The FOLD Challenge
June: Asian Voices
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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
Dystopian? Possibly
Yoko Ogawa is wonderful and I hope she has a lot more stories because I want to read or listen to them all even if they make me cry. The narrator was perfect. Never letting the more unsettling parts make her reading more histrionic she kept with her more nuanced performance. This may well become a new favourite for me.
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The Three-Body Problem
- Auteur(s): Cixin Liu
- Narrateur(s): Luke Daniels
- Durée: 13 h et 26 min
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Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.
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Very interesting read
- Écrit par Chris Conrod le 2020-09-14
Great Sci-Fi
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The Woo-Woo
- How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
- Auteur(s): Lindsay Wong
- Narrateur(s): Eunice Wong
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds.
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Unforgettable
- Écrit par Sierra Skye le 2018-11-28
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Mistakes to Run With
- Auteur(s): Yasuko Thanh
- Narrateur(s): Erin Moon
- Durée: 7 h et 13 min
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Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum, to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to rebel against it and her rigid parents, cutting herself, smoking, and shoplifting. At 15, the honour-roll runaway develops a taste for drugs and alcohol. After a stint in jail at 16, feeling utterly abandoned by her family, school, and society, Thanh meets the man who would become her pimp....
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wanted to like it
- Écrit par Erin le 2019-06-14
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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 Measure of My Powers
- A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
- Auteur(s): Jackie Kai Ellis
- Narrateur(s): Jackie Kai Ellis
- Durée: 4 h et 59 min
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This is the story of one woman's journey to find herself. Armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the 20th-century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, she travels from France to Italy, then the Congo, and back again. Along the way, she goes to pastry school in Paris, eats the most perfect apricots over the Tuscan hills, watches a family of gorillas grazing deep in the Congolese brush, has her heart broken one last time on a bridge in Lyon, and, ultimately, finds a path to life and joy.
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Inspiring!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-07-10
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The Woo-Woo
- How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
- Auteur(s): Lindsay Wong
- Narrateur(s): Eunice Wong
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds.
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Unforgettable
- Écrit par Sierra Skye le 2018-11-28
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Mistakes to Run With
- Auteur(s): Yasuko Thanh
- Narrateur(s): Erin Moon
- Durée: 7 h et 13 min
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Mistakes to Run With chronicles the turbulent life of Yasuko Thanh, from early childhood in the closest thing Victoria, BC, has to a slum, to teen years as a sex worker and, finally, to her emergence as an award-winning author. As a child, Thanh embraced evangelical religion, only to rebel against it and her rigid parents, cutting herself, smoking, and shoplifting. At 15, the honour-roll runaway develops a taste for drugs and alcohol. After a stint in jail at 16, feeling utterly abandoned by her family, school, and society, Thanh meets the man who would become her pimp....
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wanted to like it
- Écrit par Erin le 2019-06-14
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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 Measure of My Powers
- A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris
- Auteur(s): Jackie Kai Ellis
- Narrateur(s): Jackie Kai Ellis
- Durée: 4 h et 59 min
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This is the story of one woman's journey to find herself. Armed with nothing but a love of food and the words of the 20th-century food writer M.F.K. Fisher, she travels from France to Italy, then the Congo, and back again. Along the way, she goes to pastry school in Paris, eats the most perfect apricots over the Tuscan hills, watches a family of gorillas grazing deep in the Congolese brush, has her heart broken one last time on a bridge in Lyon, and, ultimately, finds a path to life and joy.
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Inspiring!
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-07-10
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Obasan
- Auteur(s): Joy Kogawa
- Narrateur(s): Mary Ito
- Durée: 9 h et 29 min
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Naomi is a sheltered and beloved five-year-old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, persecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardship and pain, Naomi is protected by the resolute endurance of her aunt Obasan and the silence of those around her. Only after Naomi grows up does she return to question the haunting silence.
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it made me feel some type of way
- Écrit par Britanya le 2022-05-31
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Running in the Family
- Auteur(s): Michael Ondaatje
- Narrateur(s): Michael Ondaatje
- Durée: 4 h et 39 min
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In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
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Listen to the Squawking Chicken
- When Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)
- Auteur(s): Elaine Lui
- Narrateur(s): Elaine Lui
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
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As the 800,000+ U.S. fans of Elaine Lui’s site know, her mother, aka The Squawking Chicken, is a huge factor in Elaine’s life. She pulls no punches, especially with her only child. "Where’s my money?" she asks every time she sees Elaine. "You’ll never be Miss Hong Kong," she informed her daughter when she was a girl. Listen to the Squawking Chicken lays bare the playbook of unusual advice, warnings, and unwavering love that has guided Elaine throughout her life.
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Great book!
- Écrit par Jenni le 2019-06-01
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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
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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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Vi
- Auteur(s): Kim Thúy, Sheila Fischman - translator
- Narrateur(s): Kim Thúy
- Durée: 3 h et 4 min
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The perfect complement to the exquisitely wrought novels Ru and Mãn, Canada Reads winner Kim Thúy returns with Vi, exploring the lives, loves and struggles of Vietnamese refugees as they reinvent themselves in new lands.
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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
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Floating City
- Auteur(s): Kerri Sakamoto
- Narrateur(s): Miles Meili
- Durée: 7 h et 58 min
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Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes.
May: Voices from the Prairie Provinces
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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
Awesome...and Educational
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Women Talking
- Auteur(s): Miriam Toews
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Edison
- Durée: 5 h et 57 min
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The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. Eight women - ordinary grandmothers, mothers, and teenagers; yet to August, each one extraordinary - will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation. They have 48 hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony.
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Painful subject, frustrating to listen to..
- Écrit par c johnston le 2018-11-12
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Three Day Road
- Auteur(s): Joseph Boyden
- Narrateur(s): Ruth Ann Phimister
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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Cree Indians and best-friends Xavier and Elijah enlist in the Canadian Army in 1915, eager to become heroes. Seasoned hunters, the men become expert snipers, but their horrifying experiences serving in World War I will leave devastating impressions on each man’s life.
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A must read. Captivating from start to end.
- Écrit par Travelmug le 2018-04-23
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Who Has Seen the Wind
- Auteur(s): W. O. Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): W. O. Mitchell
- Durée: 2 h et 54 min
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Mitchell’s novel follows Brian O’Connal, a young boy growing up in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Curious and eager to explore the impossibly vast Canadian prairie, Brian guides the listener through the inner workings of his small, rural town and its quirky characters. As Brian grows up, navigating faith, loss, and his relationships with his grandmother and his friends, we see him evolve alongside the changing landscape of small-town Canadian life.
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A Breathtaking tale…
- Écrit par Dr André van der Merwe le 2022-09-04
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Hannah and the Spindle Whorl
- Auteur(s): Carol Anne Shaw
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Rose Mat
- Durée: 5 h et 42 min
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When 12-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in the area. Through the agency of a trickster raven, Hannah befriends Yisella, a young Salish girl, and is welcomed into village life. Here she discovers that the spindle whorl is the prized possession of Yisella's mother, Skeepla, a famous spinner and weaver.
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Women Talking
- Auteur(s): Miriam Toews
- Narrateur(s): Matthew Edison
- Durée: 5 h et 57 min
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The sun rises on a quiet June morning in 2009. August Epp sits alone in the hayloft of a barn, anxiously bent over his notebook. Eight women - ordinary grandmothers, mothers, and teenagers; yet to August, each one extraordinary - will climb the ladder into the loft, and the day's true task will begin. This task will be both simple and subversive: August, like the women, is a traditional Mennonite, and he has been asked to record a secret conversation. They have 48 hours to make a life-altering choice on behalf of all the women and children in the colony.
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Painful subject, frustrating to listen to..
- Écrit par c johnston le 2018-11-12
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Three Day Road
- Auteur(s): Joseph Boyden
- Narrateur(s): Ruth Ann Phimister
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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Cree Indians and best-friends Xavier and Elijah enlist in the Canadian Army in 1915, eager to become heroes. Seasoned hunters, the men become expert snipers, but their horrifying experiences serving in World War I will leave devastating impressions on each man’s life.
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A must read. Captivating from start to end.
- Écrit par Travelmug le 2018-04-23
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Who Has Seen the Wind
- Auteur(s): W. O. Mitchell
- Narrateur(s): W. O. Mitchell
- Durée: 2 h et 54 min
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Mitchell’s novel follows Brian O’Connal, a young boy growing up in Depression-era Saskatchewan. Curious and eager to explore the impossibly vast Canadian prairie, Brian guides the listener through the inner workings of his small, rural town and its quirky characters. As Brian grows up, navigating faith, loss, and his relationships with his grandmother and his friends, we see him evolve alongside the changing landscape of small-town Canadian life.
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A Breathtaking tale…
- Écrit par Dr André van der Merwe le 2022-09-04
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Hannah and the Spindle Whorl
- Auteur(s): Carol Anne Shaw
- Narrateur(s): Hannah Rose Mat
- Durée: 5 h et 42 min
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When 12-year-old Hannah uncovers an ancient Salish spindle whorl hidden in a cave near her home in Cowichan Bay, she is transported back to a village called Tl'ulpalus, in a time before Europeans had settled in the area. Through the agency of a trickster raven, Hannah befriends Yisella, a young Salish girl, and is welcomed into village life. Here she discovers that the spindle whorl is the prized possession of Yisella's mother, Skeepla, a famous spinner and weaver.
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Never Cry Wolf
- Auteur(s): Farley Mowat
- Narrateur(s): Adam Sims
- Durée: 4 h et 51 min
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More than half a century ago, the naturalist Farley Mowat accepted an assignment to investigate why wolves were killing Arctic caribou. Mowat’s account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone – studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for these wild creatures (who were no threat to caribou or man) – is today celebrated as a classic of nature writing, at once a tale of remarkable adventure and an indelible record of the myths and magic of wolves.
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Great story for long summer roadtrips
- Écrit par Bonnie W. le 2019-08-28
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Where I Live Now
- A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
- Auteur(s): Sharon Butala
- Narrateur(s): Sharon Butala
- Durée: 6 h et 18 min
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When Sharon Butala's husband, Peter, died unexpectedly, she found herself with no place to call home. Torn by grief and loss, she fled the ranchlands of southwest Saskatchewan and moved to the city, leaving almost everything behind. A lifetime of possessions was reduced to a few boxes of books, clothes, and keepsakes. But a lifetime of experience went with her, and a limitless well of memory - of personal failures, of a marriage that everybody said would not last but did, of the unbreakable bonds of family.
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A beautiful and thoughtful memoir
- Écrit par Pauline Witzke le 2023-10-13
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Prairie Ostrich
- Auteur(s): Tamai Kobayashi
- Narrateur(s): Tamai Kobayashi
- Durée: 6 h et 25 min
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Not every story has a happy ending. Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a bottle, and Papa has exiled himself to the barn with the birds. Big sister Kathy tells stories to Egg so that the world might not seem so awful.
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I accidentally left a review on the wrong book
- Écrit par Bree Penner le 2021-11-21
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A Complicated Kindness
- Auteur(s): Miriam Toews
- Narrateur(s): Miriam Toews
- Durée: 6 h et 44 min
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Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba, a small town whose population is Mennonite: "the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager." East Village is a town with no train and no bar whose job prospects consist of slaughtering chickens at the Happy Family Farms abattoir or churning butter for tourists at the pioneer village.
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A sweet, brutal, & funny but gut- wrenching story
- Écrit par Betina Buten le 2020-12-13
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The Orenda
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Joseph Boyden
- Narrateur(s): Ali Ahn, Graham Rowat, Edoardo Ballerini
- Durée: 17 h et 37 min
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Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his native guides abandon him to flee their Iroquois pursuers. A Huron warrior and elder named Bird soon takes him prisoner, along with a young Iroquois girl, Snow Falls, whose family he has just killed, and holds them captive in his massive village. Champlain's Iron People have only recently begun trading with the Huron, who mistrust them as well as this Crow who has now trespassed onto their land; and her people, of course, have become the Huron's greatest enemy.
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Incredible story, but wish for indigenous actors
- Écrit par Maeve551 le 2018-01-15
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Arriving: 1909-1919
- Understanding Ursula, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Corinne Jeffery
- Narrateur(s): Jan Crowley
- Durée: 19 h et 14 min
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Arriving, book one of Corinne Jeffery's Understanding Ursula trilogy, vividly recreates the pioneer world of the Canadian prairies with a multitude of memorable characters. On July 1, 1909, Gustav Werner applies for a homestead grant at the Dominion Lands Office, eager to become the most thriving German Lutheran homesteader in Saskatchewan.
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The Outlander
- Auteur(s): Gil Adamson
- Narrateur(s): Sabryn Rock
- Durée: 12 h et 23 min
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In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Two vengeful brothers and a pack of bloodhounds track her across the western wilderness. She is 19 years old and half mad. Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens in heart-pounding midflight and propels the listener through a gripping road trip with a twist - the steely outlaw in this story is a grief-struck young woman.
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Love this story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-09-16
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When Calls the Heart
- Canadian West, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Janette Oke
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Peterson
- Durée: 7 h et 28 min
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Elizabeth Thatcher is young, pretty, cultured, and educated. But when she journeys west to teach school in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, she's completely unprepared for the conditions she encounters. Still, she's determined to succeed at the formidable task of fitting in with the locals and shaping the hearts and minds of the schoolchildren in her care.
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Spellbound
- Écrit par Mysticgreybeard le 2019-03-11
April: Voices of Marginalized Poets
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This Wound Is a World
- Auteur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrateur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Durée: 1 h et 6 min
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Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.
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Heals my heart
- Écrit par Raine Crandall le 2023-12-17
My heart
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Inward
- Auteur(s): Yung Pueblo
- Narrateur(s): Yung Pueblo
- Durée: 1 h et 17 min
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True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader. Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the listener that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.
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The power of simple honesty
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-03-31
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The Prophet
- Auteur(s): Khalil Gibrán
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Durée: 3 h et 8 min
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After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
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A la recherche du Profète...
- Écrit par Pierre Lefebvre le 2021-10-29
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All Along You Were Blooming
- Thoughts for Boundless Living
- Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Nichols
- Durée: 1 h et 47 min
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A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, to your heart, to your soul, and to your body.
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A Good Change
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-02-18
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
- Poems by Mary Lambert
- Auteur(s): Mary Lambert
- Narrateur(s): Mary Lambert
- Durée: 2 h et 35 min
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Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down - and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.
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To much
- Écrit par Jani le 2023-12-13
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Inward
- Auteur(s): Yung Pueblo
- Narrateur(s): Yung Pueblo
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True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero, and leader. Inward is a collection of poetry, quotes, and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting go, and the wisdom that comes when we truly try to know ourselves. It serves as a reminder to the listener that healing, transformation, and freedom are possible.
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The power of simple honesty
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2024-03-31
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The Prophet
- Auteur(s): Khalil Gibrán
- Narrateur(s): Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Durée: 3 h et 8 min
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After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.
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A la recherche du Profète...
- Écrit par Pierre Lefebvre le 2021-10-29
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All Along You Were Blooming
- Thoughts for Boundless Living
- Auteur(s): Morgan Harper Nichols
- Narrateur(s): Morgan Nichols
- Durée: 1 h et 47 min
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A celebration of hope. An encounter with grace. A restoration of the heart. A healing of wounds. An anthem of freedom. All Along You Were Blooming is the ultimate love letter from the pen of popular Instagram poet Morgan Harper Nichols to your mind, to your heart, to your soul, and to your body.
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A Good Change
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-02-18
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Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across
- Poems by Mary Lambert
- Auteur(s): Mary Lambert
- Narrateur(s): Mary Lambert
- Durée: 2 h et 35 min
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Beautiful and brutally honest, Mary Lambert's poetry is a beacon to anyone who's ever been knocked down - and picked themselves up again. In verse that deals with sexual assault, mental illness, and body acceptance, Ms. Lambert emerges as an important new voice in poetry, providing strength and resilience even in the darkest of times.
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To much
- Écrit par Jani le 2023-12-13
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for colored girls who have considered suicide - when the rainbow is enuf
- Auteur(s): Ntozake Shange
- Narrateur(s): Thandiwe Newton
- Durée: 1 h et 58 min
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Playwright, poet, and novelist Ntozake Shange originally composed for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf in as a mesmerizingly original choreopoem. The New York Post called it "rich with the author's special voice: by turns bitter, funny, ironic, and savage; fiercely honest and personal." Now a new audiobook, it chronicles the interconnected lives of a group of women facing shatteringly difficult issues, and evokes the indomitable power of enduring hope and joy.
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The Essential Neruda
- Selected Poems
- Auteur(s): Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner - editor and translator
- Narrateur(s): C. S. Verdád
- Durée: 1 h et 54 min
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More than 100 years after his birth, Pablo Neruda's poetry is as vital and beloved as ever. This collection presents 50 of the most essential poems by one of history's greatest poets in dynamic new translations, the result of an unprecedented collaboration among a team of poets, translators, and the world's leading Neruda scholars.
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The Love Poems of Rumi
- Auteur(s): Nader Khalili
- Narrateur(s): Neil Shah
- Durée: 1 h et 5 min
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Become lost in the words of The Love Poems of Rumi. Included in this audiobook is a collection of Jalal al-Din Rumi's passionate love poems, translated by Nader Khalili. Beautifully read by Neil Shah, you'll become spiritually inspired by the words in this audiobook. Perfect for lovers, dreamers, and poets, the poems from this 13th century theologist will leave you wistfully peaceful.
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Long Way Down
- Auteur(s): Jason Reynolds
- Narrateur(s): Jason Reynolds
- Durée: 1 h et 43 min
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A cannon. A strap. Or, you can call it a gun. That's what 15-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That's where Will's now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother's gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he's after. Or does he?
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- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-06-24
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This Accident of Being Lost
- Auteur(s): Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Narrateur(s): Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Durée: 3 h et 13 min
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This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love. Provocateur and poet, she continually rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.
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Amazing Peace and Other Poems
- And Other Poems by Maya Angelou
- Auteur(s): Maya Angelou
- Narrateur(s): Maya Angelou
- Durée: 29 min
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"Amazing Peace" is a beautiful and deeply moving poem from Maya Angelou. Here she inspires us to embrace the peace and promise of Christmas, so that hope and love can once again light up our holidays and the world. "Angels and Mortals, Believers and Nonbelievers, look heavenward," she writes, "and speak the word aloud. Peace." "Amazing Peace" is Maya Angelou's radiant affirmation of the goodness of life and is a touching celebration of the "Glad Season" that will resonate with people of all faiths.
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
- Auteur(s): Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks - translator, John Moyne - translator, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 9 h et 24 min
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This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems. Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of listeners, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of 13th-century Sufi mystic Rumi more popular than ever.
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The title says it all. Essential.
- Écrit par FRP le 2022-05-14
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The Book of Rumi
- Auteur(s): Rumi, Maryam Mafi - translator, Narguess Farzad - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Keith Szarabajka
- Durée: 4 h et 50 min
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This fresh prose translation of 105 short teaching stories by Rumi, which form the core of the six-volume Masnavi, explores the hidden spiritual aspects of everyday experience. Rumi transforms the seemingly mundane events of daily life into profound Sufi teaching moments. These prose gems open the mystical portal to the world of the ancient mystic.
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Magnificent!
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-06-02
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Adultolescence
- Auteur(s): Gabbie Hanna
- Narrateur(s): Gabbie Hanna
- Durée: 1 h et 20 min
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Full of confessional, whimsical, and darkly humorous observations about life, love, and the early years of adulthood, this collection of over 150 poems will introduce you to the unique point of view of one of the Internet's most remarkable voices.
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- Écrit par Kaylah Vassallo le 2018-07-01
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Too Much and Not the Mood
- Essays
- Auteur(s): Durga Chew-Bose
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 6 h et 8 min
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On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer's Diary with the words "too much and not the mood." She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the "cramming in and the cutting out" to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying. The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to write and collect her own work. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture.
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Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
- Auteur(s): Warsan Shire
- Narrateur(s): Warsan Shire
- Durée: 30 min
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What elevates Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, what gives the poems their disturbing brilliance, is Warsan Shire's ability to give simple, beautiful eloquence to the veiled world where sensuality lives in the dominant narrative of Islam, reclaiming the more nuanced truths of earlier times - as in Tayeb Salih's work - and translating to the realm of lyric the work of the likes of Nawal El Saadawi.
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If They Come for Us
- Poems
- Auteur(s): Fatimah Asghar
- Narrateur(s): Fatimah Asghar
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Orphaned as a child, Fatimah Asghar grapples with coming of age and navigating questions of sexuality and race without the guidance of a mother or father. These poems at once bear anguish, joy, vulnerability, and compassion, while also exploring the many facets of violence: how it persists within us, how it is inherited across generations, and how it manifests itself in our relationships. In experimental forms and language both lyrical and raw, Asghar seamlessly braids together marginalized people’s histories with her own understanding of identity, place, and belonging.
March: Voices from the 2020 Festival
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Bunny
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Mona Awad
- Narrateur(s): Sophie Amoss
- Durée: 11 h et 44 min
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Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort—a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other "Bunny", and seem to move and speak as one. But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled "Smut Salon"....
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Confused
- Écrit par Bookie le 2019-08-19
A darkly funny, spooky little story
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My Summer of Love and Misfortune
- Auteur(s): Lindsay Wong
- Narrateur(s): Nancy Wu
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
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Iris Wang is having a bit of a rough start to her summer: Her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. She’s always felt torn about being Chinese American, feeling neither Chinese nor American enough to claim either identity. In an attempt to snap her out of her funk, Iris' parents send her away to visit family in Beijing. With this trip, Iris gets swept up in the ridiculous, opulent world of Beijing’s wealthy elite.
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Just couldn't like the main character
- Écrit par Laura Rosenquist le 2021-09-13
*Crazy Rich Asians* meets *Love & Gelato*
Lindsay Wong follows up her darkly comedic bestselling memoir, [The Woo-Woo](https://www.audible.ca/pd/The-Woo-Woo-Audiobook/B07JP26NDJ), with a new YA novel coming to audio on May 5, 2020. Iris Wang is having a tough summer — her boyfriend cheated on her, she didn’t get into any colleges, and she has no idea who she is or what she wants to do with her life. Hoping to revitalize her, Iris's parents send her off to Beijing in hopes of connecting her with her Chinese roots. With low expectations, Iris sets out on an adventure that will bring her more clarity about her family, her future, and herself.
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It All Falls Down
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sheena Kamal
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
- Durée: 8 h et 35 min
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The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit. Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent - her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can’t ignore - and dark emotions she can’t control.
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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
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There's Something About Sweetie
- Auteur(s): Sandhya Menon
- Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Durée: 11 h et 36 min
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After being dumped, Ashish Patel's mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up. Sweetie Nair is many things: a formidable track athlete who can outrun most people in California, a loyal friend, a shower-singing champion. Oh, and she’s also fat. To Sweetie’s traditional parents, this last detail is the kiss of death. Ashish and Sweetie both have something to prove. But with each date, they realize there’s an unexpected magic growing between them.
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The Lost Ones
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sheena Kamal
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
- Durée: 10 h et 20 min
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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- Écrit par MS le 2023-03-09
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It All Falls Down
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sheena Kamal
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
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The brilliant, fearless, deeply flawed Nora Watts finds deadly trouble as she searches for the truth about her late father in this immersive thriller that moves from the hazy Canadian Pacific Northwest to the gritty, hollowed streets of Detroit. Growing up, Nora Watts only knew one parent - her father. When he killed himself, she denied her grief and carried on with her life. Then a chance encounter with a veteran who knew him raises disturbing questions Nora can’t ignore - and dark emotions she can’t control.
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Split Tooth
- Auteur(s): Tanya Tagaq
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- 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
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There's Something About Sweetie
- Auteur(s): Sandhya Menon
- Narrateur(s): Vikas Adam, Soneela Nankani
- Durée: 11 h et 36 min
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After being dumped, Ashish Patel's mojo goes AWOL. Even worse, his parents are annoyingly, smugly confident they could find him a better match. So, in a moment of weakness, Ash challenges them to set him up. Sweetie Nair is many things: a formidable track athlete who can outrun most people in California, a loyal friend, a shower-singing champion. Oh, and she’s also fat. To Sweetie’s traditional parents, this last detail is the kiss of death. Ashish and Sweetie both have something to prove. But with each date, they realize there’s an unexpected magic growing between them.
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The Lost Ones
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Sheena Kamal
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
- Durée: 10 h et 20 min
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It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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Great listen!
- Écrit par MS le 2023-03-09
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From Twinkle, with Love
- Auteur(s): Sandhya Menon
- Narrateur(s): Soneela Nankani, Vikas Adam
- Durée: 9 h et 32 min
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Aspiring filmmaker and wallflower Twinkle Mehra has stories she wants to tell and universes she wants to explore, if only the world would listen. So when fellow film geek Sahil Roy approaches her to direct a movie for the upcoming Summer Festival, Twinkle is all over it. The chance to publicly showcase her voice as a director? Dream come true. The fact that it gets her closer to her longtime crush, Neil Roy - aka Sahil’s twin brother? Dream come true x 2.
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The Woo-Woo
- How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
- Auteur(s): Lindsay Wong
- Narrateur(s): Eunice Wong
- Durée: 9 h et 52 min
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In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on antipsychotic meds.
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Unforgettable
- Écrit par Sierra Skye le 2018-11-28
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From the Ashes
- My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
- Auteur(s): Jesse Thistle
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Thistle
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high-school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually, the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts.
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Real, Raw and so encouraging
- Écrit par Cheryl Carter le 2020-11-19
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This Wound Is a World
- Auteur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrateur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Durée: 1 h et 6 min
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Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound Is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky / to world inside”. Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder their sadness and pain without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay”.
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Heals my heart
- Écrit par Raine Crandall le 2023-12-17
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A History of My Brief Body
- Auteur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Narrateur(s): Billy-Ray Belcourt
- Durée: 4 h et 1 min
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With the lyricism and emotional power of his award-winning poetry, Belcourt cracks apart his history and shares it with us one fragment at a time. He shines a light on Canada’s legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it. He revisits sexual encounters, ruminates on first loves and first loves lost, and navigates the racial politics of gay hookup apps. Among the hard truths he distills, the outline of a brighter future takes shape. A History of My Brief Body is a stunning achievement from one of this generation’s finest young minds.
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One of those Life-changing books
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2021-05-18
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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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Brown
- What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
- Auteur(s): Kamal Al-Solaylee
- Narrateur(s): Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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With the urgency and passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me), the seductive storytelling of JD Vance (Hillbilly Elegy) and the historical rigor of Carol Anderson (White Rage), Kamal Al-Solaylee explores the in-between space that brown people occupy in today's world: on the cusp of whiteness and the edge of blackness.
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An incredibly heartbreaking and important read
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2023-04-22
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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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- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2022-10-04
February: Caribbean Voices
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I've Been Meaning to Tell You
- A Letter to My Daughter
- Auteur(s): David Chariandy
- Narrateur(s): David Chariandy
- Durée: 2 h et 19 min
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When a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask "what happened?" David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. A decade later, in a newly heated era of both struggle and divisions, he writes a letter to his now 13-year-old daughter. David is the son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, and he draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including the legacies of slavery, indenture, and immigration, as well as the experiences of growing up a visible minority within the land of one's birth.
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My voice
- Écrit par kvandalizer le 2020-02-10
An intimate meditation on race
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Reproduction
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Ian Williams
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Shaw, David Woodward, Michelle Winters
- Durée: 16 h et 52 min
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Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....
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So disappointed
- Écrit par Onika Blackman-Lloyd le 2019-12-17
Family isn't a matter of blood
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The Blue Clerk
- Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
- Auteur(s): Dionne Brand
- Narrateur(s): Dionne Brand
- Durée: 4 h et 49 min
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On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained. In The Blue Clerk award-winning poet Dionne Brand stages a conversation and an argument between the poet and the Blue Clerk, who is the keeper of the poet's pages.
In her own voice
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Frying Plantain
- Auteur(s): Zalika Reid-Benta
- Narrateur(s): Ordena Stephens-Thompson
- Durée: 4 h et 56 min
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Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle - of her Canadian nationality and her desire to be a “true” Jamaican, of her mother and grandmother’s rages and life lessons, of having to avoid being thought of as too “faas” or too “quiet” or too “bold” or too “soft”. In “Little Jamaica”, Toronto’s Eglinton West neighbourhood, Kara moves from girlhood to the threshold of adulthood, from elementary school to high school graduation, in these 12 interconnected stories.
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Love the Reader (Ordena Thompson) and the refreshing story
- Écrit par LJHS le 2023-12-11
A wondrous collection of short stories
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Staceyann Chin
- Narrateur(s): Staceyann Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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- Écrit par Rassi le 2023-01-22
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Auteur(s): Marlon James
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, Autres
- Durée: 26 h
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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
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Stop using fake Jamaicans
- Écrit par JL le 2019-01-01
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Auteur(s): Junot Díaz
- Narrateur(s): Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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One of the best books I have listened to in a while
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-13
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The Measure of a Man
- A Spiritual Autobiography
- Auteur(s): Sidney Poitier
- Narrateur(s): Sidney Poitier
- Durée: 7 h et 55 min
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In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.
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Artist, Author...Astounding.
- Écrit par Cassel Miles le 2019-08-14
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The Other Side of Paradise
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Staceyann Chin
- Narrateur(s): Staceyann Chin
- Durée: 9 h et 21 min
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Stacyann Chin has appeared on television and radio, including The Oprah Winfrey Show , CNN, and PBS, discussing issues of race and sexuality. But it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist. Here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.
No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother's house in Jamaica, on Christmas Day.
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beautiful written
- Écrit par Rassi le 2023-01-22
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A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Auteur(s): Marlon James
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie, Autres
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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015 Deftly spanning decades and continents and peopled with a wide range of characters - assassins, journalists, drug dealers, and even ghosts - A Brief History of Seven Killings is the fictional exploration of that dangerous and unstable time and its bloody aftermath, from the streets and slums of Kingston in the 1970s, to the crack wars in 1980s New York, to a radically altered Jamaica in the 1990s.
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Stop using fake Jamaicans
- Écrit par JL le 2019-01-01
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Auteur(s): Junot Díaz
- Narrateur(s): Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo
- Durée: 9 h et 53 min
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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One of the best books I have listened to in a while
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-09-13
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The Measure of a Man
- A Spiritual Autobiography
- Auteur(s): Sidney Poitier
- Narrateur(s): Sidney Poitier
- Durée: 7 h et 55 min
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In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure: as a man, as a husband and a father, and as an actor.
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Artist, Author...Astounding.
- Écrit par Cassel Miles le 2019-08-14
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Land of Love and Drowning
- Auteur(s): Tiphanie Yanique
- Narrateur(s): Cherise Boothe, Korey Jackson, Rachel Leslie, Autres
- Durée: 14 h et 43 min
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In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic.
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Untwine
- Auteur(s): Edwidge Danticat
- Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers are caught in a car crash that will shatter everyone's world forever. Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how the people closest to her - her friends; her parents; and above all Isabelle, her twin - have shaped and defined her. Will she allow her love for her family and friends to lead her to recovery?
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Annie John
- Auteur(s): Jamaica Kincaid
- Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
- Durée: 4 h et 19 min
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An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence at the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived". When she turns 12, however, Annie's life changes in ways that are often mysterious to her.
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Almost a Woman: A Memoir
- A Merloyd Lawrence Book
- Auteur(s): Esmeralda Santiago
- Narrateur(s): Esmeralda Santiago
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
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In Almost a Woman, Esmeralda Santiago continues narrating her memoirs, which pick up five years after debut When I Was Puerto Rican left off. In this volume, “Negi” tells the listener all about her teenage years amidst the turbulent mid-'60s. In a small Brooklyn apartment, Negi leaves her childhood behind and starts to become a woman. But she’s still surrounded by 10 siblings and a mother who relies heavily on her on account of her being the eldest.
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
- Auteur(s): Edwidge Danticat
- Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
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At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave - Related by Herself
- Auteur(s): Mary Prince
- Narrateur(s): Katie Haigh
- Durée: 1 h et 13 min
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"This is the story of Mary Prince", who was sold into slavery at the age of 12 for £38 sterling. It is the first account of the life of a black woman ever to be published in the United Kingdom, and it was published at a time when slavery was still legal in the British Colonies. "The history of Mary Prince" is firsthand testimony of the brutalities of enslavement. Its tone is direct and authentic, which makes this vivid story go straight to the heart.
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- Auteur(s): Edwidge Danticat
- Narrateur(s): Kristin Kalbli
- Durée: 4 h et 53 min
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In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
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Return to Sender
- Auteur(s): Julia Alvarez
- Narrateur(s): Ozzie Rodriguez, Olivia Preciado
- Durée: 7 h et 32 min
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After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’ t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?
January: Indigenous Voices
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From the Ashes
- My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
- Auteur(s): Jesse Thistle
- Narrateur(s): Jesse Thistle
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high-school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is. Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually, the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts.
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Real, Raw and so encouraging
- Écrit par Cheryl Carter le 2020-11-19
An extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir
Abandoned by his parents as a toddler, Jesse Thistle briefly found himself in the foster-care system with his two brothers, cut off from all they had known. Eventually, the children landed in the home of their paternal grandparents, whose tough-love attitudes quickly resulted in conflicts.
Throughout it all, the ghost of Jesse’s drug-addicted father haunted the halls of the house and the memories of every family member. Struggling with all that had happened, Jesse succumbed to a self-destructive cycle of drug and alcohol addiction and petty crime, spending more than a decade on and off the streets, often homeless. Finally, he realized he would die unless he turned his life around.
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Empire of Wild
- Auteur(s): Cherie Dimaline
- Narrateur(s): Michelle St. John
- Durée: 8 h et 16 min
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From the author of the YA-crossover hit The Marrow Thieves, a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou - a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. A messed-up, grown-up "Little Red Riding Hood".
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a must read
- Écrit par Ron Dean Harris le 2019-09-20
A messed-up "Little Red Riding Hood"
Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One terrible, hungover morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher named Eugene Wolff. By the time she staggers into the tent, the service is over. But as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice...
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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
A fierce story unlike anything you've ever heard
Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.
A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy and friendship and her 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.
Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq’s Split Tooth moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine listeners will never forget.
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Peace and Good Order
- The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada
- Auteur(s): Harold R. Johnson
- Narrateur(s): Craig Lauzon
- Durée: 3 h et 11 min
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In this direct, concise, and essential volume, Harold R. Johnson examines the justice system's failures to deliver "peace and good order" to Indigenous people. He explores the part that he understands himself to have played in that mismanagement, drawing on insights he has gained from the experience; insights into the roots and immediate effects of how the justice system has failed Indigenous people, in all the communities in which they live; and insights into the struggle for peace and good order for Indigenous people now.
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Book for these Times
- Écrit par Meaghan Duthie le 2020-07-08
"Enough is enough"
In early 2018, the failures of Canada's justice system were sharply and painfully revealed in the verdicts issued in the deaths of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine. The outrage and confusion that followed those verdicts inspired former Crown prosecutor and bestselling author Harold R. Johnson to make the case against Canada for its failure to fulfill its duty under Treaty to effectively deliver justice to Indigenous people, worsening the situation and ensuring long-term damage to Indigenous communities.
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Halfbreed
- Auteur(s): Maria Campbell
- Narrateur(s): Maria Campbell
- Durée: 5 h et 46 min
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This extraordinary account, originally published in 1973, bravely explores the poverty, oppression, alcoholism, addiction, and tragedy Maria endured throughout her childhood and into her early adult life, underscored by living in the margins of a country pervaded by hatred, discrimination, and mistrust. Laced with spare moments of love and joy, this is a memoir of family ties and finding an identity in a heritage that is neither wholly Indigenous or Anglo; of strength and resilience; of indomitable spirit.
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WOW!
- Écrit par EW le 2020-03-02
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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
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All Our Relations
- Finding the Path Forward
- Auteur(s): Tanya Talaga
- Narrateur(s): Tanya Talaga
- Durée: 5 h et 10 min
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Tanya Talaga, the best-selling author of Seven Fallen Feathers and the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples - youth suicide.
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A true guide to knowing more
- Écrit par Magalie le 2020-01-26
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Highway of Tears
- A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Auteur(s): Jessica McDiarmid
- Narrateur(s): Emily Nixon
- Durée: 9 h et 57 min
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.
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Just get it. It's worth is.
- Écrit par Jesaray le 2020-12-25
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Halfbreed
- Auteur(s): Maria Campbell
- Narrateur(s): Maria Campbell
- Durée: 5 h et 46 min
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This extraordinary account, originally published in 1973, bravely explores the poverty, oppression, alcoholism, addiction, and tragedy Maria endured throughout her childhood and into her early adult life, underscored by living in the margins of a country pervaded by hatred, discrimination, and mistrust. Laced with spare moments of love and joy, this is a memoir of family ties and finding an identity in a heritage that is neither wholly Indigenous or Anglo; of strength and resilience; of indomitable spirit.
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WOW!
- Écrit par EW le 2020-03-02
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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
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All Our Relations
- Finding the Path Forward
- Auteur(s): Tanya Talaga
- Narrateur(s): Tanya Talaga
- Durée: 5 h et 10 min
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Tanya Talaga, the best-selling author of Seven Fallen Feathers and the 2017-2018 Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy, calls attention to an urgent global humanitarian crisis among Indigenous Peoples - youth suicide.
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A true guide to knowing more
- Écrit par Magalie le 2020-01-26
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Highway of Tears
- A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
- Auteur(s): Jessica McDiarmid
- Narrateur(s): Emily Nixon
- Durée: 9 h et 57 min
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.
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Just get it. It's worth is.
- Écrit par Jesaray le 2020-12-25
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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
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Red River Girl
- The Life and Death of Tina Fontaine
- Auteur(s): Joanna Jolly
- Narrateur(s): Penelope Rawlins
- Durée: 9 h et 2 min
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On August 17, 2014, the body of 15-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg's Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual police detective who pursued the killer with every legal means at his disposal. The audiobook, like the movie Spotlight, chronicles the behind-the-scenes stages of a lengthy and meticulously planned investigation. It reveals characters and social tensions that bring vivid life to a story that made national headlines.
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Hard to Hear but Important
- Écrit par Trillium25 le 2020-07-14
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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
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Thunder Through My Veins
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Gregory Scofield
- Narrateur(s): Billy Merasty
- Durée: 7 h et 21 min
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Few people can justify a memoir at the age of 33. Gregory Scofield is the exception, a young man who has inhabited several lives in the time most of us can manage only one. Born into a Métis family of Cree, Scottish, English, and French descent but never told of his heritage, Gregory knew he was different. His father disappeared after he was born, and at five he was separated from his mother and sent to live with strangers and extended family. There, began a childhood marked by constant loss, poverty, violence, and self-hatred.
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gorgeous reading of an enthralling memoir
- Écrit par Jenny Blackbird le 2021-07-25
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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
- Auteur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Narrateur(s): Alicia Elliott
- Durée: 6 h et 36 min
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In an urgent and visceral work that asks essential questions about the treatment of Native people in North America while drawing on intimate details of her own life and experience with intergenerational trauma, Alicia Elliott offers indispensable insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism. She engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrifcation, writing, and representation.
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Profoundly vulnerable and robustly analytical
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-04-07
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One Drum
- Stories and Ceremonies for a Planet
- Auteur(s): Richard Wagamese
- Narrateur(s): Christian Baskous
- Durée: 4 h et 1 min
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One Drum draws from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect, and courage, the volume contains simple ceremonies that anyone anywhere can do, alone or in a group, to foster harmony and connection. Wagamese believed that there is a shaman in each of us, that we are all teachers, and in the world of the spirit, there is no right way or wrong way.
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Engaging and thoughtful
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-01-09
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Heart Berries
- A Memoir
- Auteur(s): Terese Marie Mailhot
- Narrateur(s): Rainy Fields
- Durée: 3 h et 45 min
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Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in British Columbia. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II, Terese Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma.
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Gorgeously brutal
- Écrit par Claudia le 2019-05-01
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There There
- A Novel
- Auteur(s): Tommy Orange
- Narrateur(s): Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, Autres
- Durée: 8 h
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Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxendene is pulling his life back together after his uncle's death and has come to work at the powwow to honor his uncle's memory. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come to watch her nephew Orvil, who has taught himself traditional Indian dance through YouTube videos and will perform in public for the very first time. There will be glorious communion and a spectacle of sacred tradition and pageantry. And there will be sacrifice, and heroism, and loss.
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A Stunner!
- Écrit par Karen le 2018-09-18
More Ways to Diversify Your Listening
June: Asian Voices
July: Beach Listens by Marginalized Voices
August: Canadian Voices on Screen
September: Banned Voices
October: Voices of Mental Health
November: In Memoriam: Voices of Colour
December: Disabled Voices
What is the FOLD?
The Festival of Literary Diversity began in May 2016, and is the first literary festival devoted to celebrating underrepresented authors and storytellers. The festival takes place in Brampton, Ontario, providing an important space for writers to discuss their craft; and the challenges involved in creating stories that ask difficult questions, expose hard truths, and push literary boundaries. Audible has been a proud partner of the festival since 2017.