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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 1,213 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 2,571 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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    • 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 1,619 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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    • 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 2,787 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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    • 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 45 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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    • 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 212 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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    • 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 1,968 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 172 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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    • 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 606 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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    • 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 320 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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    • 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 665 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 Story of a Tornado
    • By: Holly Bailey
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • The Mercy of the Sky is the harrowing inside account of Oklahoma's deadliest tornado, penned by a local writer who became a national correspondent....

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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 668 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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    • 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 585 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 History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
    • By: John Withington
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • This audiobook is a comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day....

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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 595 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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    • 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 423 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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    • Off-Grid Self-Sufficiency Collection: A Comprehensive Guide to Water Purification, Survival Strategies, and Self-Sufficient Practices for Preppers
    • By: Johnathan Nash
    • Narrated by: Bill Ayers
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In an era where unpredictability is the only certainty, these essential guides are combined for those determined to be prepared for anything. This collection is not just about survival; it's about thriving in the face of the unknown.

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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 308 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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