The Festival of Literary Diversity
Featured Authors from the 2024 Festival of Literary Diversity
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And Then She Fell
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Jenna Clause, Cheri Maracle
- Durée: 10 h et 8 min
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On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be. She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve, is nothing but supportive; and they've recently moved to a wealthy neighborhood in Toronto. And yet, Alice feels like an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from her watchful white neighbors. Her growing self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left.
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Vivid Palpable Genius
- Écrit par Pattra Winner le 2023-12-28
Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
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Maya's Laws of Love
- Auteur(s): Alina Khawaja
- Narrateur(s): Mayuri Bhandari
- Durée: 10 h et 25 min
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Au global
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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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Come Home Safe
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Brian G. Buckmire
- Narrateur(s): Nile Bullock
- Durée: 4 h et 55 min
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When Reed and Olive left home, they never imagined they’d find themselves questioned, searched, and thrown to the ground by police looking for suspects in recent crimes. As their worst fears become reality, they must find a way to prove their innocence and make it home safe once again.
Auteur(s): Brian G. Buckmire
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The Future
- Auteur(s): Catherine Leroux, Susan Ouriou - translator
- Narrateur(s): Karie Richards
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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Au global
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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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Couldn't Finish
- Écrit par KAT M K le 2024-04-04
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
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Au global
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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
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Au global
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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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And Then She Fell
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Jenna Clause, Cheri Maracle
- Durée: 10 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be. She's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve, is nothing but supportive; and they've recently moved to a wealthy neighborhood in Toronto. And yet, Alice feels like an imposter. She isn't connecting with Dawn, a struggle made even more difficult by the recent loss of her mother, and every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from her watchful white neighbors. Her growing self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left.
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Vivid Palpable Genius
- Écrit par Pattra Winner le 2023-12-28
Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
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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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Come Home Safe
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Brian G. Buckmire
- Narrateur(s): Nile Bullock
- Durée: 4 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
When Reed and Olive left home, they never imagined they’d find themselves questioned, searched, and thrown to the ground by police looking for suspects in recent crimes. As their worst fears become reality, they must find a way to prove their innocence and make it home safe once again.
Auteur(s): Brian G. Buckmire
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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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Couldn't Finish
- Écrit par KAT M K le 2024-04-04
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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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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How to Be Found
- Auteur(s): Emily Pohl-Weary
- Narrateur(s): Megan MacPherson
- Durée: 7 h et 4 min
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Au global
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Histoire
Michie and her best friend, Trissa, grew up like sisters in a ramshackle duplex owned by their single moms. But now that they're sixteen, their differences in identity and experience have caused a rift. Michie's an introvert obsessed with a book called A Girl's Guide to Murder. Shiny, extroverted Trissa, on the other hand, dances at the hottest nightclub in town. One night, Michie wakes up to find Trissa missing, having left only a cryptic note. The cops write her off as a party girl who's probably already met a foul end, but Michie refuses to believe it.
Auteur(s): Emily Pohl-Weary
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Bad Cree
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Jessica Johns
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau
- Durée: 8 h et 14 min
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Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up in her one-bedroom Vancouver apartment clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. But she can still smell the sharp pine scent in the air, the nearest pine tree a thousand kilometers away in the far reaches of Treaty 8.
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as spooky as it was authentic
- Écrit par Nevion le 2023-04-21
Auteur(s): Jessica Johns
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Ru
- Auteur(s): Kim Thúy, Sheila Fischman
- Narrateur(s): Kim Thúy
- Durée: 3 h et 13 min
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Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation, and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream.
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Lovely
- Écrit par ameli le 2023-07-14
Auteur(s): Kim Thúy, Autres
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Sunshine Nails
- Auteur(s): Mai Nguyen
- Narrateur(s): Carolina Do, David Lee Huynh, Quyen Ngo, Autres
- Durée: 10 h
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Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have made a good life for themselves in Toronto, but their landlord has just jacked up the rent of their family-run nail salon, Sunshine Nails, and it’s way more than they can afford. When Take Ten, a glamorous chain offering a more luxurious salon experience, moves into the neighborhood, the Tran family is terrified of losing their business—and the community they’ve built around them.
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A Good Read
- Écrit par Tina Hewitt le 2023-08-12
Auteur(s): Mai Nguyen
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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
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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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When It All Syncs Up
- Auteur(s): Maya Ameyaw
- Narrateur(s): Max Amani
- Durée: 8 h et 52 min
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Ballet is Aisha’s life. So when she’s denied yet another lead at her elite academy because she doesn’t “look” the part, she knows something has to change—the constant discrimination is harming her mental health. Switching to her best friend Neil’s art school seems like the perfect plan at first. But she soon discovers racism and bullying are entrenched in the ballet program here, too, and there’s a troubling new distance between her and Neil. And as past traumas surface, pressure from friends and family, a new romance, and questions about her dance career threaten to overwhelm her.
Auteur(s): Maya Ameyaw
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Wild Life
- Auteur(s): Opal Wei
- Narrateur(s): Natalie Naudus
- Durée: 7 h et 55 min
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The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister’s life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn’t working anymore. Maybe it’s her unsuccessful research, maybe it’s burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting—and disarmingly handsome—visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it.
Auteur(s): Opal Wei
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Hope Ablaze
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sarah Mughal Rana
- Narrateur(s): Farah Kidwai
- Durée: 9 h et 43 min
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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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Dinner on Monster Island
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Tania De Rozario
- Narrateur(s): Tania De Rozario
- Durée: 5 h et 24 min
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Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to “banish the evil” from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere—including your own family and community—and look just like you. Dinner on Monster Island is Tania’s memoir of her life and childhood in Singapore—where she discovered how difference is often perceived as deviant, damaged, disobedient, and sometimes, demonic.
Auteur(s): Tania De Rozario
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Shut Up You’re Pretty
- Stories
- Auteur(s): Téa Mutonji
- Narrateur(s): Jemeni
- Durée: 4 h et 18 min
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In Téa Mutonji’s disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions during a family wedding, a teenage girl looks for happiness inside a pack of cigarettes, a mother reconnects with her daughter through their shared interest in fish, and a young woman decides to shave her head in the waiting room of an abortion clinic. These punchy, sharply observed stories blur the lines between longing and choosing, exploring the narrator’s experience as an involuntary one.
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Fantastic
- Écrit par Roberta W le 2024-02-28
Auteur(s): Téa Mutonji
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Moon of the Turning Leaves
- Auteur(s): Waubgeshig Rice
- Narrateur(s): Billy Merasty
- Durée: 9 h et 59 min
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In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions, isolated from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in a world after everything, Evan’s people are stronger than ever. But resources around their new settlement are drying up, and elders warn that they cannot stay indefinitely.
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I'm in tears
- Écrit par Cindy_RedDeer le 2023-10-18
Auteur(s): Waubgeshig Rice
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Never Been Better
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Leanne Toshiko Simpson
- Narrateur(s): Kym Miller
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
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Dee, Misa, and Matt were the “three musketeers” of the psych ward. Matt is a teddy bear musician with no discernable coping mechanisms. Wildly efficient Misa is quick to take care of others while neglecting herself. And Dee is a puddle with a heart of gold, eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around. A year after discharge, Matt and Misa are tying the knot in Turks and Caicos, surrounded by guests who have no idea where they met. But the secrecy isn’t sitting well with Dee, who has been hopelessly in love with Matt since before she got kicked out of the hospital.
Auteur(s): Leanne Toshiko Simpson
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Auteur(s): Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
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Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today’s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive.
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dreadful ramble with no useful solutions
- Écrit par Lara le 2018-10-06
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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
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Au global
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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
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Au global
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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
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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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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
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Au global
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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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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
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Au global
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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
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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
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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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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- Auteur(s): Yuval Noah Harari
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 11 h et 41 min
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Yuval Noah Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today’s most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the world feels more polarized than ever, Harari addresses the challenge of navigating life in the face of constant and disorienting change and raises the important questions we need to ask ourselves in order to survive.
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dreadful ramble with no useful solutions
- Écrit par Lara le 2018-10-06
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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
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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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Opened My Eyes
- Écrit par Cheryl le 2023-07-24
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
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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
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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
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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 Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-02-26
Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
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The Girl in the Middle
- Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
- Auteur(s): Anais Granofsky
- Narrateur(s): Joniece Abbott-Pratt
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When Anais Granofsky’s parents meet in the early 1970s, they are foreign and fascinating to each other. Stanley is the son of a very wealthy Toronto Jewish family; Jean is one of fifteen children from a poor Black Methodist family, direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When Jean becomes pregnant at nineteen, Stanley doesn’t anticipate being cut off by his parents. Nor does the couple anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, will find his calling in the spiritual teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an ashram in India.
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Good story for the summer
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-08-11
Auteur(s): Anais Granofsky
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Tsering Yangzom Lama
- Narrateur(s): Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
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In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, the village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint, a relic long rumored to vanish and reappear in times of need.
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Great book
- Écrit par Michelle N. le 2023-04-20
Auteur(s): Tsering Yangzom Lama
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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
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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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Opened My Eyes
- Écrit par Cheryl le 2023-07-24
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
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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
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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
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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 Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-02-26
Auteur(s): Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia
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The Girl in the Middle
- Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor
- Auteur(s): Anais Granofsky
- Narrateur(s): Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Durée: 5 h et 47 min
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When Anais Granofsky’s parents meet in the early 1970s, they are foreign and fascinating to each other. Stanley is the son of a very wealthy Toronto Jewish family; Jean is one of fifteen children from a poor Black Methodist family, direct descendants of the freed Randolph slaves. When Jean becomes pregnant at nineteen, Stanley doesn’t anticipate being cut off by his parents. Nor does the couple anticipate that Stanley, soon to rename himself Fakeer, will find his calling in the spiritual teachings of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an ashram in India.
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Good story for the summer
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-08-11
Auteur(s): Anais Granofsky
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Tsering Yangzom Lama
- Narrateur(s): Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki, Rishma Malik Scott
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In the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, the village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint, a relic long rumored to vanish and reappear in times of need.
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Great book
- Écrit par Michelle N. le 2023-04-20
Auteur(s): Tsering Yangzom Lama
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Sari, Not Sari
- Auteur(s): Sonya Singh
- Narrateur(s): Avita Jay
- Durée: 8 h et 18 min
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Manny Dogra is the beautiful young CEO of Breakup, a highly successful company that helps people manage their relationship breakups. As preoccupied as she is with her business, she’s also planning her wedding to handsome architect Adam Jamieson while dealing with the loss of her beloved parents. For reasons Manny has never understood, her mother and father, who were both born in India, always wanted her to become an “All-American” girl.
Auteur(s): Sonya Singh
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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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DEI Must Read
- Écrit par Odie le 2023-08-21
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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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century
- Auteur(s): Kim Fu
- Narrateur(s): Piper Goodeve, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Samara Naeymi, Autres
- Durée: 6 h et 27 min
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In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made familiar and the familiar strange, such that a girl growing wings on her legs feels like an ordinary rite of passage, while a bug-infested house becomes an impossible, Kafkaesque nightmare. Each story builds a new world all its own: a group of children steal a haunted doll, a runaway bride encounters a sea monster, a vendor sells toy boxes that seemingly control the passage of time, an insomniac is seduced by the Sandman.
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review to come
- Écrit par Becca le 2022-11-03
Auteur(s): Kim Fu
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Such Big Dreams
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Reema Patel
- Narrateur(s): Lavanya Gandhi
- Durée: 11 h et 39 min
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With a sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, Rakhi Kumar is nobody’s fool. Though she lives alone in a Mumbai slum and works as a lowly office assistant for the renowned lawyer, Gauri Verma, who gave her a fresh start, Rakhi has come a long way from her time as a former street child. Most importantly, she's busy enough to distract herself from the nightmares of the grisly incident that led to the disappearace of her best friend.
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Excellent book
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-02-25
Auteur(s): Reema Patel
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We Two Alone
- Auteur(s): Jack Wang
- Narrateur(s): Samantha Quan
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The consul general of China attempts to save lives following Kristallnacht in Vienna. A family aspires to buy a home in South Africa during the rise of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive.
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Black Skin
- The Definitive Skincare Guide
- Auteur(s): Dija Ayodele
- Narrateur(s): Dija Ayodele
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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
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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
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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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My Ackee Tree
- A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen
- Auteur(s): Suzanne Barr, Suzanne Hancock - contributor
- Narrateur(s): Suzanne Barr
- Durée: 7 h et 29 min
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Suzanne Barr’s journey to become a chef started when she was 30. Her mother was diagnosed with cancer and she moved home to Florida to take care of her. Suzanne escorted her mother to doctor’s appointments, bathed her, and kept her company, but the hardest part of the experience was that she didn’t know how to cook for her. She didn’t even know where to begin.
Auteur(s): Suzanne Barr, Autres
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Tainna
- Auteur(s): Norma Dunning
- Narrateur(s): Tanis Parenteau, Eric Schweig
- Durée: 4 h et 55 min
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Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful short stories centered on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded, from young to elderly, and even from alive to deceased, Dunning’s characters are united by shared feelings of alienation, displacement, and loneliness resulting from their experiences in southern Canada. They must rely on their wits, artistic talent, humor, and spirituality for survival, and find solace in shining moments of reconnection.
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The Chandler Legacies
- Auteur(s): Abdi Nazemian
- Narrateur(s): Abdi Nazemian, Vikas Adam
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From the Stonewall Honor–winning author of Like a Love Story comes a revelatory novel about the enclosed world of privilege and silence at an elite boarding school and the unlikely group of friends who dare to challenge the status quo through their writing. Perfect for fans of E. Lockhart, Kathleen Glasgow, and Jandy Nelson, with crossover appeal for listeners of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep.
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Craft in the Real World
- Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
- Auteur(s): Matthew Salesses
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Salesses
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The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writing - including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believability - and aspects of workshop - including the silenced writer and the imagined reader - Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress.
Auteur(s): Matthew Salesses
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The Diversity Gap
- Where Good Intentions Meet True Cultural Change
- Auteur(s): Bethaney Wilkinson
- Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
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A sweeping leadership framework to institute clear and intentional actions throughout your organization so that people of all racial backgrounds are empowered to lead, collaborate, and excel at work.
Auteur(s): Bethaney Wilkinson
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Tahira in Bloom
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Farah Heron
- Narrateur(s): Anita Kalathara
- Durée: 10 h et 16 min
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When seventeen-year-old aspiring designer Tahira Janmohammad’s coveted fashion internship falls through, her parents have a Plan B. Tahira will work in her aunt’s boutique in the small town of Bakewell, the flower capital of Ontario. It’s only for the summer, and she’ll get the experience she needs for her college application. Plus her best friend is coming along. It won’t be that bad. But she just can’t deal with Rowan Johnston, the rude, totally obsessive garden-nerd next door with frayed cutoffs and terrible shoes. Not to mention his sharp jawline and soft lips.
Auteur(s): Farah Heron
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Ring
- Auteur(s): André Alexis
- Narrateur(s): André Alexis, Warona Setshwaelo
- Durée: 7 h et 58 min
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From their first meeting, it was clear that Gwen and Tancred were meant to be together. But, as we know, the course of true love never did run smooth. Gwen’s mother, intuiting that her daughter is in love, gives her a magic ring that has been passed down through endless generations of mothers and daughters. This ring grants its wearer the opportunity to change three things about her beloved. Like all blessings, this may also be a curse.
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- Écrit par Alice G. le 2022-05-14
Auteur(s): André Alexis
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I Am Because We Are
- An African Mother’s Fight for the Soul of a Nation
- Auteur(s): Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
- Narrateur(s): Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
- Durée: 11 h et 27 min
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Inspired by the African philosophy of Ubuntu - the importance of community over the individual - and outraged by injustice, Dora Akunyili took on fraudulent drug manufacturers whose products killed millions, including her sister. A woman in a man’s world, she was elected and became a cabinet minister, but she had to deal with political manoeuvrings, death threats and an assassination attempt for defending the voiceless. She suffered for it, as did her marriage and six children.
Auteur(s): Chidiogo Akunyili-Parr
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The Strangers
- Auteur(s): katherena vermette
- Narrateur(s): Michaela Washburn
- Durée: 11 h et 32 min
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Cedar has nearly forgotten what her family looks like. Phoenix has nearly forgotten what freedom feels like. And Elsie has nearly given up hope. Nearly. After time spent in foster homes, Cedar goes to live with her estranged father. Although she grapples with the pain of being separated from her mother, Elsie, and sister, Phoenix, she’s hoping for a new chapter in her life, only to find herself once again in a strange house surrounded by strangers.
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Hard listen
- Écrit par L. Ward le 2022-06-06
Auteur(s): katherena vermette
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The Stone Thrower
- A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life
- Auteur(s): Jael Ealey Richardson
- Narrateur(s): Jael Ealey Richardson
- Durée: 6 h et 59 min
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The Stone Thrower is a moving story about race and destiny written by a daughter looking for answers about her own Black history. Using insightful interviews, archival records, and her personal reflections, Richardson’s journey to learn about her father’s past leads her to her own important discoveries about herself and what it really means to be Black in Canada.
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A great read!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-10-04
Auteur(s): Jael Ealey Richardson
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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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That Time I Loved You
- Linked Stories
- Auteur(s): Carrianne Leung
- Narrateur(s): Nancy von Euw
- Durée: 6 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
The suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earth - new houses, new status, happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world, a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyone's dreams come true. Moving from house to house, Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows, always returning to June, an irrepressible adolescent Chinese Canadian coming of age in this shifting world.
Auteur(s): Carrianne Leung
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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
Auteur(s): Catherine Hernandez
The FOLD Recordings
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The Festival of Literary Diversity
- Auteur(s): Audible Canada
- Narrateur(s): various
- Durée: 10 h
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Au global
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Performance
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Histoire
FOLD is the first and only literary festival in Canada to focus on diverse authors and stories to the Flower City. The Festival of Literary Diversity celebrates stories that are underrepresented in Canadian literature — stories that reflect variations in geography, ethnicity, race, culture, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and religion, and stories that employ different methods of story-telling. The hope is that hearing these stories can change the way Canadians see the world and each other, and I hope you do too.
Listen to the Voices from the 2018 Festival of Literary Diversity
Want to relive the festival, or check out a session you missed? Each of the sessions are now available to download, plus bonus interviews with many of the authors featured at the festival.
Audible's year-round sponsorship of the Festival of Literary Diversity represents our commitment to elevate the voices of diverse authors across the country.
The 2018 festival took place May 3-6, in historic downtown Brampton. The Festival of Literary Diversity celebrates stories that are underrepresented in Canadian literature — stories that reflect variations in geography, ethnicity, race, culture, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and religion, and stories that employ different methods of storytelling.