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Young Al Capone
- The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925
- By: William Balsamo, John Balsamo
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Many people are familiar with the story of Al Capone, the legendary Chicago gangster best known for orchestrating the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But few are aware that Capone’s remarkable story began in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn, New York. Tutored by the likes of infamous mobsters Johnny Torrio and Frankie Yale, young Capone’s disquieting demeanor, combined with the “technical advice” he learned from these shady teachers, contributed to the molding of a brutal criminal....
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Exciting!
- By Zazafraz on 03-12-24
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Young Al Capone
- The Untold Story of Scarface in New York, 1899-1925
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 23-01-13
- Language: English
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Queen of Thieves
- The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
- By: J. North Conway
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Queen of Thieves is the gritty, fast-paced story of Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum, a poor Jewish woman who rose to the top of her profession in organized crime during the Gilded Age in New York City. During her more than twenty-five-year reign as the country’s top receiver of stolen goods, she accumulated great wealth and power inconceivable for women engaged in business, legitimate or otherwise.
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Really difficult
- By J. Rose on 30-08-21
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Queen of Thieves
- The True Story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-09-14
- Language: English
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
- The Instant New York Times Bestseller
- By: Alyson Stoner
- Narrated by: Alyson Stoner
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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This audiobook edition is read by the author. Actor-dancer Alyson Stoner's revelatory and incisive memoir – from family violence and betrayal, to eating disorders and religious trauma – may begin in Hollywood, but its chilling relatability will resonate with anyone navigating identity...
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Impactful
- By Megan Gallagher on 27-08-25
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Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything
- The Instant New York Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Alyson Stoner
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-08-25
- Language: English
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American Gangster and Other Tales of New York
- By: Mark Jacobson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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In the 1970s, Frank Lucas was the king of the Harlem drug trade, bringing in over a million dollars a day. He lived a glamorous life, hobnobbing with athletes, musicians, and politicians, but Lucas was a ruthless gangster. He was notorious for using the coffins of dead GIs to smuggle heroin into the United States, and, before being sentenced to 70 years in prison, he played a major role in the near death of New York City.
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Not a Frank lucas biography
- By Stephen on 25-02-08
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American Gangster and Other Tales of New York
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 11-10-07
- Language: English
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance48
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The Power Broker tells the story of Robert Moses, the single most powerful man in New York for almost half a century and the greatest builder America (and probably the world) has ever known. Without ever once being elected to office, he created for himself a position of supreme and untouchable authority, allowing him to utterly reshape the city of New York, turning it into the city we know today, while at the same time blighting the lives of millions and remaining accountable to no one.
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Amazing work with dull oratory
- By Alexander W on 18-01-25
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 09-01-25
- Language: English
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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- By: Alexander Nemerov
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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A National Book Critics Circle finalist One of Vogue's Best Books of the Year A dazzling biography of one of the twentieth century's most respected painters, Helen Frankenthaler, as she came of age as an artist in postwar New York “The magic of Alexander Nemerov's portrait of Helen...
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Not sure I learned so much
- By Optimistic fool on 19-02-23
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Fierce Poise
- Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
- Narrated by: Alison Fraser
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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The Five Families of New York
- 5 Books in 1: The Complete History of America's Notorious Mafia Organizations
- By: Mafia Library
- Narrated by: John Raynar, Lee Sterry, Daniel Winski, and others
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In "The Five Families of New York," Mafia Library presents a gripping account of the ascension and decline of New York's foremost crime syndicates, from the legendary Lucky Luciano to the notorious Paul Castellano and John Gotti, and beyond. Through vivid storytelling, the book chronicles the relentless assault waged against these five families over two decades, a campaign that stands as the most successful law enforcement effort of the last century.
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Too much repetition
- By Amazon Customer on 12-10-24
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The Five Families of New York
- 5 Books in 1: The Complete History of America's Notorious Mafia Organizations
- Narrated by: John Raynar, Lee Sterry, Daniel Winski, Colin Brown
- Series: The Five Families, Book 1-5
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-05-24
- Language: English
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Here Is New York
- By: E. B. White
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Performance31
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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".
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Poetic nostalgia
- By Amazon Customer on 16-10-22
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Here Is New York
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
- Release date: 21-04-16
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House
- Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Rolling Stone Best Music Books of the Year "Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans—it’s a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music.”—Town & Country "Riveting"—New York Post "A masterful achievement." —Booklist (starred review) On the...
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Comprehensive
- By Lord Emsworth on 20-10-25
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Burning Down the House
- Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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Punk Avenue
- Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
- By: Phil Marcade, Legs McNeil - Foreword, Debbie Harry
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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From backrooms of Max's and CBGB's to the Tropicana Hotel in Los Angeles and back, Punk Avenue is a tour de force of stories from someone at the heart of the era. With brilliant, often hilarious prose, Phil Marcade relays first-hand tales about spending a Provincetown summer with photographer Nan Goldin and actor-writer Cookie Mueller, having the Ramones play their very first gig at his party, working with Blondie's Debbie Harry on French lyrics for her songs, enjoying Thanksgiving with Johnny Thunders' mother, and starting the beloved NYC punk-blues band The Senders.
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Great NY punk story
- By amanda casley on 07-03-24
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Punk Avenue
- Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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I Heard Her Call My Name
- A New York Times Best Book of 2024
- By: Lucy Sante
- Narrated by: Lucy Sante
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Lucy Sante has often felt like an outsider. Born in Belgium to conservative Catholic working-class parents, she was transplanted to the United States without ever entirely settling here. But a feeling of home finally arrived when she moved to New York City in the early...
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I Heard Her Call My Name
- A New York Times Best Book of 2024
- Narrated by: Lucy Sante
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 21-03-24
- Language: English
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The Gangs of New York
- An Informal History of the Underworld
- By: Herbert Asbury
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Here are the stories of the great gangs that once terrorized New York City, from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans—here are the infamous gangsters, from the days of the murderous Five Points Gangs to the later underworld mobs led by Mose the Bowery Boy, Monk Eastman, Paul Kelly, Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood, and Owney Madden, and such feminine underworld luminaries as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat.
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The Gangs of New York
- An Informal History of the Underworld
- Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 09-04-24
- Language: English
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The Wide Wide Sea
- One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024
- By: Hampton Sides
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance162
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Brought to you by Penguin. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP-TEN BOOK OF 2024 A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, the epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, culminating in Captain James Cook's death On July 12th, 1776, Captain...
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Interesting and listenable
- By Sean on 16-04-26
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The Wide Wide Sea
- One of the New York Times Top Ten Books of 2024
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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True Crime
- 13 Shocking True Crime Cases from New York, Seattle & Pattaya
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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True Crime Extreme: The World's Most Ruthless Murderers in "True Crime: The World's Most Ruthless Murderers," Alexander Dragone flings wide the doors to a world of unimaginable cruelty and the darkest abysses of the human psyche. Renowned for his historical chronicles of the 20th century, Dragone breaks new ground with this global odyssey of horror.
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True Crime
- 13 Shocking True Crime Cases from New York, Seattle & Pattaya
- Narrated by: Patrick Kelly Shannon
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 21-04-26
- Language: English
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Frank O’Hara and MoMA
- New York Poet, Global Curator
- By: Matthew Holman
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New York and abroad. Upon his premature death, the New York Times obituary ran with the headline: 'Frank O'Hara, 40, Museum Curator / Exhibitions Aide at Modern Art Dies – Also a Poet'. However, in the half a century since, O'Hara's fascinating career as a curator has been eclipsed by the critical attention given over to his poetry.
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Frank O’Hara and MoMA
- New York Poet, Global Curator
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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9/11 Fire Dispatch Recordings
- By: New York City Fire Department
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Original Recording
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In August 2005, the New York City Fire Department released approximately 23 hours of radio dispatch audio recordings from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. This came after The New York Times, along with eight 9/11 families, sued to win public dissemination of the transmissions, as well as hundreds and hundreds of pages of transcribed oral histories.
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harrowing but eye-opening read
- By Gabrielle on 02-01-24
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9/11 Fire Dispatch Recordings
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 08-09-05
- Language: English
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Die grausamsten Mörder
- Die krassesten Fälle aus Karlsruhe, New York & Pattaya
- By: Alexander Dragone
- Narrated by: Ernst-Marcus Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In "True Crime - Die grausamsten Mörder" öffnet Alexander Dragone die Tür zu einer Welt unvorstellbarer Grausamkeit und psychologischer Abgründe. Bekannt für seine True Crime-Bücher, die nach Jahrzehnten geordnet die dunkle Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts beleuchten, schlägt Dragone diesmal einen neuen, globalen Pfad ein: Statt chronologischer Reihenfolge fasst er die abscheulichsten Serienmörder-Fälle aus aller Welt zusammen – von den eisigen Straßen Russlands über das Rotlichtviertel Pattayas bis hin zur neonbeleuchteten Metropole New York.
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Die grausamsten Mörder
- Die krassesten Fälle aus Karlsruhe, New York & Pattaya
- Narrated by: Ernst-Marcus Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-09-25
- Language: German
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The Mob and the City
- The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
- By: C. Alexander Hortis
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall154
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Performance138
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Forget what you think you know about the Mafia. After reading this book, even life-long mob aficionados will have a new perspective on organized crime. Informative, authoritative, and eye-opening, this is the first full-length book devoted exclusively to uncovering the hidden history of how the Mafia came to dominate organized crime in New York City during the 1930s through 1950s.
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A well narrated view on the American Mafia
- By Christopher on 20-03-15
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The Mob and the City
- The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 06-01-15
- Language: English
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Over P. J. Clarke's Bar
- Tales from New York City's Famous Saloon
- By: Helen Marie Clark
- Narrated by: Anne Brendle
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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How did a bar like P. J. Clarke’s saloon become the beloved watering hole for Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Rocky Marciano, and Buddy Holly (not to mention the fictional Don Draper)? And what was it about their bacon cheeseburger that caused Nat King Cole to pronounce it "the Cadillac of burgers"? Established in 1884 and bought in l904 by Patrick "Paddy" Joseph Clarke, this Irish saloon in a beautiful Victorian building on the corner of Third Avenue and 55th Street has captivated generations of New Yorkers.
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Over P. J. Clarke's Bar
- Tales from New York City's Famous Saloon
- Narrated by: Anne Brendle
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-02-13
- Language: English
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Crying in H Mart
- The No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir from indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast
- By: Michelle Zauner
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Read by the author, Michelle Zauner, lead vocalist of Japanese Breakfast. 'A story that is both beautiful and heartbreaking; it is as raw as it is precious. I bawled my eyes out, but I also loved it and I hope you do too.' – Dua Lipa From the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching...
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Beautiful story, boring and monotonous narrator.
- By Anonymous on 05-10-21
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Crying in H Mart
- The No. 1 New York Times bestselling memoir from indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast
- Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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