Local History

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    • Virginia and the Westward Movement
    • De: David Hackett Fischer, James C. Kelly
    • Narrado por: Bruce Miles
    • Duración: 8 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-14-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 calificaciones
    • Bound Away offers a new understanding of the westward movement....

    Precio regular: $15.60

    • De: John McPhee
    • Narrado por: Grover Gardner
    • Duración: 4 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-14-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 calificaciones
    • Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens....

    Precio regular: $9.45

    • De: Myles Dungan
    • Narrado por: Clinton Wade
    • Duración: 11 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-17-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 calificaciones
    • A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • The Great Jewish Families of New York
    • De: Stephen Birmingham
    • Narrado por: Mel Foster
    • Duración: 19 h y 51 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-02-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 calificaciones
    • "Our Crowd" is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries....

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • Inside the NYPD and New York City's Extraordinary 1990s Crime Drop
    • De: Peter Moskos
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Duración: 12 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-24-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • With crime of heightened concern in the country's largest cities, Peter Moskos brings listeners behind the Blue Wall of the NYPD, offering insight into policing solutions directly from the law enforcement officers who went to war against crime in New York in the 1990s, and won.

    Precio regular: $20.99

  • Precio regular: $14.95

    • Chicago and the Great West
    • De: William Cronon
    • Narrado por: Jonah Cummings
    • Duración: 18 h y 8 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-08-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 174 calificaciones
    • In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America....

    Precio regular: $29.95

    • The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
    • De: David McCullough
    • Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
    • Duración: 10 h y 2 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-05-04
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 698 calificaciones
    • First published in 1972, The Great Bridge is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time: the building of the Brooklyn Bridge....

    Precio regular: $20.24

  • Precio regular: $6.95

    • Away to the New West
    • De: Timothy Egan
    • Narrado por: John McLain
    • Duración: 11 h y 36 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-06-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 calificaciones
    • In this colorful and revealing journey through the eleven states west of the 100th meridian, Egan evokes a lovely and troubled country where land is religion....

    Precio regular: $25.00

    • A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
    • De: Cathie Pelletier
    • Narrado por: Morgan Bailey Keaton
    • Duración: 8 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-19-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 calificaciones
    • Cathie Pelletier's breathtaking account of the 1952 snowstorm that blanketed New England, offers a valuable reminder about nature's capacity for destruction as well as insight into the human instinct for preservation....

    Precio regular: $17.19

    • A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA's Secret American Army
    • De: Ali Watkins
    • Narrado por: Jennifer Woodward
    • Duración: 11 h y 41 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-11-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins tells the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles—a true-crime saga that illuminates Irish America’s central role in the conflict and its legacy.

    Precio regular: $25.19

    • An Epic of the American West
    • De: Hampton Sides
    • Narrado por: Don Leslie
    • Duración: 6 h y 29 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-22-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 calificaciones
    • In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos....

    Precio regular: $13.50

    • A Florida Man Defends His Homeland
    • De: Dave Barry
    • Narrado por: Dick Hill
    • Duración: 4 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 287 calificaciones
    • A brilliantly funny exploration of the Sunshine State from the man who knows it best: Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author Dave Barry....

    Precio regular: $11.17

    • Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
    • De: Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword
    • Narrado por: Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
    • Duración: 10 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-27-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 calificaciones
    • As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

    Precio regular: $27.25

    • Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
    • De: Andrew Lawler
    • Narrado por: David H. Lawrence XVII
    • Duración: 14 h y 23 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-05-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 calificaciones
    • A sweeping account of America's oldest unsolved mystery, the people racing to unearth its answer, and what the Lost Colony reveals about America today....

    Precio regular: $20.25

    • The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
    • De: Nelson Johnson
    • Narrado por: Joe Mantegna, Terence Winter (foreword)
    • Duración: 11 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-07-10
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 690 calificaciones
    • From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck....

    Precio regular: $24.95

    • The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
    • De: William McKeown
    • Narrado por: Bob Dunsworth
    • Duración: 7 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-11-12
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 357 calificaciones
    • Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961....

    Precio regular: $19.95

    • Forgotten Stories of the Utah Frontier
    • De: Dawn House
    • Narrado por: Ben Rolly
    • Duración: 3 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-30-23
    • Idioma: Inglés
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    • When Dawn House purchased a teetering cabin in Southern Utah, she didn't have it torn down for scrap but began to examine the layers of its wallpaper, encrusted with paste and the yellow of time....

    Precio regular: $14.95

    • De: Rick Bragg
    • Narrado por: Rick Bragg
    • Duración: 5 h y 26 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-16-01
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 668 calificaciones
    • With the same emotional generosity and effortlessly compelling storytelling that made All Over But the Shoutin’ a beloved bestseller, Rick Bragg continues his personal history of the Deep South....

    Precio regular: $18.13