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  • Fiona the Fruit Bat

    by Dan Riskin ...
    Illustrated by Rachel Qiuqi ...
    A wondrous, fun, and informative picture book about bat echolocation for kids 3-7. Written by a scientist who works with bats in his everyday life!It's time for Fiona the fruit bat to take her very first flight, but she's scared. How will she fly when she can't see in the dark? Mama just says, "listen." But how will listening help her to see? Then she hears a mysterious sound from deep in her cave ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

    A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

    by Dan Riskin, Ph.D. ...
    This “fact-filled and amusing trek through nature’s dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) reveals the fascinating, weird, and often perverted ways that Mother Nature fends only for herself.It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (host of the Animal Planet’s TV show Monsters Inside Me) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You

    A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

    by Dan Riskin ...
    Narrated by Dan Riskin ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin explains, it's also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless.Using the seven deadly sins as a road ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Wicked Bugs

    The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 6 min

    In this darkly comical look at the sinister side of our relationship with the natural world, Stewart has tracked down over one hundred of our worst entomological foes—creatures that infest, infect, and generally wreak havoc on human affairs. From the world's most painful hornet, to the flies that transmit deadly diseases, to millipedes that stop traffic, to the Japanese beetles munching on your ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

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    The Violinist's Thumb

    And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

    by Sam Kean ...
    Narrated by Henry Leyva ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 35 min

    From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    My Planet

    Finding Humor in the Oddest Places

    by Mary Roach ...
    Narrated by Angela Dawe ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    From acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this audiobook features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage, friends, family, food, technology, customer service, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    I'd Rather We Got Casinos

    And Other Black Thoughts

    by Larry Wilmore ...
    Narrated by Larry Wilmore ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 19 min

    From the host of Comedy Central's newest program, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other nightly topics--updated with new material for this edition.Now boasting three new chapters and an introduction exclusive the trade paperback edition, I'd Rather We Got Casinos And Other Black Thoughts by Larry ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Wicked Plants

    The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 28 min

    Beware! The sordid lives of plants behaving badly.A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. Amy Stewart, bestselling author of Flower Confidential, takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature's most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and ... Read more

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    Also available as: eBook

  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    by Steve Brusatte ...
    By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us[New Scientist; The Times UK]National Bestseller • Top 10 Nonfiction of the Year: Kirkus • Best Science Book of the Year: The Times UKWe humans are the inheritors of a dynasty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Parasite Rex

    Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures

    by Carl Zimmer ...
    Combining the literary sensibility of David Quammen with the scientific rigor of Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Zimmer reveals the power, danger, and beauty of the surprising creatures who dominate the earth: parasites.For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and the darkest shadows of science. In Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer takes readers on a fantastic voyage into the secret ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • What a Fish Knows

    The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

    by Jonathan Balcombe ...
    The New York Times–bestselling "exploration of the world from a piscine perspective . . . makes a persuasive case that what fish know is quite a lot" (Elizabeth Kolbert, The New York Review of Books).Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, ethologist Jonathan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation

    The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex

    by Olivia Judson ...
    A sex guide for all living things and a hilarious natural history in the form of letters to and answers from the preeminent sexpert in all creation.Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation is a unique guidebook to sex. It reveals, for example, when necrophilia is acceptable and who should commit bestiality with whom. It discloses the best time to have a sex change, how to have a virgin birth, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD