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Title: The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Minds, Brains and Bodies

Author: Clayton Aldern

Narrator: Clayton Aldern

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Release date: April 9, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. A troubling and humane account of how climate breakdown is rewriting our bodies' biology The climate crisis is wreaking havoc across the globe, raising sea levels, disrupting ancient weather patterns and decimating biodiversity worldwide. But new research shows that the warming climate is not just affecting the planet's physical systems - it is affecting us all individually too. In The Weight of Nature, the neuroscientist and journalist Clayton Page Aldern examines, for the first time, the seismic consequences of climate change on the human mind, brain and body. The now-familiar concept of climate anxiety, he shows us, is just the tip of the iceberg: a revolution is taking place in the deepest recesses of our neurochemistry. The rapidly changing environment is directly intervening in our brain health, behaviour, cognition and decision-making in real time, affecting everything from aggravated assault and online hate speech to productivity and the global dementia epidemic. Travelling the world to meet the scientists, economists and psychologists unravelling the tangled connections between us and our environment, and reporting the stories of those who are already feeling these shifts most keenly, Aldern explores how a weary world is wearing on us. It soon becomes apparent that, as climate change forces the seas and ice and heat index to their extremes, the extremities reach back. Lucid, challenging and at times deeply moving, The Weight of Nature is a revelation, bringing to light the myriad ways in which the natural world tugs and prods at the decisions you make; how it twists and folds your memories and mental states; how this nebulous everywhere we call the environment is changing our very humanity from the inside out. ©2024 Clayton Aldern (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Title: Twelve Sheep: Life Lessons from a Lambing Season

Author: John Connell

Narrator: John Connell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Release date: April 4, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring. The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment. After years of hard work, John felt a deep tiredness creeping up on him, a sadness that he couldn't shrug off. Having always sought spiritual guidance, he comes to realise that, in addition to the soothing words of literature and philosophy, perhaps the way ahead involves this simple flock of sheep. In the hard work of livestock rearing, in the long nights in the shed helping the sheep to lamb, he can reflect on what life truly means. Like the flock that he shepherds, this book is both simple and profound, a meditation on the rituals of farming life and a primer on the lessons that nature can teach us. As spring returns and the sheep and their lambs are released into the fields, skipping with joy, John recalls the words of Henry David Thoreau, reminding us to 'live in each season as it passes.'

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Title: We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

Author: Lydia Millet

Narrator: Xe Sands

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Release date: April 2, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Acclaimed novelist Lydia Millet’s first work of nonfiction is a genre-defying tour de force that makes an impassioned argument for people to see their emotional and spiritual lives as infinitely dependent on the lives of nonhuman beings. Drawing on a quarter-century of experience as an advocate for endangered species at the Center for Biological Diversity, Millet offers intimate portraits of what she calls “the others”—the extraordinary animals with whom we still share the world, along with those already lost. Humans, too, fill this book, as Millet touches on the lives of her world-traveling parents, fascinating partners and friends, and colorful relatives, from diplomats to nut farmers—all figures in the complex tapestry each of us weaves with the surrounding world. Written in the tradition of Annie Dillard or Robert Macfarlane, We Loved It All is an incantatory work that will appeal to anyone concerned about the future of life on earth—including our own.

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Title: Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small Town America

Author: Jonathan Vigliotti

Narrator: Jonathan Vigliotti

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 2, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

This “stunning call to action to save ourselves and all life on the planet” (Booklist), in the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us, effortlessly demonstrates how climate change is affecting America right now. Discussion of the climate crisis has always suffered from a problem of abstraction. Data points and warnings of an overheated future struggle to break through the noise of everyday life. Deniers often portray climate solutions as inconvenient, expensive, and unnecessary. And many politicians, cloistered by status and focused always on their next election, do not yet see climate as a winning issue in the short run. But climate change is here whether we want to pay attention or not. CBS News national correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti has personally witnessed that crisis unfold, spending nearly two decades reporting across the United States (and the world) documenting the people, communities, landmarks, and traditions we’ve already surrendered. Vigliotti shares with urgency and personal touch the story of an America on the brink. This “page-turning tour de force” (Steve Brusatte, New York Times bestselling author) traces Vigliotti’s travels across the country, taking him to the frontlines of climate disaster and revealing the genuine impacts of climate change that countless Americans have already been forced to confront. From massive forest fires in California to hurricanes in Louisiana, receding coastlines in Massachusetts and devastated fisheries in Alaska, we learn that warnings of a future impacted by climate are no more; the climate catastrophe is already here.

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Title: [German] - Alle hören auf »Daffy«, nur Daffy nicht:: Abenteuer Blindenführhündin

Author: Jennifer Mai

Narrator: Jennifer Mai

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Alle hören auf »Daffy«, nur Daffy nicht: Abenteuer Blindenführhündin - von Jennifer Mai, gesprochen von der Autorin. Alle hören auf »Daffy«, nur Daffy nicht. Vor allem wenn die ansonsten so zuverlässige Blindenführhündin gerade etwas Schmackhaftes im Freilauf entdeckt hat, kostet dies Jenny, ihrer Arbeitgeberin, viel Geduld. Die hohen Erwartungen der Passanten sind bald noch schlimmer als Daffys Dickkopf. Denn die Leute vergessen eines nur allzu gern: Ein Blindenführhund macht einen verantwortungsvollen Job, allerdings ist und bleibt er immer noch ein Tier. Die Autorin legt es nicht darauf an, einen Ratgeber zu schreiben, sich durch wohlklingende Worte wichtig zu machen, sie schreibt einfach offen und ehrlich, immer auch mit einer guten Portion Humor und Selbstironie. Die Geschichten zeigen den Alltag mit Führhund sehr authentisch und sie sind deshalb für jeden Hundehalter sehr zu empfehlen. Die Hörer erfahren auch sehr viel über diese außergewöhnlichen Tiere, denen Blinde und Sehbehinderte tagtäglich ihr Leben anvertrauen. Daffy und die Autorin sind der beste Beweis dafür, dass es ein stetes Geben und Nehmen erfordert, um gemeinsam etwas zu erreichen. Über die Autorin und Sprecherin: Jennifer Mai wurde 1990 in Fulda geboren. 2010 machte sie ihr Abitur an der Carl-Strehl-Schule in Marburg. Vier Jahre später schloss sie ein Studium der Kindheitspädagogik mit dem Bachelor of Arts an der Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften in Hamburg ab. Jennifer Mai absolvierte 2017 eine Ausbildung zur Hundephysiotherapeutin und arbeitet seit 2021 in der Brustkrebs Früherkennung. Momentan betreibt sie einen Youtube Kanal, der die Ausbildung eines Blindenführhundes dokumentiert. Daher lässt sie sich auch zur Hundetrainerin ausbilden. Mai steht mit ihrer Arbeit für Chancengleichheit und die Abschaffung von Vorurteilen und Schubladendenken blinden Menschen gegenüber. Alles ist möglich, auch wenn der Weg dahin nicht den alltäglichen Normen oder Konventionen entspricht. Zuerst als Taschenbuch und E-Book erschienen im Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2017. Covergestaltung unter Verwendung einer Stock-Vektorgrafik ID: 2142606651. Coverschrift gesetzt aus der Comic Sans MS. Schlussmusik: freesound.org.

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Title: [German] - Die schöne Tote von Sanssouci - Morden ohne Sorgen, Teil 1 (Ungekürzt)

Author: Andreas K. Buchholz

Narrator: Matthias Kiel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Zusammen mit Zwergdackel Wilhelm kehrt Frederik Loebell nach 20 Jahren in seine Heimatstadt Potsdam zurück. Seine Karriere als Journalist hat er gerade erst mit voller Wucht gegen die Wand gefahren, nun muss er mit Mitte 50 als kleiner Lokalreporter in der Provinz bei den Stadtnachrichten neu anfangen. Doch das ist leichter gesagt als getan: Denn wegen eines bevorstehenden Musikfestivals auf Schloss Sanssouci steht ganz Potsdam kopf. Und der Star dieses Festivals ist ausgerechnet Carlo - Loebells verhasster Schulkamerad. Auch dauert es nicht lange, da stolpert Loebell über mysteriöse Autounfälle, verwirrte Zeugen, dunkle Geheimnisse und eine schöne Tote! Versucht ein Mörder das Musikfestival zu sabotieren? Und wie hängen all diese Ereignisse miteinander zusammen? Loebell packt das Jagdfieber - wenn ihm nur sein Zwergdackel nicht immer wieder entwischen würde ... Doch zum Glück stehen ihm mit Redaktionspraktikant Tuan und Radioreporterin Lisi zwei gewiefte Helfer zur Seite! 'Die schöne Tote von Sanssouci' ist der erste Fall für Frederik Loebell aus der humorvollen Provinz-Krimi-Reihe 'Morden ohne Sorgen'.

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Title: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

Author: Brenda Peterson

Narrator: Kate Coventry

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In Wild Chorus, award-winning author Brenda Peterson draws on her lifelong relationship with animals to explore the wisdom we humans can glean from them. Looking beyond the companionship we enjoy with domesticated animals, Peterson explores how wild animals can become our guides and fellow travelers, helping us navigate the stresses of daily life and a rapidly changing planet. From beluga whales to wolves, raccoons to bears, elk to herons, the stories in this collection offer insights into the intricacies of animals' intuitive communication, compassionate attention, and peaceful adaptation. Featuring vivid, visionary stories, Wild Chorus reveals a world filled with inspiring lessons of kinship, connection, and living in the present. Join Peterson on an incredible journey as she speaks for animals as both an artist and an activist to discover the power of learning from the natural world.

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Title: Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling

Author: Nandini Purandare, Deepa Balsavar

Narrator: Jeed Saddy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

This captivating chronicle delves into the untold story of a tribe of people who have played a significant role in mountain exploration and climbing in the Himalayas. Situated in northern India, Darjeeling was developed as a colonial retreat by the British in the early 1830s and soon became famous for its tea gardens, attracting locals from around the region, Nepal, and Tibet in search of work. When Darjeeling became the jumping-off point for early Himalayan expeditions, workers from the Sherpa and Bhutia communities soon established themselves as the preferred high-altitude porters, bringing fame, entwined with tales of valor, courage, and sacrifice, to the city. These are some of their stories. Over the course of a decade, authors Nandini Purandare and Deepa Balsavar conducted a series of interviews with Sherpas from Darjeeling, as well as their family members, descendants, friends, and contemporary climbers. Headstrap weaves a vivid tapestry of this particular Sherpa community, giving them the recognition in mountaineering literature that they deserve.

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Title: Arctic Traverse: A Thousand-Mile Summer of Trekking the Brooks Range

Author: Michael Engelhard

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Release date: April 1, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A lyrical memoir that interweaves wilderness, homeland, cultural connections, historical figures, humor, and gritty experiences across northern Alaska From the award-winning author of Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon comes an intimate exploration of Alaska's northernmost mountain range with observations on Indigenous cultures, conservation, and intense cross-country travel, all shaped by respect for the land. Follow author Michael Engelhard through tussock-studded tundra for a remarkable tale of bear encounters and white-knuckled river moments, as well as poetic reflections on a vast, untamed landscape. A trained anthropologist, Engelhard evokes classic writers like Edward Abbey, Barry Lopez, and Ellen Meloy with profound dives into human and natural history and vivid meditations on Alaskan wildlife, flora, and geology. When he embarked on this thru-hike, fewer people had completed it solo in a single push than had dived to the floor of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth's oceans. Much more than a captivating account of a human-powered solo thru-hike and float, Arctic Traverse illuminates the spirit of Alaska, drawing on encounters with Indigenous elders, guided clients, scientists, and others as well as on Engelhard's long-held dream and his experiences of the land itself.

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Title: H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z

Author: Elizabeth Kolbert

Narrator: Eunice Wong, Elizabeth Kolbert

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Release date: March 26, 2024

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In twenty-six essays—one for each letter of the alphabet—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction takes us on a haunting journey through the history of climate change and the uncertainties of our future. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the landscape of climate change—from “A,” for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to “Z,” for the Colorado River Basin, ground zero for climate change in the United States. Along the way she looks at Greta Thunburg’s “blah blah blah” speech (“B”), learns to fly an all-electric plane (“E”), experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body (“T”), and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future of climate change (“U”). Adapted from essays originally published in The New Yorker, H Is for Hope is simultaneously inspiring, alarming, and darkly humorous—a unique examination of our changing world.