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“john vaillant”

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  • Fire Weather

    On the Front Lines of a Burning World

    by John Vaillant ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tiger

    A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    by John Vaillant ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller" (Nature).Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Great Soul of Siberia

    Passion, Obsession, and One Man's Quest for the World's Most Elusive Tiger

    by Sooyong Park ...
    In The Great Soul of Siberia, renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks three generations of Siberian tigers living in remote southeastern Russia. Reminiscent of the way Timothy Treadwell (the so-called Grizzly Man) immersed himself in the lives of bears, Park sets up underground bunkers to observe the tigers, living thrillingly close to these beautiful but dangerous apex predators. At the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Jaguar's Children

    A Novel

    by John Vaillant ...
    This "extraordinary" novel of one man's border crossing reveals "a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free" (NPR).Héctor is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers' money for a mechanic and have not returned.Héctor finds a name in his friend César's phone: AnniMac. A name with ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lines on a Map

    Unparalleled Adventures in Modern Exploration

    by Frank Wolf ...
    Shortlisted for the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Award for Adventure TravelTwo decades of adventure writing are captured in this entertaining and inspiring collection of travel journalism by renowned adventurer, writer, filmmaker and environmentalist Frank Wolf.Lines on a Map is a compilation of Frank Wolf’s best work from the past two decades. Some of the adventures include: two friends on a cycling ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    An Audio Bundle: Storm & Deep Blue

    by Sebastian Junger, Michael Groom, Gordon Chaplin, Jack London, Rick Bass, Jack LeMoyne, John Vaillant, John Muir, Whitney Balliett, Richard Byrd; Patrick O'Brian, Farley Mowat, Robert Louis Stevenson, Philip Ashton, Rockwell Kent, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Philbrick, Stephen Crane ...
    Narrated by Terence Aselford, Rick Foucheux, Nick Sampson, Gary Telles, Richard Rohan, Barrett Whitener ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 1 min

    Most people associate storms and other big weather with death—with the kind of force that makes each of us wonder about life, and time and the nature of our surroundings. Some people go out looking for bad weather or go to places where they’re likely to encounter it. Others have the misfortune of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Still, the stories in Storm have more to say than that. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Fire Weather

    A True Story from a Hotter World

    by John Vaillant ...
    Narrated by Alan Carlson ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 18 min

    **A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce“Riveting, spellbinding, astounding on every page…Captures the majesty and horror of one of [our] great disasters.” —David Wallace-Wells, #1 bestselling author of The Uninhabitable Earth ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Tiger

    A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    by John Vaillant ...
    Narrated by John Vaillant ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren’t random: the tiger is apparently ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Jaguar's Children

    by John Vaillant ...
    Narrated by Ozzie Rodriguez, David H. Lawrence XVII ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing.Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait.Hector ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    The Sisterhood

    The Secret History of Women at the CIA

    by Liza Mundy ...
    Narrated by Liza Mundy ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “rip-roaring” (Steve Coll), “staggeringly well-researched” (The New York Times) history of three generations at the CIA, “electric with revelations” (Booklist) about the women who fought to become operatives, transformed spycraft, and tracked down Osama bin Laden, from the bestselling author of Code GirlsA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A FOREIGN POLICY AND ... Read more

    $27.50 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The 272

    The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

    by Rachel L. Swarns ...
    Narrated by Karen Murray ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 32 min

    “An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New World slavery sustained the Church and, thereby, helped to entrench enslavement in American society.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On JuneteenthNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie MedalA BEST BOOK OF ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook