Contemporary Family Life

Calamity is confronting two big transitions: the death of her beloved father and the beginning of menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her gift for finding lost things. Suddenly, she is getting hot flashes that seem to forge objects out of thin air, most notably a four-year old boy. As Calamity takes the child into her care, she discovers that all is not as it seems. Then, Calamity must reawaken to the mysteries surrounding her own childhood and the early disappearance of her mother.

As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colourful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an ageing Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York - to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup.

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough. Devastated doesn’t fix anything. Sunday has a plan.

Changes are coming to the riverside town of Ryemouth, and while some of the community are excited by new beginnings, others are finding it hard to let go of the past. A new 14-episode audio soap with a cast of loveable characters you'll want to laugh and cry along with. Susan and her boyfriend Dave can't wait to open their new café and deli, The Old Engine Room. But Susan's dad, George, is not so thrilled. He's never approved of Dave, who used to hang out with the wrong crowd. Can the happy young couple win George round?

The true story. Within Manhattan’s oldest families, where money marries money and pedigrees have nothing to do with dogs, rebellious children are reeled in with arranged marriages under threat of disinheritance. But what if an arranged marriage brings you the man of your dreams and the girl you’ve always wanted?

Alyssa Bryant has led a life doing everything to live up to the Bryant name. The one thing that she always wanted was to be able to have raised the child of the man that she gave her heart to when she was younger. Her destiny wasn't to have that child and she hasn't been able to completely heal from that loss. She now has Marcus Graham in her life and loves everything about him. A part of her is holding back because of this secret that she is keeping; fearful of his reaction.

It is a poignant story of a girl named Jessica who is fated to be a widow within one year of her marriage. She cannot marry her lover, Ken Romano, because of the astrologer’s prophecy. Then, after her marriage to another man, she cannot enjoy the conjugal bliss. Listen to this audiobook to find out what happened to her afterward.