Bestsellers
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,175
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Performance748
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Story746
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the...
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- By rwise on 01-26-04
By: Simon Winchester
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Firestorm
- The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
- By: Jacob Soboroff
- Narrated by: Jacob Soboroff
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance108
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Story108
Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...
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Great Book
- By SHARON on 03-28-26
By: Jacob Soboroff
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,745
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Performance1,516
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Story1,511
Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....
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Best as a Listen
- By Cynthia on 01-28-15
By: Sebastian Junger
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance208
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Story208
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented...
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Mediocre
- By Mona on 11-04-20
By: Timothy Egan
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Last Train to Paradise
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall603
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Performance484
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Story485
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven...
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A Pleasant Surprise
- By Roy on 04-05-09
By: Les Standiford
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Death in the Air
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall450
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Performance409
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Story407
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, 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. London was still recovering from the devastation...
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Interesting
- By irene on 11-27-17
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Krakatoa
- The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall1,175
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Performance748
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Story746
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa. The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the...
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Great subject, great writing, great voice
- By rwise on 01-26-04
By: Simon Winchester
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Firestorm
- The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster
- By: Jacob Soboroff
- Narrated by: Jacob Soboroff
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall109
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Performance108
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Story108
Narrated by the author: Experience the Southern California wildfires through Jacob Soboroff’s eyes—and voice. New York Times Bestseller and #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller A "gripping, unshakeable firsthand account" (San Francisco Chronicle) of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from...
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Great Book
- By SHARON on 03-28-26
By: Jacob Soboroff
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The Perfect Storm
- A True Story of Men Against the Sea
- By: Sebastian Junger
- Narrated by: Richard Davidson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1,745
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Performance1,516
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Story1,511
Man’s struggle against the sea is a theme that has created some of the world’s most exciting stories....
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Best as a Listen
- By Cynthia on 01-28-15
By: Sebastian Junger
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The Big Burn
- Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
- By: Timothy Egan
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall234
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Performance208
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Story208
In THE WORST HARD TIME, Timothy Egan put the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl at the center of a rich history, told through characters he brought to indelible life. Now he performs the same alchemy with the Big Burn, the largest-ever forest fire in America and the tragedy that cemented...
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Mediocre
- By Mona on 11-04-20
By: Timothy Egan
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Last Train to Paradise
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall603
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Performance484
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Story485
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad—one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores. In 1904, the brilliant and driven...
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A Pleasant Surprise
- By Roy on 04-05-09
By: Les Standiford
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Death in the Air
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall450
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Performance409
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Story407
A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, 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. London was still recovering from the devastation...
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Interesting
- By irene on 11-27-17
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The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
- How Carbon Dioxide Made Our World
- By: Peter Brannen
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 18 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Story15
How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by putting gigantic amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. But CO2 isn’t merely the by-product of burning fossil fuels—it is also...
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Excessive metaphor & narrator is ridiculous with breathless drama
- By Stephen S. Mulkey on 09-05-25
By: Peter Brannen
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- The Life of Legendary Tornado Chaser Tim Samaras
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall252
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Performance223
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Story223
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post). At the...
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Tim Samaras Would be Proud
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-18
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Under a Flaming Sky
- The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Daniel James Brown
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall657
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Performance593
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Story591
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 on to chronicle the dramatic story that unfolded. Whereas Oregon's famous "Biscuit" fire in 2002...
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History lovers dream book.
- By Lynn Fraser on 10-18-18
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Wave
- A Memoir
- By: Sonali Deraniyagala
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall362
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Performance307
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Story305
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir...
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Tragic. Raw. Heart-Ripping!
- By CBlox on 03-19-13
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A Storm Too Soon
- A True Story of Disaster, Survival, and an Incredible Rescue
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall107
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Performance90
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Story90
A heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster,survival, and daring rescue from a master storyteller....
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Great story ruined by a horrible narrator.
- By Zoltan on 01-08-16
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Granite Mountain
- The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice
- By: Brendan McDonough, Stephan Talty
- Narrated by: John Glouchevitch
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall942
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Performance834
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Story830
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots" -- firefighters trained specifically to battle...
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Thank you Brendan
- By Kenton on 06-07-16
By: Brendan McDonough, and others
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The Sixth Extinction Tenth Anniversary Edition
- By: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrated by: Anne Twomey
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance20
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Story20
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The 10th Anniversary Edition of the powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes. Over the last half a billion years...
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Powerful stories from climate’s front lines
- By Richard T on 03-21-25
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Fire on the Mountain
- By: John N. Maclean
- Narrated by: John N. Maclean
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Abridged
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Overall349
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Performance295
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Story296
On the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded by the district's Bureau of Land Management office as taking place in South Canyon, thereby mislabeling forever one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. That...
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As a wildland firefighter it's a book that matters
- By Mark on 09-06-13
By: John N. Maclean
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Into the Storm
- Two Ships, a Deadly Hurricane, and an Epic Battle for Survival
- By: Tristram Korten
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance215
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Story215
“An intense, immersive deep dive into a wild, dangerous, and unknown world, written with the pace and appeal of a great thriller. This is nonfiction at its very best.”—Lee Child The true story of two doomed ships and a daring search-and-rescue operation that shines a light on the elite...
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Just average
- By Rickmeister on 03-13-20
By: Tristram Korten
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The White Cascade
- The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
- By: Gary Krist
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall156
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Performance140
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Story140
From renowned writer and travel journalist Gary Krist comes the never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in US history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche. In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered...
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A detailed, yet very readable account.
- By Rindt on 02-20-18
By: Gary Krist
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance58
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Story58
ike Davis discloses the relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history....
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Mike Davis on Audible!
- By Nathan D. Backlund on 09-02-17
By: Mike Davis
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Disaster!
- A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
- By: John Withington
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall71
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Performance63
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Story63
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. But such catastrophic events -...
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Fantastic account of disasters!
- By Gardenstate Reader on 12-30-19
By: John Withington
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Rising Tide
- The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
- By: John M. Barry
- Narrated by: George Grizzard
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Abridged
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Overall548
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Performance416
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Story416
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi...
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Where is the rest of the book?
- By Susie on 10-21-13
By: John M. Barry
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Smokejumper
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall606
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Performance537
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Story533
A rare inside look at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefighters who parachute into the most remote and rugged areas of the United States, confronting the growing threat of nature's blazes. Forest and wildland fires are growing larger, more numerous, and deadlier every year -...
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About damn time a book on wildland firefighting was written!!!
- By Jefferer R. Beren on 07-16-15
By: Jason A. Ramos, and others
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The Precipice
- Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
- By: Toby Ord
- Narrated by: Toby Ord
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall722
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Performance607
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Story606
This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species could survive for billions of years - enough time to end disease, poverty, and injustice, and to flourish in ways...
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The 80000hours website is better
- By Cristi on 08-06-20
By: Toby Ord
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Fire Monks
- Zen Mind Meets Wildfire at the Gates of Tassajara
- By: Colleen Morton Busch
- Narrated by: Colleen Morton Busch
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance63
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Story61
When a massive wildfire surrounded Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, five monks risked their lives to save it. A gripping narrative as well as a portrait of the Zen path and the ways of wildfire, Fire Monks reveals what it means to meet a crisis with full presence of mind....
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An Amazing Perspective on a Terrible Event
- By Peter W. Kalnin on 04-29-24
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The Ends of the World
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall1,994
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Performance1,784
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Story1,775
As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of...
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A Kid's Science Book FOR ADULTS!!
- By aaron on 06-15-17
By: Peter Brannen
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The Big Ones
- How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
- By: Lucy Jones
- Narrated by: Lucy Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance148
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Story148
By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural...
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Interesting, but neither deep nor insightful
- By Tim on 12-29-18
By: Lucy Jones
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Apocalyptic Planet
- Field Guide to the Everending Earth
- By: Craig Childs
- Narrated by: Craig Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall201
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Performance176
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Story174
The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different....
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Travel-log of the maybe apocalypses
- By Tif on 01-09-14
By: Craig Childs
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- By: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance131
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Story131
A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping true story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again. The inspiration for the Apple Original Film The Lost Bus, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera “A tour de force story of...
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- By howard bascom on 09-02-21
By: Lizzie Johnson
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The Children's Blizzard
- By: David Laskin
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall326
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Performance298
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Story296
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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True Account of 1888 Prairie Blizzard
- By Mary Burnight on 01-09-17
By: David Laskin
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What Stands in a Storm
- Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley
- By: Kim Cross
- Narrated by: Tracy Brunjes
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall170
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Performance161
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Story160
With powerful emotion and gripping detail, Kim Cross weaves together the heart-wrenching stories of several characters to create a nail-biting chronicle in the Tornado Alley of America....
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Extremely Offensive Narration
- By Tesla Russell on 05-10-17
By: Kim Cross
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Northeaster
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance61
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Story61
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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Excellent and well researched
- By Deb on 02-02-24
By: Cathie Pelletier
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Storm of the Century
- The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
- By: Willie Drye
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall38
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Performance35
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Story35
In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy....
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The lack of information
- By Keith on 01-26-26
By: Willie Drye