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Social Science - Disasters & Disaster Relief
Author: Thomas Fisher | Narrator: Thomas Fisher
Release Date: March 22, 2022
The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind&l...
Author: Lizzie Johnson | Narrator: Lizzie Johnson
Release Date: August 17, 2021
The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds.“A tour ...
Author: Dan Koeppel and Robert Meyer, MD | Narrator: Dan Koeppel and Robert Meyer, MD
Release Date: August 03, 2021
An urgent, on-the-scene account of chaos and compassion on the front lines of ground zero for Covid-19, from a senior doctor at New York City’s busiest emergency room “Remarkable and inspiring . . . We’re lucky to have this viv...
Author: Lawrence Wright | Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
Release Date: June 08, 2021
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19—its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain i...
Author: Jon Mooallem | Narrator: Ray Porter
Release Date: March 24, 2020
The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal ...
Author: Henry Fountain | Narrator: Robert Fass
Release Date: August 08, 2017
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega&md...
Author: Michael Punke | Narrator: Christopher Grove
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant--basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio--tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history. The worst ...
Author: Gretel Ehrlich | Narrator: Sumalee Montano
Release Date: November 15, 2013
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated...
Author: Sheri Fink | Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Release Date: September 10, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful port...
Author: Amanda Ripley | Narrator: Kirsten Potter
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Discover how human beings react to danger—and what makes the difference between life and death“Fascinating and useful . . . [shows that] the most important variable in an emergency is your own behavior.”—The New York TimesToda...
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Author: Michael Capuzzo | Narrator: Len Cariou
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launch...
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