
The Festival of Literary Diversity
Featured Authors from the 2024 Festival of Literary Diversity
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Maya's Laws of Love
- Auteur(s): Alina Khawaja
- Narrateur(s): Mayuri Bhandari
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
A bride-to-be convinced she’s cursed in romance finds her luck changing—at exactly the wrong time. Maya Mirza is so convinced she’s unlucky in love that she’s come up with a list of laws to explain it. Most importantly…
Auteur(s): Alina Khawaja
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The Future
- Auteur(s): Catherine Leroux, Susan Ouriou - translator
- Narrateur(s): Karie Richards
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.
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Terrible
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-03
Auteur(s): Catherine Leroux, Autres
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Denison Avenue
- Auteur(s): Daniel Innes - illustrator, Christina Wong
- Narrateur(s): Christina Wong
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum’s attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind.
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Lovely
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-03-02
Auteur(s): Daniel Innes - illustrator, Autres
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The African Samurai
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Craig Shreve
- Narrateur(s): Korey Jackson
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kuchinotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. On board is Father Alessandro Valignano, an Italian priest and Jesuit missionary whose authority in central and east Asia is second only to the pope’s. Beside him is his protector, a large and imposing East African man. Taken from his village as a boy, sold as a slave to Portuguese mercenaries, and forced to fight in wars in India, the young but experienced soldier is haunted by memories of his past.
Auteur(s): Craig Shreve
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Black Boys Like Me
- On Race, Identity, and Belonging
- Auteur(s): Matthew R. Morris
- Narrateur(s): Matthew R. Morris
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him received those performances.
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No other words but incredible
- Écrit par Rosanna Araujo le 2024-03-07
Auteur(s): Matthew R. Morris
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Hope Ablaze
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sarah Mughal Rana
- Narrateur(s): Farah Kidwai
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece—the poet who will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option.
Auteur(s): Sarah Mughal Rana
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Maya's Laws of Love
- Auteur(s): Alina Khawaja
- Narrateur(s): Mayuri Bhandari
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
A bride-to-be convinced she’s cursed in romance finds her luck changing—at exactly the wrong time. Maya Mirza is so convinced she’s unlucky in love that she’s come up with a list of laws to explain it. Most importantly…
Auteur(s): Alina Khawaja
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The Future
- Auteur(s): Catherine Leroux, Susan Ouriou - translator
- Narrateur(s): Karie Richards
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.
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Terrible
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2024-10-03
Auteur(s): Catherine Leroux, Autres
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Denison Avenue
- Auteur(s): Daniel Innes - illustrator, Christina Wong
- Narrateur(s): Christina Wong
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum’s attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind.
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Lovely
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-03-02
Auteur(s): Daniel Innes - illustrator, Autres
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The African Samurai
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Craig Shreve
- Narrateur(s): Korey Jackson
- Durée: 9 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kuchinotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. On board is Father Alessandro Valignano, an Italian priest and Jesuit missionary whose authority in central and east Asia is second only to the pope’s. Beside him is his protector, a large and imposing East African man. Taken from his village as a boy, sold as a slave to Portuguese mercenaries, and forced to fight in wars in India, the young but experienced soldier is haunted by memories of his past.
Auteur(s): Craig Shreve
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Black Boys Like Me
- On Race, Identity, and Belonging
- Auteur(s): Matthew R. Morris
- Narrateur(s): Matthew R. Morris
- Durée: 7 h et 33 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
After graduating high school in Scarborough, Morris spent four years in the U.S. on multiple football scholarships and, having spent that time in the States experiencing “the Mecca of hip hop and Black culture,” returned home with a newfound perspective. Now an elementary school teacher himself in Toronto, Morris explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him received those performances.
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No other words but incredible
- Écrit par Rosanna Araujo le 2024-03-07
Auteur(s): Matthew R. Morris
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Hope Ablaze
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sarah Mughal Rana
- Narrateur(s): Farah Kidwai
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
All My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. Nida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece—the poet who will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option.
Auteur(s): Sarah Mughal Rana
Editors' Picks
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Her Pretty Face
- Auteur(s): Robyn Harding
- Narrateur(s): Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started living her life. Overweight, insecure, and lonely, she is desperate to fit into Forrester’s world. But after a disturbing incident at the school leads the other children and their families to ostracize the Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever before. Until she meets Kate Randolph.
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I couldn't put it down. !!
- Écrit par Michelle Trofimuk le 2019-03-28
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Scarborough
- Auteur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- Écrit par A B le 2019-09-19
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Forgiveness
- A Gift from My Grandparents
- Auteur(s): Mark Sakamoto
- Narrateur(s): Geoff Sugiyama
- Durée: 7 h et 41 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Canada picked wrong
- Écrit par Justin Sim le 2018-05-31
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrateur(s): Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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Dystopian? Possibly
- Écrit par Sandi le 2020-03-19
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Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Jenny Heijun Wills
- Narrateur(s): Diana Bang
- Durée: 4 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women - sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces - Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
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Adoption Story
- Écrit par Cindy le 2019-11-10
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First Snow, Last Light
- Auteur(s): Wayne Johnston
- Narrateur(s): David Ferry, Ryan Wells, Gordon Pinsent, Autres
- Durée: 14 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor family of fishermen, had risen to become the right-hand man to the colony's prime minister, then suffered an unexpected fall from grace. Were he and his wife murdered? Was it suicide? Had they run away? If so, why had they left their only child behind?
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Could have been shorter
- Écrit par Nancy W. Caldwell le 2018-09-13
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The Bone Mother
- Auteur(s): David Demchuk
- Narrateur(s): Natasha Soudek, Victor Bevine
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind - and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary - they tell their stories and confront their destinies.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Thorn le 2020-07-03
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Auteur(s): Alice Wong
- Narrateur(s): Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Durée: 8 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
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Missing the First Essay
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-25
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
- Narrateur(s): Jason Ryll
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-11
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Her Pretty Face
- Auteur(s): Robyn Harding
- Narrateur(s): Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Frances Metcalfe is struggling to stay afloat. A stay-at-home mom whose troubled son is her full-time job, she thought that the day he got accepted into the elite Forrester Academy would be the day she started living her life. Overweight, insecure, and lonely, she is desperate to fit into Forrester’s world. But after a disturbing incident at the school leads the other children and their families to ostracize the Metcalfes, she feels more alone than ever before. Until she meets Kate Randolph.
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I couldn't put it down. !!
- Écrit par Michelle Trofimuk le 2019-03-28
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Scarborough
- Auteur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- Écrit par A B le 2019-09-19
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Forgiveness
- A Gift from My Grandparents
- Auteur(s): Mark Sakamoto
- Narrateur(s): Geoff Sugiyama
- Durée: 7 h et 41 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Canada picked wrong
- Écrit par Justin Sim le 2018-05-31
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrateur(s): Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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Dystopian? Possibly
- Écrit par Sandi le 2020-03-19
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Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Jenny Heijun Wills
- Narrateur(s): Diana Bang
- Durée: 4 h et 59 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women - sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces - Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
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Adoption Story
- Écrit par Cindy le 2019-11-10
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First Snow, Last Light
- Auteur(s): Wayne Johnston
- Narrateur(s): David Ferry, Ryan Wells, Gordon Pinsent, Autres
- Durée: 14 h et 16 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor family of fishermen, had risen to become the right-hand man to the colony's prime minister, then suffered an unexpected fall from grace. Were he and his wife murdered? Was it suicide? Had they run away? If so, why had they left their only child behind?
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Could have been shorter
- Écrit par Nancy W. Caldwell le 2018-09-13
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The Bone Mother
- Auteur(s): David Demchuk
- Narrateur(s): Natasha Soudek, Victor Bevine
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind - and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary - they tell their stories and confront their destinies.
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wonderful
- Écrit par Thorn le 2020-07-03
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Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century
- Unabridged Selections
- Auteur(s): Alice Wong
- Narrateur(s): Alejandra Ospina, Alice Wong
- Durée: 8 h et 1 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent - but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.
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Missing the First Essay
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-25
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
- Narrateur(s): Jason Ryll
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
-
Performance
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Histoire
Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-11
Past Featured Authors
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
- A Memoir of Healing
- Auteur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Narrateur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Durée: 8 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain.
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nimôskomik
- Écrit par Stacey le 2025-04-02
Auteur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
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Our Violent Ends
- These Violent Delights, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Chloe Gong
- Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay
- Durée: 17 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
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4 stars
- Écrit par A Little Wild Reader le 2023-05-15
Auteur(s): Chloe Gong
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Wrong Side of the Court
- Auteur(s): H.N. Khan
- Narrateur(s): Raoul Bhaneja
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground-beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother.
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love all the different angles of immigrant life
- Écrit par Salman Naqvi le 2022-04-19
Auteur(s): H.N. Khan
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The Son of the House
- Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
- Narrateur(s): Nene Nwoko
- Durée: 10 h et 53 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
In the Nigerian city of Enugu, young Nwabulu, a housemaid since the age of ten, dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. She is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewelry lovestruck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When a kidnapping forces Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate.
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Loved the story and the narration
- Écrit par Kristina Stewart le 2023-02-26
Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
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Deep Diversity
- A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
- Auteur(s): Shakil Choudhury
- Narrateur(s): Shekhar Paleja
- Durée: 7 h et 28 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand - whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC), or White. With clear language and engaging stories that will appeal to readers of Brené Brown and Malcom Gladwell, Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously.
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A great place to start in your D.E.I. journey
- Écrit par Joseph McGee le 2024-08-13
Auteur(s): Shakil Choudhury
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Peace Is a Practice
- An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life
- Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Nichols
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Histoire
If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you're far from alone. For many of us, when we're not worrying about what is to come, we find ourselves wrestling with things from the past. Where does that leave us today? Morgan Harper Nichols has learned the answer to this question. She has examined stories from her own life and the lives of people around the world and noticed a common thread: we all long for peace. We're all seeking light and life. But these things don't happen passively.
Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
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Life in the City of Dirty Water
- A Memoir of Healing
- Auteur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Narrateur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
- Durée: 8 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain.
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nimôskomik
- Écrit par Stacey le 2025-04-02
Auteur(s): Clayton Thomas-Muller
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Our Violent Ends
- These Violent Delights, Book 2
- Auteur(s): Chloe Gong
- Narrateur(s): Cindy Kay
- Durée: 17 h et 24 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang's heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. If Juliette were actually guilty of the crime Roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less.
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4 stars
- Écrit par A Little Wild Reader le 2023-05-15
Auteur(s): Chloe Gong
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Wrong Side of the Court
- Auteur(s): H.N. Khan
- Narrateur(s): Raoul Bhaneja
- Durée: 8 h et 32 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother's potato and ground-beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his father, who died two years ago, his mother’s desire to arrange a marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan, and the tiny apartment in Regent Park he shares with his mom and sister. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf, who's coping with the shooting death of his older brother.
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love all the different angles of immigrant life
- Écrit par Salman Naqvi le 2022-04-19
Auteur(s): H.N. Khan
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The Son of the House
- Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
- Narrateur(s): Nene Nwoko
- Durée: 10 h et 53 min
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In the Nigerian city of Enugu, young Nwabulu, a housemaid since the age of ten, dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. She is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewelry lovestruck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife. When a kidnapping forces Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate.
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Loved the story and the narration
- Écrit par Kristina Stewart le 2023-02-26
Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
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Deep Diversity
- A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice
- Auteur(s): Shakil Choudhury
- Narrateur(s): Shekhar Paleja
- Durée: 7 h et 28 min
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In Deep Diversity, award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand - whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC), or White. With clear language and engaging stories that will appeal to readers of Brené Brown and Malcom Gladwell, Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously.
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A great place to start in your D.E.I. journey
- Écrit par Joseph McGee le 2024-08-13
Auteur(s): Shakil Choudhury
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Peace Is a Practice
- An Invitation to Breathe Deep and Find a New Rhythm for Life
- Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Nichols
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
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If you feel overwhelmed with anxiety about the future, you're far from alone. For many of us, when we're not worrying about what is to come, we find ourselves wrestling with things from the past. Where does that leave us today? Morgan Harper Nichols has learned the answer to this question. She has examined stories from her own life and the lives of people around the world and noticed a common thread: we all long for peace. We're all seeking light and life. But these things don't happen passively.
Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
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The Annual Migration of Clouds
- Auteur(s): Premee Mohamed
- Narrateur(s): Eva Tavares
- Durée: 4 h et 49 min
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A novella set in post-climate-disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community.
Auteur(s): Premee Mohamed
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Black Skin
- The Definitive Skincare Guide
- Auteur(s): Dija Ayodele
- Narrateur(s): Dija Ayodele
- Durée: 6 h et 32 min
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For decades, the skincare needs of Black women have been ignored. Until now. Dija Ayodele is an expert in Black skin. A pioneer in the beauty industry and one of the UK’s most-respected aestheticians, she places Black women front and centre and offers her vast expertise on how to love the skin you’re in. In this groundbreaking book, Dija takes you through the lifetime of your skin, sharing transformative essentials from how to work out your skin type to the dos and don’ts for your everyday routine.
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AMAZING MUST BUY!
- Écrit par Jolanda O. le 2022-02-06
Auteur(s): Dija Ayodele
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The Red Palace
- Auteur(s): June Hur
- Narrateur(s): Michelle H. Lee
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city, but through hard work and study, 18-year-old Hyeon has earned a position as a palace nurse. All she wants is to keep her head down, do a good job, and perhaps finally win her estranged father's approval. But Hyeon is suddenly thrust into the dark and dangerous world of court politics when someone murders four women in a single night, and the prime suspect is Hyeon's closest friend and mentor. Determined to prove her teacher's innocence, Hyeon launches her own secret investigation.
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Page turning murder mystery
- Écrit par Daria Sanchez le 2022-01-29
Auteur(s): June Hur
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Sisters of the Snake
- Auteur(s): Sarena Nanua, Sasha Nanua
- Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani
- Durée: 15 h et 9 min
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Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When these two lives collide, everything turns on its head: because Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places - but danger lurks in both worlds, and to save their home, thief and princess must work together. Or watch it all fall into ruin.
Auteur(s): Sarena Nanua, Autres
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Unreconciled
- Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
- Auteur(s): Jesse Wente
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Wente
- Durée: 6 h et 53 min
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Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.
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Brilliant Must Listen/Read for all Canadians
- Écrit par Cass le 2022-02-04
Auteur(s): Jesse Wente
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Rage Becomes Her
- The Power of Women's Anger
- Auteur(s): Soraya Chemaly
- Narrateur(s): Soraya Chemaly
- Durée: 11 h et 3 min
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Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why. We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive or not sensitive enough. Too dowdy or too made-up. Too big or too thin. Sluts or prudes. We are harassed, told we are asking for it, and asked if it would kill us to smile. Yes, yes it would. Contrary to the rhetoric of popular “self-help” and an entire lifetime of being told otherwise, our rage is one of the most important resources we have, our sharpest tool against both personal and political oppression.
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Must read
- Écrit par Stephanie le 2019-05-24
Auteur(s): Soraya Chemaly
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Scarborough
- Auteur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Narrateur(s): Catherine Hernandez
- Durée: 6 h et 4 min
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In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.
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Overrated
- Écrit par A B le 2019-09-19
Auteur(s): Catherine Hernandez
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Me, Myself, They
- Life Beyond the Binary
- Auteur(s): Joshua M. Ferguson
- Narrateur(s): Joshua M. Ferguson
- Durée: 7 h et 31 min
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Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary chronicles Joshua M. Ferguson’s extraordinary story of transformation to become the celebrated non-binary filmmaker, writer, and advocate for trans rights they are today. Beginning with their birth and early childhood years of gender creativity, Ferguson recounts the complex and challenging evolution of their identity, including traumatizing experiences with gender conversion therapy, bullying, depression, sexual assault, and violent physical assault. But Ferguson’s story is above all about survival, empathy, and self-acceptance.
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Amazing book
- Écrit par Under Ether le 2020-01-15
Auteur(s): Joshua M. Ferguson
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Love from A to Z
- Auteur(s): S. K. Ali
- Narrateur(s): S. K. Ali, Priya Ayyar, Tim Chiou
- Durée: 9 h et 11 min
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Zayneb’s teacher won’t stop reminding the class how “bad” Muslims are. But Zayneb, the only Muslim in class, isn’t bad. She’s angry. When she gets suspended for confronting her teacher and he begins investigating her activist friends, Zayneb heads to her aunt’s house in Doha, Qatar, for an early start to spring break. Fueled by the guilt of getting her friends in trouble, she resolves to try out a newer, “nicer” version of herself in a place where no one knows her. Then her path crosses with Adam’s.
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What a lovely book!
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2020-09-22
Auteur(s): S. K. Ali
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Moon of the Crusted Snow
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrateur(s): Billy Merasty
- Durée: 6 h et 46 min
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With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again.
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Enjoyable for ALL Canadians
- Écrit par TheMer le 2020-01-31
Auteur(s): Waubgeshig Rice
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Saints and Misfits
- Auteur(s): S. K. Ali
- Narrateur(s): Ariana Delawari
- Durée: 8 h et 5 min
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Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern-day My So-Called Life...starring a Muslim teen.
Auteur(s): S. K. Ali
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The Boat People
- Auteur(s): Sharon Bala
- Narrateur(s): Athena Karkanis
- Durée: 13 h et 23 min
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By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive a perilous ocean voyage to reach Canada - only to face the threat of deportation and accusations of terrorism in their new land.
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Fantastic!
- Écrit par A.B le 2018-02-04
Auteur(s): Sharon Bala
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Unleash Different
- Achieving Business Success Through Disability
- Auteur(s): Rich Donovan
- Narrateur(s): Braden Wright
- Durée: 8 h et 37 min
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There are 1.3 billion people around the world who identify as having a disability. When you include friends and family, the disability market touches 53 percent of all consumers. It is the world’s largest emerging market. Unleash Different reveals how companies like Google, PepsiCo, and Nordstrom are attracting people with disabilities as customers and as employees. Replacing “nice to do” with “return on investment” allows market forces to take over and the world’s leading brands to do what they do best: serve a market segment - in this case, the disability market.
Auteur(s): Rich Donovan
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Forgiveness
- A Gift from My Grandparents
- Auteur(s): Mark Sakamoto
- Narrateur(s): Geoff Sugiyama
- Durée: 7 h et 41 min
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When the Second World War broke out, Ralph MacLean chose to escape his troubled life on the Magdalen Islands in eastern Canada and volunteer to serve his country overseas. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, Mitsue Sakamoto saw her family and her stable community torn apart after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Canada picked wrong
- Écrit par Justin Sim le 2018-05-31
Auteur(s): Mark Sakamoto
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Indian Horse
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
- Narrateur(s): Jason Ryll
- Durée: 6 h et 51 min
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-11
Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Auteur(s): Vivek Shraya
- Narrateur(s): Vivek Shraya
- Durée: 1 h et 26 min
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Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate.
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amazing, must read feminist text
- Écrit par Anynomous le 2018-09-04
Auteur(s): Vivek Shraya
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Seven Fallen Feathers Indigo
- Auteur(s): Tanya Talaga
- Narrateur(s): Michaela Washburn
- Durée: 9 h et 7 min
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In 1966, 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called, and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city.
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Essential reading for Canadians
- Écrit par Blayne Beacham le 2018-09-13
Auteur(s): Tanya Talaga
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Homes
- A Refugee Story
- Auteur(s): Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Winnie Yeung
- Narrateur(s): Ali Momen
- Durée: 3 h et 50 min
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In 2010, the al Rabeeah family left their home in Iraq in hope of a safer life. They moved to Homs, in Syria - just before the Syrian civil war broke out. Abu Bakr, one of eight children, was 10 years old when the violence began on the streets around him: car bombings, attacks on his mosque and school, firebombs late at night. Homes tells of the strange juxtapositions of growing up in a war zone: horrific, unimaginable events punctuated by normalcy - soccer, cousins, video games, friends.
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Captivating story
- Écrit par Bonita Janzen le 2019-07-04
Auteur(s): Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Autres
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Split Tooth
- Auteur(s): Tanya Tagaq
- Narrateur(s): Tanya Tagaq
- Durée: 5 h et 31 min
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A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy and friendship and parents' love. She knows boredom and listlessness and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her and the immense power that dwarfs all of us. When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.
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Beautiful, haunting and chilling. It's visceral.
- Écrit par JJNeeps le 2019-02-08
Auteur(s): Tanya Tagaq
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The Inconvenient Indian
- A Curious Account of Native People in North America
- Auteur(s): Thomas King
- Narrateur(s): Lorne Cardinal
- Durée: 9 h et 56 min
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
- Écrit par Shantelle Lamouche le 2021-01-18
Auteur(s): Thomas King
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One Native Life
- Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
- Narrateur(s): Christian Baskous
- Durée: 5 h et 26 min
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One Native Life is a look back down the road Richard Wagamese has traveled - from childhood abuse to adult alcoholism - in reclaiming his identity. It's about what he has learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway in his 52 years on Earth. Whether he's writing about playing baseball, running away with the circus, making bannock, or attending a sacred bundle ceremony, these are stories told in a healing spirit. Through them, Wagamese reveals to listeners how to appreciate life for the journey it is.
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j'aime
- Écrit par Jojo le 2021-03-04
Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
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They Called Me Number One
- Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- Auteur(s): Bev Sellars
- Narrateur(s): Bev Sellars
- Durée: 7 h et 17 min
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Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family and eloquently articulates her own path to healing.
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Thank You!
- Écrit par Julia le 2019-02-23
Auteur(s): Bev Sellars
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The Break
- Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
- Narrateur(s): Michaela Washburn
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
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When Stella, a young Métis mother, looks out her window one evening and spots someone in trouble on the Break - a barren field on an isolated strip of land outside her house - she calls the police to alert them to a possible crime. In a series of shifting narratives, people who are connected, both directly and indirectly, with the victim - police, family, and friends - tell their personal stories leading up to that fateful night.
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Every Canadian must read
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-03-20
Auteur(s): Katherena Vermette
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Son of a Trickster
- Auteur(s): Eden Robinson
- Narrateur(s): Jason Ryll
- Durée: 9 h et 8 min
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
- Écrit par sannna le 2017-12-18
Auteur(s): Eden Robinson