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Half-Safe
- A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure
- By: James Nestor
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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In 1948, a young Australian mining engineer named Ben Carlin set out to do the impossible: circumnavigate the globe, by land and sea, in a single vehicle. The vehicle in question was an amphibious jeep developed by the U.S. Army, which Carlin christened Half-Safe, after a deodorant slogan. It was a mechanical mongrel that was supposed to move with equal ease across land and water but in practice wasn't much good for either one. Undaunted, Carlin and his wife Elinore set off across the Atlantic Ocean with dreams of fame and fortune, and of carving a small notch in history.
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Half-Safe
- A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure
- Narrated by: James Nestor
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2013
- Language: English
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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite
- By: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrated by: Adam Higginbotham
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
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The bomb appeared early one morning in an upstairs office of Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino near Lake Tahoe, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches. A neatly typed letter explained that the box contained 1,000 pounds of dynamite. It was the largest improvised explosive device in American history - and its creator promised to explain how to remove it safely if the casino delivered $3 million by helicopter to a remote landing site in the mountains.
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A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite
- Narrated by: Adam Higginbotham
- Length: 2 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-09-2014
- Language: English
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The Trials of White Boy Rick
- By: Evan Hughes
- Narrated by: Evan Hughes
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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It was the spring of 1987, and crack cocaine had turned whole swaths of Detroit into veritable combat zones. The city thought it had seen everything - until one evening that May, when the police arrested a 17-year-old kid named Rick Wershe. They called him White Boy Rick. In a city known for its fraught racial divide, Wershe had somehow joined the ranks of the drug kingpins on the predominantly Black East Side before he was old enough to shave.
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The Trials of White Boy Rick
- Narrated by: Evan Hughes
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 15-10-2014
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang
- By: Josh Dean
- Narrated by: Crystal Fawn
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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In The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang, Josh Dean reconstructs the gang's glory days and reveals how the real story, pieced together through months of research and reporting - most prominently with Reid himself, as he comes to the end, at age 64, of his final days in the custody of the state - is more remarkable than the myth that has long been told.
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The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang
- Narrated by: Crystal Fawn
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2015
- Language: English
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The Oilman's Daughter
- By: Evan Ratliff
- Narrated by: Evan Ratliff
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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What would you do if you were given the opportunity to become another person - one whose life promised to be more glamorous and prosperous than your own? That was the question posed to Judith Patterson when, at age 33, she met the birth mother who had given her up for adoption as a child, who now revealed to her an extraordinary secret. Patterson, her mother told her, was the illegitimate daughter of a Texas oil mogul, one of the most powerful businessmen in the country in his day.
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The Oilman's Daughter
- Narrated by: Evan Ratliff
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-11-2013
- Language: English
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Angel Killer
- A True Story of Cannibalism, Crime Fighting, and Insanity in New York City
- By: Deborah Blum
- Narrated by: Deborah Blum
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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In the mid-1920s, young children began to vanish from neighborhoods around New York City. It took the police a decade to find their abductor, an unassuming 64-year-old handyman named Albert Fish. Fish had committed crimes of unspeakable horror: He had not only abducted and murdered the children, but also tortured and, in some cases, eaten them. During Fish's trial, some of the country's most prominent psychiatrists debated the exact nature of Fish's crimes. Was he evil or insane? Who had the power to determine where one ended and the other began?
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Angel Killer
- A True Story of Cannibalism, Crime Fighting, and Insanity in New York City
- Narrated by: Deborah Blum
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2012
- Language: English
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American Hippopotamus
- By: Jon Mooallem
- Narrated by: Jon Mooallem
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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In 1910, the United States - its population exploding, its frontier all but exhausted - was in the throes of a serious meat shortage. But a small and industrious group of thinkers stepped forward with an answer, a bold idea being endorsed by the likes of Theodore Roosevelt and The New York Times. Their plan: to import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.
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American Hippopotamus
- Narrated by: Jon Mooallem
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 30-12-2013
- Language: English
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Whatsoever Things Are True
- By: Matthew Shaer
- Narrated by: Matthew Shaer
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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In August 1982, a young couple was murdered in a Chicago park. Months away from their wedding, Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green were shot to death on the bleachers overlooking a pool on the South Side of the city. A year later, Anthony Porter, a local man with a checkered past, was found guilty of the crime and sentenced to death. Fifty hours before his execution, Porter was freed, thanks to an investigation by David Protess and his students at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Whatsoever Things Are True
- Narrated by: Matthew Shaer
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 19-10-2015
- Language: English
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The Desert Blues
- By: Joshua Hammer
- Narrated by: Joshua Hammer
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Manny Ansar and Iyad Ag Ghali had little in common - one was a politically connected intellectual, the other a rebel waging war on behalf of his nomadic people in the middle of the Sahara. They did share one thing, though: a passion for Mali's desert blues, a haunting mix of traditional music infused with the influence of Elvis Presley, Bob Marley, and Jimi Hendrix.
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The Desert Blues
- Narrated by: Joshua Hammer
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2015
- Language: English
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The Zombie King
- By: Emily Matchar
- Narrated by: Samara Breger
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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In 1928, on a desolate island off the coast of Haiti, the American writer William Seabrook came face-to-face with a zombie. "The eyes were the worst," Seabrook would later write in The Magic Island, his book about Haitian voodoo culture. "They were in truth the eyes of a dead man." The book sold half a million copies, forever changing popular culture by introducing the zombi cadavre - the walking dead - to the American imagination.
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The Zombie King
- Narrated by: Samara Breger
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2015
- Language: English
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The Fort of Young Saplings
- By: Vanessa Veselka
- Narrated by: Vanessa Veselka
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Vanessa Veselka grew up a child in motion. After her parents split, she'd lived in nine states by the age of seven, eventually landing with her mother in 1970s Greenwich Village. Along the way she became enthralled with a distant part of her identity: her father's ceremonial adoption into the Tlingit, an Alaskan native people of legendary martial prowess. As an adult her childhood memories of Tlingit warrior tales would transform into a quest to understand her own connection to a distant people and their history.
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The Fort of Young Saplings
- Narrated by: Vanessa Veselka
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2015
- Language: English
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The Devil Underground
- By: Nadja Drost
- Narrated by: Nadja Drost
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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They called him the Gold Czar. In the lawless Colombian gold-mining town of Segovia, he was rarely spoken of in more than a whisper. But investigators were convinced he was behind the gangland killing of several local mine owners - a massacre that many believed was responsible for the nightmarish wave of violence that turned the town into one of the world's murder capitals. The question was: Could they prove it?
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The Devil Underground
- Narrated by: Nadja Drost
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2014
- Language: English
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Cloud Racers
- By: Adam L. Penenberg
- Narrated by: Adam L. Penenberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
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Who would be the first aviator to singlehandedly fly all the way around the globe? That was all anyone wanted to know in the summer of 1933, when Wiley Post and Jimmie Mattern set out from New York in a pair of wood-and-canvas propeller planes. Post, a one-eyed Oklahoma farm boy with a desperate past, was as comfortable in the cockpit as he was socially awkward back on the ground.
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Cloud Racers
- Narrated by: Adam L. Penenberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2014
- Language: English
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The Dead Zoo Gang
- By: Charles Homans
- Narrated by: Charles Homans
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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The world had never seen a crime wave quite like it. Starting in early 2011, thieves descended upon dozens of natural-history museums across Europe armed with crowbars, sledgehammers, and tear-gas grenades, interested in only one thing: antique rhinoceros horns. By 2013, they had stolen nearly a hundred horns in all, worth millions of dollars on the international black market. The only thing more unusual than the crimes themselves was the law enforcement's theory about who was responsible: a handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.
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The Dead Zoo Gang
- Narrated by: Charles Homans
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2014
- Language: English
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Love and Ruin
- By: James Verini
- Narrated by: James Verini
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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Nothing about the romance between Nancy Hatch Dupree and Louis Dupree was what you'd call typical. For starters, there were the lovers themselves. Louis was a foul-mouthed paratrooper turned swashbuckling archaeologist. Nancy was a witty travel writer and the wife of a CIA station chief on the ragged frontier of the Cold War. Then there was the place and time: Kabul, Afghanistan in the 1960s, a heady and short-lived milieu of conniving spies, future mujahideen, and cocktail-swilling cosmopolitans.
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Love and Ruin
- Narrated by: James Verini
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2014
- Language: English
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Queen of the Tokyo Ballroom
- By: Jennifer Sky
- Narrated by: Jennifer Sky
- Length: 48 mins
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When Jennifer Sky was 15, she was offered the chance to spend a summer working as a model in Japan. For a girl from rural Florida who spent hours poring over fashion magazines, it seemed like a dream come true. But soon she found herself all but abandoned in an unfamiliar city, attempting to navigate a ruthless industry on her own and waving goodbye to childhood on the boozy margins of Tokyo's expatriate scene.
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Queen of the Tokyo Ballroom
- Narrated by: Jennifer Sky
- Length: 48 mins
- Release date: 18-02-2014
- Language: English
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When We Are Called to Part
- Hope and Heartbreak in the Vanishing World of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement
- By: Brooke Jarvis
- Narrated by: Brooke Jarvis
- Length: 55 mins
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It was known as the Living Grave: A remote Hawaiian peninsula called Kalaupapa, housing the largest settlement for leprosy patients in the United States. Once it had been a forbidding place of exile, inhabited by thousands of the disease's victims who had been removed from their families and confined against their will, far away from a society that feared and misunderstood their condition.
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When We Are Called to Part
- Hope and Heartbreak in the Vanishing World of the Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement
- Narrated by: Brooke Jarvis
- Length: 55 mins
- Release date: 16-12-2013
- Language: English
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The Bones of Marianna
- A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice
- By: David Kushner
- Narrated by: David Kushner
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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With its manicured lawns and well-kept college-style buildings, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida-the largest reform school in the country-always seemed like a model for how to turn wayward teens back into productive members of society. But for decades, the century-old school's alumni whispered about a nightmarish reality that lurked behind the gleaming facade - a legacy of beatings, sexual abuse, and even murder, the evidence buried in unmarked graves on the overgrown fringes of the property.
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The Bones of Marianna
- A Reform School, a Terrible Secret, and a Hundred-Year Fight for Justice
- Narrated by: David Kushner
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-11-2013
- Language: English
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Finding Shakespeare
- By: Daniel Fromson
- Narrated by: Daniel Fromson
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
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In 2008, a troubled Vietnam veteran turned struggling actor named Hamilton Meadows became obsessed with a question: What did William Shakespeare's English sound like when the Bard and his actors spoke it? Others had asked the same thing before - the quest to piece together the pronunciation of Elizabethan English, the language as it was spoken during Shakespeare's lifetime, has captivated English scholars, theater directors, and romantic adventurers for two hundred years.
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Finding Shakespeare
- Narrated by: Daniel Fromson
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-11-2013
- Language: English
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Coronado High
- By: Joshuah Bearman
- Narrated by: Brett Gelman
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Nobody would've figured the kids from the sleepy beach town of Coronado, California, for criminal masterminds. They were just some hippie surfers, high school friends who'd come up with the idea of swimming bundles of marijuana across the border from Tijuana during the summer of 1969. Within a decade, however, the Coronado Company had become the largest pot-smuggling operation on the West Coast, a $100 million empire with outposts from Mexico to Morocco to Thailand.
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Coronado High
- Narrated by: Brett Gelman
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2013
- Language: English
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