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Bestsellers
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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 Anonymous User on 2020-04-06
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Let Us Compare Mythologies
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was 22 years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20....
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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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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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My Conversations with Canadians
- Essais Series, Book 4
- Written by: Lee Maracle
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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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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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 Anonymous User 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 Anonymous User on 2020-04-06
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Let Us Compare Mythologies
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 54 mins
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Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was 22 years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of 15 and 20....
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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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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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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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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 Anonymous User 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 Anonymous User on 2021-06-12
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Canadian Shorts II
- A Collection of Short Stories
- Written by: Brenda Fisk
- Narrated by: Jenny Hoops, Jonathan Ostrander
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
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Canadian Shorts II is a specially selected collection of short stories by established and emerging Canadian authors. Showcasing Canada's diverse writing talent, there is a story for every listener, from literary fiction to scifi fantasy to prairie gothic to romance-thriller....
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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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Poésies, contes et nouvelles du Québec
- Written by: Divers auteurs
- Narrated by: Jean Fauber, Ghislaine Paradis
- Length: 1 hr and 40 mins
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Découvrez, grâce à l’extraordinaire talent de Jean Faubert et de Ghislaine Paradis la richesse de l’expression de la langue des écrivains et poètes du Québec....
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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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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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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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The Day-Breakers
- Written by: Michael Fraser
- Narrated by: Michael Fraser
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the selflessness of Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the American Civil War, of whom hundreds were African Canadian, fighting for the freedom of their brethren and the dawning of a new day....
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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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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 Anonymous User on 2023-09-11
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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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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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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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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 Anonymous User on 2019-09-10
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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: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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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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Noise
- A Novel
- Written by: Russell Smith
- Narrated by: Russell Smith
- Length: 9 hrs
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A fast-paced comic extravaganza and from the author of the runaway best seller and Governor General’s Award-nominated How Insensitive....
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L'Héritage des Whiteoak
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 5
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Renny Whiteoak, l’héritier de Jalna, revient d’Europe à la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale. Le domaine a été mal géré et ses quatre jeunes...
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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 Anonymous User on 2022-06-09
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Anonymous User on 2020-03-26