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Title: Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and Belief

Author: Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Jack Canfield

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden, Fred Stella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Release date: November 20, 2010

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and Belief Learning to Play Learning What's Important Learning to Believe

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Title: Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting Help

Author: Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Jack Canfield

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden, Fred Stella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Release date: November 20, 2010

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting Help Learning to Laugh Learning to Accept Help

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Title: Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Love and Letting Go

Author: Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark, Jack Canfield

Narrator: Teri Clark Linden

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Release date: November 20, 2010

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

20 Stories about Love and Letting Go Learning About Love Learning to Let Go

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Title: Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies

Author: Ginger Strand

Narrator: Karen White

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Release date: June 23, 2008

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery—waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films, and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. Emblematic of nature's power, they are completely human-controlled. An archetype of natural beauty, the falls belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to how America falsifies nature, reshaping its contours and redirecting its force while claiming to submit to its will. Combining history, reportage, and personal narrative, Inventing Niagara traces Niagara's journey from sublime icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. Along the way, Ginger Strand uncovers the hidden history of America's waterfall: the Mohawk chief who wrested the falls from his adopted tribe, the revered town father who secretly assisted slave catchers, the wartime workers who unknowingly helped build the atomic bomb, and the building contractor who bought and sold a pharaoh. With an uncanny ability to zero in on the buried truth, Strand introduces us to underwater dams, freaks of nature, mythical maidens, and 280,000 radioactive mice buried at Niagara. From LaSalle to Lincoln to Los Alamos, Mohawks to Marilyn, Niagara's story is America's story, a tale of dreams founded on the mastery of nature. At a time of increasing environmental crisis, Inventing Niagara shows us how understanding the cultural history of nature might help us to rethink our place in it today.

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Title: The Founding Fish

Author: John McPhee

Narrator: John McPhee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Release date: February 15, 2008

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

The Founding Fish is the shad, and John McPhee's veneration for it is both scientific and culinary. McPhee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. Noted for his accessible and perceptive studies of the physical world, he weaves together strands of personal, natural, and national history in this absorbing study that traces the shad's importance from the 17th century to his family's dinner table.

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Title: The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals

Author: Peter Heller

Narrator: James Boles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 2, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

In the tradition of The Perfect Storm, The Whale Warriors takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew whose mission is to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy remote seas off Antarctica. For two months, journalist Peter Heller rode aboard the vegan pirate ship Farley Mowat as it stalked its prey—a Japanese whaling fleet—through the storms and ice of Antarctica. The ship is black, flies under a jolly roger, and carries members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group who are willing to die to stop illegal whale hunting. The Sea Shepherd ship, led by the charismatic Captain Paul Watson—a modern-day anti-Ahab—takes extreme risks in defense of whales and ratchets up the stakes. The ship is almost sunk twice, once in a force gale. Heller re-creates a nail-biting showdown when Watson and the crew attempt to ram an enormous Japanese whaling ship on the high seas, trying to tear open its hull with a steel blade called a 'can opener.' The crews on board both ships know that there will be no assistance in this desolate part of the ocean. In thirty-five-foot seas, it is a deadly game of Antarctic chicken and a fast-paced, rollicking adventure in which the stakes cannot be higher.

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Title: Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Author: Eric Jay Dolin

Narrator: James Boles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

This is the epic history of the 'iron men in wooden boats' who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. 'To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,' Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s, when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world—to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.

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Title: The Loved Dog: The Playful, Nonaggressive Way to Teach Your Dog Good Behavior

Author: Andrea Cagan, Tamar Geller

Narrator: Renée Raudman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Release date: May 21, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

More than fifteen years ago, Tamar Geller began her career as a dog trainer by observing a scientific study of wolves in the wild. She realized that the socialization and parenting techniques they used to raise their cubs were rooted in bonding, communication, and play—not in aggression, dominance, or punishment. If people used these techniques when training their dogs, she realized, there would be no need for prong collars, choke chains, or any kind of physical or verbal aggression. She realized we can make it 'fun' for our dogs to listen to us and behave as we want them to. Tamar went on to train the dogs of many celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck, Courteney Cox-Arquette, Nicollette Sheridan, Owen Wilson, the Osbournes, and others. Her nonaggressive methods are so revolutionary that the Humane Society of the United States approached her to be a consultant, and she now teaches animal behavior at Pepperdine University. In The Loved Dog, Tamar shows anyone how to childproof a dog, teach him vocabulary, use treats the right way, play 'tug of war' to build trust, make it fun for him to come when called, teach him not to jump on people, and much more—using only playful bonding and positive reinforcement.

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Title: Silent Spring

Author: Rachel Carson

Narrator: Kaiulani Lee

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 26, 2007

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 69

Ratings of Narrator: 4.47 of Total 17

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

First published in 1962, Silent Spring can singlehandedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. 'Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history.'-Vice President Al Gore

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Title: The Suburban You: Reports from the Home Front

Author: Mark Falanga

Narrator: Jonathan Marosz

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Release date: June 4, 2004

Genres: Animals & Nature

Publisher's Summary:

You are about to discover that living in the suburbs is a whole lot funnier than you ever thought possible. For this country’s 145,892,494 (give or take) suburbanites, Mark Falanga is an utterly deadpan (and thoroughly entertaining) spokesman. Mark Falanga is a slick urban dweller, at the top of his game professionally, with a gorgeous corporate executive wife and a hip coterie in the coolest neighborhood in the city. But when baby makes three, Mark and his family enter the twilight zone called the suburbs, where public schools are good, many wives stay home, and children ride their tricycles in the driveway. Nothing is the same ever again. With the dry wit of David Sedaris, and Dave Barry’s love of the absurd, Falanga details his new, suburban landscape from the point of view of a bewildered but gung-ho everyman. From the complex political pecking order in the neighborhood, with its ultracompetitive block parties and its consuming holiday-card rivalry, to the surprises lurking on every corner—such as the twelve-year-old pyromaniac next door and the suspiciously broad-shouldered “lady” on the commuter train—The Suburban You describes in slyly understated prose the vicissitudes of life in the ’burbs.