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The Soul of A Dolphin
By: Brenda Peterson
Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
If you have an animal so advanced that being around them creates a kind of bliss in us, instead of enslaving that animal, why not just borrow their beautiful, free sounds? Brenda Peterson is a gifted nature writer who has spent her life observing and interacting with animals in profound ways. Read more
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Coal
By: Barbara Freese
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock has altered the course of history. Prized as "the best stone in Britain" by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, powered navies, fueled economies, and expanded frontiers. It made China a twelfth-century superpower, inspired the writing of... Read more
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Living Organic
By: Nell Newman
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
From food for pets to investment alternatives, Newman describes how simple choices lead to big results.ย "Supporting sustainable agriculture, supporting family farms, and being able to donate the profits to charity are all extremely gratifying."ย We all can share in the gratification by following Newman's lead. Read more
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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Abridged
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
One of the worldโs most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to... Read more
The Seashell on the Mountaintop
By: Alan Cutler
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
How could a seashell get into a rock? And how could that rock get to the top of a mountain? The "seashell question" plagues 17th century thinkers who fervently believed the planet was young and the human race supreme. Read more
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The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur
By: Richard Wilbur
Narrated by: Richard Wilbur
Length: 1 hour 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A remarkable series of audiobooks, featuring distinguished twentieth-century American poets reading from their own work. A first in audiobook publishing--a series that uses the written word to enhance the listening experience--poetry to be read as well as heard. Each audiobook includes rare archival recordings and a book with the text of the... Read more
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Every Living Thing
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.
Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki... Read more
All Things Bright and Beautiful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
The basis for the PBS Masterpiece series and the second volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series.
Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the fifty years since his animal stories were first introduced to the world.
All Things Bright and Beautiful is the beloved sequel to... Read more
All Creatures Great and Small
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic multimillion copy bestseller
Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients.
When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year,... Read more
The Lord God Made Them All
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Now available as an audio book for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the bestselling sequel to All Things Wise and Wonderful and the fourth volume in James Herriot's classic collections of animal stories--the basis for the PBS Masterpiece television series, All Creatures Great and Small.
In this repackaged volume, after serving in the... Read more
All Things Wise and Wonderful
By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Christopher Timothy
Length: 15 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Readers adore James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom, and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece drama.
In the midst of World War II, James is training... Read more
An Ethiopian Heroine's Story
By: Bogaletch Gebre
Narrated by: Neil Harvey
Length: 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this program, Gebre tells the story of her heroic journey from behind the patrician to a Fulbright scholarship, to a triumphant return home to Ethiopia where the lives of girls and women will never be the same. Read more
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Last Train to Paradise - Abridged
By: Les Standiford
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroadโone of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit U.S. shores.
In 1904, the brilliant and driven entrepreneur Henry Flagler, partner to John D.... Read more
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Abridged
By: Josh Smith & William Nothdurft
Narrated by: Michael C. Hall
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach, hopes to find fossil... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-04: Greening Medicine: The Mainstreaming of Herbs
By: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Herbalism has finally broken through into mainstream medicine. Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, a physician/herbalist is a pioneer of this new paradigm. She questions modern medicine while practicing it, and emphasizes the special relationship that exists between plants and humans, presenting exciting evidence that validates the traditional use of... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-03: Light At The Edge of The World: Reinventing The Poetry of Diversity
By: Wade Davis
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Author/ethnobotanist/anthropologist Wade Davis has been from Borneo to Tibet to Haiti, from the high Arctic to the Andes and Amazon as an explorer of our planetโs wondrous cultural and biological diversity. He has found a fire burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures, languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-09: Plants and People: Who's Cultivating Whom?
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Award-winning journalist for the New York Times Magazine, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World, takes a fresh perspective on the co-evolution of people and plants. Was the development of agriculture a human triumph or might it have been the great domestication of the human by the grasses? Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-07: Less Is More : Toward A Zero Discharge Industry
By: Diane Wilson & Jack Matson
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
How about creating an industry that emits no poisons into the environment? Direct action eco-heroine Diane Wilson has used civil disobedience to fight such chemical giants as Union Carbide and DuPont. She tried to sink her shrimp boat on a Formosa Plastics toxic effluent pipe and won a zero discharge agreement. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-01: The Duh Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry
By: Carolyn Raffensperger & Sharyle Patton
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Look before you leap. Better safe than sorry. These simple mottos express the heart of the precautionary principle, which acts as a lens for scientific choices, an insurance policy against our own ignorance. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-02: Energy Security: the Growth of Soft Energy
By: Hunter Lovins & David Katz
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The recent energy crisis in California triggered the worst reflexes of many business and political leaders who clamored for more fossil-fuel power plants and fewer environmental limits. With the September 11th attacks has come the increased recognition that how we make and distribute energy is nearly impossible to protect. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-06: Actual Perils Of Genetically Modified Organisms
By: Elaine Ingham, Michael Pollan & Peter Montague
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Master soil scientist Elaine Ingham describes a genetically modified organism she discovered in her screening work that, if released, could have devastated global plant life. Writer Michael Pollan probes issues from food safety to the evolutionary significance of the power to genetically modify life, and Peter Montague reports on grassroots... Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-08: Daughters of Thoreau: Not Too Well Behaved
By: Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson & Terri Swea...
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
On his deathbed, Henry David Thoreau said his only regret was that he had been too well behaved. Julia Butterfly Hill, Diane Wilson, and Terri Swearingen, three of the most imaginative, inspiring and courageous direct-action heroines of our era share their experiences and show us how courage and commitment can stop mountains from being moved. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-13: Nature and Spirit: It's All Connected
By: Michael Lerner, Matthew Fox & Joanna Macy, Ph.D.
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Global healing requires a spiritual transformation of every aspect of life. Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun Magazine, author/educator Matthew Fox and Joanna Macy, eco-philosopher and scholar of Buddhism speak of the profound interconnectedness of all life and the experience of joy, courage and community we need to engage in the healing of the world. Read more
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Bioneers Series 3-05: Soil And Soul the Future of Farming
By: Michael Ableman & Joel Salatin
Narrated by: Michael Toms
Length: 29 minutes
Abridged: No
What are the hidden costs of agribusiness, with its chemical-dependent megafarms? Poor nutrition is one cost, and physical and mental illness, connected to poor nutrition, are on the rise in the United States. Read more
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