan
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,185
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Performance756
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Story754
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the...
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- By rwise on 01-26-04
By: Simon Winchester
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: George Grizzard
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall552
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Performance419
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Story419
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi...
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Where is the rest of the book?
- By Susie on 10-21-13
By: John M. Barry
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Torched
- How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.
- By: Jonathan Vigliotti
- Narrated by: Jonathan Vigliotti
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures that fueled the catastrophe, and the high-stakes battle over how the city will rebuild ahead of the 2028 Olympic Games. In Torched, Vigliotti brings readers inside the inferno...
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Lifts the smoke with solid reporting
- By S. S. Felzenberg on 05-14-26
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,748
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Performance1,519
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Story1,514
Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....
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Best as a Listen
- By Cynthia on 01-28-15
By: Sebastian Junger
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Firestorm
- The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
- By: Jacob Soboroff
- Narrated by: Jacob Soboroff
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance124
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Story124
Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...
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Written by a Democrat for Democrats-Winds did it!
- By SandraSoCal on 05-17-26
By: Jacob Soboroff
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance215
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Story215
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented...
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Mediocre
- By Mona on 11-04-20
By: Timothy Egan
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,185
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Performance756
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Story754
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the...
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- By rwise on 01-26-04
By: Simon Winchester
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: George Grizzard
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall552
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Performance419
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Story419
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi...
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Where is the rest of the book?
- By Susie on 10-21-13
By: John M. Barry
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- By: Toby Ord
- Narrated by: Toby Ord
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall725
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Performance610
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Story609
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways...
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The 80000hours website is better
- By Cristi on 08-06-20
By: Toby Ord
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall254
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Performance224
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Story224
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post). At the...
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Tim Samaras Would be Proud
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-18
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In the Path of Destruction
- Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
- By: Richard Waitt
- Narrated by: Andy Waits
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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Story30
In March 1980, a napping volcano awoke. Two months later, the mountain roared. Author Richard Waitt was one of the first to arrive following the mountain's early rumblings. A geologist with intimate knowledge of Mount St. Helens, Waitt delivers a detailed and accurate chronicle of events.
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Awful language, story drags with itrelevant detail
- By Scott Stroud on 05-31-18
By: Richard Waitt
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
- By: Peter Brannen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance17
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Story17
How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn’t merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels—it is also...
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Excellent content but terrible audio
- By J. Lucas on 09-21-25
By: Peter Brannen
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- By: Rachel Slade
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,125
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Performance998
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Story994
“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking.” —Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda...
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- By John A. Tucker on 10-23-19
By: Rachel Slade
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Last Train to Paradise
- Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
- By: Les Standiford
- Narrated by: Del Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall605
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Performance486
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Story487
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven...
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A Pleasant Surprise
- By Roy on 04-05-09
By: Les Standiford
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The Year Without Summer
- 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
- By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance54
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Story54
1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern US and Europe in...
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Good audiobook to fall asleep to
- By Ellen NB on 02-24-20
By: William K. Klingaman, and others
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Wildfire Days
- A Woman, a Hotshot Crew, and the Burning American West
- By: Kelly Ramsey
- Narrated by: Kelly Ramsey
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance25
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Story25
In the exhilarating spirit of Wild and A Walk in the Park, an adventure-filled memoir of one woman’s struggle to succeed as a wildland firefighter on an elite, male-dominated crew as they battle some of the fiercest wildfires in the West. When Kelly Ramsey drives over a California mountain...
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I felt like i was in the story! I couldn’t stop listening
- By becky on 01-05-26
By: Kelly Ramsey
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Wave
- A Memoir
- By: Sonali Deraniyagala
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall366
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Performance311
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Story309
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir...
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Tragic. Raw. Heart-Ripping!
- By CBlox on 03-19-13
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall657
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Performance593
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Story591
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 in the first and only book on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002...
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History lovers dream book.
- By Lynn Fraser on 10-18-18
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Into the Storm
- Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-defying Adventures in Extreme Weather
- By: Reed Timmer, Andrew Tilin
- Narrated by: Joshua Swanson
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall137
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Performance118
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Story117
Reed Timmer is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world. His is a job that requires science and bravado, knowledge and instinct just to survive, never mind excel. It's a job some people would kill for. But most prefer to let Timmer take the risks while they watch...
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MUST READ!
- By Jackie on 01-06-11
By: Reed Timmer, and others
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Coming Back Alive
- The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
- By: Spike Walker
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall345
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Performance304
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Story304
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in 100-mile-per-hour winds and record 90-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can. One hundred fifty miles away, in...
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Outstanding Story and Performance
- By One of many Steves on 05-22-18
By: Spike Walker
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Granite Mountain
- The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
- By: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall948
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Performance839
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Story835
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle...
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Thank you Brendan
- By Kenton on 06-07-16
By: Brendan McDonough, and others
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The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance22
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Story22
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The 10th Anniversary Edition of the powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years...
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Powerful stories from climate’s front lines
- By Richard T on 03-21-25
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- By: Tristram Korten
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall248
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Performance216
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Story216
“An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”—Lee Child The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite...
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Just average
- By Rickmeister on 03-13-20
By: Tristram Korten
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Death in the Air
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall453
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Performance412
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Story410
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, 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. London was still recovering from the devastation...
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Interesting
- By irene on 11-27-17
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Zeitoun
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Firdous Bamji
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,431
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Performance926
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Story935
In his new nonfiction book Zeitoun, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers tells a Hurricane Katrina story unlike any written before. When HurricaneKatrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun - a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four - chose to stay through the storm to...
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Something bold, ebullient, yet quiet
- By Darwin8u on 10-08-13
By: Dave Eggers
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- By: Willie Drye
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall40
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Performance36
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Story36
In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy....
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The lack of information
- By Keith on 01-26-26
By: Willie Drye
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The Children's Blizzard
- By: David Laskin
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall327
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Performance299
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Story297
January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...
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True Account of 1888 Prairie Blizzard
- By Mary Burnight on 01-09-17
By: David Laskin
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- By: John Withington
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance64
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Story64
A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events -...
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- By Gardenstate Reader on 12-30-19
By: John Withington
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Ten Hours Until Dawn
- The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall152
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Performance102
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Story97
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
- By Christopher on 11-30-07
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Fire on the Mountain
- By: John N. Maclean
- Narrated by: John N. Maclean
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Abridged
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Overall350
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Performance296
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Story297
On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That...
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As a wildland firefighter it's a book that matters
- By Mark on 09-06-13
By: John N. Maclean
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Fire in Paradise
- By: Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall127
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Performance109
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Story107
The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. There is no precedent in postwar American history for the destruction of the town of Paradise, California. On November 8, 2018, the community of 27,000 people was swallowed by the ferocious Camp Fire, which razed...
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A gripping view of an American tragedy
- By Kalutha on 06-30-20
By: Alastair Gee, and others
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Sudden Sea
- The Great Hurricane of 1938
- By: R. A. Scotti
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance76
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Story76
The massive destruction wreaked by the Hurricane of 1938 dwarfed that of the Chicago Fire, the San Francisco Earthquake, and the Mississippi floods of 1927, making the storm the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Now, R.A. Scotti tells the story...
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Okay but somewhat over-dramatic
- By RH on 05-04-26
By: R. A. Scotti