Fastest Things on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Bernd Heinrich
• Narrated By Rick Adamson
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In One Wild Bird at a Time, Heinrich returns to his great love: close, day-to-day observations of individual wild birds. Heinrich's observations lead to fascinating questions - and sometimes startling discoveries. A great crested flycatcher bringing food to the young acts surreptitiously and is attacked by the mate. Why? A pair of northern flickers hammering their nest-hole into the side of Heinrich's cabin delivers the opportunity to observe the feeding competition between siblings.

The Genius of Birds

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Jennifer Ackerman
• Narrated By Margaret Strom
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Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. In fact, according to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. Like humans, many birds have enormous brains relative to their size. Although small, bird brains are packed with neurons that allow them to punch well above their weight.

Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Bernd Heinrich
• Narrated By Norman Dietz

Bernd Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can be spied on only by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father", as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines and, in the process, paints a vivid picture of the ravens' world. At the heart of this book are Heinrich's love and respect for these complex and engaging creatures, and through his keen observation and analysis we become their intimates, too.

Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Neil Hayward
• Narrated By Sam Devereaux
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Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else executives do when they quit a lucrative but unfulfilling job. He didn't want to think about his failed relationship with 'the one' or his potential for ruining a new relationship with 'the next one'. And he almost certainly didn't want to think about turning 40. And so instead he went birding. Birding was a lifelong passion. It was only among the birds that Neil found a calm that had eluded him in the confusing world of humans.

The Atomic Weight of Love

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Elizabeth J. Church
• Narrated By Jennifer Van Dyck
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For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Frans de Waal
• Narrated By Sean Runnette
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De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal's landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal - and human - intelligence.

The Most Perfect Thing

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Tim Birkhead
• Narrated By Gareth Armstrong
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How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the shapes they are? When does the shell of an egg harden? Why do some eggs contain two yolks? How are the colours and patterns of eggshells created, and why do they vary? And which end of an egg is laid first - the blunt end or the pointy end?

Bear in the Back Seat: Adventures of a Wildlife Ranger in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Volume 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 3 mins)
• By Kim DeLozier, Carolyn Jourdan
• Narrated By Carey Jones
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A hilarious, heartwarming, and heartbreaking memoir by the chief wildlife ranger in the number one most popular family vacation destination in the USA, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For over 30 years, Kim DeLozier acted as a referee in the wild, trying to protect millions of park visitors from one of the densest populations of wild black bears in America - and the bears from tourists who get too close.

Lab Girl

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Hope Jahren
• Narrated By Hope Jahren
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Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away.

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Colson Whitehead
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Dominic Smith
• Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini

In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain - a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape, a decision that will haunt her.

Where's the Next Shelter?

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Gary Sizer
• Narrated By Gary Sizer
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Where's the Next Shelter? is the true story of three travelers on the Appalachian Trail, a 2,000-mile hike that stretches from Georgia to Maine, told from the perspective of Gary Sizer, a seasoned backpacker and former marine who quickly finds himself humbled by the endeavor. If you long for the horizon or to sleep under the stars, then come along for the hike of a lifetime. All you have to do is take the first step.

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Phaedra Patrick
• Narrated By James Langton
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Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater-vest; waters his fern, Frederica; and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before.

Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Chesley B. Sullenberger, Jeffrey Zaslow
• Narrated By Michael McConnohie, Chesley B. Sullenberger
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On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed a remarkable emergency landing when Captain "Sully" Sullenberger skillfully glided US Airways flight 1549 onto the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 passengers and crew. His cool actions not only averted tragedy but made him a hero and an inspiration worldwide. His story is now a major motion picture from director/producer Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks, Laura Linney, and Aaron Eckhart.

Barkskins: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (26 hrs)
• By Annie Proulx
• Narrated By Robert Petkoff

In the late 18th century, Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman, makes his way from Northern France to New France to seek a living. Bound to a feudal lord, a seigneur, for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship, always in awe of the forest he is charged with cleaning. Rene marries an Indian healer with children already, and they have more, mixing the blood of two cultures. Proulx tells the stories of the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of two lineages, the Sels and the Duquets.

Garden Spells

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Sarah Addison Allen
• Narrated By Susan Ericksen
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The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers.

Generations of Waverleys tended this garden. Their history was in the soil. But so were their futures.

Together again in the house they grew up in, the Waverley sisters realize they must deal with their common legacy - if they are ever to feel at home in Bascom - or with each other.

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs)
• By Elaine Sciolino
• Narrated By Elaine Sciolino
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Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows.

Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Tim Birkhead
• Narrated By Robin Sachs
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What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise? Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to interpret their environment and to interact with each other.

Happiness for Beginners

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 19 mins)
• By Katherine Center
• Narrated By Marguerite Gavin
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A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even more annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a disaster. Thus begins the strangest adventure of Helen's well-behaved life.

All Is Not Forgotten

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Wendy Walker
• Narrated By Dylan Baker

It begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory.

Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons From a Small-Town Obituary Writer

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Heather Lende
• Narrated By Heather Lende
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As she was digging deep into the lives of community members, Heather Lende, the obituary writer for her tiny hometown newspaper in Haines, Alaska, began to notice something. Even the crustiest old Alaskan sourpuss who died in a one-room cabin always had Halloween candy for the neighborhood kids, and the eccentric owner of the seafood store who regularly warned her about government conspiracies knew how to be a true friend - his memorial service was packed.

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 2 mins)
• By James R. Doty MD
• Narrated By Dan Woren
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Extraordinary things happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart. Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, living with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor.

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Giulia Enders
• Narrated By Katy Sobey

Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain, yet we know very little about how it works. Gut: The Inside Story is an entertaining, informative tour of the digestive system from the moment we raise a tasty morsel to our lips until the moment our body surrenders the remnants to the toilet bowl. No topic is too lowly for the author's wonder and admiration, from the careful choreography of breaking wind to the precise internal communication required for a cleansing vomit.

H Is for Hawk

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Helen Macdonald
• Narrated By Helen Macdonald
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When Helen MacDonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks since childhood, she'd never before been tempted to train one of the most vicious predators: the goshawk. But in her grief, she saw that the goshawk's fierce and feral anger mirrored her own.