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The night was eerily black; no stars, no wind, completely overcast. Distant thunder voiced an ominous warning. Some say it was raining. Others say it wasn't. Some can't remember. Yet, everyone agrees that in the wee morning hours of Sunday, May 13th, 1962, a single fateful bolt of lightning struck the bell in the very top of the steeple of Saint Mary's Catholic Church.
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The Great Fire of 1871 was one of the most colossal disasters in American history - with damage so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again. By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with careful research, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting and dramatic narrative, ultimately revealing how the human spirit triumphed even in a time of deepest despair and the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow. I didn't know that!
- De DonnaMarie113 en 02-17-22
De: Jim Murphy
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Tinderbox
- The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
- De: Robert W. Fieseler
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of 31 men and one woman on June 24, 1973, at a New Orleans bar, the largest mass murder of gays until 2016. Relying on unprecedented access to survivors and archives, Fieseler creates an indelible portrait of a closeted, blue-collar gay world that flourished before an arsonist ignited an inferno that destroyed an entire community.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New Orleanians are Picky
- De Samantha Ruegge-Winn en 10-25-19
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The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
- The Deadliest Natural Disaster in American History
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Steve Rausch
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, on September 8, 1900, killed between 6,000 and 12,000 people. Prior to advanced communications, few people knew about impending hurricanes except those closest to the site. In the days before television or even radio, catastrophic descriptions were merely recorded on paper, limiting our understanding of the immediate impact. Thus it was inevitable that the category 4 hurricane would cause almost inconceivable destruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Hurricane
- De scott massey en 06-14-24
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The End of Night
- Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light
- De: Paul Bogard
- Narrado por: Paul Bogard
- Duración: 10 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A little too poetic for my taste
- De Dan B en 03-18-19
De: Paul Bogard
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The Demon of Brownsville Road
- A Pittsburgh Family's Battle with Evil in Their Home
- De: Bob Cranmer, Erica Manfred
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 358
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As a young boy, Bob had been drawn to the property, and, just when the family decided to move back to Brentwood, it went up for sale. Without a second thought, they purchased the house that Bob had always dreamed of owning. But the family soon began experiencing strange phenomena - objects moving on their own, ghostly footsteps, unsettling moaning sounds - that gradually increased in violence, escalating to physical assaults and, most disturbingly, bleeding walls.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Off topic and self-aggrandizing
- De Aaron en 10-03-14
De: Bob Cranmer, y otros
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The Esperanza Fire
- Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57
- De: John N. Maclean
- Narrado por: Pete Larkin
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
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The Esperanza Fire started October 26, 2006, in the San Jacinto Mountains above the Banning Pass near Cabazon, California. It destroyed 41,000 acres and dozens of homes and cost the taxpayers $16 million dollars. But by far the highest costs of the conflagration were the lives of the five-man crew of Engine 57, the first engine crew ever killed fighting a wildland blaze. Fire and superheated gases had erupted in a freak "area ignition," sending flames racing across three-quarters of a mile in mere seconds, engulfing the crew and the house they were defending.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Read the "book reviews" on Amazon before judging.
- De IdyGal en 08-26-18
De: John N. Maclean
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Report from Ground Zero
- De: Dennis Smith
- Narrado por: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Immediately after two hijacked jets struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Dennis Smith volunteered in the rescue effort. Having spent his career as both a respected writer and a member of one of the city's busiest firehouses, Smith became determined to use his unique background to tell the story of the disaster and its aftermath with the empathy and understanding that only an insider could bring to it. In this audio memoir, he has collected astonishing first-person testimony.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Intersting choice of narrator
- De Sara Roltgen en 09-24-18
De: Dennis Smith
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Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours
- De: Charles James Hall
- Narrado por: Charles James Hall
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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In the first three volumes of his memoirs concerning experiences while serving at Nellis Air Force Base, Charles Hall gave astonishing testimony of having met with “Tall White” extraterrestrials located at a secret underground facility at Nellis. Three independent witnesses have come forward to confirm important parts of Hall's testimony. Hall is a credible witness of extraterrestrials having reached agreements with US military officials.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"Millennial Hospitality IV: After Hours" concludes
- De Nick Otmazgin en 10-07-24
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What Stands in a Storm
- Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
- De: Kim Cross
- Narrado por: Tracy Brunjes
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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April 27, 2011, marked the climax of a superstorm that saw a record 358 tornadoes rip through 21 states in 3 days, 7 hours, and 18 minutes. It was the deadliest day of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history, which saw 348 people killed, entire neighborhoods erased, and $11 billion in damage. But from the terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes, neighbors, and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Offensive Narration
- De Tesla Russell en 05-10-17
De: Kim Cross
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Notre-Dame
- A Short History of the Meaning of Cathedrals
- De: Ken Follett
- Narrado por: Ken Follett
- Duración: 1 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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In this short, spellbinding book, international best-selling author Ken Follett describes the emotions that gripped him when he learned about the fire that threatened to destroy one of the greatest cathedrals in the world - the Notre-Dame de Paris. Follett then tells the story of the cathedral, from its construction to the role it has played across time and history, and he reveals the influence that the Notre-Dame had upon cathedrals around the world and on the writing of one of Follett's most famous and beloved novels, The Pillars of the Earth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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informative
- De BILL O'NEILL en 05-12-20
De: Ken Follett
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Holy Ghosts
- Or How a (Not-so) Good Catholic Boy Became a Believer in Things that Go Bump in the Night
- De: Gary Jansen
- Narrado por: Gary Jansen
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 157
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In this extraordinary true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town’s past.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Catholic boy consults psychic,aludes to numerology
- De Eric en 01-01-11
De: Gary Jansen
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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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. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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To Sleep with the Angels
- The Story of a Fire
- De: David Cowan, John Kuenster
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 117
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If burying a child has a special poignancy, the tragedy at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago more than 50 years ago was an extraordinary moment of grief. One of the deadliest fires in American history, it took the lives of 92 children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School, left many families physically and psychologically scarred for life, and destroyed a close-knit working-class neighborhood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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amazingly gripping
- De Jeremiah Rubottom en 10-12-18
De: David Cowan, y otros
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American Fire
- Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
- De: Monica Hesse
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 447
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Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to 67 counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice - his girlfriend, Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the dangerous shift that happened in their passionate relationship, Hesse brilliantly brings to life the once-thriving coastal community and its distressed inhabitants.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration is horrible
- De Bryan Campbell en 08-17-17
De: Monica Hesse
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1 Dead in Attic
- After Katrina
- De: Chris Rose
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Still Makes Me Hurt
- De Gillian en 02-27-15
De: Chris Rose
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Zeitoun
- De: Dave Eggers
- Narrado por: Firdous Bamji
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,419
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When HurricaneKatrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun - a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four - chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the eerie days after the storm, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and rescuing those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Something bold, ebullient, yet quiet
- De Darwin8u en 10-08-13
De: Dave Eggers
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- De: Daniel James Brown
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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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 in the first and only book to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002 burned 350,000 acres in one week, the Hinckley fire did the same damage in five hours. The fire created its own weather, including hurricane-strength winds, bubbles of plasmalike glowing gas, and 200-foot-tall flames.
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5 out of 5 stars
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History lovers dream book.
- De Lynn Fraser en 10-18-18
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Southern Storm
- The Tragedy of Flight 242
- De: Samme Chittum
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and, behind him, the mangled fuselage of a passenger plane that had just crashed in her yard. The plane, a Southern Airways DC-9-31, had been carrying 81 passengers and four crew members en route to Atlanta when it entered a massive thunderstorm cell that turned into a dangerous cocktail of rain, hail, and lightning. Forced down onto a highway, the plane cut a swath of devastation through the small town of New Hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Compelling read.
- De teri en 06-19-18
De: Samme Chittum