According to Jennings

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - the space-craze sweeps through Linbury Court School and the corridors reverberate with 'voom-voom' noises as rockets, piloted by "Butch Breakaway" Jennings and his "bald-headed scientist," Darbishire, take off for the moon....

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College Without High School:

A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College

By Blake Boles

Read by Dustin Parkhurst

Education / Non-Formal Education

High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment? What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights ...

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Dumbing Us Down

The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By John Taylor Gatto

Read by Michael Puttonen

Education K-12

This radical treatise on public education has been a bestseller in print for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.

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Fermenting Revolution:

How to Drink Beer and Save the World

By Christopher Mark O'Brien

Read by Daniel Maté

Business & Economics / Green Business

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer....

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Harperland:

The Politics of Control

By Lawrence Martin

Read by Michael Puttonen

Biography / Political

After four years in power, Stephen Harper's governance comes under the microscope of prominent Globe and Mail columnist Lawrence Martin. Focusing on the growth of executive power under Harper and drawing on interviews with prominent insiders, Martin probes the smearing of opponents, the silencing of the public and diplomatic service, the secrecy, the prorogations, the unprecedented centralizing of power, and the attempted muzzling of the media

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In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts:

Close Encounters with Addiction

By Gabor Maté

Read by Daniel Maté

Health & fitness / Medical

Profoundly original, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what we can do to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviors

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Jennings Again!

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - When Linbury goes green, Jennings and Darbishire offer to do their bit for the environment and are given the task of distributing leaflets. Unfortunately, Darbishires shoelace refuses to stay tied....

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Jennings as Usual

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - jennings starts the second half of the Christmas term by accidentally setting his india rubber (eraser) on fire, it seems the residents of Linbury Court are going to have an exciting few weeks. Along with High Fidelity Telephonic Communication....

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Jennings at Large

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - term is over and, after a short camping expedition that leaves poor Mr Wilkins determined never to go through such an horrific experience again, Jennings is off to stay with his Aunt Angela. There, he meets Emma Sparrow....

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Jennings Diary

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - it is the Easter term at Linbury Court School and Jennings has been promised five pounds by his aunt if he keeps up his diary every day....

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Marked for Death:

Dying for the Story in the World’s Most Dangerous Places aka Murder Without Borders

By Terry Gould

Read by Byron Wagner

Current Affairs / International / True Crime

Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling the truth in places where truth-telling will get them murdered?

Organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters sans frontières bring us the death toll from around the world, and that number is truly daunting: since 1992 more than 730 journalists have been killed...

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On Gandhi's Path:

Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics

By Stephanie Mills

Read by David Adams

Biography & Autobiography

Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward

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Peak Everything:

Waking Up to the Century of Declines

By Richard Heinberg

Read by Edward Dalmas

Social Science / General

The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically.

The 21st century ushered in an era of declines, in a number of crucial parameters:...

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The Jennings Report

By Anthony Buckeridge

Read by Simon Vance

Fiction / Comedy / Childrens (loved by all ages)

In this audiobook - when Jennings and Darbishire discover a hibernating hedgehog they are instantly intrigued. Then, when Venables tells him that foxes eat hedgehogs, Jennings decides to rescue it....

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The Natural Step Story:

Seeding a Quiet Revolution

By Robert, Karl-Henrik

Read by Cochran Keating

Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development

Few organizations have been as influential as The Natural Step in empowering and inspiring people to design a more sustainable world. In The Natural Step Story, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt describes firsthand the evolution of the Natural Step framework.

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The Transgender Child:

A Handbook for Families and Professionals

By Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper

Read by Michael Puttonen

Family & Childcare / Gender Studies / Health / Parenting / Sexual Politics

What do you do when your son insists on wearing a dress to school? Or when your toddler daughter's first sentence is that she's a boy? Offering an extensive understanding of gender-variant and transgender youth, The Transgender Child answers these questions and more. Covering developmental, legal, medical, and school issues, The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box.

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The Vanishing Face of Gaia:

A Final Warning

By James Lovelock

Read by Simon Vance

Environment / climate Change / Global Warming

Why would a ninety year old man choose to defy his most trusted physician? Because in an act of splendid generosity Sir Richard Branson offered him the chance to fly into space, to share that transcendental feeling known only to astronauts - that our home is the Earth itself, not the house or the street or the nation where we live - which for a scientist who has spent a lifetime studying the way our planet works was irresistible....

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Thriving Beyond Sustainability:

Pathways to a Resilient Society

By Andrés R. Edwards

Read by David Adams

Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development

Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives taking place everywhere from isolated villages to major urban centers

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When the Body Says No

The Cost of Hidden Stress | (US) Exploring the Stress Disease Connection

By Gabor Maté, M.D.

Read by Daniel Maté

Health & fitness / Self Help / Psychology & Psychiatry

In this accessible and groundbreaking book -- filled with the moving stories of real people -- medical doctor and bestselling author of Scattered Minds, Gabor Maté, shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness.

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