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    • A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,188 ratings
    • At the dawn of the 20th century, a great confidence suffused America. Isaac Cline was one of the era's new men, a scientist who believed he knew all there was to know about the motion of clouds and the behavior of storms....

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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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    • Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    • By: Toby Ord
    • Narrated by: Toby Ord
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time....

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    • The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
    • By: Daniel James Brown
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 599 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    • By: Sebastian Junger
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,610 ratings
    • Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....

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    • Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
    • By: Peter Brannen
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,957 ratings
    • Our world has ended five times: It has been broiled, frozen, poison gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids....

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    • Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • In The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented Teddy Roosevelt's legacy in the land....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 582 ratings
    • Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....

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    • A Story of Courage and Survival in the Blizzard of 1952
    • By: Cathie Pelletier
    • Narrated by: Morgan Bailey Keaton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
    • By: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty - contributor
    • Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings
    • 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"....

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    • Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
    • By: Tristram Korten
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite Coast Guard swimmers trained for the most dangerous ocean missions....

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    • The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
    • By: John M. Barry
    • Narrated by: Barry Grizzard
    • Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 529 ratings
    • Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927....

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    • A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters
    • By: Jason A. Ramos, Julian Smith
    • Narrated by: Ned Vaughn
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • In this extraordinarily rare memoir by an active-duty jumper, Jason Ramos takes listeners into his exhilarating and dangerous world....

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    • By: David Laskin
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The True Story of the South Canyon Fire
    • By: John N. MacLean
    • Narrated by: John N. MacLean
    • Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded...

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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,097 ratings
    • On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 10-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 419 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue
    • By: Michael J. Tougias, Casey Sherman
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Series: True Rescue Series, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,780 ratings
    • The Finest Hours is the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of two ships....

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    • The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
    • By: Gary Krist
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the story of two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, hit by a devastating avalanche....

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    • Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
    • By: Mark Lynas
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Mark Lynas delivers a vital account of the future of our earth, and our civilisation, if current rates of global warming persist. And it’s only looking worse....

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