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Learn why decorator crabs cover themselves in ocean scraps and about a dolphin who learns to swim with an artificial tail, along with other stories about aquatic animals.

Learn why hummingbirds are called "nature's top athlete" and about colorful jumping spiders' ability to jump, along with other stories about birds and insects.

Learn how the arctic squirrel survives the winter and about the warning signs and habits of porcupines, along with other stories about land animals.

Learn why wood frogs make a dangerous journey each spring and how the people of Amherst, Massachusetts, helped spotted salamanders, along with other stories about lizards and amphibians.

At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew.

In an idyllic Los Angeles neighborhood, where generations of families enjoy deep roots in old homes, the O'Rourke family fits right in.

This biography gives listeners a courtside view of one of basketball's greatest legends as it traces Kobe's life from childhood to his five NBA championships to his successful career outside of the

For six years, Whitney Dafoe was confined to a bedroom in the back of his parents' home, unable to walk, to eat, to speak.

This book recreates one corner of rural Canada, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War.

"It's an anthology of writings by black authors from the prairie -- from 19th-century fur traders to avant-garde writers of the 21st."--

Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author's six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Group Command

“It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us.

In the spring of 1970, seventeen women set out from Vancouver in a big yellow convertible, a Volkswagen bus, and a pickup truck. They called it the Abortion Caravan.

Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty.

At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec.