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Gutter Child
- Written by: Jael Richardson
- Narrated by: Phoenix Pagliacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of 100 children selected as a social experiment....
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It Could Have Been Good
- By Jessica on 2021-03-20
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Each Man's Son
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Billy MacLellan
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before....
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Here and There
- Poetry of Rural Prince Edward Island
- Written by: Roderick MacDonald
- Narrated by: Roderick MacDonald
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this song-like collection of 50 short poems inspired by rural Prince Edward Island, Canada, Roderick MacDonald elevates the commonplace and simple in entertaining and thoughtful verse....
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I Place You into the Fire
- Poems
- Written by: Rebecca Thomas
- Narrated by: Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire"....
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The Best of Robert Service
- Including The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Spell of the Yukon and Others
- Written by: Robert Service, Harriett Shlossberg
- Narrated by: Mike Puttonen
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is narrated by Michael Puttonen....
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic....
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Gutter Child
- Written by: Jael Richardson
- Narrated by: Phoenix Pagliacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Imagine a world in which the hopeless and vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society. Imagine a world divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In that world lives Elimina Dubois, one of 100 children selected as a social experiment....
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It Could Have Been Good
- By Jessica on 2021-03-20
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Each Man's Son
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Billy MacLellan
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before....
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Here and There
- Poetry of Rural Prince Edward Island
- Written by: Roderick MacDonald
- Narrated by: Roderick MacDonald
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this song-like collection of 50 short poems inspired by rural Prince Edward Island, Canada, Roderick MacDonald elevates the commonplace and simple in entertaining and thoughtful verse....
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I Place You into the Fire
- Poems
- Written by: Rebecca Thomas
- Narrated by: Thomas
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire"....
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The Best of Robert Service
- Including The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Spell of the Yukon and Others
- Written by: Robert Service, Harriett Shlossberg
- Narrated by: Mike Puttonen
- Length: 1 hr and 42 mins
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This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is narrated by Michael Puttonen....
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Fifteen Dogs
- Written by: André Alexis
- Narrated by: André Alexis
- Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic....
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Fabulous
- By Amazon Customer on 2020-04-06
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Matins à Jalna
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 2
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Cette fresque familiale canadienne fut l'un des plus grands succès de la littérature nord-américaine, dès la parution en 1927 du premier des seize...
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Scars and Stars
- Written by: Jesse Thistle
- Narrated by: Jesse Thistle
- Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
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Fans of Jesse Thistle’s extraordinary debut From the Ashes have already had the pleasure of knowing his poetry. In Scars and Stars, he digs deeper into the poetic form, which is especially close to his heart....
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Lovely!
- By Jeanguy Turmelle on 2023-09-11
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You Look Good for Your Age: An Anthology
- Robert Kroetsch Series
- Written by: Rona Altrows - editor
- Narrated by: Marysia Bucholc
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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With wit and wisdom, women writers challenge ageism through essays, short stories, and poetry....
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This Accident of Being Lost
- Written by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Narrated by: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Blending elements of science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, these are visionary pieces....
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You'll Come Back to Yourself
- Written by: Michaela Angemeer
- Narrated by: Michaela Angemeer
- Length: 26 mins
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Dive into this collection of poetry and prose inspired by modern dating and broken relationships, perfect for fans of Rupi Kaur and Orion Carloto....
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The Watch That Ends the Night
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Julian Casey
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend....
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The Cremation of Sam McGee
- Written by: Robert Service
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 6 mins
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Cap the narrator makes a deal with his pal Sam McGee that he will cremate him when he dies. Now the problem is where to do this deed in the frozen Yukon....
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a pals last need is a thing to heed
- By Heather Elizabeth Rose on 2021-06-12
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Book of Mercy
- Written by: Leonard Cohen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and daring artists of our time. Now available on audio for the first time, the poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust....
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Depression & Other Magic Tricks
- Written by: Sabrina Benaim
- Narrated by: Sabrina Benaim
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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Performance poet Sabrina Benaim presents Depression & Other Magic Tricks, a collection of poems that explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living....
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Wasn’t what I expected- Mixed feeling
- By Amazon Customer on 2021-08-02
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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
- Written by: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe - introduction
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career—new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.
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Black Like Who?
- 20th Anniversary Edition
- Written by: Rinaldo Walcott
- Narrated by: Nigel Williams
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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With its incisive readings of hip-hop, film, literature, social unrest, sports, music, and electronic media, Walcott’s book not only assesses the role of Black Canadians in defining Canada, it also argues strenuously against any notion of an essentialist Canadian blackness....
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Coke Machine Glow
- Written by: Gordon Downie
- Narrated by: Dan Ayckroyd, Robbie Baker, Clare Downie, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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On the 20th-anniversary year of Coke Machine Glow, fans have more to delight in: the audiobook of Coke Machine Glow and a brand-new album by Downie, released posthumously.
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La naissance de Jalna
- Jalna - La saga des Whiteoak 1
- Written by: Mazo de la Roche
- Narrated by: Catherine Gautier
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Cette fresque familiale canadienne fut l'un des plus grands succès de la littérature nord-américaine, dès la parution en 1927 du premier...
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Ossuaries
- Written by: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
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Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life....
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An Evening with W.O. Mitchell
- A Collection of the Author's Best-Loved Performance Pieces
- Written by: W. O. Mitchell
- Narrated by: W. O. Mitchell
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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In a unique listening experience from the unforgettable writer and public speaker W.O. Mitchell, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell is a curated, abridged selection of nine remarkable pieces from Mitchell’s lifetime of public readings, read by the author himself....
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How a Poem Moves
- A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry
- Written by: Adam Sol
- Narrated by: Adam Sol, Soraya Peerbaye
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry audiences become well-versed in verse....
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Everything I expected and more
- By Sutherland Booth on 2019-09-10
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The Blue Clerk
- Ars Poetica in 59 Versos
- Written by: Dionne Brand
- Narrated by: Dionne Brand
- Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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On a lonely wharf a clerk in an ink blue coat inspects bales and bales of paper that hold a poet's accumulated left-hand pages--the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed, the withdrawn, the restrained....
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C'est le coeur qui lâche en dernier
- Written by: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Caroline Breton
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Stan et Charmaine ont été touchés de plein fouet par la crise économique qui consume les États-Unis. Tous deux survivent grâce aux maigres...
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Text Messages
- Or How I Found Myself Time Travelling
- Written by: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Narrated by: Yassin "Narcy" Alsalman
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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Composed entirely on a smartphone during air travel and married to artwork from comrades, Text Messages is the first multi-genre collection by Montreal-based Iraqi hip-hop artist, activist, and professor Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman....
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Inheritance
- A Pick-the-Path Experience
- Written by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn
- Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Daniel Arnold, Medina Hahn, and others
- Length: Not yet known
- Unabridged
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Three people—Indigenous, immigrant, and settler—journey over dangerous terrain in a race against time, and each other, to gain control of a vast parcel of land. YOU decide how events unfold, ultimately determining how the land is stewarded, and by whom....
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Rock, Scissors, Paper
- The Clifford Olsen Murders
- Written by: Richard Stevenson
- Narrated by: B. Jaymes Condon
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early 1980s, serial killer Clifford Olson rampaged through the lower mainland of British Columbia, raping and murdering 11 victims....
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not very good CTV 80's movie was better
- By JOHN MACKINNON on 2020-03-26
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The Amendment
- Contract Series # 3,
- Written by: Melanie Moreland
- Narrated by: John Lane, Tatiana Sokolov
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Richard VanRyan has it all. A loving wife, a beautiful family, great friends, and a career he excels at. He is riding high on the crest of life. What happens when the ride stops? When the unthinkable becomes reality and life may never again be the same? The Contract has changed....
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Voices in Time
- Written by: Hugh MacLennan
- Narrated by: Daniel Michael Karpenchuk
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story....
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Runaway Dreams
- Written by: Richard Wagamese
- Narrated by: Billy Merasty
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
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Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape....
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Relatable, true, and real
- By Kelly on 2022-06-09