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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 2,562 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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    • 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 4,145 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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    • 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 1,911 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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    • 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 1,963 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
    • By: Jared Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Jared Sullivan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Jared Sullivan presents a riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought.

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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 537 ratings
    • Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....

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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 509 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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    • 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 533 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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    • 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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    • How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners
    • By: Wilma Melville, Paul Lobo
    • Narrated by: Will Damron, Xe Sands
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • The true story of the National Disaster Search Dog Foundation, by retired physical education teacher Wilma Melville, and the amazing dogs and their handlers who faced off with devastating catastrophes from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina....

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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 5 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings
    • 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 cop's guide to surviving a civil war, SHTF, or modern urban combat.
    • By: Don Shift
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 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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    • 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 376 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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    • 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 422 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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    • The Heroes and Villains of the Johnstown Flood, America’s Astonishing Gilded Age Disaster
    • By: Al Roker
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A gripping narrative history of the 1889 Johnstown Flood - the deadliest flood in US history - from New York Times best-selling author, NBC host, and legendary weather authority Al Roker....

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    • Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
    • By: Sandy Stott
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....

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    • Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
    • By: Kim Cross
    • Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America....

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