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    • A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 536 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research—a riveting history that flows like a thriller.

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    • The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
    • By: Spike Walker
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 330 ratings
    • When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in 100-mile-per-hour winds and record 90-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can....

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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 1,659 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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    • Stories of Hope and Horror
    • By: James Calloway
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-25
    • Language: English
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    • Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the ...

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    • A Harrowing True Story of Disaster at Sea
    • By: Thomas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • In July 1973, Bob Tininenko, his wife Linda, and his brother in-law Jim Fisher set sail from Tacoma, Washington, on a 31-foot trimaran, down the West Coast to Costa Rica. The journey was expected to take a matter of weeks, but for 72 days, the trio was lost at sea....

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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 151 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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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,023 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
    • By: Rosalyn Schanzer
    • Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Witches! recounts, in electrifying detail, the true events of the 17th-century witch trials in Salem Village, Massachusetts....

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    • By: Dan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • For John and Laura Foster, what began as a fairy-tale honeymoon in 1857 aboard the steamship SS Vandervere quickly turns into a nightmare. A terrible hurricane strikes, and the grand ship begins to sink....

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    • True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death
    • By: Laurence Gonzales
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,110 ratings
    • This audiobook will change the way we understand ourselves and the great outdoors....

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    • Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America's Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 1900
    • By: Al Roker, William Hogeland
    • Narrated by: Byron Wagner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • On the afternoon of September 8, 1900, 200-mile-per-hour winds and 15-foot waves slammed into Galveston, the prosperous and growing port city on Texas'sGulf Coast....

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    • A Primer on Urban and Suburban Disaster Preparedness
    • By: Boris Milinkovich
    • Narrated by: J. William Grundy
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this Third Edition of our Preparedness Guide, we aim to give the everyday urbanite/suburbanite a starting point to build a buffer of safety and security in the face of a disaster situation. We firmly believe resilience is built through knowledge and preparation.

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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 2,788 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 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 344 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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    • An Incredible True Story of Disaster and Survival at Sea
    • By: Michael Tougias
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 680 ratings
    • Fatal Forecast chronicles a dramatic fight for survival aboard two small fishing boats that were ambushed by a horrific surprise storm just southeast of Cape Cod....

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