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San Francisco Is Burning
By: Dennis Smith
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history, instantly killing hundreds. The ensuing fires that ravaged the city for days were responsible for the deaths of as many as 3,000 more. In all, 522 blocks and 28,188 buildings were leveled, and some 200,000 people dislocated.
This... Read more
The Murderer Next Door
By: David M. Buss
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
As acclaimed psychological researcher and author David Buss writes, "People are mesmerized by murder. It commands our attention like no other human phenomenon, and those touched by its ugly tendrils never forget." Though we may like to believe that murderers are pathological misfits and hardened criminals, the vast majority of murders are... Read more
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Divorced from the Mob
By: Andrea Giovino
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family—and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother... Read more
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Pointing from the Grave
By: Samantha Weinberg
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the remarkable and gripping true story of a murderer and his victim, and of the tiny molecule that linked their fates. It is both the history of a science overlaid with human drama and a human tragedy inextricably entwined with science. It is about two lives made and destroyed by DNA—and by each other.In 1984, Helena Greenwood, a young... Read more
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Rothstein
By: David Pietrusza
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 13 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls' Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David... Read more
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The Sword and the Shield
By: Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 31 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Based on unprecedented access to a secret archive of intelligence, The Sword and the Shield presents by far the most complete picture we have ever had of the KGB and its operations in the United States and Europe, revealing for the first time the full extent of its worldwide network.Vasili Mitrokhin worked for almost thirty years in the foreign... Read more
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Morir en el Intento - Abridged
By: Jorge Ramos
Narrated by: Jorge Ramos
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
On May 14th, 2003, the familiar risk taken by hopeful immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican-American border into the United States took a tragic turn. At least 74 illegal immigrants bound for Houston were crammed inside a sweltering truck trailer, which was found abandoned near Victoria, Texas. In the end, nineteen individuals died. Bodies... Read more
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Chasing the Devil - Abridged
By: Sheriff David Reichert
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Chasing the Devil is the gripping firsthand account of Sheriff David Reichert's relentless pursuit of the Green River Killer -- a 21-year odyssey full of near-misses and startling revelations.
For eight years, Sheriff David Reichert devoted his days and nights to capturing the Green River Killer. He was the first detective on the case in 1982,... Read more
Conspiracy of Fools
By: Kurt Eichenwald
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 30 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron... Read more
Conspiracy of Fools - Abridged
By: Kurt Eichenwald
Narrated by: Stephen Lang
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.
It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron... Read more
Ponzi's Scheme
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.
It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous... Read more
Ponzi's Scheme - Abridged
By: Mitchell Zuckoff
Narrated by: David Birney
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.
It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous... Read more
Between Good and Evil
By: Roger L. Depue & Susan Schindehette
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good.
No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society’s most vicious psychopaths. And no one is a... Read more
Green River, Running Red - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Michele Pawk
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.
In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near... Read more
A Pretext for War - Abridged
By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Ray Childs
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people.
In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the... Read more
The Outlaw Sea
By: William Langewiesche
Narrated by: William Langewiesche
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it
Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more
Long March to Freedom
By: Thomas R. Hargrove
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 21 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom, a record of his eleven months as a hostage of Colombian guerrillas, was the basis for the hit movie Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse. While the movie invented a fictitious romantic angle, Long March to Freedom is the actual journal Hargrove kept in captivity. The... Read more
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A Pretext For War
By: James Bamford
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic... Read more
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Are You There Alone? - Abridged
By: Suzanne O'Malley
Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Suzanne O'Malley takes a close look at the Andrea Yates murder trial and discovers medical misjudgment, professional negligence, misapplied law, and a revelation that led to the overturning of Yates's conviction.
It took a jury less than four hours to find Houston housewife Andrea Yates guilty of the drowning deaths of three of her five... Read more
Homicide Special - Abridged
By: Miles Corwin
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most elite, highly trained units of homicide detectives in the country
Los Angeles is a town of dreamers--and of those who prey on them. The scene of innumerable bizarre crimes, it is also home to a unique police unit called Homicide Special, whose mandate is to take on the toughest, most... Read more
Pigs at the Trough - Abridged
By: Arianna Huffington
Narrated by: Alison Fraser
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington that go beyond the Corporate Responsibility Act. Read more
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Blood, Money & Power
By: Barr McClellan
Narrated by: Barr McClellan
Length: 15 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings.
Now, after nearly forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President. Using... Read more
Heart Full of Lies - Abridged
By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From #1 New York Times bestselling true-crime author Ann Rule comes “a convincing portrait of a meticulous criminal mind” (The Washington Post) in this chilling tale about a beautiful and charming widow with a dark side.
An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a... Read more
Death's Acre - Abridged
By: Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson
Narrated by: George Grizzard
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria and birds, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. At the "Body Farm," nature takes its course, with corpses buried in shallow graves, submerged in water, concealed beneath slabs of concrete, locked in... Read more
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