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Half-Safe
- A Story of Love, Obsession, and History's Most Insane Around-the-World Adventure
- Written 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: 2013-01-25
- Language: English
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American Hippopotamus
- Written 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: 2013-12-30
- Language: English
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Angel Killer
- A True Story of Cannibalism, Crime Fighting, and Insanity in New York City
- Written 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: 2012-12-18
- Language: English
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Love and Ruin
- Written 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: 2014-03-19
- Language: English
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Coronado High
- Written 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: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
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The Oilman's Daughter
- Written 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: 2013-11-20
- Language: English
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Cloud Racers
- Written 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: 2014-06-23
- Language: English
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The Accidental Terrorist
- A California Accountant's Coup d'Etat
- Written by: Adam PIore
- Narrated by: Adam Piore
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
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Yasith Chhun was just a 42-year-old accountant living a comfortable life in California. Then he tried to overthrow the Cambodian government from his humble office in Long Beach. Inspired by films like Braveheart, Chhun planned "Operation Volcano," a scheme replete with espionage, jungle guerrillas, and East German rocket launchers. Could Chhun's quixotic, incredibly risky and potentially bloody coup possibly succeed?
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The Accidental Terrorist
- A California Accountant's Coup d'Etat
- Narrated by: Adam Piore
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 2012-11-09
- Language: English
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Operation Red Falcon
- Written by: Ronen Bergman
- Narrated by: Joel Lovell
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Early on the morning of September 1, 1996, the Israeli military began preparing for a war with Syria they were convinced was imminent. The Israelis had received top-secret intelligence from a Syrian general and informant code-named Red Falcon, recruited 23 years earlier by Mossad spy Yehuda Gil - himself known as "the man of a thousand faces." Gil had been the general's sole handler, the conduit of decades of critical intelligence. But now, on the brink of war, questions arose about who exactly was handling whom. What information was real and what was a lie?
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Operation Red Falcon
- Narrated by: Joel Lovell
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 2015-06-26
- Language: English
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My Mother's Lover
- Written by: David Dobbs
- Narrated by: David Dobbs
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
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On her deathbed, David Dobbs's mother Evelyn Jane revealed a secret she'd kept for 60 years about the man she had truly loved, and lost. His name was Norman "Angus" Zahrt, a married World War II flight surgeon with whom she'd engaged in a secret love affair, just before he deployed to the Pacific and disappeared. Intrigued by his mother's hidden longing, Dobbs embarked on a reporter's quest to uncover Zahrt's fate, and that of his family. The story he returned with is an extraordinary tale of love, war, and how we confront the lost chances in our lives.
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My Mother's Lover
- Narrated by: David Dobbs
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 2012-10-29
- Language: English
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Company Eight
- Written by: Matthew Pearl
- Narrated by: Matthew Pearl
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
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In the annals of American firefighting, the early 1800s were a dark time. Volunteer fire companies operated less as public servants and more as rival gangs: defying city regulations, extorting money from victims, sabotaging other companies to put out fires first, or letting them burn out of pure spite. Willard Sears, a Boston builder and abolitionist, set out to change all that with a vision for a fire company that would bring professionalism to a field laced with corruption and violence.
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Company Eight
- Narrated by: Matthew Pearl
- Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
- Release date: 2015-01-08
- Language: English
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The Sinking of the Bounty
- The True Story of a Tragic Shipwreck and its Aftermath
- Written by: Matthew Shaer
- Narrated by: Matthew Shaer
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
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It was one of the strangest sights the Coast Guard pilots had ever seen: a tall-masted wooden ship, the kind that sailed centuries ago, capsizing in the wind and towering waves of Hurricane Sandy off the coast of North Carolina. It looked like something out of a movie - and, in a way, it was. The ship was the Bounty, a replica of a British merchant vessel of the same name whose crew famously mutinied in 1789. She had been built for a Marlon Brando film in the 1960s - and now she was sinking, her 16-person crew fleeing into the sea amid the splintered wood and torn canvas.
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The Sinking of the Bounty
- The True Story of a Tragic Shipwreck and its Aftermath
- Narrated by: Matthew Shaer
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
- Release date: 2013-04-19
- Language: English
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Baghdad Country Club
- Written by: Joshuah Bearman
- Narrated by: Joshuah Bearman
- Length: 51 mins
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Welcome to a place where even beer runs are a matter of life and death. As the Iraq War draws to an official close, Joshuah Bearman tells the funny and poignant tale of the real-life Baghdad Country Club, a bar in the Green Zone during the conflict's bloodiest years. Against all odds, its proprietors struggle to keep their raucous watering hole safe and well-stocked as the insurgency rages outside.
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Baghdad Country Club
- Narrated by: Joshuah Bearman
- Length: 51 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-24
- Language: English
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D for Deception
- Written by: Tina Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Tina Rosenberg
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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Before Ian Fleming there was Dennis Wheatley. A best-selling spy novelist at the outset of World War II, Wheatley became a master of deception for Great Britain, turning pulp fiction fantasies into real-life espionage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg tells the amazing true story of one man who applied the plots of his own novels to the battlefield - and changed the course of history.
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D for Deception
- Narrated by: Tina Rosenberg
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-03
- Language: English
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The Fort of Young Saplings
- Written 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: 2015-01-15
- Language: English
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