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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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You Look Good for Your Age: An Anthology
- Robert Kroetsch Series
- Written by: Rona Altrows - editor
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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With wit and wisdom, women writers challenge ageism through essays, short stories, and poetry....
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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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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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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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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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You Look Good for Your Age: An Anthology
- Robert Kroetsch Series
- Written by: Rona Altrows - editor
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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With wit and wisdom, women writers challenge ageism through essays, short stories, and poetry....
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
- Written by: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Performance poet Sabrina Benaim presents Depression & Other Magic Tricks, a collection of poems that explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living....
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Wasn’t what I expected- Mixed feeling
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-08-02
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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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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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Black Like Who?
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Rinaldo Walcott
- Narrated by: Nigel Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott’s book not only assesses the role of Black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness....
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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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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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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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Text Messages
- Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling
- Written by: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Narrated by: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman....
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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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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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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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Inheritance
- A Pick-the-Path Experience
- Written by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn, and others
- Length: Not yet known
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Three people—Indigenous, immigrant, and settler—journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom....
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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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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....
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An Evening with W.O. Mitchell
- A Collection of the Author's Best-Loved Performance Pieces
- Written by: W. O. Mitchell
- Narrated by: W. O. Mitchell
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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In a unique listening experience from the unforgettable writer and public speaker W.O. Mitchell, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a curated, abridged selection of nine remarkable pieces from Mitchell’s lifetime of public readings, read by the author himself....
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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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Wires That Sputter
- Poems
- Written by: Britta Badour
- Narrated by: Britta Badour
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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A powerful debut collection from an award-winning artist, public speaker, and poet....
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Highly recommend checking this out
- By bboypiecez on 2023-06-23
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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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Le dernier sacrement
- Written by: Denis Bouchard
- Narrated by: Denis Bouchard, Marylou Belugou, Ayana O'Shun, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Denis Prud'homme est hospitalisé dans une unité de soins palliatifs. Professeur d'université, enfant de la Révolution tranquille, Denis est athée, et plutôt deux fois qu'une! Mais voilà qu'à sa dernière heure, il doute....
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Tiny Lights for Travellers
- Written by: Naomi K. Lewis
- Narrated by: Naomi K. Lewis
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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When her marriage suddenly ends, and a diary documenting her beloved Opa’s escape from Nazi-occupied Netherlands in the summer of 1942 is discovered, Naomi Lewis decides to retrace his journey to freedom....
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A fascinating story with exceptional writing.
- By Allan Cooper on 2024-03-04
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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
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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....