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Title: Without Exception: Reclaiming Abortion, Personhood, and Freedom

Author: Pam Houston

Narrator: Pam Houston

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Release date: November 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Without Exception is an unflinching call for freedom by way of abortion rights. 'A story told with honesty. I thank Pam Houston for this timely and timeless book' —CAMILLE T. DUNGY, Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden Written with equal parts candor and lyricism, Pam Houston illuminates the interconnected histories of abortion in the United States and in her own life during the decades when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. Houston guides us through the shifting landscapes of politics, the law, and self-determination in a country where access to medical care and the power to determine your own destiny are increasingly—and once again—dependent on geography and circumstance.

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Title: Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul

Author: Auden Schendler

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Release date: November 25, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Something's gone badly awry with environmentalism. We faithfully separate our waste into different streams, but wonder whether it really makes a difference. Global companies announce their commitment to carbon negativity while simultaneously sponsoring oil conferences. American businesses, communities, and individuals assiduously measure their carbon footprints, then implement voluntary emissions-reduction programs, all while trumpeting their do-gooderism. The problem is, none of this—whether individual efforts or corporate sustainability tactics—will make a dent in solving the civilizational threat of climate change. We only pretend it will, at our peril. As Auden Schendler argues in this provocative, powerful book, we're living a big green lie. The hard truth is that much of the modern environmental road map could have been written by the fossil fuel industry specifically to avoid disrupting the status quo. But there is another truth: while ineffective or duplicitous environmentalism has become standard practice, we all have friends and family we love and care about, whose future depends on solving the problem of climate change. Conscience tells us we have an obligation to repair the world. How can our common dreams be so at odds with our daily practice? And how might we meld our spirit and our passion to create a better future?

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Title: My Life As A Yorkshire Vet

Author: Matt Jackson-Smith

Narrator: Matt Jackson-Smith, Peter Wright

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Release date: November 21, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

“Animals can be our greatest comfort or our absolute heartbreak when we lose them, but they never stop teaching us and helping us to be better.”Matt Jackson-Smith is a new generation Yorkshire vet; a dashing James Herriot for the modern age. From watching TV show The Yorkshire Vet with his gran, to being one of its most popular stars, Matt is forging an exciting life and career both on and off screen.In this fascinating, funny, engaging and honest memoir he opens his case book to reveal what life is really like as a Yorkshire vet in the 21st Century.Matt reveals his journey from the son of a rugby league superstar to one of TVs most popular animal experts. He talks about his childhood struggles with stuttering, his adventures at vet school, his veterinary career and his journey to stardom as one of the most popular professionals on Channel 5's hit show, The Yorkshire Vet.With stories from his childhood, his training and early career, through to his current success at work while starting a family of his own.This is a funny, touching and engaging snapshot of Matt's story so far – filled with anecdotes and heartwarming tales of life as a Yorkshire Vet and beyond.From dealing with exotic wildcats and crocs to dramatic emergency Caesarean sections on dairy cows – from open-shell operations on tortoises to looking after a care home's beloved budgie.

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Title: Know Your Dog's True Nature: Understanding Canine Personality through the Five Elements

Author: Elizabeth Anne Johnson

Narrator: Aura Paige

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

• Looks at each dog element archetype individually, exploring their personality strengths and weaknesses, emotional defaults, how they react under stress, what makes them happy, and their potential physical ailments and conditions • Offers holistic practices to help support each elemental dog type at any stage of life, including diagrams of acupressure points that can help • Includes element archetype quizzes to determine your dog’s type as well as your own DO YOU EVER WONDER why your canine friend behaves the way they do? With sensitivity and skill, master animal healer Elizabeth Anne Johnson takes you into the body, mind, and heart of the dog—sharing intimate stories of working dogs who are changing the world, rescue dogs who change us, old dogs offering profound wisdom, and humans making the world a better place. Introducing the five element archetypes of the Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water Dog, Know Your Dog’s True Nature illuminates practical ways to gain insigh into the unique personalities of your animal companion. As you explore the similarities and dynamics between dog and human, you’ll come to appreciate the mutually supportive structures and richness in your relationships, an understanding that helps to create a peaceful and happy home environment for all. In this guide you will find: • five element archetype quizzes for both dogs and humans • a fresh perspective on a dog’s elemental stressors, behaviors, wants, and needs • easy acupressure techniques for balancing each element • a unique lens on old dogs and rescue dogs • supportive lifestyle measures and life lessons from the other end of the leash Elizabeth’s stories and adventures from a lifetime of animal healing and many dog partners will tickle your heart, mind, and empathy, and create a safe and sacred container for your own trek with your beloved companion.

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Title: Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future

Author: James Morton Turner

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize Finalist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize Gold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, Sustainability To achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines, and revitalizing the electric grid, batteries are essential to scaling up the renewable energy resources that help address global warming. But given the unique environmental impact of batteries—including mining, disposal, and more—does a clean energy transition risk trading one set of problems for another? In Charged, James Morton Turner unpacks the history of batteries to explore why solving 'the battery problem' is critical to a clean energy transition. As climate activists focus on what a clean energy future will create the history of batteries offers a sharp reminder of what building that future will consume. With new insight on the consequences for people and communities on the front lines, Turner draws on the past for crucial lessons that will help us build a just and clean energy future, from the ground up.

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Title: The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall

Author: Monika Maeckle

Narrator: Kate Coventry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. The monarch migration is a demonstration of nature's ingenuity, but the delicate creatures face many perils, and the number of migrating monarchs is declining sharply. This book weaves natural history, science, and personal experience to explore the rise and fall of one of nature's most spectacular phenomena. While monarch butterflies have been migrating for centuries, they seized public attention in 1976 when a National Geographic magazine cover story featured the 'discovery' of their roosting sites in Mexico. The revelations put a spotlight on the insects and inspired the creation of butterfly sanctuaries in Mexico as well as efforts to protect them. Almost forty years later, many believe that monarch butterflies are in danger of extinction. Journalist and butterfly advocate Monika Maeckle delves into the rich history and current plight of the monarch butterfly. Maeckle offers unique insights on the butterflies as well as a nuanced portrait of the community of scientists, enthusiasts, and 'flutterati' who have emerged to support the monarchs. The Monarch Butterfly Migration focuses a wider lens on the effects of climate change and the tensions between advocacy and scientific accuracy. This book reminds us to notice the natural wonders in our own backyards.

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Title: Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation

Author: Hugh Warwick

Narrator: Hugh Warwick

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Across the world, invasive species pose a danger to ecosystems. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity ranks them as a major threat to biodiversity on par with habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Tackling this isn't easy, and no one knows this better than Hugh Warwick, a conservationist who loathes the idea of killing, harming, or even eating animals. Yet as an ecologist, he is acutely aware of the need, at times, to kill invasive species whose presence harms the wider environment. Hugh explores the complex history of species control, revealing the global movement of species and the impacts of their presence. Combining scientific theory with gentle humor in his signature style, he explains the issues conservationists face to control non-native animals and protect native species—including grey and red squirrels on Anglesey, ravens and tortoises in the Mojave Desert, cane toads in Australia, and the smooth-billed ani on the Galapagos—and describes cases like Pablo Escobar's cocaine hippos and the Burmese python pet trade. Taking a balanced and open approach to this emotive subject, Hugh speaks to experts on all sides of the debate. How do we protect endangered native species? Which species do we prioritize? And how do we reckon with the ethics of killing anything in the name of conservation?

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Title: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

Author: Erin Sharkey

Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere. Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker's 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on with wide-ranging contributions unearthing evidence of the ways Black people's relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, violence, and structurally racist policies. A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt—a work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment—A Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.

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Title: HOOF BEATS: How Horses Shaped Human History

Author: William T. Taylor

Narrator: Tristan Morris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Journey to the ancient past with cutting-edge science and new data to discover how horses forever altered the course of human history. From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous events in the story of humans and horses helped create the world we live in today. Tracing the horse's origins and spread from the western Eurasian steppes to the invention of horse-drawn transportation and the explosive shift to mounted riding, Taylor offers a revolutionary new account of how horses altered the course of human history. Drawing on Indigenous perspectives, ancient DNA, and new research from Mongolia to the Great Plains and beyond, Taylor guides listeners through the major discoveries that have placed the horse at the origins of globalization, trade, biological exchange, and social inequality. Hoof Beats transforms our understanding of both horses and humanity's ancient past and asks us to consider what our relationship with horses means for the future of humanity and the world around us.

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Title: The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance

Author: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrator: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Release date: November 19, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community As indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry’s relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution ensures its own survival. The Serviceberry is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that “hoarding won’t save us, all flourishing is mutual.” © Robin Wall Kimmerer 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024