Science & Engineering

Science

Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence

Neil deGrasse Tyson was born and raised in New York City where he was educated in the public schools clear through his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. Tyson went on to earn his BA in Physics from Harvard and his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia.Tyson's professional research interests are broad, but include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies, and the structure of our Milky Way. Tyson obtains his data from the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as from telescopes in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and in the Andes Mountains of Chile.In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. The final report was published in 2002 and

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

Cosmos

The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

My Favorite Universe

Letters from an Astrophysicist

Professionals & Academics

Biographies & Memoirs

Politics & Social Sciences

Ben Garrod

A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs

The Chimpanzee & Me

Fantasy

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Economics

Science Fiction

Thriller & Suspense

overall

Money & Finance

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Anthologies & Short Stories

Humor & Satire

Wil Wheaton began acting in commercials at the age of seven, and by the age of ten had appeared in numerous television and film roles. In 1986, his critically acclaimed role in Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me put him in the public spotlight, where he remains to this day. In 1987, Wil was cast as Wesley Crusher in the hit television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Recently, Wil has held recurring roles on TNT’s Leverage and SyFy’s Eureka; he currently recurs on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory. He played Axis of Anarchy leader Fawkes in Felicia Day’s webseries The Guild, and currently writes, produces, and hosts The Wil Wheaton Project on Syfy. He is also the creator and host of the multiple award-winning webseries Tabletop, which is about to begin

Wil Wheaton

Ready Player One

Armada

The Martian

Redshirts

The Collapsing Empire

Philosophy

Religion & Spirituality

Computer Science

Computers & Technology

World

Atheism

Social Sciences

Religious Studies

Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

The Selfish Gene

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Blind Watchmaker

The Magic of Reality

Lalla Ward

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (/ˈsɛθ ˈwʊdbɛri mɪkˈfɑrlən/; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and singer. He is the creator of the TV show Family Guy (1999–2003, 2005–present) and co-creator of the shows American Dad! (2005–present) and The Cleveland Show (2009–2013). He also voices many of the shows' various characters.MacFarlane grew up in Kent, Connecticut and is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied animation, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Recruited to Hollywood during the senior film festival by development executive Ellen Cockrill and President Fred Seibert, he was an animator and writer for Hanna-Barbera for several television shows, includin

Seth MacFarlane

The Demon-Haunted World

Comet

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Simon Vance is an audiobook narrator and actor who performs contemporary literary works as well as classics, children's books, and nonfiction. He has won 16 Audie Awards since 2002.

Simon Vance

Dune

Man's Search for Meaning

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl Who Played with Fire

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Literature & Fiction

Sociology

Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. She is probably best-known as the last wife of Carl Sagan, and co-author of the Cosmos series and book, along with Sagan and Steven Soter.In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god.Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Sagan. Alone, she wrote the

Ann Druyan

Pale Blue Dot

The Dragons of Eden

Billions & Billions

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Rob McQuay

A Walk in the Woods

The Menace from Earth

Age and Guile Beat Youth, Innocence, and a Bad Haircut

Virus Ground Zero

Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1993. His research focuses on issues in cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. His book The Particle at the End of the Universe won the prestigious Winton Prize for Science Books in 2013. Carroll lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.

Sean Carroll

The Big Picture

The Higgs Boson and Beyond

Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time

Something Deeply Hidden

James Nestor

Breath

Deep

Half-Safe

Aging & Longevity

Engineering

Russia

Mystery & Suspense

Home & Garden

Africa

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NARRATOR:Michael Page has been recording audiobooks since 1984, has recorded over two hundred titles, and has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. As a professional actor, Michael has performed regularly since 1998 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He is currently a professor of theater at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and daughters. He has a particular interest in Shakespeare and Eastern European theater and travels frequently to Hungary and Romania.(source: Dreamscape)Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

Michael Page

A Dangerous Fortune

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The Lies of Locke Lamora

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NARRATOR:Sean Runnette, a multiple AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has produced several Audie Award-winning audiobooks. He is a member of the American Repertory Theater company and has toured internationally with Mabou Mines, an avant-garde theater company. Sean's television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Copland, Sex and the City, Law & Order, Third Watch, and lots and lots of commercials, for which he apologizes.(source: Dreamscape)