Town Histories

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    • By: David M. Buerge
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times - the story of a half century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community....

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    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World - and Won
    • By: David W. Moore
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham....

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    • A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
    • By: James Loewen
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 243 ratings
    • Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design....

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    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,265 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

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    • 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
    • By: Jim DeFede
    • Narrated by: Ray Porter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,032 ratings
    • When 38 jetliners bound for the US were forced to land at Gander International Airport on September 11, the population of this small town swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Diane Chamberlain
    • Narrated by: Susan Bennett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8,878 ratings
    • North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, her dream of a career in art is put on hold - until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will get her released from prison immediately....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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    • Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
    • By: Mitchell Schwarzer
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland's built environment....

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    • The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built....

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    • Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
    • By: Barney Hoskyns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country"....

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    • By: Lisa M. Russell
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Morgan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state's controversial decision to dam the region's rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever....

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    • A Collection of Western Stories
    • By: Louis L'Amour
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 570 ratings
    • Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find....

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    • The Long History of a House, a Mountain Town, and a People
    • By: T. D. Allman
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • When T. D. Allman purchased an 800-year-old house in the mountain village of Lauzerte in southwestern France, he aimed to find refuge from the world's tumults. Instead, he found that humanity’s most telling melodramas, from the paleolithic to the post-modern, were graven in its stones.

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    • The True Chronicle of an All-American Town
    • By: Barry Siegel
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • In 1962, Jerry Sherwood gave up her newborn son, Dennis, for adoption. Twenty years later, she set out to find him - only to discover he had died before his fourth birthday....

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    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • By: Sam Anderson
    • Narrated by: Sam Anderson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 992 ratings
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

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    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Gary Sinise
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,381 ratings
    • Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938....

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    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,909 ratings
    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

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    • A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
    • By: Yvette Johnson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Johnson travels back to Greenwood, Mississippi, a beautiful Southern town steeped in secrets and a scarred past, to interview family members about the real Booker Wright....

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    • Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
    • By: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....

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