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Books narrated by Patrick Wensink

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  • The Great Black Swamp

    Toxic Algae, Toxic Relationships, and the Most Interesting Place Nobody's Ever Heard Of

    In the summer of 2014, a strange thing happened to one of the largest freshwater bodies on the planet: Lake Erie's western shore turned bright green with toxic algae that could have killed 400,000 Ohioans. Stranger still, it was kind of Patrick Wensink's fault. Okay, partially his fault, but also to blame was industrial corn farming, greenhouse gasses, the Worst Road In America, his attraction to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Broken Piano for President

    Narrated by Patrick Wensink ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    Patrick Wensink's Broken Piano for President earned him status as an internationally best-selling author - as well as a "World's Nicest Cease and Desist" from Jack Daniel's. Deshler Dean is only at his brilliant best when he's blackout drunk. Having invented a hamburger as addictive as crystal meth, scored a record contract for his alt-rock band, and become entangled in the biggest war since WWII, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Walk

    Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries & Other Stuff You See Every Day (And Know Nothing About)

    by Spike Carlsen ...
    "Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you." —TODAY ShowA simple walk around the block set journalist Spike Carlsen, bestselling author of A Splintered History of Wood, off to investigate everything he could about everything we take for granted in our normal life—from manhole covers and recycling bins to bike lanes and stoplights ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soil

    The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

    A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Hour of Land

    A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

    An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Dreamt Land

    Chasing Water and Dust Across California

    by Mark Arax ...
    A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wroughtMark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • State by State

    A Panoramic Portrait of America

    Edited by Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey ...
    Inspired by Depression-era travel guides, an anthology of essays on each of the fifty states, plus Washington, D.C., by some of America's finest writers.State by State is a panoramic portrait of America and an appreciation of all fifty states (and Washington, D.C.) by fifty-one of the most acclaimed writers in the nation.Anthony Bourdain chases the fumigation truck in Bergen County, New JerseyDave ... Read more

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  • Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Attack of the Factoids

    Series series Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
    Bite-sized bits of information to give you the edge on trivia night—from crime and punishment to the rich and famous to ghosts, ghouls, oddballs, and more!Packed with more than 400 pages, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader: Attack of the Factoids is a fact-a-palooza of obscure information. Like what, you ask? Here are just a few extraordinary examples:* Bats always turn left when they exit a cave.* In ... Read more

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  • Rats

    Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

    New York Public Library Book for the TeenagerNew York Public Library Book to RememberPSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesBehold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remark... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Ground Beneath Us

    From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are

    by Paul Bogard ...
    From growth and life to death and loss, and from city-running technology to the dwindling idyllic Edens that remain, this is the story of our earth's soil.When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to our food supply, the planet's wildlife, the soil on which every life-form depends? ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Graceland, At Last

    Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

    "In this luminous collection" a New York Times columnist "delivers smart, beautifully crafted personal and political observations" on the American south ( Minneapolis Star Tribune).Margaret Renkl's New York Times columns offer readers a weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in ... Read more

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  • Mill Town

    Reckoning with What Remains

    Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book AwardWinner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for NonfictionFinalist for the 2020 National Book Critics John Leonard Prize for Best First BookFinalist for the 2021 New England Society Book Award**Finalist for the 2021 New England Independent Booksellers Association AwardA New York Times Editors’ Choice and Chicago Tribune top book for 2020“Mill ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD