Environment & Nature audiobooks

It's Raining

By: Nadia Higgins

Narrated by: Robert Rance

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Splat! Splatter! Plop! It’s raining! Bring the weather indoors with this brightly illustrated series. Easy-to-read text explains the types of rain, how rain forms, and how scientists track it. Diagrams, rain facts, and a glossary provide additional information for use in classrooms. A perfect suppliment to your library's weather... Read more

It's a Thunderstorm

By: Nadia Higgins

Narrated by: Robert Rance

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

CRACK-BOOM-ba-boom-boom! It’s a thunderstorm! Bring the weather indoors with this brightly illustrated series. Easy-to-read text explains the how thunderstorms form, what causes thunder and lightning, and how scientists track thunderstorms. Diagrams, thunderstorm facts, and a glossary provide additional information for use in classrooms. A... Read more

The Last American Man - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unforgettable look at a truly pioneering, but thoroughly modern, American hero.Finalist for the National Book Award 2002In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his... Read more

Storms of My Grandchildren

By: James Hansen

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Storms of My Grandchildren, James Hansen—the nation's leading scientist on climate issues—speaks out for the first time with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling even more rapidly than previously acknowledged to a climatic point of no return. Although Hansen was Al Gore's science adviser for the 2006 documentary An... Read more

Animal Magnetism

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Mae Brown's first memory is the sound of a deep, rumbling purr. From the cat that slept in her cradle to the horses, hounds, cats, and chickens who live on her Virginia farm today, Brown has always been surrounded by animals.



Listeners will meet Mickey, a long-haired tiger cat who joined Rita Mae on childhood exploits; Franklin, her... Read more

Green Metropolis

By: David Owen

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares—as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, David Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water than other Americans. They live in smaller spaces, discard less trash, and, most important of all,... Read more

Now or Never

By: Tim Flannery

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Now or Never, internationally acclaimed author Tim Flannery has written a book that is at once a forceful call to action to combat global warming and a deeply and often surprisingly pragmatic road map toward sustainability.



Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Flannery examines the environmental challenges we face and their... Read more

Our Choice

By: Al Gore

Narrated by: John Slattery & Linda Emond

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Our Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore’s forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates... Read more

The Beach

By: Lena Lenček & Gideon Bosker

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Here for the first time is the full story of the seashore: its natural and social history, spectacles, and scandals. The turquoise surf and sugary sand of the beach make it a favorite retreat today, but this wasn’t always so. The oceans of antiquity engendered contradictory feelings. Greek and Roman myths filled it with bellicose monsters and... Read more

My River Chronicles

By: Jessica DuLong

Narrated by: Jessica Dulong

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2001, journalist Jessica DuLong ditched her dot-com desk job for the diesel engines of a rusty antique fireboat, the John J. Harvey, and the storied waters of the Hudson. My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson tells the story of this mechanic's daughter and Stanford graduate who had left her blue-collar upbringing behind... Read more

Under the Sea Wind

By: Rachel L. Carson

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The special mystery and beauty of the sea is the setting for Rachel Carson’s memorable portrait of the sea birds and sea creatures that inhabit the eastern coasts of North America. In a sequence of riveting adventures along the shore, within the open sea, and down in the twilight depths, Rachel Carson introduces us to the winds and currents of... Read more

Dawn Light

By: Diane Ackerman

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In an eye-opening sequence of personal meditations through the cycle of seasons, Diane Ackerman awakens us to the world at dawn—drawing on sources as diverse as meteorology, world religion, etymology, art history, poetry, organic farming, and beekeeping. As a patient and learned observer of animal and human physiology and behavior, she... Read more

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region

By: Lillian Q. Stokes, Donald Stokes & Lang Elliot

Narrated by: Lang Elliot

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Western Region offers you the very best sound recordings available for the birds of western North America. It includes more species, more time per species, and more sounds per species than any other audio guide to Western bird songs. In addition, the recordings are accompanied by an informative pdf booklet... Read more

Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs: Eastern Region

By: Lillian Q. Stokes, Donald Stokes & Lang Elliot

Narrated by: Lang Elliot

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time ever, Eastern and Western Bird Song audio guides from the famed team of Donald and Lillian Stokes will be available in one comprehensive box set with new premium packaging. An incredible 923 species from all of North America are included in this marvelous audio companion to the bestselling Stokes Field Guides. Bonus... Read more

Exploring Nature's Wildness In The City

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in the midst of a city we can rediscover our connection with the natural world. Haupt reminds us that “we’re intimately involved in the more-than-human world at every moment.” This author of Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness delights us with fascinating stories of crows and more. Read more

Hope for Animals and Their World

By: Jane Goodall

Narrated by: Jane Goodall

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes an inspiring message about the future of the animal kingdom.



With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall - along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard - shares fascinating... Read more

Spontaneous Remission For A Terminally Ill Planet

By: Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. & Steve Bhaerman

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it appears, the news about climate change is worse, as is the precarious balance of global politics. When it seems we are bent on destruction Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman see our dire state as evidence of an evolutionary shift, as profound as the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Read more

Rescue Ink

By: Rescue Ink

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the true story of ten tough and tattooed bikers who rescue animals in danger while spreading the message that “Abusers Are Losers.”When Joe Panz, Johnny O, Batso, Big Ant, G, Angel, Des, and Eric initially met at tattoo and motorcycle conventions, they soon learned that they shared another passion: animals. Each had been rescuing... Read more

Confessions of a Radical Industrialist

By: Ray C. Anderson

Narrated by: Ray C. Anderson

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest.” The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse... Read more

The National Parks

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this... Read more

The National Parks - Abridged

By: Dayton Duncan & Ken Burns

Narrated by: Ken Burns

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

America’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. In this... Read more

No Impact Man

By: Colin Beavan

Narrated by: Colin Beavan

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year—while still living in New York City—to see if it's possible to make no net impact on the environment.

In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes... Read more

A Healing Alliance With Animals & The Earth

By: Deena Metzger

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, storyteller, and healer Deena Metzger has lived for more than four decades in alliance with the earth and its creatures. She has learned how to listen to what they have to say, and to heed the signs and teachings they offer. Read more

Winter World

By: Bernd Heinrich

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, most animals are adapted to an amazing range of conditions. In Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival, biologist, illustrator, and award-winning author Bernd... Read more