Local History

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    • The Fire That Changed America
    • Auteur(s): David Von Drehle
    • Narrateur(s): Barrett Whitener
    • Durée: 10 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village....

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • Auteur(s): Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrateur(s): Norman Dietz
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

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    • Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
    • Auteur(s): Kyle Paoletta
    • Narrateur(s): Andrew Eiden
    • Durée: 10 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Iconic American cities surrounded by desert and rust. Teeming metropolises that seem to exist independently of the seemingly inhospitable and arid landscape that surrounds them, belying the rich insight they offer into American stories of migration, industry, bloodshed, and rebirth.

    Prix courant: 26,22 $

    • On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
    • Auteur(s): Robin Nagle
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Nagle
    • Durée: 7 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Nagle chronicles New York City's 400-year struggle with trash and traces the city's waste-management efforts from a time when filth overwhelmed the streets to the far more rigorous practices of today, when the Big Apple is as clean as it's ever been.

    Prix courant: 25,00 $

    • Richard J. Daley of Chicago
    • Auteur(s): Mike Royko
    • Narrateur(s): Charles Constant
    • Durée: 7 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In the turbulent world of Chicago politics, Boss dives deep into the captivating life and legacy of Richard J. Daley, the influential politician and mastermind behind the city's Democratic Party machine.

    Prix courant: 21,92 $

    • Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn
    • Auteur(s): Jean R. Soderlund
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Travis
    • Durée: 8 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-06-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In 1631, when the Dutch tried to develop plantation agriculture in the Delaware Valley, the Lenape Indians destroyed the colony of Swanendael and killed its residents....

    Prix courant: 26,40 $

    • Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans
    • Auteur(s): Jordan Chariton, Erin Brockovich - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Cross, Sophie Amoss
    • Durée: 10 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-09-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • As the ongoing Flint water crisis marks its tenth anniversary, Chariton reveals shocking new evidence of the major government cover-up that resulted in the poisoning of Flint—and shatters what you think you know about what caused the water crisis.

    Prix courant: 35,28 $

    • Shipwreck Stories of Life and Loss
    • Auteur(s): Michael Schumacher
    • Narrateur(s): Dean Gallagher
    • Durée: 10 h
    • Date de publication: 2025-08-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Notable shipwrecks of Lake Michigan throughout a century of enterprise, industry, heroism, and disaster on the Great Lakes The Great Lakes are graveyards of a vast number of shipwrecks (30,000 by some estimates), and Lake Michigan has more than the other four lakes combined.

    Prix courant: 17,53 $

    • Adventures and Misadventures in My Native Land
    • Auteur(s): Julia Reed, Jon Meecham - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Julia Reed, Dan Bittner - introduction
    • Durée: 5 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-07-31
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In thinking about the South, Julia Reed quotes writer Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Reed, the soul of the South and South Toward Home chronicles her adventures through the highs and lows of Southern life....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Second Edition
    • Auteur(s): David E. Stuart
    • Narrateur(s): Kenneth Lee
    • Durée: 10 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Developed over the course of centuries and thriving for more than 200 years, the Chacoans' society collapsed dramatically in the twelfth century, in a mere 40 years....

    Prix courant: 33,01 $

    • Legends of the Deep South, Book 2
    • Auteur(s): Synova Cantrell
    • Narrateur(s): Josh Tepford
    • Série: Legends of the Deep South, Livre 2
    • Durée: 3 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From their birthplace in Phenix City, Alabama to the corruption of today, the Dixie Mafia’s tentacles stretch from coast to coast throughout the south. While most of the world denies their existence, this network of freelance criminals have flown under the radar for the most part since the 1950s.

    Prix courant: 18,74 $

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    • A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
    • Auteur(s): Christine Sismondo
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim, Jennifer Van Dyck
    • Durée: 13 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life...

    Prix courant: 37,53 $

    • The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
    • Auteur(s): Earl Swift
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 12 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-12-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads....

    Prix courant: 23,38 $

    • The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • Auteur(s): Michael Grunwald
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Verner
    • Durée: 16 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it....

    Prix courant: 25,05 $

    • A Walk Through Nantucket
    • Auteur(s): Frank Conroy
    • Narrateur(s): Grover Gardner
    • Durée: 2 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2004-04-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Frank Conroy first visited Nantucket with a gang of college friends in 1955....

    Prix courant: 15,09 $

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