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Title: Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America

Author: William Stolzenburg

Narrator: Mike Delgaudio

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New England’s forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.Speculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain.William Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey—from his embattled birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River, through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale upon Connecticut’s Gold Coast. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause.Heart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. It is a testament to the resilience of nature, and a test of humanity’s willingness to live again beside the ultimate symbol of wildness.

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Title: Lab Girl: A Memoir

Author: Hope Jahren

Narrator: Hope Jahren

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Release date: April 5, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 53

Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 13

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world   Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home. Jahren’s probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her acute insights on nature enliven every page of this extraordinary book. Lab Girl opens your eyes to the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal. Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way the person you were meant to be. Music for the Audio Edition: Composed by Katelyn Sweeney Ching Margaret Kocher, Cellist Katelyn Sweeney Ching, Pianist  Mark Robinson, Audio Engineer Copyright 2016

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Title: The Pet Show, Vol. 3: Featuring Warren Eckstein

Author: Warren Eckstein

Narrator: Warren Eckstein

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Release date: April 5, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Hosted by renowned pet psychologist and behaviorist Warren Eckstein, The Pet Show tackles America’s toughest pet problems. With topics like “what to expect from your pet when you’re expecting” and “pet body language,” listeners will learn how to better understand and care for their furry friends.

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Title: Our Journey to Sinai

Author: Agnes Von Blomberg Bensly

Narrator: Sue Anderson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the base of the mountain where Moses received the Tablets of the Law. Set in rugged country, accessible in times past only by a many days journey by camel across barren desert, the monastery survived intact through the centuries, and, as a result, became a rich repository of religious history—told through its icons, mosaics, and the books and manuscripts in the monastery library. Our Journey to Sinai by Agnes Bensly is the story of a visit to Saint Catherine's by a group of British scholars in the 1890's, who were drawn there in quest of manuscripts from early Christian times. The group had one particular prize in their sights. It was a second century translation of the Gospels from Greek into an Aramaic dialect called Syriac. This was a rare find indeed. One of the group, Agnes Smith Lewis, an accomplished linguist, had been to the monastery once before. On that visit, she had spotted a “palimpsest of most venerable appearance,” a palimpsest being a parchment (leather) paged book, which had been used to write on at two different times, the first set of writing having been partially scraped off the parchment before it was reused. Agnes Smith Lewis had recognized the hidden underwriting in this book to be in Syriac, “the native language of Our Lord and His disciples.” And now, the excited group had decided to revisit Saint Catherine's, in hopes of copying and reading the ancient text. Their trip is vividly described by Agnes Bensly --bustling Cairo; a tent and camel crossing of the desert with Bedouin guides; the monks and monastery life; a breathtaking climb up 3000 stone steps to the top of Mount Sinai, and what they found in the mysterious manuscript they had come so far to see. Our Journey to Sinai, while providing a glimpse into the complexities of Bible scholarship, is also a wonderful travel book and an intimate portrait of Saint Catherine's monastery—a monastery which is, today, a World Heritage Site. (Introduction by Sue Anderson)

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Title: Treatise on Light

Author: Christiaan Huygens

Narrator: Availle

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book explains how light travels (i.e., that it has a certain velocity), and what happens when it hits a surface (refraction and reflection). A large portion of the book is devoted to the double refraction occurring in Iceland chrystal, and all drawn conclusions are proved geometrically. Christiaan Huygens (1629 - 1695) was a prominent physicist and astronomer. His main discoveries are the centrifugal force, collision laws for bodies and the argument that light consists of waves. He was a contemporary of Galilei and Descartes, and a member of the French Royal Society since 1663. (Summary by Availle)

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Title: The New-York Gardener

Author: P. Agricola

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not to overlook the kitchen garden, and writes one letter for each month of the year, instructing him on the importance and management thereof. - Summary by Sarah Jennings

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Title: Ways of Wood Folk

Author: William J. Long

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observations along with stories related to him by other humans who inhabit the woods, these stories give us an insight into the behavior of wild animals as they go about their lives in their own secret places deep in the forests of eastern North America. Although Long was accused in his day of anthropomorphizing the animals he wrote about, readers who are familiar with any of the animals he writes of will have glimpses of recognition at behaviors they have seen for themselves and explore the deeper meanings these actions have in that animal's life. The stories will paint pictures in your imagination that will stay with you long after the book has ended. (Summary by Jill Engle.)

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Title: Birds in the Calendar

Author: Frederick G. Aflalo

Narrator: Ruth Golding

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The Outlook, is full of fascinating information about bird behaviour and habitat, as well as many interesting anecdotes. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

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Title: Makers of Many Things

Author: Eva March Tappan

Narrator: Kara Shallenberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

How are friction matches made? How do rags and trees become paper? Who makes the dishes on our tables? Published in 1916, this children's book explains the origins of everyday items in an entertaining and informative way. There are plenty of illustrations, so please feel free to read along with the online etext: Makers of Many Things. (Summary by Kara)

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Title: Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 2 February 1899

Author: Various Authors

Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2016

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from 1897-1907 under the various titles, "Birds," "Birds and all Nature," "Nature and Art" and "Birds and Nature." - Summary by J. M. Smallheer "England holds the honor of having first formed societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals and of having first legislated for its punishment." -anon