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Bestsellers
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Gutter Child
- Written by: Jael Richardson
- Narrated by: Phoenix Pagliacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of 100 children selected as a social experiment....
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It Could Have Been Good
- By Jessica on 2021-03-20
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic....
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Autobiography of Red
- Vintage Contemporaries Series
- Written by: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present....
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The Watch That Ends the Night
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Julian Casey
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend....
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- Written by: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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Everything I expected and more
- By Sutherland Booth on 2019-09-10
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Each Man's Son
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Billy MacLellan
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before....
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Gutter Child
- Written by: Jael Richardson
- Narrated by: Phoenix Pagliacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of 100 children selected as a social experiment....
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It Could Have Been Good
- By Jessica on 2021-03-20
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic....
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Autobiography of Red
- Vintage Contemporaries Series
- Written by: Anne Carson
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional recreation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present....
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The Watch That Ends the Night
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Julian Casey
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend....
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- Written by: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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Everything I expected and more
- By Sutherland Booth on 2019-09-10
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Each Man's Son
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Billy MacLellan
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before....
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This Accident of Being Lost
- Written by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Narrated by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Blending elements of science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, these are visionary pieces....
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Scars and Stars
- Written by: Jesse Thistle
- Narrated by: Jesse Thistle
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of knowing his poetry. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart....
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Lovely!
- By Jeanguy Turmelle on 2023-09-11
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In Flanders Fields
- Written by: John McCrae
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
- Length: 1 min
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"In Flanders Fields" is one of the most famous poems written by John McCrae. It is believed that McCrae wrote the poem after presiding at the funeral of a friend killed during the second Battle of Ypres, in 1915....
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My Conversations with Canadians
- Essais Series, Book 4
- Written by: Lee Maracle
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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On her first book tour, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labor, law, prejudice and reconciliation, are the heart of My Conversations with Canadians.
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Coke Machine Glow
- Written by: Gordon Downie
- Narrated by: Dan Ayckroyd, Robbie Baker, Clare Downie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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On the 20th-anniversary year of Coke Machine Glow, fans have more to delight in: the audiobook of Coke Machine Glow and a brand-new album by Downie, released posthumously.
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Rock, Scissors, Paper
- The Clifford Olsen Murders
- Written by: Richard Stevenson
- Narrated by: B. Jaymes Condon
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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In the early 1980s, serial killer Clifford Olson rampaged through the lower mainland of British Columbia, raping and murdering 11 victims....
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not very good CTV 80's movie was better
- By JOHN MACKINNON on 2020-03-26
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Arriving: 1909-1919
- Understanding Ursula, Book 1
- Written by: Corinne Jeffery
- Narrated by: Jan Crowley
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
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Book one of the Understanding Ursula trilogy vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters....
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C'est le coeur qui lâche en dernier
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Caroline Breton
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Stan et Charmaine ont été touchés de plein fouet par la crise économique qui consume les États-Unis. Tous deux survivent grâce aux maigres...
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La naissance de Jalna
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 1
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Cette fresque familiale canadienne fut l'un des plus grands succès de la littérature nord-américaine, dès la parution en 1927 du premier...
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Book of Mercy
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust....
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Runaway Dreams
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape....
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Relatable, true, and real
- By Kelly on 2022-06-09
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You'll Come Back to Yourself
- Written by: Michaela Angemeer
- Narrated by: Michaela Angemeer
- Length: 26 mins
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Dive into this collection of poetry and prose inspired by modern dating and broken relationships, perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Orion Carloto....
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Tiff
- A Life of Timothy Findley
- Written by: Sherrill Grace
- Narrated by: Mary Wall
- Length: 24 hrs and 32 mins
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Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers - an award-winning novelist, playwright and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and '80s....
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Ellesmere
- Written by: Marie Desjardins
- Narrated by: Pierre Thibodeau
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Ellesmere... L'île la plus au nord de l'Arctique. Le théâtre d'une tragédie humaine. Au cours des années 1950, le gouvernement canadien y a sauvagement déporté une centaine d'Inuits pour assurer la souveraineté territoriale du pays....
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Pas merveilleux
- By Natalie Lalancette on 2024-08-06
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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
- Written by: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe - introduction
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.
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Stella Who?
- Written by: L. M. Wasylciw
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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Stella's world was one of misery and despair, wandering the streets of Victoria, BC, cold, wet and hungry. She had adapted to street-life, but on most days, she would rather be dead.
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Ossuaries
- Written by: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life....
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Stanley Park
- Written by: Sapphira Olson
- Narrated by: Julianne Meaney
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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A sorrow has taken root in my heart, and although it hurts every day I know there is a place where we laugh together under an open sky. To that sanctuary, I am travelling. This is that story....
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Voices in Time
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Daniel Michael Karpenchuk
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story....
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Matins à Jalna
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 2
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Cette fresque familiale canadienne fut l'un des plus grands succès de la littérature nord-américaine, dès la parution en 1927 du premier des seize...
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Neuf contes
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Flor Lurienne
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Une écrivaine de fantasy récemment veuve se laisse guider à travers un hiver glacial par la voix de son défunt époux. Une dame âgée...
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The Cremation of Sam McGee
- Written by: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 6 mins
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Cap the narrator makes a deal with his pal Sam McGee that he will cremate him when he dies. Now the problem is where to do this deed in the frozen Yukon....
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a pals last need is a thing to heed
- By Heather Elizabeth Rose on 2021-06-12
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Jeunesse de Renny
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 4
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
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Cette fresque familiale canadienne fut l'un des plus grands succès de la littérature nord-américaine, dès la parution en 1927 du premier...
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The Blue Clerk
- Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
- Written by: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained....