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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

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Monday, December 25, 2006 through Friday, January 12, 2007. Read by Jim Fleming.

The author of Krakatoa brings the same sense of urgency and lasting impact to the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

(Harper Collins; ISBN-10: 0060571993)

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