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Bestsellers
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- De: Ted Koppel
- Narrado por: Ted Koppel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 11-27-15
De: Ted Koppel
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Gunflint Burning
- Fire in the Boundary Waters
- De: Cary J. Griffith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Cary J. Griffith tells the story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll
De: Cary J. Griffith
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Five Days at Memorial
- Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
- De: Sheri Fink
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs....
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Five Days in Hell/Years in Purgatory
- De Cynthia en 09-15-13
De: Sheri Fink
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The Johnstown Flood
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: Edward Herrmann
- Duración: 9 h y 3 m
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At the end of the last century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity....
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A page-turner! HIstory that reads like a novel
- De Susan K Donley en 06-17-05
De: David McCullough
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Lights Out
- A Cyberattack, a Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath
- De: Ted Koppel
- Narrado por: Ted Koppel
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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Ted Koppel reveals that a major cyberattack on America’s power grid is not only possible but likely, that it would be devastating, and that the United States is shockingly unprepared....
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Too much poetry, not enough prose
- De Norman B. Bernstein en 11-27-15
De: Ted Koppel
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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Gunflint Burning
- Fire in the Boundary Waters
- De: Cary J. Griffith
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Cary J. Griffith tells the story of the Ham Lake fire, at the time the most destructive wildfire in modern Minnesota history—the blaze, the firefighters' battle, the human toll
De: Cary J. Griffith
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The Unthinkable
- Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why
- De: Amanda Ripley
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 9 h y 35 m
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Today, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make split-second choices to save ourselves and our families....
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fascinating
- De Sara en 10-20-08
De: Amanda Ripley
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Critical Hours
- Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
- De: Sandy Stott
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Sandy Stott, the "Accidents" editor at the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, delivers both a history and a celebration of the search and rescue workers who save countless lives in the White Mountains....
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History of Search and Rescue Operations on White Mt.
- De Ronda en 03-07-19
De: Sandy Stott
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Flight 232
- A Story of Disaster and Survival
- De: Laurence Gonzales
- Narrado por: Victor Bevine
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet....
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Therapeutic
- De Quiltedwings en 05-07-15
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A Paradise Built in Hell
- The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- De: Rebecca Solnit
- Narrado por: Emily Beresford
- Duración: 13 h y 2 m
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A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption....
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Eye opening and thought provoking
- De zachery en 10-09-15
De: Rebecca Solnit
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The Emergency
- A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
- De: Thomas Fisher
- Narrado por: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
- Duración: 7 h y 50 m
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As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....
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Meh
- De chel_c42 en 03-29-22
De: Thomas Fisher
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors....
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- De: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
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The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal....
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One of the Best books this year!
- De Nazir en 05-26-22
De: Scott Carney, y otros
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Aid State
- Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
- De: Jake Johnston
- Narrado por: James Lurie
- Duración: 13 h y 24 m
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In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it....
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A must read for anyone interested in Haiti
- De Matthew Smith en 04-02-24
De: Jake Johnston
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Firehouse
- De: David Halberstam
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 4 h y 14 m
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Engine 40, Ladder 35, was one of the firehouses hardest hit in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the World Trade towers....
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Short, but gripping
- De peabozzle en 11-11-11
De: David Halberstam
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Run the Storm
- De: George Michelsen Foy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro....
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Struggled to survive this book
- De Kindle Customer en 09-15-18
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The Great Quake
- How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
- De: Henry Fountain
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history....
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Fascinating to hear the full story
- De Debby A Davis en 08-18-17
De: Henry Fountain
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
- Man, Nature, and Climate Change
- De: Elizabeth Kolbert
- Narrado por: Hope Davis
- Duración: 4 h y 56 m
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Americans have been warned since the late 1970s that the buildup of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere threatens to irreversibly change our climate....
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Very well done!
- De Danny J. Lesandrini en 04-21-06
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Paradise
- One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
- De: Lizzie Johnson
- Narrado por: Lizzie Johnson
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....
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Horrible,Horrible,Illiterate narration.
- De howard bascom en 09-02-21
De: Lizzie Johnson
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Fire Underground
- The Ongoing Tragedy Of The Centralia Mine Fire
- De: David DeKok
- Narrado por: Eddie Frierson
- Duración: 14 h y 8 m
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How an underground fire turned a Pennsylvania community into a ghost town....
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Truth is stranger than fiction!!!
- De Anonymous User en 07-24-17
De: David DeKok
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So Others May Live
- Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
- De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
- Narrado por: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....
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Good content, poor delivery in parts
- De Damien en 01-27-19
De: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, y otros
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3000 Degrees
- The True Story of a Deadly Fire and the Men Who Fought It
- De: Sean Flynn
- Narrado por: Richard Rohan
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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On December 3, 1999, the call crackled in to the men of the Worchester, Massachusetts Fire Department...
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a book about a very heroic breed
- De Andy en 06-03-03
De: Sean Flynn
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Dispatches from the Edge
- De: Anderson Cooper
- Narrado por: Anderson Cooper
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict around the world than Anderson Cooper....
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Dispatches from the Inner Self
- De W. Rodger Gantt en 11-03-06
De: Anderson Cooper
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Fire on the Horizon
- The Untold Story of the Explosion Aboard the Deepwater Horizon
- De: Tom Shroder, John Konrad
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 8 h y 22 m
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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm....
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An incredibly well-told story
- De Shep en 04-06-11
De: Tom Shroder, y otros
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Personal Effects
- What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
- De: Robert A. Jensen
- Narrado por: Adam Barr, Robert A. Jensen
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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The owner of the world’s leading disaster management company chronicles the unseen world behind the yellow tape, and explores what it means to be human after a lifetime of caring for the dead....
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Very informative and eye-opening
- De Mollie en 07-02-22
De: Robert A. Jensen
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- De: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 47 m
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The definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat Darkness....
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Riveting True Story You Didn't Hear On The News
- De Kathy in CA en 07-05-18
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Trillion Dollar Triage
- How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic - and Prevented Economic Disaster
- De: Nick Timiraos
- Narrado por: Nick Timiraos, Peter Ganim
- Duración: 12 h y 33 m
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By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs....
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Hard to listen. Mostly an anti Trump book.
- De NL en 04-17-22
De: Nick Timiraos
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Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024
- A Pocket-Sized Survival Bible for Surviving Nuclear Fallout, Nuclear Attack and EMPs
- De: Kyle Donovan
- Narrado por: Mike Steele
- Duración: 3 h y 30 m
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2023 revealed the stark reality: the threat of nuclear war is not just possible, it's imminent. "Nuclear War Survival Skills 2024" is your essential guide to not just survive but thrive in the face of this looming danger.
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Ignorance is NOT bliss. You need to listen to this
- De B Bishop en 04-06-24
De: Kyle Donovan
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We Fed an Island
- The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
- De: José Andrés
- Narrado por: José Andrés, Luis A. Miranda Jr.
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Chef José Andrés arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed, and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world....
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Great story, difficult listen
- De Luis Baars en 09-20-18
De: José Andrés
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Rescue
- Refugees and the Political Crisis of our Time
- De: David Miliband
- Narrado por: David Miliband
- Duración: 2 h y 50 m
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We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Sixty-five million people are fleeing for their lives. The choices are urgent, not just for them but for all of us....
De: David Miliband
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At Home on an Unruly Planet
- Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
- De: Madeline Ostrander
- Narrado por: Madeline Ostrander
- Duración: 12 h y 37 m
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Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live....
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Powerful stories
- De Erica Howard en 08-30-23