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  • Killer in the Pool

    On February 24, 2010, Tilikum, the largest killer whale at SeaWorld, suddenly dragged Dawn Brancheau, his trainer, into the pool and killed her. Journalist Tim Zimmermann set out to find out why. His riveting account of Tilikum's life and the history of killer whale entertainment at marine parks dives into the world of the ocean's top predator. It chronicles Tilikum's capture and separation from ... Read more

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  • The Race

    The First Nonstop, Round-the-World, No-Holds-Barred Sailing Competition

    A contributing editor for Outside magazine provides a behind-the-scenes look at the fast-paced, around-the-world sailing race.An invigorating behind-the-scenes look at the world of extreme sailing, The Race is also a taut, engrossing account of the first running of the competition called "The Race," which began on December 31, 2000, in Barcelona and ended sixty-two days later in Marseilles. The ... Read more

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  • Beneath the Surface

    Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish

    *Now a New York Times Best Seller*Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were ... Read more

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  • Puget Sound Whales for Sale

    The Fight to End Orca Hunting

    A look at the history of the commercial capturing of orcas in Washington's Puget Sound, the whales taken, and the efforts to save them.In November, 2005, Washington's iconic killer whales, known as Southern Resident orcas, were placed on the endangered species list. It was a victory long overdue for a fragile population of fewer than one hundred whales. Author and certified marine naturalist ... Read more

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  • The Decision to Kill

    A True Crime Story of a Teenage Killer and the Mother Who Loved Him

    A family tragedy propels this gripping true crime debut as a mother searches for answers in the shocking murder of her husband—and conviction of her son.In the early morning of October 18, 1986, Cherie Wier's life collapses when her teenage son takes the life of her beloved husband. For years, Cherie grapples with events preceding and following the crime, struggling to overcome the consuming grief ... Read more

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  • Death at SeaWorld

    Shamu and the Dark Side of Killer Whales in Captivity

    by David Kirby ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Evidence of Harm and *Animal Factory—*a groundbreaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America's most beloved marine mammal parkDeath at SeaWorld centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the ... Read more

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  • Orca

    The Whale Called Killer

    by Erich Hoyt ...
    "Hoyt's passionate sense of kinship with orca makes his account effective as both a science and literature. He has chronicled his adventures and discoveries ...with grace, insight, wit--and a comprehensiveness that might satisfy even Herman Melville."(Discover Magazine)Star performers in aquariums and marine parks, killer whales were once considered to be too dangerous to approach in the wild. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Listening to Whales

    What the Orcas Have Taught Us

    A “warm, energetic memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and an impassioned study of the profound connection between humans and whales, from an award-winning marine researcher“[Morton’s] descriptions of [the whales’] lives and their haunting underwater communications are so vivid that they will remain with you long after you have read the last eloquent page.”—JANE GOODALLONE OF THE CHRISTIAN ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Woman Who Wasn't There

    The True Story of an Incredible Deception

    It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head’s astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001—from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing her fiancé in the collapsed north tower—transformed her into one of the great victims and heroes of that tragic ... Read more

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  • 102 Minutes

    The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

    The New York Times Bestseller2005 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction"102 Minutes does for the September 11 catastrophe what Walter Lord did for the Titanic in his masterpiece, A Night to Remember . . . Searing, poignant, and utterly compelling."—Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Army at DawnHailed upon publication as an instant classic, the critically accl... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Your Dog Is Your Mirror

    The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves

    by Kevin Behan ...
    Even those dog lovers who feel that they understand their pets better than anyone else are sometimes bewildered by a mystery behavior or response. This, asserts Kevin Behan, is because our dogs actions and attitudes are driven not by what we say or do but by what we feel. Two provocative conclusions follow from Behans argument: Because of unresolved emotions in our past, our dog may well know us ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Unnatural Causes

    From the Case Files of Notorious USA

    Series series Notorious USA
    With Photos!From the dark and bloody ground of Kentucky, to the peaceful Amish communities of Pennsylvania, to the cities and towns crisscrossing Ohio, murder and mayhem has been a part of it all. Within the pages of this latest volume in Notorious USA’s New York Times bestselling series you’ll discover how the unsuspecting succumbed to the evil that caught them by surprise, and what the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD