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Best sellers
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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 Chrissie on 10-18-13
By: Steve Sheinkin
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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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Good story for kids
- By J. Chinn on 02-04-21
By: Jess Brallier
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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 Emmilie on 09-22-20
By: Sam Kean
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Absolutely Everything!
- By: Christopher Lloyd
- Narrated by: Christopher Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Written and narrated by best-selling world history author Christopher Lloyd, this remarkable story sweeps through natural history with the creation of planet Earth, the beginning of life, the age of dinosaurs, mass extinctions, and the rise of prehistoric humans....
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Outstanding performance
- By Jennifer Baratta She/Her on 06-02-20
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The Electric War
- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
- By: Mike Winchell
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brimming with action, suspense, and rich historical information, this rousing account reveals the true story behind one of the world's defining scientific competitions....
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Very well written!
- By Amanda McCoy on 07-17-19
By: Mike Winchell
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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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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 Chrissie on 10-18-13
By: Steve Sheinkin
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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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Good story for kids
- By J. Chinn on 02-04-21
By: Jess Brallier
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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 Emmilie on 09-22-20
By: Sam Kean
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Absolutely Everything!
- By: Christopher Lloyd
- Narrated by: Christopher Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Written and narrated by best-selling world history author Christopher Lloyd, this remarkable story sweeps through natural history with the creation of planet Earth, the beginning of life, the age of dinosaurs, mass extinctions, and the rise of prehistoric humans....
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Outstanding performance
- By Jennifer Baratta She/Her on 06-02-20
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The Electric War
- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Light the World
- By: Mike Winchell
- Narrated by: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Brimming with action, suspense, and rich historical information, this rousing account reveals the true story behind one of the world's defining scientific competitions....
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Very well written!
- By Amanda McCoy on 07-17-19
By: Mike Winchell
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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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What Linnaeus Saw
- A Scientist's Quest to Name Every Living Thing
- By: Karen Magnuson Beil
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The globetrotting naturalists of the 18th century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology....
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Mendeleyev and the Periodic Table
- By: Katherine White
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Dmitri Mendeleyev gave science one of its most important discoveries when he published his periodic table of elements....
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Science for young minds
- By Rick B on 07-11-20
By: Katherine White
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What Is Climate Change?
- What Was?
- By: Gail Herman, Who HQ
- Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman
- Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Earth is definitely getting warmer. While the vast majority of scientists who study the environment agree that humans play a large part in climate change, there is a counterargument. Author Gail Herman presents both sides of the debate....
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propaganda not a serious attempt to explain
- By mats on 07-05-18
By: Gail Herman, and others
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Beastly Brains
- Exploring How Animals Think, Talk, and Feel
- By: Nancy F. Castaldo
- Narrated by: Charon Normand-Widmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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In Beastly Brains, Nancy Castaldo delves into the minds of animals and explores animal empathy, communication, tool use, and social societies....
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Isaac Newton
- The Giants of Science Series, Book 2
- By: Kathleen Krull
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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What was Isaac Newton like? Secretive, vindictive, withdrawn, obsessive, and oh, yes, brilliant. His imagination was so large that, just “by thinking on it”, he invented calculus and figured out the scientific explanation of gravity....
By: Kathleen Krull
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Radioactive!
- How Irene Curie and Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World
- By: Winifred Conkling
- Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb....
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Young Adult book
- By Richard Taylor on 06-28-17
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Lives of the Scientists
- Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought)
- By: Kathleen Krull
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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The subjects of Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought) are revealed as creative, bold, sometimes eccentric - and anything but dull....
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Fast read on science biographies.
- By Stephen Rosenthal on 03-28-21
By: Kathleen Krull
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I Am Albert Einstein
- Ordinary People Change the World Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson, Various
- Length: 13 mins
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Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north....
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Great intro to Albert Einstein
- By Mom of Wild Things - Bethany Armstrong on 03-14-19
By: Brad Meltzer
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Outbreak!
- Plagues that Changed History
- By: Bryn Barnard
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins
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Filled with fascinating, often gory details about disease and history, Outbreak! is a wonderful combination of science and history....
By: Bryn Barnard
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On a Beam of Light
- A Story of Albert Einstein
- By: Jennifer Berne
- Narrated by: Rich Orlow
- Length: 14 mins
- Unabridged
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A boy rides a bicycle down a dusty road. But in his mind, he envisions himself traveling at a speed beyond imagining, on a beam of light....
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Very short audio book!
- By Amazoner on 08-09-21
By: Jennifer Berne
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Team Moon
- How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
- By: Catherine Thimmesh
- Narrated by: Andy Paris
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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When three heroic men traveled aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft bound for the moon, the entire world sat glued to their TVs in suspense. But few knew just how much it took to get that far....
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It's ok...
- By Eric on 10-01-09
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A Computer Called Katherine
- How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon
- By: Suzanne Slade, Veronica Miller Jamison - illustrator
- Narrated by: Jeanette Illidg
- Length: 13 mins
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The inspiring true story of mathematician Katherine Johnson - made famous by the award-winning film Hidden Figures - who counted and computed her way to NASA and helped put a man on the moon....
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Simple
- By Amazon Customer on 03-01-21
By: Suzanne Slade, and others
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The Story of Salt
- By: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrated by: Brett Barry
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From the team that created the ALA Notable Book The Cod's Tale comes the fascinating history of salt, which has been the object of wars and revolutions and is vital for life....
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Nice snapshot for the young
- By IreneMBBT on 07-03-17
By: Mark Kurlansky
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Saving Earth
- Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future
- By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Nathaniel Rich, Tim Foley - illustrator
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle-grade listeners about the history of our fight against climate change and how young people today are rising to action....
By: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, and others
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A.I.
- By: Darcy Pattison
- Narrated by: Josiah Bildner
- Length: 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The stage was set for a showdown: Man v. Machine. On March 9, 2016, the AlphaGo artificial intelligence computer program played the board game, GO, against the world champion, Lee Sedol....
By: Darcy Pattison
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Benjamin Franklin
- The Giants of Science Series, Book 7
- By: Kathleen Krull
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 1 hr and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. And they may even have some vague idea that he once flew a kite during a lightning storm....
By: Kathleen Krull
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Charles Darwin
- The Giants of Science Series, Book 6
- By: Kathleen Krull
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt....
By: Kathleen Krull
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Water Pollution
- By: Bold Kids
- Narrated by: Michael Lakeman
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Water pollution is a big problem, much larger than you think....
By: Bold Kids
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The Vast Wonder of the World
- Biologist Ernest Everett Just
- By: Mélina Mangal
- Narrated by: Book Buddy Digital Media
- Length: 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He saw the whole, where others saw only parts. He noticed details others failed to see. He persisted in his research despite the discrimination and limitations imposed on him as an African American....
By: Mélina Mangal
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One Beetle Too Many
- The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin
- By: Kathryn Lasky
- Narrated by: Stafford Clark-Price
- Length: 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A lively exploration into the life of Charles Darwin, One Beetle Too Many recounts both Darwin’s childhood and his time on the Beagle as a naturalist....
By: Kathryn Lasky
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Let's Make Some Gold!
- Science's Biggest Mistakes About Geology and Ecology
- By: Christine Zuchora-Walske
- Narrated by: Intuitive
- Length: 34 mins
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Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about geology and ecology, and see how scientific thought changed over time....
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History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Galileo Galilei
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 27 mins
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It would be impossible to overstate the accomplishments and legacy of a man history has dubbed the "Father of Modern Science"....
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History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Alexander Graham Bell
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Tracey Norman
- Length: 30 mins
- Unabridged
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In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end....
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Kew: Darwin and Hooker
- A Story of Friendship, Curiosity and Discovery that Changed the World
- By: Alexandra Stewart, Joe Todd-Stanton - illustrator
- Narrated by: Henry Nott
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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On 24th November 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was first published, selling out almost immediately. However, he couldn’t have done it without the support, encouragement and advice from those who believed in him....
By: Alexandra Stewart, and others