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Braiding Sweetgrass
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more
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Why Fish Don't Exist
By: Lulu Miller
Narrated by: Lulu Miller
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian
A āremarkableā (Los Angeles Times), āseductiveā (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Donāt Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, andāpossiblyāeven murder.ā
āAt one point, Miller dives into the... Read more
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club ā¢ With a foreword by David Allen Sibley
āUnexpected and spectacularā āAnn Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days
"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more
The Soul of an Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
In this astonishing book from the author of the best selling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopusāa surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creatureāand the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Read more
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The Light Eaters
By: Zoƫ Schlanger
Narrated by: Zoƫ Schlanger
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER āA masterpiece of science writing.ā āRobin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding SweetgrassāMesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful.ā āEd Yong, author of An Immense WorldāRich, vital, and full of surprises. Read it!āĀ āElizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky and The Sixth ExtinctionĀ āA brilliant... Read more
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An Immense World
By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢Ā A āthrillingā (The New York Times), ādazzlingā (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prizeāwinning science journalist Ed Yong
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āOne of this yearās finest works of narrative... Read more
The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.Ā
The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder
By: Julia Zarankin
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
When Julia Zarankin saw her first red-winged blackbird at the age of thirty-five, she didnāt expect that it would change her life. Recently divorced and auditioning hobbies during a stressful career transition, she stumbled into birdwatching, initially out of curiosity for the strange breed of humans who wear multi-pocketed vests, carry spotting... Read more
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Entangled Life
By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢Ā A ābrilliant [and] entrancingā (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungiāthe great connectors of the living worldāand their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
āGrand and dizzying in... Read more
Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
Narrated by: Hope Jahren
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
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Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which sheās studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... Read more
Gathering Moss
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more
All We Can Save
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
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There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more
The Trials of Life
By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
The third and final updated edition of David Attenboroughās classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. āThis is, quite simply, the best thing Iāve ever done.ā Sir David Attenborough on... Read more
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Fire Weather
By: John Vaillant
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changingĀ relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The GoldenĀ Spruce
āRiveting, spellbinding, astounding on every pageā¦Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.ā āDavid... Read more
Do You Believe in Fairies?
By: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Narrated by: Ashley Anne Strobridge
Length: 51 minutes
Abridged: No
This is an audio journey through a collection of original Nature photography paired with original poetry & prose. Within you'll find lyrical audio descriptions of photos spanning the landscapes of my home state of Vermont, as well as a curated selection of photos from Virginia. This art is paired with whimsical & impactful poetry in... Read more
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping andĀ revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.""Ā ā Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earthās most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planetās great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more
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Finding the Mother Tree
By: Suzanne Simard
Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER ā¢ From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forestāa moving, deeply personal journey of discovery
āFinding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The... Read more
The Worst Hard Time
By: Timothy Egan
Narrated by: Jacob York
Length: 12 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Eganās National Book Awardāwinning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows.
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The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following a dozen families and their communities through... Read more
A Book of Bees
By: Sue Hubbell
Narrated by: Lauren DePorre
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her beesā lives, Sue Hubbell lovingly describes the ins and outs of beekeeping on her small Missouri farm, where the end of one honey season is the start of the next. With three hundred hives, Hubbell stays busy year-round tending to the bees and harvesting their honey, a process that is as personally... Read more
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All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**
"Nicholas Ralphās readings of Herriotās stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." āThe Houston Chronicle
A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.
All Creatures Great and... Read more
A Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in Americaāmajestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If youāre going to take a hike, itās probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide youāll find. He introduces us to the history and... Read more
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Saving Time
By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ āThe visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ātime is money.ā . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.āāEsquire
āOne of the most important books Iāve read in my life.āāEd Yong, author of An Immense World
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harperās Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... Read more
The Mushroom at the End of the World
By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the worldāand a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions,... Read more
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The Orchid Thief
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Jennifer Jay Myers
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested... Read more