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Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, they were joined by Clyde's brother and his wife....
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Blood and Thunder
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From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....
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Epic and fantastic story.
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Miami
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Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....
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Fascinating book but some narration issues
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A Passion for Nature
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- By: Donald Worster
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
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The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting....
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Compelling and comprehensive
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A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....
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Amazing from Start to Finish
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My Life with Bonnie and Clyde
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- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, they were joined by Clyde's brother and his wife....
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Blood and Thunder
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From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....
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Epic and fantastic story.
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Miami
- By: Joan Didion
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Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....
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A Passion for Nature
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- By: Donald Worster
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 19 hrs and 10 mins
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In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world....
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When one tugs at a single thing in nature,
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The Run of His Life
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- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
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The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting....
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Compelling and comprehensive
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A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....
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Amazing from Start to Finish
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Jim Bridger
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Smashed the Fourth wall
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear
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Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road....
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Rich, funny and incredibly human
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Truman
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interesting times, VERY detailed
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Illiberal America
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The Pine Barrens
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The Wrath to Come
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Recommended
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Home Team: The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
- By: Robert F. Garratt
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- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
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Insightful and revealing
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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park that became at once the greatest piece of urban design in the United States and the world's most prosperous tourist attraction, as told like never before....
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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....
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Devil in the Grove
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Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....
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- By: James Wolcott
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It was the autumn of 1972 when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived in New York, full of literary dreams and having no idea what was about to hit him....
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Billy the Kid: An Autobiography
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In 1882, a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Ranger. His freedom finally secured, the outlaw disappeared and was never heard from again....
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A Terrible Glory
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A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself....
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Thoroughly enjoyable
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A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer - America's first - who stalked Austin, Texas, in 1885....
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Love Me to Death
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Shows the shared roots of blues and country music.
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Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer’s vaunted Seventh Cavalry....
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Amazing detail and great delivery
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Escape from Alcatraz
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A thought provoking insight into Alcatraz.
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More than a quarter-century before September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was immortalized by an act of unprecedented daring and beauty....
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Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys
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This is the true story of Carmine Imbriale—a gambler, a brawler, a bandit, a bookie, an enforcer. For two decades, Imbriale was a street-level operative in one of the most violent crews in the Colombo Family....
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Detroit 67
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It's January 1967-and one of the worst snowstorms in decades is blanketing Detroit, Michigan. Berry Gordy, owner of Motown Records, is trapped in...
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Really good
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The Birthplace of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina
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Hilton Head Island is a place that is filled with great history. An island that only a very few know exists. But it's an island that is very big, in the heart of its culture.
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The Devil in the White City
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
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The Shooter at Midnight
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On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff’s office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didn’t commit.
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Whistling Dixie
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Bartho deftly provides a new perspective on Reagan's political career and the Republican Party of the Reagan era while detailing the often-rancorous philosophical differences between Reaganism and southern conservatism and the resulting political conflicts. Whistling Dixie highlights a divide in the Republican Party and in American conservatism that has often been overlooked-a divide that laid the foundations for the GOP's southernization and ultimately led to the rise of Donald Trump.
By: Jonathan Bartho
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Love Letter from Pig
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In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat’s beloved brother Luke arrived as a volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project. Teaching biology to Freedom School students in Meridian, Luke became one of more than seven hundred student volunteers who joined experienced Black civil rights workers and clergy to challenge white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state.
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The Birthplace of Hilton Head Island in South Carolina
- An Island That Is Filled with Great History
- By: Charles J James Jr.
- Narrated by: Dave Henthorn
- Length: 5 mins
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Hilton Head Island is a place that is filled with great history. An island that only a very few know exists. But it's an island that is very big, in the heart of its culture.
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The Devil in the White City
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
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While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality, it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.
By: Erik Larson
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History of New York City
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Dive into the heart of New York City with this captivating guide. Discover the captivating saga of one of the worlds most iconic cities.
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The Shooter at Midnight
- Murder, Corruption, and a Farming Town Divided
- By: Sean Patrick Cooper
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Cooper
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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On a November night in 1990, Cathy Robertson is murdered in her home outside Chillicothe, Missouri. After law enforcement conduct a haphazard investigation, the sheriff’s office puts the case in the hands of a Kansas City private eye with his own agenda. In a close-knit town still reeling from the aftereffects of the farming crisis, friends and neighbors abruptly fracture into opposing camps. Mark Woodworth, a Robertson family neighbor, eventually receives four life sentences for a crime that a growing group of local supporters believe he didn’t commit.
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Whistling Dixie
- Ronald Reagan, the White South, and the Transformation of the Republican Party
- By: Jonathan Bartho
- Narrated by: Frank Block
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Bartho deftly provides a new perspective on Reagan's political career and the Republican Party of the Reagan era while detailing the often-rancorous philosophical differences between Reaganism and southern conservatism and the resulting political conflicts. Whistling Dixie highlights a divide in the Republican Party and in American conservatism that has often been overlooked-a divide that laid the foundations for the GOP's southernization and ultimately led to the rise of Donald Trump.
By: Jonathan Bartho
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Love Letter from Pig
- My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
- By: Julie P. Kabat
- Narrated by: Julie P. Kabat
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In the summer of 1964, the FBI found the smoldering remains of the station wagon that James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman had been driving before their disappearance. Shortly after this awful discovery, Julie Kabat’s beloved brother Luke arrived as a volunteer for the Mississippi Summer Project. Teaching biology to Freedom School students in Meridian, Luke became one of more than seven hundred student volunteers who joined experienced Black civil rights workers and clergy to challenge white supremacy in the nation’s most segregated state.
By: Julie P. Kabat
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Covert City
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- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military operations, and its lax business laws, Miami was an ideal environment for espionage. Covert City tells the history of how the entire city of Miami was constructed in the image of the US-Cuba rivalry.
By: Vince Houghton, and others
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Blue-Coated Terror
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- By: Jeffrey S. Adler
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Contrary to competing popular beliefs, police violence against African Americans has neither remained unchanged since the era of slavery nor is it a recent phenomenon disconnected from the past. In Bluecoated Terror, Jeffrey S. Adler draws on rich archival accounts to show how racialized police brutality is part of a larger system of state oppression with roots in the early twentieth-century South, particularly New Orleans.
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Contested Boundaries
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Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.
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States’ Rights and Byron Paine
- By: CARL SCHURZ
- Narrated by: Silke Haidekker
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"Carl Schurz' "States' Rights and Byron Paine" was an address he delivered at Albany Hall, Milwaukee, March 23, 1859. In it, he defended his position, which no doubt was also the position of the bulk of the anti-slavery men of the time, of states rights and the compact theory of the union.
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A Really Strange and Wonderful Time
- The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999
- By: Tom Maxwell
- Narrated by: Tom Maxwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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A Really Strange and Wonderful Time features a representative cross-section of what was being created in and around Chapel Hill between 1989 and 1999. In addition to the aforementioned indie bands, it documents―through firsthand accounts―other local notables like Ben Folds Five, Dillon Fence, Flat Duo Jets, Small, Southern Culture on the Skids, Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Veldt, and Whiskeytown. At the same time, it describes the nurturing infrastructure which engendered and encouraged this marvelous diversity. In essence, A Really Strange and Wonderful Time is proof of the genius of community.
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Aboard the Portland
- A History of the Northwest Steamers
- By: Rebecca Harrison
- Narrated by: Doug Wedekind
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
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In her latest book, Rebecca Harrison takes you back in time over 150 years to ride the grand Columbia and Willamette Rivers on the sternwheelers of the mid-1800s. Meticulously researched, Aboard the Portland: A History of the Northwest Steamers tells the exciting story of these trade and transport ships and explores how the Portland survived time and harsh work to become one of the last operating steam sternwheelers in America.
By: Rebecca Harrison
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The King of Diamonds
- The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
- By: Rena Pederson
- Narrated by: Erin Dion
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena Pederson, then a young reporter with UPI, started following the elusive thief while she managed the night desk. With gymnastic skill, he climbed trees and crawled across rooftops to take jewels from heiresses, oil kings, corporate CEOs.
By: Rena Pederson
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Hell Put to Shame
- The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery
- By: Earl Swift
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new work of narrative nonfiction telling the forgotten story of the mass killing of eleven Black farmhands on a Georgia plantation in the spring of 1921—a crime which exposed for the nation the existence of the “peonage system,” a form of legal enslavement established after the Civil War across the American South.
By: Earl Swift
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Swamp Kings
- The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina & a Century of Backwoods Power
- By: Jason Ryan
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
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The most famous man in South Carolina lives jailed in the state capital. He stands accused of a staggering amount of wrongdoing—ninety-nine crimes and counting. Once a high-flying, smooth-talking, pedigreed Southern lawyer, Alex Murdaugh is now disbarred and disgraced. For more than a decade, prosecutors claim, Alex was secretly a fraud, a thief, a drug dealer and an all-around phony. On the night of June 7, 2021, they claim, he also became a killer.
By: Jason Ryan
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History of Wyoming
- A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Cowboy State (U.S. States)
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Saffir
- Length: 3 hrs and 46 mins
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Wyoming, a state often overshadowed by its majestic neighbors, holds secrets and stories that have remained untold for too long. But why, despite its significant role in the fabric of America, has Wyoming’s intricate history been left in the shadows? Unraveling the tales of this state requires a dive into its rich past, from the footsteps of Native Americans to the booming industries of the 21st century. And now, in this comprehensive history audiobook, you will journey through the heart of Wyoming and uncover the stories that have shaped its identity.
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The Fall of San Francisco
- By: Peter A. Kirby
- Narrated by: Peter A. Kirby
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
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San Francisco today is the poster child for everything that is wrong with America. It’s filthy, narcotics-infested and dangerous. It didn’t used to be this way. In fact, this is the first time that it has been this way. This book reveals exactly how San Francisco has become ruined. It has everything to do with a fundamentally corrupt political machine and underlying philosophy.
By: Peter A. Kirby
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Black Flags and Windmills
- Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
- By: Scott Crow
- Narrated by: Chris Bergman
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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When both levees and governments failed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, an organization calling itself the Common Ground Collective formed to become the largest anarchist inspired organization in modern US history. In solidarity with people in New Orleans, Common Ground built medical clinics, distributed aid, formed neighborhood assemblies and created food security through community gardens. The group also defied unjust laws by resisting home demolitions, and defended communities from white militias and police brutality.
By: Scott Crow