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Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
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3.93 avg rating — 42,901 ratings
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To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire
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4.41 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Firehouse
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4.09 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,911 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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The Children's Blizzard
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3.89 avg rating — 13,686 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
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4.01 avg rating — 5,232 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Wave of Destruction: The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami
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4.14 avg rating — 139 ratings
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After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship and Survival
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4.15 avg rating — 844 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster
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4.20 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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4.01 avg rating — 7,936 ratings
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
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4.27 avg rating — 73,313 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy
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3.95 avg rating — 2,885 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
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4.17 avg rating — 123,673 ratings
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Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918, The:: Tragedy Along the Indiana Lakeshore
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3.53 avg rating — 217 ratings
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The Eastland Disaster (Images of America: Illinois)
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4.19 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Sinking of the Eastland
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4.06 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors
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4.17 avg rating — 903 ratings
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How to Survive the Titanic: or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay
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3.48 avg rating — 865 ratings
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Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
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4.13 avg rating — 4,176 ratings
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Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple
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4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Slavery of Faith
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3.78 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Stories from Jonestown
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4.06 avg rating — 608 ratings
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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
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3.83 avg rating — 3,751 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Come into the Water: A Survivor's Story
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3.37 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Masters of Illusions: A Novel of the Connecticut Circus Fire
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3.54 avg rating — 59 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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No Compromise: The Life Story of Keith Green
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4.40 avg rating — 7,441 ratings
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rated it 2 stars
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
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4.40 avg rating — 67,576 ratings
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Chernobyl: The Ongoing Story of the World's Deadliest Nuclear Disaster
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3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Journey to Chernobyl: Encounters in a Radioactive Zone
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3.56 avg rating — 50 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Children of Chernobyl : Raising Hope from the Ashes
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2.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
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3.91 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why
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4.19 avg rating — 10,424 ratings
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
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4.04 avg rating — 305 ratings
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City of Scoundrels: The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago
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3.66 avg rating — 3,452 ratings
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The People of Three Mile Island
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Report from Ground Zero
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4.18 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
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4.24 avg rating — 44,399 ratings
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The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History
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4.36 avg rating — 745 ratings
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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4.31 avg rating — 13,524 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Closing The Gate
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3.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Rubble: The Search For A Haitian Boy
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3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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A Night to Remember
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4.10 avg rating — 31,124 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
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4.32 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 758,133 ratings
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The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,449 ratings
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
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3.62 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
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4.04 avg rating — 75,647 ratings
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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4.17 avg rating — 3,275 ratings
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Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival
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4.39 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
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3.89 avg rating — 633 ratings
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Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
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3.90 avg rating — 717 ratings
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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4.27 avg rating — 592,547 ratings
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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4.06 avg rating — 156,881 ratings
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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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4.12 avg rating — 120,890 ratings
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
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3.88 avg rating — 22,413 ratings
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The Johnstown Flood
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4.14 avg rating — 26,592 ratings
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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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3.98 avg rating — 9,794 ratings
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Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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3.93 avg rating — 14,920 ratings
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A Crack in the Edge of the World
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3.79 avg rating — 7,363 ratings
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Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America
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4.22 avg rating — 6,011 ratings
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Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West
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4.10 avg rating — 3,497 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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Haiti: After the Earthquake
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3.85 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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2:46: Aftershocks: Stories from the Japan Earthquake
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3.67 avg rating — 991 ratings
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Nothing, Nobody: The Voices Of the Mexico City Earthquake
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4.35 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Disaster! The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
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3.72 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster
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3.95 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Storm Warning: The Story of a Killer Tornado
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4.14 avg rating — 409 ratings
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And Hell Followed with It: Life and Death in a Kansas Tornado
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4.42 avg rating — 209 ratings
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The Great Chicago Fire
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3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Chicago Death Trap: The Iroquois Theatre Fire of 1903
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3.87 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Fields of Grace: Faith, Friendship, and the Day I Nearly Lost Everything
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4.02 avg rating — 314 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Wave
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3.80 avg rating — 23,713 ratings
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Great Chicago Fires: Historic Blazes That Shaped a City
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4.26 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Remembrances of the Angels: 50th Anniversary Reminiscences of the Fire No One Can Forget
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4.45 avg rating — 92 ratings
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rated it 4 stars
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The Fire That Will Not Die
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4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky
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3.49 avg rating — 646 ratings
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The Triangle Fire
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4.17 avg rating — 380 ratings
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The New York City Triangle Factory Fire
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4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings
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San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires
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3.59 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Strong in the rain: surviving Japan's earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear disaster
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3.82 avg rating — 206 ratings
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No Ordinary Heroes: 8 Doctors, 30 Nurses, 7,000 Prisoners, and a Category 5 Hurricane
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3.95 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 784,762 ratings
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Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History
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3.89 avg rating — 908 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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4.07 avg rating — 64,513 ratings
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Edge of The Triangle
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