Sounds of Springs

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“I don’t know how I could ever look at trees the same way again after reading this book. Wohlleben writes with such warmth, sincerity, and enthusiasm, and it makes what would usually be a slow read for me a wonder, transportive. I feel like I live in a different world after finishing this - one with more wonder, mystery, and magic. I was hoping... Read more

Living Planet

The Web of Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single... Read more

The Lie of the Land

Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

By: Guy Shrubsole
Narrated by: Guy Shrubsole
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

*A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS* 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'It couldn't be more relevant' JAMES O'BRIEN 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ... Read more

Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

By: John Philip Newell
Narrated by: Angus King
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spirituality—listening to the sacred around us and inside of us—can help us heal the earth, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect with ourselves.

John Philip Newell shares the long, hidden tradition of Celtic Christianity, explaining how this earth-based spirituality can help us rediscover the... Read more

Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

“This book does a great job of introducing you to the wonders of fungi. You learn a lot of info but it’s not written in a way that’s too scientific or textbook. The info is told alongside personal stories about the author’s own research journey. This book left me thoroughly amazed! The author Merlin Sheldrake also does a great job as the... Read more

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (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 Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong

“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... Read more

The Climate Book

The Facts and the Solutions

By: Greta Thunberg
Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan & Olivia Forrest
Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before... Read more

What If We Get It Right?

Visions of Climate Futures

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson & Steve Connell
Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

“An excellent book about various aspects of climate change: scientific, social, political. Author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson recorded all of her interviews, so each one is in the interviewee’s own voice. I learned a lot about the work different activists are doing around climate! Johnson also shares actionable advice to help the reader learn what... Read more

On Fire

The Case for the Green New Deal

By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New Deal in this “keenly argued, well-researched, and impassioned” manifesto (The Washington Post).

An instant bestseller, On Fire shows Klein at her most prophetic and philosophical, investigating the climate crisis not only as a profound political... Read more

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“A Native American botanist shares indigenous wisdom and scientific facts blended with her own narrative. A beautiful way to learn what the earth has to tell us, and the narration is sublime. Read more

Rooted

Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

By: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Narrated by: Christine Williams
Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

This inspiring meditation on the intersection of science, nature, and spirit shows readers how to deepen their connection to the natural world.

In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected.... Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT—a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide—on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the... Read more

How to Read Nature

An Expert's Guide to Discovering the Outdoors You've Never Noticed

By: Tristan Gooley
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides to shut down their senses and stumble through each day in an oblivious bubble, and yet some people end up having much richer experiences than others. In this guidebook, natural navigator Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature. His... Read more

The Intersectional Environmentalist

How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas
Narrated by: Leah Thomas, Hayden Bishop & Erin Walker
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“Acclaimed environmental activist Leah Thomas has put together an expert and necessary introduction into the ways climate change has most aggressively impacted marginalized communities while simultaneously pinpointing the ways those same voices have historically been ignored within environmentalism movements. The Intersectional Environmentalist... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... Read more

Good Soil

The Education of an Accidental Farmhand

By: Jeff Chu
Narrated by: Jeff Chu
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

“Discontented with his life as a journalist in New York City, Jeff Chu found himself drawn to theology and ended up at Princeton Theological Seminary “Farminary,” a working farm where tending the land provides the opportunity to tend to one’s spirit. In his beautiful new book, Chu spans the seasons and shares the fears, growth, and questions of... Read more

The Nature of Oaks

The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy
Narrated by: Adam Barr
Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Discover the complex and fascinating inner world of the mighty oak tree with this engaging nature book!

The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect and store hundreds of acorns for sustenance to the beauty of jewel caterpillars,... Read more