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The Wuhan Cover-Up
- And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
- Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
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From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19.
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More Important than The Real Anthony Fauci
- By A Reviewer on 12-20-23
- The Wuhan Cover-Up
- And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race
- By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- Narrated by: Bruce Wagner
Really really good
Reviewed: 10-23-24
First half discusses CIA-involvement in COVID19 and elsewhere, which is a continuous villain in any Kennedy tale, feeling like this was going to be just another bash-story. But this book delivers all the evil connections in the second half, describing in footnoted detail what any self-thinking engineer or scientist suspected at the time. This book needs to be the prima facie at Fauci's corruption and execution trials.
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Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Author Cory Franklin, MD, who headed the hospital's intensive care unit from the 1970s through the 1990s, shares his most unique and bizarre experiences, including the deadly Chicago heatwave of 1995, treating the first AIDS patients in the country before the disease was diagnosed, the nurse with rare Munchausen syndrome, the only surviving ricin victim, and the professor with Alzheimer's hiding the effects of the wrong medication.
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Very impressive..
- By Andrey Borul on 04-19-16
- Cook County ICU
- 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases
- By: Cory Franklin MD
- Narrated by: John Pruden
Mild anecdotes
Reviewed: 09-30-24
Enjoyable short memoirs from a career that has likely seen worse / more grotesque. The good doctor remained above-board at all times, likely representing the type of human he is; stories you could listen to with your mom in the room.
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Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 25 hrs and 25 mins
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From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles - the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg - that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud, and futility.
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I thought I knew the battle of the frontiers
- By Anonymous User on 04-02-21
- Catastrophe 1914
- Europe Goes to War
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Strange; detailed-and-not
Reviewed: 09-23-24
Story was super-detailed, then collapsed into an ending so quickly I must've missed it, wondering what just happened. Find it strange absolutely no mention of mustard gas, despite endless chapters on trench warfare.
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Homegrown
- Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. Speaking to his lawyers days after the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets: killing 168 people was his patriotic duty. New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that doesn’t mean his army wasn’t there. With news-breaking reportage, Toobin details how McVeigh’s principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001.
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Not a great book I’m sorry to say
- By H. Winslow on 05-10-23
- Homegrown
- Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
- By: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
Leftist Drivel
Reviewed: 09-13-24
Some decent facts and chronology, surrounded by complete nonsense in an attempt to blame DJT for an event in the Clinton-era. This book pathetically points fingers without acknowledging a single possible wrongdoing by liberals. Author should have stuck to the facts, because he's no good at fiction. Even his voice is annoying. Avoid this book at all cost; your future self will thank you.
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Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864, Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave inspires his men to take action.
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One of the Best Stories Ever Told!
- By Tiffany on 04-10-16
- Island of the Lost
- Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- By: Joan Druett
- Narrated by: David Colacci
Riveting
Reviewed: 08-20-24
Constant storyline with no lulls; what a story of triumph against all odds. I can't get over the resourcefulness of Capt Musgrave: spinning, tanning, smelting. Modern people would certainly perish in similar circumstances.
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The Serial Killer Files
- The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real-life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon.
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Made me feel sick, yet I didn't want it to end
- By Neuron on 02-07-17
- The Serial Killer Files
- The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World’s Most Terrifying Murderers
- By: Harold Schechter
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
Interesting angle
Reviewed: 08-15-24
Maybe I've read too many (all?) books on this subject, so the material felt old, but the interesting part is how this book is told from the perspective of affliction... then lists which screwed-up human demonstrated it
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Fentanyl, Inc.
- How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
- By: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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A deeply human story, Fentanyl, Inc. is the first deep-dive investigation of a hazardous and illicit industry that has created a worldwide epidemic, ravaging communities and overwhelming and confounding government agencies that are challenged to combat it.
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The Best Current Book On the Drug Epidemic
- By Drake on 11-20-19
- Fentanyl, Inc.
- How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic
- By: Ben Westhoff
- Narrated by: Alex Boyles
Well researched
Reviewed: 08-15-24
I like the scientific feel of this reporting, almost a presentation of facts to let us, the jury, decide what should be our drug policies. Funny how the loss of civility in today's world can be traced back to good-vs-evil drug types, all while politicians continue to choose the worst possible paths... like it isn't accidental.
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Frozen in Time
- The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
- By: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
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In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn't come until 2014, when a team commissioned by the Canadian government uncovered one of the lost ships: Erebus.
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frozen in time
- By S.A. Rohr on 09-18-22
- Frozen in Time
- The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
- By: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
- Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Multi-century info
Reviewed: 08-15-24
Thoroughly enjoyed; a ton of research must have taken place, but conveyed in a nice storyline fashion well beyond just listing every found fact. Tough circumstances not understood by this airplane and satellite generation.
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Bayou Justice
- Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files
- By: HL Arledge
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Call them anything but closed cases. Who killed attorneys Margaret Coon and Donna Bahm? Why would someone butcher a 26-year-old bank teller? Did the mafia assassinate Senator Huey Long? What happened to the Grinch who stole shotguns? Louisiana's foremost expert on true-crime, and a thirty-year veteran investigative journalist, HL Arledge revisits those tantalizing questions, meeting the state's most colorful characters along the way. From voodoo practitioners, mobsters, and train robbers to cult leaders, psychopaths, and crooked politicians, Bayou Justice, Arledge's twice-weekly newspaper ...
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Podcast turned book?
- By Mike on 02-27-24
- Bayou Justice
- Southeast Louisiana Cold Case Files
- By: HL Arledge
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Podcast turned book?
Reviewed: 02-27-24
A lot of rapid-fire info. Good stories, not great. A good listen if you are looking for noise
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Erie Swamps
- Road Trip to Eden
- By: Connor Flynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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A Journey of Discovery from Lake Erie to the Florida Swamps. In Erie Swamps: Road Trip to Eden, author and researcher, Connor Flynn will take you on a voyage through time and space. His primary mission will hopefully lead him and his cohort to the Garden of Eden. He explores campfire stories, behemoth cryptids and urban legends that blanket the Lake Erie boulevard down to the Florida Swamps. On his quest for consciousness and hidden knowledge, he uncovers secrets of the modern world which bridge mankind to ancient times. So, light your lanterns and keep your head on a swivel as things are ...
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Gibberish
- By Mike on 02-13-24
- Erie Swamps
- Road Trip to Eden
- By: Connor Flynn
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Gibberish
Reviewed: 02-13-24
This is exactly what you'd expect to read in a high school essay from a drug addled brain. I kept listening until the end because I thought this must get better, it does not. Every sentence ping-pongs between mundane and lunacy.
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