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La servante écarlate
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Edition spéciale avec un bonus. Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Écoute très appréciée
- By Sylvie on 2019-12-16
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Book of Longing
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Leonard Cohen
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Book of Longing is a critically-acclaimed collection of poetry by the late Leonard Cohen. The audiobook features edited and remastered archival recordings of the author himself, reading the poems in a home environment....
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Milk and Honey
- Written by: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story5 out of 5 stars 48
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant.
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-18
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Les Testaments
- La servante écarlate 2
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lucie Laurier, Chantal Fontaine, Léa Roy, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
Trente ans après La Servante écarlate, Margaret Atwood reprend la plume pour écrire la suite de son histoire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thanks for a french canadian translation
- By Cassie on 2020-01-23
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
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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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 883
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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La servante écarlate
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Edition spéciale avec un bonus. Devant la chute drastique de la fécondité, la république de Gilead, récemment fondée par des fanatiques...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Écoute très appréciée
- By Sylvie on 2019-12-16
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Book of Longing
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Leonard Cohen
- Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story5 out of 5 stars 6
Book of Longing is a critically-acclaimed collection of poetry by the late Leonard Cohen. The audiobook features edited and remastered archival recordings of the author himself, reading the poems in a home environment....
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Milk and Honey
- Written by: Rupi Kaur
- Narrated by: Rupi Kaur
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story5 out of 5 stars 48
Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant.
- By Anonymous User on 2020-10-18
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Les Testaments
- La servante écarlate 2
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Lucie Laurier, Chantal Fontaine, Léa Roy, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story5 out of 5 stars 24
Trente ans après La Servante écarlate, Margaret Atwood reprend la plume pour écrire la suite de son histoire....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thanks for a french canadian translation
- By Cassie on 2020-01-23
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
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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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 883
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Gristle & Bone
- A Collection
- Written by: Duncan Ralston
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Monsters lurk among us. Cannibals. Werewolves. Artificial intelligence. The vengeful dead. Some want to harm us. Some to help. Others seek to enslave us....
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Je suis une viking
- Written by: Andrew David MacDonald
- Narrated by: Maud Rudigoz
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Zelda, 21 ans, n'est pas tout à fait comme les jeunes femmes de son âge, parce que sa mère buvait trop quand elle était enceinte. Qu'à...
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Stella Who?
- Written by: L. M. Wasylciw
- Narrated by: Jack Wynters
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Stella was a homeless woman who had been living on the streets of Victoria, Canada, for more years than she could recall....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything I expected and more
- By Sutherland Booth on 2019-09-10
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Œil de chat
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Marie-Eve Dufresne
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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À l'occasion d'une rétrospective de son travail dans une galerie, Elaine Risley, une artiste-peintre controversée, retourne à Toronto sur...
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Black to the Grindstone
- Written by: Arthur Black
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Demonstrating once again why he is one of Canada's most loved jokesters, Black masterfully captures the laughter that often bursts out of the seams of everyday life....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story3 out of 5 stars 1
In The Blue Clerk, award-winning poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages. In their dialogues - which take shape as a series of haunting prose poems....
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The Flame
- Poems and Selections From Notebooks
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rodney Crowell, John Doe, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The final work from Leonard Cohen, Canada's most celebrated poet and an artist whose audience spans generations and whose work is known and loved throughout the world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intimately beautiful and beautifully intimate
- By Joanne D. on 2018-11-22
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Dearly
- Poems
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present....
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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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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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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Lemon
- A Novel
- Written by: Cordelia Strube
- Narrated by: Angela Gothos
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Lemon is the story of a teenaged girl with the numbers against her: Three mothers, one deadbeat dad, one cancer-riddled protégé, two friends, one tree-hugging stepbrother, and a 60 percent average....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stellar story with great depth of meaning
- By DrHex on 2019-12-01
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And the Birds Rained Down
- Written by: Jocelyne Saucier, Rhonda Mullins - translator
- Narrated by: Ann Noble, Kathleen Gati, Kimberly Farr, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Tom and Charlie are living out what's left of their lives on their own terms in a remote forest, two pot growers their only connection to the outside world....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A thing of beauty
- By islandally on 2018-09-13
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The Cremation of Sam McGee
- Written by: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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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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Stranger Music
- Selected Poems and Songs
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Through the release of more than a dozen studio albums, Leonard Cohen gained a reputation as a dazzlingly literate and consistently daring songwriter. Stranger Music brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry....
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Letters to His Son, 1746-1747
- On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
- Written by: Lord Chesterfield
- Narrated by: David Thorn
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
The first set of an extraordinary collection of 10 sets of personal letters written by Lord Chesterfield to his illegitimate son, young Philip Stanhope, then living abroad with his tutor to further his education....
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Monoceros
- A Novel
- Written by: Suzette Mayr
- Narrated by: Ramon De Ocampo
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2
A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him....
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Ellesmere
- Written by: Marie Desjardins
- Narrated by: Pierre Thibodeau
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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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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The Nectar of Pain
- Written by: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
In The Nectar of Pain, Zebian sheds light on the feelings and experiences that emerge from a painful heartbreak. She writes that the process of cleansing oneself of that pain - day by day, hour by hour, and second by second - is the real work of healing....
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Sparks of Phoenix
- Written by: Najwa Zebian
- Narrated by: Najwa Zebian
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1
As the phoenix emerges from its ashes, Zebian emerges ablaze in this book, not only as a survivor of abuse, but as a teacher and healer for all those who have struggled to understand, reclaim, and rise above a history of pain....
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The Treacherous Imagination
- Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction
- Written by: Robert McGill
- Narrated by: Joseph Steenburgh
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Many authors have been accused of betraying their loved ones by turning them into fictional characters. In The Treacherous Imagination, McGill examines the ethics of writing such stories....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall1 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 1
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Story1 out of 5 stars 1
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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The Amendment
- Contract Series # 3,
- Written by: Melanie Moreland
- Narrated by: John Lane, Tatiana Sokolov
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Richard VanRyan has it all. A loving wife, a beautiful family, great friends, and a career he excels at. He is riding high on the crest of life. What happens when the ride stops? When the unthinkable becomes reality and life may never again be the same? The Contract has changed....
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The Lease
- Written by: Mathew Henderson
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Mathew Henderson's The Lease explores masculinity and the roles morality, violence, and hard labor play in it....
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Living in the Tall Grass
- Poems of Reconciliation
- Written by: Chief R. Stacey Laforme
- Narrated by: Chief R. Stacey Laforme
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to allow us to see through the eyes of indigenous people....
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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
- Unabridged
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Overall1 out of 5 stars 1
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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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1 out of 5 stars
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not very good CTV 80's movie was better
- By JOHN MACKINNON on 2020-03-26
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Halton
- Vested Interest Series, Book 6
- Written by: Melanie Moreland
- Narrated by: John Lane, Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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When love turns to hate - that's where I come in. I'm Halton Andrew Smithers, attorney. Hal to my clients and friends. Messy divorces, deadbeat dads, runaway wives, cheating partners - I handle them all. I know the seedy side of love, and it isn't pretty....
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Age of Minority
- Three Solo Plays
- Written by: Jordan Tannahill
- Narrated by: Pip Dwyer, Rividu Mendis, Christo Graham
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Three of Jordan Tannahill's fresh and riveting works are featured in this collection, including Get Yourself Home Skyler James, Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes, and rihannaboi95....
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Little Cat
- Written by: Tamara Faith Berger
- Narrated by: Felicity Munroe, Samuel Flores
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex....
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In Flanders Fields
- Written by: John McCrae
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
- Length: 1 min
- Unabridged
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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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Ossuaries
- Written by: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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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....