Town Histories

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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 3,042 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 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 1,272 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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    • 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 432 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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    • 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 8,885 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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    • 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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    • 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 59 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: 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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    • 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 572 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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    • 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 Biography of an American Town in the Heart of a Civil War
    • By: William L. Kidder
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Discover how 18th-century Princeton and its residents - including two signers of the Declaration of Independence - contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution....

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    • Steel, Football, and an American Town
    • By: S. L. Price
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A moving epic of football and industrial America, telling the story of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, its now-shuttered steel mill, and its legendary high school football team....

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    • By: Dan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Jack Turner comes back to Culpepper to give a series of lectures for his old history professor. Within days, he starts having bizarre experiences ...

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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 3,924 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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    • 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 11,400 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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    • 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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    • 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 244 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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    • The True Story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a Small Town in Cahoots
    • By: Bryce T. Bauer
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • During Prohibition, the townspeople of rural Templeton, Iowa - population just 418 - were busy with a bootlegging empire of their own....

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    • A Tim Colter Western, Book 3
    • By: William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Series: Tim Colter, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The latest blazing, breakneck adventure in the Tim Colter Western series by the bestselling legends of historical Westerns in which the assassination of President Grant is on the line.

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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 993 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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