Showing results by publisher "Penguin Canada" in Biographies & Memoirs
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The Reason You Walk
- Written by: Wab Kinew
- Narrated by: Wab Kinew
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year reconnecting with the accomplished but distant aboriginal man who'd raised him. The Reason You Walk spans the year 2012, chronicling painful moments in the past and celebrating renewed hopes and dreams for the future. As Kinew revisits his own childhood in Winnipeg and on a reserve in Northern Ontario, he learns more about his father's traumatic childhood at residential school.
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Seeing a New Side of Colonialism
- By Crystal McLeod on 2019-04-24
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The Reason You Walk
- Narrated by: Wab Kinew
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 2017-11-14
- Language: English
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Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father
- Written by: Murray Howe
- Narrated by: Murray Howe
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Gordie Howe may have been the greatest player in the history of hockey, but greatness was never defined by goals or assists in the Howe household. Greatness meant being the best person you could be, not the best player on the ice. Unlike his two brothers, Murray Howe failed in his attempt to follow in his father's footsteps to become a professional athlete. Yet his failure brought him to the realization that his dream wasn't really to be a pro hockey player. His dream was to be his father. To be amazing at something, but humble and gracious. To be a hero.
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enjoyed it immensely
- By Anonymous User on 2020-04-17
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Nine Lessons I Learned from My Father
- Narrated by: Murray Howe
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 2019-05-07
- Language: English
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Alone Against the North
- An Expedition into the Unknown
- Written by: Adam Shoalts
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
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Gripping and often poetic, Alone Against the North is a classic adventure story of single-minded obsession, physical hardship, and the restless sense of wonder that every explorer has in common. What Shoalts discovered as he paddled downriver was a series of unmapped waterfalls that could easily have killed him. Just as astonishing was the media reaction when he got back to civilization. He was feted by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and congratulated by the Governor General. People were enthralled by Shoalts’s proof that the world is bigger than we think.
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Not quite Shackleton
- By Anonymous User on 2019-11-07
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Alone Against the North
- An Expedition into the Unknown
- Narrated by: Adam Shoalts
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 2019-10-08
- Language: English
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Unreconciled
- Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
- Written by: Jesse Wente
- Narrated by: Jesse Wente
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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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
- By Cass on 2022-02-04
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Unreconciled
- Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
- Narrated by: Jesse Wente
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-21
- Language: English
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate.
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amazing, must read feminist text
- By Anynomous on 2018-09-04
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I'm Afraid of Men
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 2018-08-28
- Language: English
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Falling Back in Love with Being Human
- Letters to Lost Souls
- Written by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance.
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a whirlwind of cathartic feels
- By Anonymous User on 2023-10-18
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Falling Back in Love with Being Human
- Letters to Lost Souls
- Narrated by: Kai Cheng Thom
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
- Release date: 2023-08-01
- Language: English
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People Change
- Written by: Vivek Shraya
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
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Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. We outgrow relationships, we abandon dreams for new ones, we start fresh. We seize control of our stories. We make resolutions. In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who’s made a career of embracing many roles: artist, performer, musician, writer, model, teacher. In People Change, she reflects on the origins of this impulse, tracing it to childhood influences from Hinduism to Madonna.
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This is worth listening to.
- By CanadianELA on 2022-10-15
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People Change
- Narrated by: Vivek Shraya
- Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
- Release date: 2022-01-04
- Language: English
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Dad Up!
- Long-Time Comedian. First-Time Father.
- Written by: Steve Patterson
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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Steve Patterson has been thinking about dad-dom for quite a while. In Dad Up! he gives his all to be the best father possible to two young girls while imparting his hard-won wisdom and insights to listeners everywhere. Dad Up! charts the awesome experience of watching tiny infants that you somehow had a hand in creating evolve into confident and crafty little people, and the lessons that they teach along the way.
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Dad Up!
- Long-Time Comedian. First-Time Father.
- Narrated by: Steve Patterson
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-01
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here
- Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
- Written by: Nahid Shahalimi, Margaret Atwood - foreword
- Narrated by: Nahid Shahalimi, Margaret Atwood, Mariam Safi, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized control of the country on August 15, 2021, a steep regression of social, political, and economic freedoms for women in the country began. But just because a brutal regime has taken over doesn't mean Afghan women will stand by while their rights are stripped away.
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We Are Still Here
- Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
- Narrated by: Nahid Shahalimi, Margaret Atwood, Mariam Safi, Mina Sharif, Manizha Wafeq, Fereshteh Forough, Rada Akbar, Hila Limar, Waslat Hasrat-Nasimi, Hosna Jalil
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 2022-08-16
- Language: English
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My Ackee Tree
- A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen
- Written by: Suzanne Barr, Suzanne Hancock - contributor
- Narrated by: Suzanne Barr
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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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.
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My Ackee Tree
- A Chef's Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen
- Narrated by: Suzanne Barr
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 2022-04-26
- Language: English
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Scratching River
- Written by: Michelle Porter
- Narrated by: Michelle Porter
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
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This memoir revolves around a search for home for the author’s older brother, who is both autistic and schizophrenic, and an unexpected emotional journey that led to acceptance, understanding and, ultimately, reconciliation. Michelle Porter brings together the oral history of a Métis ancestor, studies of river morphology, and news clippings about abuse her older brother endured at a rural Alberta group home to tell a tale about love, survival, and hope. This book is a voice in your ear, urging you to explore your own braided histories and relationships.
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Scratching River
- Narrated by: Michelle Porter
- Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-27
- Language: English
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The Book of Possibilities
- Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming
- Written by: Bee Quammie
- Length: Not yet known
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A successful Black woman in media, Bee Quammie often finds herself being cast as a role model for young women—and especially women of colour. But Bee has never quite been comfortable with the idea of being a role model for the next generation. Who is she to suggest anyone live the way she has? Follow a certain path? Who says the path she followed is the “right” one—that there even is a “right” one?
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The Book of Possibilities
- Words of Wisdom on the Road to Becoming
- Length: Not yet known
- Release date: 2025-04-08
- Language: English
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