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Bestsellers
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- An Audio Documentary
- By: Pottermore Publishing, Ben Davies
- Narrated by: Natalie Dormer
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears....
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Why is there no PDF?
- By Anonymous User on 12-01-18
By: Pottermore Publishing, and others
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition)
- By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village....
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if You Try, You Can Do Anything!
- By Anonymous User on 04-14-24
By: William Kamkwamba, and others
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Gone to the Woods
- Surviving a Lost Childhood
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories....
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loving it...
- By Anonymous User on 04-26-21
By: Gary Paulsen
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Rocket Boys
- The Coalwood Series, Book 1
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir....
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Endearing Memoir of the Early Space Race
- By Anonymous User on 10-03-16
By: Homer Hickam
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....
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Excellent for everyone to read
- By Anonymous User on 06-25-19
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56 Incredibly Interesting Stories for Curious Kids and Adults Better than Any Video Game
- By: Christian T Anderson
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories selected for this book are out of the ordinary. They have been carefully chosen for curious and extraordinary people eager to break the mold. What you will find in this audiobook will take you out of the ordinary....
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Fun and Fascinating Stories for all Ages!
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-24
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic
- An Audio Documentary
- By: Pottermore Publishing, Ben Davies
- Narrated by: Natalie Dormer
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Harry Potter: A History of Magic reveals some of the hidden stories behind real-world magic and explores some of J.K. Rowling's magical inventions alongside their folkloric, cultural and historical forebears....
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Why is there no PDF?
- By Anonymous User on 12-01-18
By: Pottermore Publishing, and others
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Young Readers Edition)
- By: William Kamkwamba, Bryan Mealer
- Narrated by: Korey Jackson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village....
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if You Try, You Can Do Anything!
- By Anonymous User on 04-14-24
By: William Kamkwamba, and others
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Gone to the Woods
- Surviving a Lost Childhood
- By: Gary Paulsen
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on the origins of Gary Paulsen's famed survival stories....
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loving it...
- By Anonymous User on 04-26-21
By: Gary Paulsen
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Rocket Boys
- The Coalwood Series, Book 1
- By: Homer Hickam
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir....
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Endearing Memoir of the Early Space Race
- By Anonymous User on 10-03-16
By: Homer Hickam
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition
- By: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....
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Excellent for everyone to read
- By Anonymous User on 06-25-19
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56 Incredibly Interesting Stories for Curious Kids and Adults Better than Any Video Game
- By: Christian T Anderson
- Narrated by: Helpful Matthew
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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The stories selected for this book are out of the ordinary. They have been carefully chosen for curious and extraordinary people eager to break the mold. What you will find in this audiobook will take you out of the ordinary....
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Fun and Fascinating Stories for all Ages!
- By Anonymous User on 11-10-24
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Dark Matter and Dark Energy
- The Hidden 95% of the Universe
- By: Brian Clegg
- Narrated by: Mark Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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All the matter and light we can see in the universe makes up a trivial five per cent of everything....
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Breezy style, but some painful pronunciation
- By Anonymous User on 02-06-22
By: Brian Clegg
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Bomb
- The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- By: Steve Sheinkin
- Narrated by: Roy Roy Samuelson
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents....
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Clear and Concise History of the First Bomb
- By Anonymous User on 10-18-13
By: Steve Sheinkin
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Sun! One in a Billion
- Our Universe, Book 2
- By: Stacy McAnulty
- Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star - he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible....
By: Stacy McAnulty
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The Disappearing Spoon: Young Listeners Edition
- By: Sam Kean
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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A young listeners edition of the New York Times best seller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the greatest scientific tools in existence: the periodic table....
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Great stories for science lovers!
- By Anonymous User on 09-22-20
By: Sam Kean
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What Do We Know About Bigfoot?
- What Do We Know About?
- By: Steve Korté, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Shaan Dasani
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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What Do We Know About Bigfoot? lets curious young listeners explore what we actually know about the creature's mysterious history....
By: Steve Korté, and others
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Spooky Lakes
- 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet
- By: Geo Rutherford
- Narrated by: Geo Rutherford
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From Geo Rutherford-the creator of the hit series Spooky Lake Month (over sixty-five million likes!)-comes this thrilling nonfiction book that plumbs the depths of twenty-five unusual lakes around the world.
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You are awesome and inspiring, thank you for all your hard.
- By Anonymous User on 11-22-24
By: Geo Rutherford
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Kay's Anatomy
- A Complete (and Completely Disgusting) Guide to the Human Body
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay, Justin Meyers, Andy Nyman, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Explore each organ of the body in this immersive audiobook adaptation of Kay's Anatomy, read by world-wide multi-million bestselling author and former doctor Adam Kay with a full cast of voices, including Mark Gatiss, Sandi Toksvig, Andy Nyman and Lolly Adefope....
By: Adam Kay
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Johnny Appleseed
- By: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 24 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the touching story of the benevolent naturalist who roamed the Ohio valley in the early 1800s, planting apple orchards....
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Didn’t know it was morman...
- By Anonymous User on 10-07-20
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What Do We Know About Crop Circles?
- What Do We Know About?
- By: Ben Hubbard, Who HQ
- Narrated by: René Ruiz
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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What Do We Know About Crop Circles? lets curious young listeners learn about the phenomenon of crop circles and how they came to be one of the most studied mysteries of the natural world....
By: Ben Hubbard, and others
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Where Are the Constellations?
- By: Stephanie Sabol, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Jennifer Sun Bell
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Ancient people from many different cultures - Greek, Roman, Mezo-American, Arab - all looked up and imagined pictures in the sky by "drawing" a line from one star to another, like a connect-the-dots puzzle....
By: Stephanie Sabol, and others
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There Was An Old Astronaut Who Swallowed the Moon!
- By: Lucille Colandro
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Grace Lazor, Sebastian D'Amico
- Length: 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Scholastic's best-selling Old Lady returns in this adventure series with a nonfiction twist that will make you laugh and learn! In this spin-off, the Old Lady turns into an Old Astronaut who travels through space, swallowing a moon...along with a star, a planet, a comet, a meteor....
By: Lucille Colandro
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Yuck, You Suck!
- Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
- By: Jane Yolen, Heidi E. Y. Stemple
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Dare to listen to this audibook and you'll find ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants, jellyfish, and the particularly sucky lamprey. Sixteen slurpy poems from Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple introduce a suction-filled selection of animals and spotlight these stupendous suckers....
By: Jane Yolen, and others
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The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body
- By: Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen
- Narrated by: Polly Adams, Cassandra Morris
- Length: 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Take a ride inside the human body with Ms. Frizzle and the class....
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Definitely a read-along
- By Anonymous User on 05-12-11
By: Joanna Cole, and others
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The Story Book of Science
- By: Jean-Henri Fabre
- Narrated by: Tom Sullivan
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean-Henri Fabre was a popular teacher, physicist, chemist and botanist, but is best known for his findings in the study of insects, and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology....
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Weird way of introducing scientific topics to kids
- By Anonymous User on 12-21-23
By: Jean-Henri Fabre
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Amazing Jaw-Dropping Interesting Facts for Kids
- Awesome Fun Facts About Science, Sports, and Everything in Between for Curious, Smart Kids!
- By: K. Keen
- Narrated by: Jeff Royds
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Jaw-Dropping Facts and Some Silly "You Be the Judge" Trivia That Kids Can't Get Enough Of! Tired of boring facts? Want to know mind-blowing information that will make learning fun and spark imagination? Watch as amazing facts become unforgettable, and silly trivia gets kids thinking!
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Inspiring Informative Impactful
- By Anonymous User on 10-20-24
By: K. Keen
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The Colors of the Rainbow
- Science Series - Physics, Book 10
- By: Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand, Kim Mitzo Thompson
- Narrated by: Nashville Kids' Sound
- Length: 3 mins
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Kids will learn all the colors that make up white light are called the “spectrum.” These are the colors of a rainbow. Fun music will help explain that a prism is a special shaped piece of glass that breaks white light into seven colors....
By: Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand, and others
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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years
- Our Universe, Book 1
- By: Stacy McAnulty
- Narrated by: Samantha Turret
- Length: 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point of view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, listeners will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day....
By: Stacy McAnulty
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History Stinks!
- Poo Through the Ages
- By: Suzie Edge, Luke Newell - illustrator
- Narrated by: Suzie Edge
- Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover loads about the loo, piles about poo and the funniest and foulest facts from the smelliest corners of history, from TikTok historian, Dr Suzie Edge - perfect for fans of Horrible Histories and Adam Kay....
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interesting and silly
- By Anonymous User on 06-17-24
By: Suzie Edge, and others
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Our Planet! There's No Place Like Earth
- By: Stacy McAnulty
- Narrated by: Samantha Turret
- Length: 15 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
By: Stacy McAnulty
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Who Was Albert Einstein?
- By: Jess Brallier
- Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein - but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life....
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A good look at Einstein made clear
- By Anonymous User on 04-29-23
By: Jess Brallier
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What Do We Know About Atlantis?
- What Do We Know About?
- By: Emma Carlson Berne, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Does the underwater kingdom of Atlantis really exist, or is it just a centuries-old myth? Find out all there is to know about Atlantis in this compelling and up-to-date addition to an exciting new series....
By: Emma Carlson Berne, and others
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Mars! Earthlings Welcome
- Our Universe, Book 5
- By: Stacy McAnulty, Stevie Lewis - illustrator
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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From writer Stacy McAnulty comes Mars! Earthlings Welcome, a light-hearted nonfiction audiobook about the red planet - told from the perspective of Mars himself....
By: Stacy McAnulty, and others
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The Human Body
- Ken Jennings' Junior Genius Guides
- By: Ken Jennings
- Narrated by: Ken Jennings
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Unveil the impressive mysteries of your own body with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! champ and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings....
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Great information
- By Anonymous User on 04-09-24
By: Ken Jennings
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Life: The First 4 Billion Years
- The Story of Life from the Big Bang to the Evolution of Humans
- By: Martin Jenkins
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 2 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Experience Earth from the big bang to the dinosaurs and beyond in this beautifully written, vibrant overview of our home planet's journey from creation to our time today....
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Help me for biology
- By Anonymous User on 12-22-22
By: Martin Jenkins
New releases
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Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World
- Your Hidden Life
- By: Eleanor Spicer Rice PhD
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Microbes are everywhere: outside, indoors, on your body, in your body. In fact, only about half of our bodies' cells are human cells—the rest are microbes. Whether helping people digest their food or using mind-control techniques to lure mice into the path of hungry cats (no, really), microbes form an unseen jungle all around us.
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Why Fish Fart
- Gross but True Things You'll Wish You Didn't Know
- By: Francesca Gould
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered:How many pounds of insect parts the average person eats each year? Which specialty coffee is made from poop? How someone turned farting into a job? No? Then don't listen to this book.
By: Francesca Gould
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日本一わかりやすい宇宙ビジネス ネクストフロンティアを切り拓く人びと
- By: 中村 尚樹
- Narrated by: 野村 達也
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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2040年には150兆円規模とも言われる宇宙ビジネスの最前線とは?無人探査機SLIMの月面へのピンポイント着陸、カイロスロケット初号機の打ち上げ、九州のQPS研究所の小型SAR衛星打ち上げをはじめ、国内外で宇宙開発競争が熱気を帯びています。
By: 中村 尚樹
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Mighty Moons
- By: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Could there be life forms on planetary moons such as Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon or Titian, one of Saturn’s largest moons? Although our moon is made of mostly rock, astronomers believe life may exist on other moons! Scientists know liquid water is needed to support life, and Europa has plenty of it. What other key ingredients are needed for life to exist in our solar system?
By: Rebecca Boyle
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Coming Up
- By: David Hill
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wished you could go to the moon? Learn about Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and their fellow astronauts on the Apollo 11 who took the first steps on the moon! Discover the process and challenges that NASA overcame to safely send people to the moon with engineering and physics. Understand how this historical moment affected space exploration for countries all over the world.
By: David Hill
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Click and the Kids: Use Tools
- By: Betsy Page Brown
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Click and his friends wish to live in their favorite tree like the friendly squirrels. They decide to build a treehouse—but first they must collect the necessary materials and learn what tools they'll need for the job! They find a hammer, saw, level and measuring tape. What safety tools with they need to build their treehouse?
By: Betsy Page Brown
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Unseen Jungle: The Microbes That Secretly Control Our World
- Your Hidden Life
- By: Eleanor Spicer Rice PhD
- Narrated by: Stephanie Richardson
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Microbes are everywhere: outside, indoors, on your body, in your body. In fact, only about half of our bodies' cells are human cells—the rest are microbes. Whether helping people digest their food or using mind-control techniques to lure mice into the path of hungry cats (no, really), microbes form an unseen jungle all around us.
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Why Fish Fart
- Gross but True Things You'll Wish You Didn't Know
- By: Francesca Gould
- Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered:How many pounds of insect parts the average person eats each year? Which specialty coffee is made from poop? How someone turned farting into a job? No? Then don't listen to this book.
By: Francesca Gould
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日本一わかりやすい宇宙ビジネス ネクストフロンティアを切り拓く人びと
- By: 中村 尚樹
- Narrated by: 野村 達也
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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2040年には150兆円規模とも言われる宇宙ビジネスの最前線とは?無人探査機SLIMの月面へのピンポイント着陸、カイロスロケット初号機の打ち上げ、九州のQPS研究所の小型SAR衛星打ち上げをはじめ、国内外で宇宙開発競争が熱気を帯びています。
By: 中村 尚樹
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Mighty Moons
- By: Rebecca Boyle
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Could there be life forms on planetary moons such as Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon or Titian, one of Saturn’s largest moons? Although our moon is made of mostly rock, astronomers believe life may exist on other moons! Scientists know liquid water is needed to support life, and Europa has plenty of it. What other key ingredients are needed for life to exist in our solar system?
By: Rebecca Boyle
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Coming Up
- By: David Hill
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wished you could go to the moon? Learn about Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and their fellow astronauts on the Apollo 11 who took the first steps on the moon! Discover the process and challenges that NASA overcame to safely send people to the moon with engineering and physics. Understand how this historical moment affected space exploration for countries all over the world.
By: David Hill
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Click and the Kids: Use Tools
- By: Betsy Page Brown
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Click and his friends wish to live in their favorite tree like the friendly squirrels. They decide to build a treehouse—but first they must collect the necessary materials and learn what tools they'll need for the job! They find a hammer, saw, level and measuring tape. What safety tools with they need to build their treehouse?
By: Betsy Page Brown
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Without Wheels
- By: Amy Tao
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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What would we do without wheels? We use wheels for all kinds of things, including transportation. Learn about alternatives for transportation other than the wheel! Do you use any of these different ways of moving around?
By: Amy Tao
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Design Your Own Roller Coaster
- By: Lori Soard
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wanted to discover a roller coaster that is bigger or faster or scarier than any one you’ve ridden before? Follow the design activity to engineer your own, new roller coaster! Learn how different engineering elements make an exciting ride!
By: Lori Soard
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Dragonfly Drone
- By: Evan Ackerman
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever flown a drone before? They can be fun but are often hard to navigate by the operator. Scientists are hoping to discover ways to improve how drones see by using dragonflies! What about the anatomy of an insects’ eye will prove helpful?
By: Evan Ackerman
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Built by Birds
- By: Melissa Stewart
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 3 mins
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Have you ever seen a bird nest? Birds make all kinds of different nests! Nests are made from lots of different kinds of materials and are shaped differently. Learn about the different kinds of nests that are made by different species of birds!
By: Melissa Stewart
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Shape Determines Design
- By: Jackson Kuhl
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 7 mins
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Have you ever wondered how buildings are created? Architects have to use lots of different shapes in order to build a structure. Many geometric shapes are needed to create building designs. Can you find the different shapes in historical landmarks from all over the world?
By: Jackson Kuhl
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Where Did You Get Those Clothes?
- By: Amy Tao
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 1 min
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Do you know where your clothes come from? Learn about the processes of making certain materials that are used in clothing! Guess what plant or animal that rubber boots come from? What material is made from plastic bottles? You’ll be surprised to learn how the clothes you wear everyday are manufactured!
By: Amy Tao
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How a City Grows
- By: Lonnie Plecha
- Narrated by: Jonny Walker
- Length: 2 mins
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Have you ever wondered how big cities are created? Learn how small towns start with just a few houses and farms, and then grow into large cities with many roads, buses, and skyscrapers! See how cities grow and change throughout history by the growing population of people living, working and shopping among each other.
By: Lonnie Plecha
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Under Construction
- By: Cynthia Overbeck Bix
- Narrated by: Rebecca Taylor
- Length: 10 mins
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Bridges are engineering marvels! It takes a civil engineer, chief engineer, structural engineer and environmental engineer to build a bridge. There are different kinds that each require a special construction process to build. Learn how different bridges such as beam, suspension and arch bridge types are designed and built, as well as the construction workers needed at specific stages.
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When a Bone Breaks
- By: Kathiann M. Kowalski
- Narrated by: Sara Hazelwood
- Length: 7 mins
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Did you know if you break a bone, the bone can repair itself? You'll need to visit the doctor to have your broken bone set in a cast, while your body is hard at work repairing the injury! The moment you fall, blood from your injury sends signals to cells to start building new bone–the process of repairing is on its way! Do you know what your body makes to create new bone?
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Yo Wants to Know: Where Do the Stars Go During the Day?
- By: Lea Daniel
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 1 min
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Imagine taking a flight to the stars! Yo pretends to take a rocket into the sky to visit the stars–only he wonders if he will see the stars. Yo doesn’t want to crash into them if he can’t see them!
By: Lea Daniel
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Yo Wants to Know: Why Is It So Cold at the North Pole?
- By: Lea Daniel
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 1 min
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Yo says his toy animal, polar bear, wants to know why the polar regions stay cold! Yo’s father shows him a globe of the earth! Did you know the sun doesn’t shine on the North and South Poles strong enough to keep it warm? Yo learns that because the earth is tilted, sunlight shines brightly in the middle of the earth, and dimly on the Poles. What will Yo learn when he sees a flashlight?
By: Lea Daniel
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Don't Believe Your Eyes
- By: Rani Iyer
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 8 mins
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Eyes are organs that allow you to see the world! Learn about the anatomy of the eye and how it works to allow you to see. Discover how your vision is created through connections between your eye and brain. You won’t believe your eyes when you see a 3D movie! Special 3D glasses help your brain view a mixture of two different camera angles and colors from each lens. Have you ever seen a 3D movie?
By: Rani Iyer
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Why Is This Salamander Smiling?
- By: Meg Moss
- Narrated by: Rebecca Taylor
- Length: 7 mins
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Animals survive in the wild against predators. Many animals, like the salamander, can regenerate limbs–arms, tails, toes, and hearts! Can you guess how long it takes the salamander to grow a new limb? Learn about other animals like the octopus with this same protection. Not all animals have cells that can regenerate limbs for their survival. What do you do if you find an injured animal?
By: Meg Moss
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A Special Spacecraft
- By: Nick D’Alto
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 4 mins
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Of all the historic spacecraft vehicles displayed at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in New York–one remains special! On the Moon, it gave shelter to the astronauts. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Lunar Module–also used as a communications center–the LM-13 was built to transport people from earth to outer space! Learn what else makes this aeronautical spacecraft special!
By: Nick D’Alto
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Blackout!
- By: Kathiann M. Kowalski
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 4 mins
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Have you ever had an electrical power outage at home? In 2003, the largest blackout in United States history left millions of people without power for days! Learn how power generation plants are connected to the power grid that distributes electricity to regions of the country and to homes. What causes power outages? How does losing power affect daily life? What can people do to conserve energy?
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Let There Be Light
- By: Kathiann M. Kowalski
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 5 mins
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Do you know how the lightbulb was invented? In the 1800s, the first incandescent lightbulb was invented by Thomas Edison. Learn how Edison experimented with different materials, direct current, and by trial and error to design the first lightbulb. Which power company was created that funded the first electric lighting system to distribute light? The company still operates today, lighting and powering our world!
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Mint-y Fresh Coins
- By: James Hennelly
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 2 mins
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Have you ever wondered how a penny or dime is made? Coins are made from metal in factories called mints. First, an artist draws a picture of the coin, next clay is used to make a mold made from plastic. Then a machine engraves and designs a piece of metal–these metal pieces will be used to make stamps called dies. In the United States, there are only four factories–can you guess where?
By: James Hennelly
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Pop!
- By: Meg Moss
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 4 mins
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Popcorn is a yummy snack–how is popcorn cooked? From an un-popped kernel, heat boils the water that the kernel naturally has inside it. The water turns into steam after it builds up inside. Scientists used cameras to discover how corn popped! What’s inside the kernel to make an explosive change happen–turning a kernel of corn into a tasty buttery treat–popcorn?
By: Meg Moss
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The Big Spark
- By: Alan Schroeder
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 9 mins
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Help tell the story of Benjamin Franklin's discovery of electricity! Together with your friend, act out this play to learn how Benjamin Franklin used a wire, attached to the top of a kite, to attract lightning from the sky. Lightning is a form of electricity! It travelled down the kite string to the key that created electric sparks! How did Franklin come up with the idea for his famous experiment?
By: Alan Schroeder
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Seeing Colors
- By: Amy Tao
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 1 min
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Do you know how the anatomy of the eye allows us to see colors? Learn about the part of the eye called cones. Cones are like sensors that detect colors. The more cones a person or animal has, the more colors the eye perceives. Can you guess if your pets see you in full color, or if you see your pets in full colors?
By: Amy Tao
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The Whole Tooth
- By: Amy Tao
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 3 mins
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Did you know your teeth are the hardest thing in your body? Your tooth has many parts that protect it and keep it strong. How do cavities form? Learn how brushing and flossing can keep plaque from forming which helps prevent cavities.
By: Amy Tao
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The Littlest Astronauts
- By: Harry LeVine III
- Narrated by: Rebecca Taylor
- Length: 6 mins
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Do you know that astronauts are not the only living beings who can travel through space? Our human microbes do as well! When human astronauts go into space and return, they bring the microbes inside their bodies with them! Learn what these organisms teach scientists and how they can affect the human body both in space and on Earth.
By: Harry LeVine III
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Animal Teeth
- By: Melissa Stewart
- Narrated by: Rebecca Taylor
- Length: 4 mins
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What do you use your teeth for? Just like us, animals use their teeth for lots of different things in order to survive! Learn how animal teeth differ from humans and how they are special to each kind of animal, depending on what they eat! See all the different kinds of teeth that animals can have all over the world. Who do you think has the scariest teeth?
By: Melissa Stewart
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Whose Ears?
- By: Amy Tao
- Narrated by: David Armstrong
- Length: 2 mins
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Animals have different-looking ears, yet, help them to hear! Some animals have large floppy ears like the bunny, who points each ear in different directions–hearing two sounds at once! The harbor seal that has no ears, yet hears through holes that close when it dives! Whether floppy or unnoticed–these animals have ears perfect for hearing!
By: Amy Tao