Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley HopeRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 40 MB / 19 MB / 24 MBOverview: In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the financial crisis, a baby-faced, seemingly mild-mannered Wharton grad began setting in motion a fraud […]
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor Requirements: .ePUB reader, 984 KB | RetailOverview: A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has […]
A Whale of a Murder by Valerie Taylor (Venus Bixby Mystery #1)Requirements: .ePUB reader, 1.7 MBOverview: Sea breezes and fireworks fill the air in cozy Chatham Crossing, the peaceful and historic whaling town situated between Providence and Cape Cod. Venus Bixby, owner of the forever popular music store Oldies & Goodies, is counting on the […]
Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson (Author) (Narrator)Requirements: .MP3 reader, 210MBOverview: Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present. Whales […]
When the Whalers Were Up North: Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic by Dorothy Harley Eber / Narrated by Brianne Tucker (McGill-Queen’s Indigenous and Northern Studies, 1) Requirements: .MP3 player, 224 mbOverview: The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen […]