Biological Family

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    • A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
    • By: Frans de Waal
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 576 ratings
    • What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we....

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    • How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
    • By: Carl Safina
    • Narrated by: Carl Safina
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Some people insist that culture is strictly a human feat. What are they afraid of? This book looks into three cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth's remaining wild places....

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    • Inside the Mind of an American Family
    • By: Robert Kolker
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,135 ratings
    • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with 12 children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....

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    • How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
    • By: John Medina
    • Narrated by: John Medina
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,947 ratings
    • What’s the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child’s brain? What’s the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know....

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    • A Medical Mystery
    • By: D.T. Max
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains....

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    • How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are
    • By: Libby Copeland
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 484 ratings
    • A deeply reported look at the rise of home genetic testing and the seismic shock it has had on individual lives....

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    • By: Oscar Serrallach
    • Narrated by: Mark Englehardt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Most mothers have experienced exhaustion, pain, forgetfulness, indecision, low energy levels, moodiness, or some form of baby brain. And it's no wonder: The process of growing a baby depletes a mother's body in substantial ways....

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    • THE KING FAMILY TRILOGY
    • By: B. CAMP, MARIBETH WAGNER
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Kings of the Apocalypse: The King Family Trilogy and Adam II: A Post-Apocalyptic Trilogy are both stand-alone trilogies and can be read ...

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    • A Lifetime in the English Countryside
    • By: Ronald Blythe
    • Narrated by: David Holt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As the celebrated author of Akenfield, Ronald Blythe, turns 100 this year, Next to Nature brings together a seasonal collection from the very best of a lifetime of writing....

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    • My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
    • By: Richard Hill
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • This is an engrossing account of an adoptee trying to reclaim the biological family denied him by sealed birth records....

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    • My Family and Other Dogs
    • By: Monty Don
    • Narrated by: Monty Don
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 234 ratings
    • When Monty Don's golden retriever, Nigel, became the surprise star of BBC's Gardeners' World, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so deeply....

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    • By: Rachel Carson
    • Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 653 ratings
    • First published more than 50 years ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of listeners....

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    • A Scientist's Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
    • By: Tracie White, Ronald W. Davis PhD
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 295 ratings
    • At the age of 27, Whitney Dafoe was forced to give up his life as a photographer who traveled the world. Bit by bit a mysterious illness stole away the pieces of his life: First, it took the strength of his legs, then his voice, and his ability to eat....

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    • Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species
    • By: Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
    • Narrated by: Helen Stern
    • Length: 22 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Maternal instinct - the all-consuming, utterly selfless love that mothers lavish on their children - has long been assumed to be an innate, indeed defining element of a woman's nature....

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    • The Advantage of Germs for Your Child's Developing Immune System
    • By: Jack Gilbert PhD, Rob Knight PhD, Sandra Blakeslee
    • Narrated by: Neil Scott-Barbour
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • From two of the world's top scientists and one of the world's top science writers (all parents), Dirt Is Good is a Q-and-A-based guide to everything you need to know about kids and germs....

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    • A Story of Hope, a Family's Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them
    • By: Gina Kolata
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw....

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    • A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
    • By: Bijal P. Trivedi
    • Narrated by: Deepti Gupta
    • Length: 20 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

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    • Calving Season on a Family Farm
    • By: John Connell
    • Narrated by: Alan Smyth
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • For fans of The Shepherd's Life, a poignant memoir - and number-one Irish best seller - about a wayward son's return home to his family's farm, and how he found a new beginning in an age-old world....

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