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Spying on Whales
By: Nick Pyenson
Narrated by: Nick Pyenson
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature
Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present.
Whales are... Read more
The Man Who Caught the Storm
By: Brantley Hargrove
Narrated by: Jacques Roy
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last... Read more
Spineless
By: Juli Berwald
Narrated by: Juli Berwald
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk
"Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review
Jellyfish have been swimming... Read more
American Wolf
By: Nate Blakeslee
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more
The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
Narrated by: Kate Zambreno
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“ —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss
In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more
California Burning
By: Katherine Blunt
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)
A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more
The Bald Eagle
By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious... Read more
Botanical Curses and Poisons
By: Fez Inkwright
Narrated by: Leslie Howard
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the folklore and history of our most toxic plants.
"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."—Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
In both history and fiction, some of the most dramatic, notorious deaths have been through poisonings. Concealed and deliberate, it's a... Read more
Seed to Dust
By: Marc Hamer
Narrated by: Owen Teale
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk
A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)
"With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed... Read more
Oak Flat
By: Lauren Redniss
Narrated by: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, Ki...
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the... Read more
Mill Town
By: Kerri Arsenault
Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity." -- AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill... Read more
Fathoms
By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about... Read more
The Death of Sitting Bear
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer Prize winner and celebrated American master N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American tradition.
“The poems in this book reflect my deep respect for and appreciation of words. . . . I believe that poetry is the highest form of verbal expression. Although I have... Read more
A Terrible Thing to Waste
By: Harriet A. Washington
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A "powerful and indispensable" look at the devastating consequences of environmental racism (Gerald Markowitz) -- and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities.
Did you know...
Middle-class African American households with incomes between $50,000 and $60,000 live in neighborhoods that are more polluted than those of... Read more
Late Migrations
By: Margaret Renkl
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a family―and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world―from beloved New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl.Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and... Read more
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The Last Whalers
By: Doug Bock Clark
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner... Read more
What the Eyes Don't See
By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
Narrated by: Mona Hanna-Attisha
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.
“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times
“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.” —O: The... Read more
Mozart's Starling
By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Narrated by: Linda Henning
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
On May 27th, 1784, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met a flirtatious little starling in a Viennese shop who sang an improvised version of the theme from his Piano Concerto no. 17 in G major. Sensing a kindred spirit in the plucky young bird, Mozart bought him and took him home to be a family pet. For three years, the starling lived with Mozart,... Read more
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Animal Madness
By: Laurel Braitman
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
**“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick**
**Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**People magazine Best Summer Reads**
“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).
Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How... Read more
Climate, Psychology, and Change
By: Steffi Bednarek
Narrated by: Elena Rey
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth?
“As these intriguing essays make clear, some of the finest minds in the world are thinking through the problems and arriving at powerful answers."
—Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, educator, activist, and founder of... Read more
Watershed
By: Davy Murrah
Narrated by: John McLain
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The Pasagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the continuous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, the river has been left to rise and fall naturally with the seasons, overflowing annually into the adjoining bottomland surrounded by some of the most ecologically diverse woodlands, in North America.
Herman Murrah... Read more
The Language Puzzle
By: Steven Mithen
Narrated by: Kerry Hutchinson
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A top scholar reveals the most complete picture to date of how early human speech led to the languages we use today
The invention of language began with the apelike calls of our earliest ancestors. Today, the world is home to thousands of complex languages. Yet exactly how, when, and why this evolution occurred has been one of the most... Read more
Adventures in Volcanoland
By: Tamsin Mather
Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A mix of memoir, travel and popular science, charting journeys across deserts, through jungles and up ice caps, to some of the most important volcanoes around the world
In this captivating book from one of the most influential geochemists in the field, Tamsin Mather takes us along on her globe-spanning excursions from Nicaragua to Hawaii,... Read more
No Walk in the Park
By: Michael Engelhard
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In the footsteps of Desert Solitaire, these essays by an award-winning writer and student of culture sift decades of experience backpacking and boating for a stance that questions the mainstream. More than mere tales of bravado, they offer glimpses into the heart of the places explored, with the Grand Canyon as their center of gravity. Vivid,... Read more
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