29 Best Earth Sciences Books
Earth Sciences is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Earth Sciences audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Earth Sciences audiobooks below.
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The New Climate War
- By: Michael E. Mann
- Narrator: Tim Campbell
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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5(2 ratings)
5(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDShortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battleShortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award
A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.
Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we’ve been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals.
Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”) or greenwashing (think of the beverage industry’s “Crying Indian” commercials of the 1970s). Meanwhile, they’ve blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting viable alternatives, and have abdicated their responsibility in fixing the problem they’ve created. The result has been disastrous for our planet.
In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including:- A common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal;
- Allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels
- Debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions
- Combatting climate doomism and despair-mongering
With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, the societal tipping point won’t happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward. This book will reach, inform, and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.
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I Spy Island
- By: Sue Hendra
- Narrator: Sue Hendra
- Length: 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.75(11 ratings)
4.75(11 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDWelcome to I Spy Island: the sunny new series from the creators of the blockbuster Supertato books! In the middle of the ocean, miles from anywhere is a happy little island who loves to play I Spy… Join Island, and friends Glove, Banana, BirdWelcome to I Spy Island: the sunny new series from the creators of the blockbuster Supertato books!
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In the middle of the ocean, miles from anywhere is a happy little island who loves to play I Spy…
Join Island, and friends Glove, Banana, Bird and Bottle as they investigate the curious case of what’s just washed up on Island’s chin… What can it be? And what adventures lie in store?
This terrific tale of fun, friendship and sunshine is brought to you by the brilliant brains behind such bestselling and beloved characters as Supertato, Barry the Fish with Fingers, Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell and No-Bot the Robot with No Bottom.
ALSO BY SUE HENDRA & PAUL LINNET:
Supertato series:
Supertato
Supertato: Veggies Assemble
Supertato: Run, Veggies, Run!
Supertato: Evil Pea Rules
Supertato: Veggies in the Valley of Doom
Supertato: Carnival Catastro-Pea
Supertato: Bubbly Troubly! (coming March 2021)
Other Supertato books:
Supertato Sticker Activity Book
Supertato Super Squad
Supertato Sticker Skills (coming May 2021)
Selected other titles by Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet:
Barry the Fish with Fingers
Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell
Keith the Cat with the Magic Hat
Doug the Bug that went Boing!
I Need a Wee!
No-Bot the Robot with No Bottom
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Grand Canyon
- By: Jason Chin
- Narrator: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 1 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 28, 2018
- Language: English
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4.34(2403 ratings)
4.34(2403 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDRivers wind through the earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants andRivers wind through the earth, cutting down and eroding the soil for millions of years, creating a cavity in the ground 277 miles long, 18 miles wide, and more than a mile deep known as the Grand Canyon. Home to an astonishing variety of plants and animals that have lived and evolved within its walls for millennia, the Grand Canyon is much more than just a hole in the ground. Follow a father and daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past. Weave in and out of time as perfectly placed die cuts reveal that a fossil today was a creature long ago, perhaps in a completely different environment.
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Underground Fire
- By: Sally M. Walker
- Narrator: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: October 11, 2022
- Language: English
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4.3(20 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USD“It is November 13, 1909, and the coal miners of Cherry, Illinois, head to work with lunch pails in hand, just like any other day. By seven a.m., 484 of these men are underground, starting jobs that range from taking care of the mules that“It is November 13, 1909, and the coal miners of Cherry, Illinois, head to work with lunch pails in hand, just like any other day. By seven a.m., 484 of these men are underground, starting jobs that range from taking care of the mules that haul coal to operating cages that raise and lower workers and coal to chiseling out rocks and coal from the tunnels of the mine. With the electrical system broken, they’re guided by kerosene torches–and come early afternoon, a slow-moving disaster begins, barely catching the men’s attention until it’s too late. In what starts as an hour-by-hour account, Sally Walker tells the riveting and horrifying story of the Cherry Mine fire, which trapped hundreds of men underground. Alternating between rescue efforts above and the heroic measures of those trying to survive the poor air and entrapment below, this tragic story unfolds over eight excruciating days in a narrative compelled by the miners’ hope and absolute will to survive.”
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The Man Who Caught the Storm
- By: Brantley Hargrove
- Narrator: Jacques Roy
- Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.24(844 ratings)
4.24(844 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThe saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one ofThe saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).
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At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider.
In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match–in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded–it upended everything he thought he knew.
Brantley Hargrove delivers a “cinematically thrilling and scientifically wonky” (Outside) tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. Hargrove takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. The Man Who Caught the Storm is an “adrenaline rush of a tornado chase…Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this” (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world. -
Tides
- By: Jonathan White
- Narrator: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.2(506 ratings)
4.2(506 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDIn Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt forIn Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes listeners across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides.
In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks that live in the tide-wrapped monastery of Mont Saint-Michel; in Chile and Scotland, he investigates the growth of tidal power generation; and in Panama and Venice, he delves into how the threat of sea level rise is changing human culture–the very old and very new.
Tides combines lyrical prose, colorful adventure travel, and provocative scientific inquiry into the elemental, mysterious paradox that keeps our planet’s waters in constant motion.
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Island: A Story of the Galapagos
- By: Jason Chin
- Narrator: Lesa Lockford
- Length: 57 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 11, 2018
- Language: English
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4.2(34 ratings)
4.2(34 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDCharles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain?Charles Darwin first visited the Galapagos Islands almost 200 years ago, only to discover a land filled with plants and animals that could not be found anywhere else on earth. How did they come to inhabit the islands? How long will they remain? Thoroughly researched, this historical and scientific book tells the epic saga of the life of an island?its birth in fire, its rise to greatness, its decline, and, finally, the emergence of life on new islands.
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Poisoned Water
- By: Candy J. Cooper
- Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: September 22, 2020
- Language: English
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4.19(331 ratings)
4.19(331 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.99 USDIn 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by General Motors. As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to theIn 2014, Flint, Michigan, was a cash-strapped city that had been built up, then abandoned by
General Motors. As part of a plan to save money, government officials decided that Flint would
temporarily switch its water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Within months, many
residents broke out in rashes. Then it got worse: Children stopped growing. Some people were
hospitalized with mysterious illnesses; others died. Citizens of Flint protested that the water was
dangerous. Despite what seemed so apparent from the murky, foul-smelling liquid pouring from
the city’s faucets, officials refused to listen. They treated the people of Flint as the problem, not the
water–which was actually poisoning thousands.Through interviews with residents and intensive research into legal records and news accounts,
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journalist Candy J. Cooper, assisted by writer-editor Marc Aronson, reveals the true story of Flint.
Poisoned Water shows not just how the crisis unfolded in 2014, but also the history of racism and
segregation that led up to it, the beliefs and attitudes that fueled it, and how the people of Flint
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StarTalk
- By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Narrator: Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.18(1840 ratings)
4.18(1840 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFor decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere. This pioneering, provocative audiobook brings together the best of StarTalk, his belovedFor decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans everywhere.
This pioneering, provocative audiobook brings together the best of StarTalk, his beloved podcast and television show devoted to solving the most confounding mysteries of Earth, space, and what it means to be human. Filled with brilliant sidebars and unforgettable quotes from Tyson and his brilliant cohort of science and entertainment luminaries, StarTalk will help answer all of your most pressing questions about our world–from how the brain works to the physics of comic book superheroes.
Fun, smart, and laugh-out-loud funny, this audiobook is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know about the universe–and beyond.
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Our Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth
- By: Stacy McAnulty
- Narrator: Samantha Turret
- Length: 15 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 05, 2022
- Language: English
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4.17(161 ratings)
4.17(161 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.001.99 USDOur Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth is a nonfiction audiobook about the Earth, told from the perspective of Earth herself. Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals inOur Planet! There’s No Place Like Earth is a nonfiction audiobook about the Earth, told from the perspective of Earth herself.
Meet Earth. Planet Awesome! And your awesome home! Actually, Earth is home to all the plants and all the animals in the solar system, including nearly eight billion people. Humans have accidentally moved Earth’s climate change into the fast lane, and she need your help to put on the brakes. Earthlings need Earth, and Earth needs Earthlings, so let’s save Earth together!
With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Earth in this next celestial “autobiography” in the Our Universe series. Rich with kid-friendly facts, this is an equally charming and irresistible audiobook.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.
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Snowflake Bentley
- By: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- Narrator: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
- Length: 19 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 08, 2013
- Language: English
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4.12(15557 ratings)
4.12(15557 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDJacqueline Briggs Martin’s Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents’ Choice Award, and was picked as an ALA Notable Book for Children. Listeners of all ages will cherish this beautiful story about a real man whose discoveriesJacqueline Briggs Martin’s Snowflake Bentley won a Caldecott Medal, a Parents’ Choice Award, and was picked as an ALA Notable Book for Children. Listeners of all ages will cherish this beautiful story about a real man whose discoveries changed the way the world saw snow. “There will be so many uses for this book-not the least of which is simply handing it to children and letting their imaginations soar like Bentley’s.”-Booklist
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The Great Derangement
- By: Amitav Ghosh
- Narrator: Shridhar Solanki
- Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.08(3202 ratings)
4.08(3202 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDAre we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land,Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability–at the level of literature, history, and politics–to grasp the scale and violence of climate change.
The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements.
Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence–a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer’s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time.
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Life: The First 4 Billion Years
- By: Martin Jenkins
- Narrator: Peter Noble
- Length: 2 hours 27 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: September 17, 2019
- Language: English
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4.08(93 ratings)
4.08(93 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDBefore humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life thatBefore humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life that flourished in between. Covering ice ages and fossils, the first life in the sea and on land, the time of the dinosaurs, and the rise of mammals, Martin Jenkins navigates through millennia of prehistory in a style both enthralling and accessible.
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A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition)
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrator: Alex Boyles
- Length: 5 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.08(40 ratings)
4.08(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDWhen a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of theWhen a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive. This middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the four intrepid Coast Guardsmen who braved this ruthless storm in the hopes of saving them. A spellbinding tale of courage and survival from the author of The Finest Hours.
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Tornadoes!
- By: Gail Gibbons
- Narrator: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 23 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 02, 2016
- Language: English
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4.07(254 ratings)
4.07(254 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDTornadoes are funnel-shaped clouds that can cause massive destruction on the ground. Their winds can swirl faster than 260 miles per hour! In addition to factual information, youngsters will learn about how such extreme weather affects the lives ofTornadoes are funnel-shaped clouds that can cause massive destruction on the ground. Their winds can swirl faster than 260 miles per hour! In addition to factual information, youngsters will learn about how such extreme weather affects the lives of people in areas where these atmospheric storms are common. Using her acclaimed combination of clear wording and detailed illustrations, Gibbons explains how tornadoes form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do in case one should be near you.
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Harvest for Hope
- By: Jane Goodall
- Narrator: Tippi Hedren
- Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.06(2082 ratings)
4.06(2082 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.98 USDFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a provocative look into the ways we can positively impact the world by changing our eating habits. “One of those rare, truly greatFrom world-renowned scientist Jane Goodall, as seen in the new National Geographic documentary Jane, comes a provocative look into the ways we can positively impact the world by changing our eating habits.... Read more“One of those rare, truly great books that can change the world.”-John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution The renowned scientist who fundamentally changed the way we view primates and our relationship with the animal kingdom now turns her attention to an incredibly important and deeply personal issue-taking a stand for a more sustainable world. In this provocative and encouraging book, Jane Goodall sounds a clarion call to Western society, urging us to take a hard look at the food we produce and consume-and showing us how easy it is to create positive change.Offering her hopeful, but stirring vision, Goodall argues convincingly that each individual can make a difference. She offers simple strategies each of us can employ to foster a sustainable society. Brilliant, empowering, and irrepressibly optimistic, Harvest for Hope is one of the most crucial works of our age. If we follow Goodall’s sound advice, we just might save ourselves before it’s too late.
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Coral Reefs: A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
- By: Jason Chin
- Narrator: Elizabeth Cottle
- Length: 42 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 20, 2018
- Language: English
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4.06(1 ratings)
4.06(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDDuring an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities ofDuring an ordinary visit to the library, a young girl pulls out a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there.
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Into the Planet
- By: Jill Heinerth
- Narrator: Jill Heinerth
- Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 20, 2019
- Language: English
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4.05(3312 ratings)
4.05(3312 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet More people have died exploring underwater caves thanFrom one of the world’s most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth’s final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet
More people have died exploring underwater caves than climbing Mount Everest, and we know more about deep space than we do about the depths of our oceans. From one of the top cave divers working today–and one of the very few women in her field–Into the Planet blends science, adventure, and memoir to bring readers face-to-face with the terror and beauty of earth’s remaining unknowns and the extremes of human capability.
Jill Heinerth–the first person in history to dive deep into an Antarctic iceberg and leader of a team that discovered the ancient watery remains of Mayan civilizations–has descended farther into the inner depths of our planet than any other woman. She takes us into the harrowing split-second decisions that determine whether a diver makes it back to safety, the prejudices that prevent women from pursuing careers underwater, and her endeavor to recover a fallen friend’s body from the confines of a cave. But there’s beauty beyond the danger of diving, and while Heinerth swims beneath our feet in the lifeblood of our planet, she works with biologists discovering new species, physicists tracking climate change, and hydrogeologists examining our finite freshwater reserves.
Written with hair-raising intensity, Into the Planet is the first book to deliver an intimate account of cave diving, transporting readers deep into inner space, where fear must be reconciled and a mission’s success balances between knowing one’s limits and pushing the envelope of human endurance.
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Into the Blizzard
- By: Michael J. Tougias
- Narrator: Shawn Compton
- Length: 6 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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4.04(57 ratings)
4.04(57 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, theIn the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker–both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard.
Perfect for fans of the I Survived series ready for a longer-form account, this middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book chronicles the harrowing journey between Captain Quirk and the Coast Guard as they struggled in the holds of a radical storm. It’s an epic tale of heroism and bravery at sea.
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When the World Runs Dry
- By: Nancy F. Castaldo
- Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: January 18, 2022
- Language: English
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4.02(56 ratings)
4.02(56 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDWhat would you do if you turned on the faucet one day and nothing happened? What if you learned the water in your home was harmful to drink? Water is essential for life on this planet, but not every community has the safe, clean water it needs. InWhat would you do if you turned on the faucet one day and nothing happened? What if you learned the water in your home was harmful to drink? Water is essential for life on this planet, but not every community has the safe, clean water it needs. In When the World Runs Dry, award-winning science writer Nancy Castaldo takes readers from Flint, Michigan, and Newark, New Jersey, to Iran and Cape Town, South Africa, to explore the various ways in which water around the world is in danger, why we must act now, and why you’re never too young to make a difference.
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Topics include: Lead and water infrastructure problems, pollution, fracking contamination, harmful algal blooms, water supply issues, rising sea levels, and potential solutions.
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Hurricanes!
- By: Gail Gibbons
- Narrator: Chris Lutkin
- Length: 29 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 02, 2016
- Language: English
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4.02(149 ratings)
4.02(149 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDImagine a force that can toss boats around like toys, wash away bridges, and create waves as high as eighteen feet. With fierce winds and torrential rains, hurricanes can do all of these things. They can cause tremendous damage and even change theImagine a force that can toss boats around like toys, wash away bridges, and create waves as high as eighteen feet. With fierce winds and torrential rains, hurricanes can do all of these things. They can cause tremendous damage and even change the shape of a shoreline. For centuries people did not know when a hurricane was coming. But now we have new methods to predict when and where these storms will occur. Young viewers will learn how hurricanes are formed, how they are named and classified, and what to do if a dangerous storm is on the way.
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Our Choice
- By: Al Gore
- Narrator: John Slattery
- Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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4(658 ratings)
4(658 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDOur Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore‚Äôs forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, andOur Choice will pick up where An Inconvenient Truth left off, providing a blueprint for solving the global climate crisis and drawing on Mr. Gore‚Äôs forty years of experience as a student, policymaker, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and activist. A co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental work, Mr. Gore illuminates the real solutions to the climate crisis and describes a comprehensive global strategy to implement them urgently. Our Choice will be an inspiring call to action for those ready to fight for solutions that really work–including some bold initiatives that were deemed impossible only a short time ago but are now gaining support around the world.
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Since the publication of the New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Truth and the release of the Academy Award-winning film of the same title, Mr. Gore has led more than thirty “Solutions Summits” with top scientists, engineers, and policy experts to examine every solution to the climate crisis in depth and detail. Our Choice draws on conclusions developed through those summits as well as on extensive independent research, describing how the bold choices necessary to save the earth’s climate should also be the foundations of policies worldwide to create new jobs and stimulate sustainable economic progress. -
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … Where Is Everybody? Second Edition
- By: Stephen Webb
- Narrator: Dan Woren
- Length: 16 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4(3 ratings)
4(3 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDGiven the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the fourteen-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilizationGiven the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the fourteen-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. The sheer enormity of the numbers almost demands that we accept the truth of this hypothesis. Why, then, have we encountered no evidence, no messages, no artifacts of these extraterrestrials?
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Detecting Tornadoes
- By: Marne Ventura
- Narrator: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 22, 2018
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExamines how scientists study tornadoes. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an exciting look at the science of disaster detection. -
Detecting Hurricanes
- By: Samantha S. Bell
- Narrator: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 15 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 22, 2018
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)
4(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExamines how scientists study hurricanes. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an exciting look at the science of disaster detection. -
Detecting Earthquakes
- By: Marne Ventura
- Narrator: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 13 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 22, 2018
- Language: English
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4(2 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.002.99 USDExamines how scientists study earthquakes. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an exciting look at the science of disaster detection. -
The Secret World of Weather
- By: Tristan Gooley
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: The Experiment
- Publish date: July 22, 2021
- Language: English
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3.98(297 ratings)
3.98(297 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDIn The Secret World of Weather, bestselling author Tristan Gooley turns his gaze up to the sky, bringing his signature brand of close observation and eye-opening deduction to the fascinating world of weather. Every cloud, every change inIn The Secret World of Weather, bestselling author Tristan Gooley turns his gaze up to the sky, bringing his signature brand of close observation and eye-opening deduction to the fascinating world of weather. Every cloud, every change in temperature, every raindrop, every sunbeam, every breeze reveals something about our weather–if you know what to look for. Before you know it, you’ll be able to forecast impending storms, sunny days, and everything in between, all without needing to consult your smartphone.
But The Secret World of Weather goes far beyond mere weather prediction, changing the very way we think about weather itself. Weather is not something that blankets an area; rather, it changes constantly as you walk through woods or turn down a street. The weather is never identical on two sides of a tree–or even beneath it. Take, for example, Gooley’s remarkable discovery that breezes accelerate beneath a tree. To Gooley, this is “weather,” a tiny microclimate that explains why people sit beneath a tree to cool down–not only for the shade but, subconsciously, for cooler breeze. And so Gooley shows us not only what the weather will be like five days from now, but also what to expect about the weather around every corner.
By carefully observing the subtle interplay of wind, cloud, fog, temperature, rain and many other phenomena, we not only form a deeper understanding of weather patterns, but also unlock secrets about our environment. Weather forms our landscape, and landscape forms our weather. Everything we see in the sky reflects where we are. When we learn to read weather’s signs, Gooley shows us, the weather becomes our map, revealing to us how it has made our towns, cities, woods, and hills what they are. You’ll never see your surroundings the same way again.
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Gone to the Woods
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrator: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 12, 2021
- Language: English
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3.95(3545 ratings)
3.95(3545 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USD“Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen’s bittersweet life…The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience.” — AudioFile“Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen’s bittersweet life…The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience.” — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen’s famed survival stories.
His name is synonymous with high-stakes wilderness survival stories. Now, beloved author Gary Paulsen portrays a series of life-altering moments from his turbulent childhood as his own original survival story. If not for his summer escape from a shockingly neglectful Chicago upbringing to a North Woods homestead at age five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed him his first book at age thirteen, he may never have become a reader. And without his desperate teenage enlistment in the Army, he would not have discovered his true calling as a storyteller.
A moving and enthralling story of grit and growing up, Gone to the Woods is perfect for newcomers to the voice and lifelong fans alike, from the acclaimed author at his rawest and realest.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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This Raindrop
- By: Linda Ragsdale
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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3.93(44 ratings)
3.93(44 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.009.99 USDThis beautiful tale follows a raindrop’s journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond. It explains how Earth has depended on the same water supply throughout its existence by flowing andThis beautiful tale follows a raindrop’s journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond. It explains how Earth has depended on the same water supply throughout its existence by flowing and falling all around us, fueling and forming much of what we have seen and used for millions of years.
Featuring beautiful narration and educational back matter including an explanation of the water cycle, the importance of water conservation, and resources for further learning, this book introduces a new understanding of our planet and encourages mindfulness and action when it comes to caring for the environment.
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