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ID: 549999

Title: Flush: A Robin MacFarland Mystery

Author: Sky Curtis

Narrator: Rebecca Jenkins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:29:48

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense, Detective Stories, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Finalist, 2018 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel.

Robin MacFarland is a somewhat eccentric and highly intelligent journalist for the Home and Garden section of a Toronto paper, who at age fifty-five looks aghast in the mirror and pronounces herself, "Old. Fat. Alcoholic. Alone. Failure." She resolves to lose weight, quit drinking, and try online dating, although not, perhaps in quite that order. The intrigue begins when Robin chooses to cover a water cooling system conference where she thinks there will be a lot of men. By coincidence, her first online date is with the owner of the water company who is found dead after they have coffee. Dauntless, Robin wades into what is now a murder investigation, under the supervision of her new editor, and with the help of her best friend, Cindy, a crime reporter. The novel is framed around a plot to steal Canada's fresh water, but it hinges on Robin's hilarious journey through the middle portion of her life, a serious social issue, and a highly ironic murder weapon.

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ID: 549996

Title: On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition

Author: Rinaldo Walcott

Narrator: David Andrew Reid

Format: Unabridged

Length: 03:51:46

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Law

Summary:

From plantation rebellion to prison labour's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property.

That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill when we know our economies are flush with fake money says something damning about the way we've organized society. Yet the intensity of the calls to abolish the police after George Floyd's death surprised almost everyone. What, exactly, does abolition mean? How did we get here? And what does property have to do with it? In On Property, Rinaldo Walcott explores the long shadow cast by slavery's afterlife and shows how present-day abolitionists continue the work of their forebears in service of an imaginative, creative philosophy that ensures freedom and equality for all. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, compassionate, and profound, On Property makes an urgent plea for a new ethics of care.

Bespeak Audio Editions brings Canadian voices to the world with audiobook editions of some of the country's greatest works of literature, performed by Canadian actors.

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ID: 549994

Title: After Drowning

Author: Valerie Mills-Milde

Narrator: Maggie Pettet

Format: Unabridged

Length: 09:24:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

After Drowning is set in a small fishing town on the shores of Lake Erie and concerns the volatile fortunes of a fishing family. At one time, Lake Erie was the home of a thriving fishing industry but the sad fortunes of the lake have limited the industry, forcing those who live near it to adapt. A drowning, a tragedy witnessed by Penelope Beau and her four-year-old daughter, Maddy, brings back memories of Pen's childhood: the death of her father Rod in a boating accident, which may or may not have been an accident, and the subsequent disappearance of her brother Keaton who fled town after an act of arson. Also on the beach on the day of the drowning is Tom Valentine, a member of the Bandido biker gang, who is inexorably involved with a club-sanctioned bloody showdown. Now, abandoned and betrayed, a solitary Tom must contemplate the true nature of his relationships. Pen and Tom's lives intersect, both outliers who must find a way to reconcile the various threads of their lives.

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ID: 549995

Title: All That Is Solid Melts into Air

Author: Carole Giangrande

Narrator: Mary Fisher

Format: Unabridged

Length: 06:30:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

In the morning fog of the North Atlantic, Valerie hears the frenetic ticking of clocks. She's come from Toronto to hike on the French island of St. Pierre and to ponder her marriage to Gerard Lefèvre, a Montrealer and a broadcast journalist whose passion for justice was ignited in his youth by the death of his lover in an airline bombing. He's a restless traveller (who she suspects is unfaithful) and she's the opposite: quiet, with an inner life she nurtures as a horticulturalist. Valerie's thinking about Gerard on assignment in her native New York City, where their son Andre works. In New York City, an airplane has plunged into a skyscraper, and in the short time before anyone understands the significance of this event, Valerie's mind begins to spiral in and out of the present moment, circling around her intense memories of her father's death, her youthful relationship with troubled Matthew, and her pregnancy with his child, the crisis that led to her marriage to Gerard, and her fears for the safety of her son Andre and his partner James. Unable to reach her loved ones, Valerie finds memory intruding on a surreal and dreamlike present until at last she connects with Gerard and the final horror of that day.

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ID: 550001

Title: Jacob and the Mandolin Adventure

Author: Anne Dublin

Narrator: Steven Vlahos

Format: Unabridged

Length: 04:18:55

Language: English

Release date: 10-15-21

Publisher: ECW Press

Genres: Kids, Health & Family, Historical

Summary:

Thirteen-year-old Jacob's life is hard in 1920s Poland, where he lives in an orphanage for Jewish children. His days are brightened by playing in the orphanage mandolin orchestra. When an American benefactor arrives with the promise of a new life in Canada at a farm school, Jacob and his friends are thrilled. But can they trust this man to keep his promises?

The children travel by train and by ship, facing illness and prejudice along the way. where a stowaway becomes dangerously sick. Jacob, who has become the orchestra's star player, must overcome his fears and doubts to help his friends and to fulfill his dream to one day play at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York City. Inspired by real events.

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ID: 562167

Title: Back of the Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression of Black Wealth

Author: Roy Beck

Narrator: Roy Beck

Format: Unabridged

Length: 07:09:31

Language: English

Release date: 10-13-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, North America, Social Science, Public Policy

Summary:

150 years after the end of slavery and nearly 60 years after passage of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, average Black household wealth in the 21st century remains a fraction of the median assets of other racial, ethnic, and immigrant populations.There are many reasons, but this book is about one: two centuries of governmental encouragement of periodic sustained surges in immigration.

Governmental policies and actions have enabled employers to depress Black wages and to avoid hiring African Americans altogether.

Here is a grand sweep of the little-told stories of the struggles of freed slaves and their descendants to climb job ladders in the eras of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, A. Philip Randolph, Barbara Jordan, and other African American leaders who advocated tight-labor migration policies. It is a history of bitter disappointments and, occasionally, of great hope:

Setback:The first European immigration surge after 1820 and the ensuing sometimes-violent labor competition.

Hope:The post-Civil War opening of the 'golden door' to northern and western jobs.

Setback:The Ellis Island-era, Great Wave of immigration.

Hope:Major reductions in immigration in the mid-20th century creates a labor demand among northern and western industrialists so great that they aggressively recruited descendants of slavery and precipitated the Great Migration of Black southerners.

Setback:In 1965, Congress accidentally restarts mass immigration.

Looking to the future, the author finds in the past assurance that any immigration policy that helps move more Black workers into the labor force and increases their wealth accumulation will also assist struggling Hispanics and other populations of recent immigration.

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ID: 627087

Title: Peak

Author: L.C. Barlow

Narrator: Emma Galvin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:02:39

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Summary:

First, she was an acolyte. Then, a rogue. Finally, a catalyst.

Now she’s declaring war on Hell itself.

Jack Harper can raise the dead, and those she resurrects she also controls. She belongs to an ancient race of magical beings called “ferrics,” though she is the first of her kind with this power. Having just escaped Jonathon Roth and his kill-for-hire organization, her new target is the demonic Builder, architect of damnation. She must act fast, too, because the ferrics’ last countermeasure―a plasmatic weapon―is dwindling away. Meanwhile, her closest confidante, the ferric Lutin, has come under attack, all while her brother Alex joins forces with the Builder to unleash a malevolent new power.

Dying of poison and scrambling for help, Jack turns to an unlikely ally, her charismatic and drug-addled friend, Patrick. She must ask him to help with the impossible: kill the Builder. Whether or not they succeed may not matter because a new threat has joined the battle, an evil ferric bathed in blood, brimstone, and mystery.

Jack will never quit, no matter the odds, but deep down she worries: what if the cure is worse than the disease?

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ID: 554370

Title: Duke and the Wallflower

Author: Jessie Clever

Narrator: Bridget Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 08:07:41

Language: English

Release date: 10-09-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Historical Romance

Summary:

Shunned by a society that puts attractiveness above all else, Lady Eliza Darbys wallflower status keeps her from getting the one thing she wants most, namely, to be a mother. But when her scorned older sister returns home to see all of her sisters wed in happy matches, it may be Elizas only chance to secure a husband and have the children she so desires.

Jilted in a publicly humiliating display, Dax Kane, the Duke of Ashbourne, has sworn off love forever and has no wish to wed. But when the title demands it, he selects the most perfect candidate for the position: Lady Eliza Darby, a wallflower so unattractive he wont be in danger of falling in love with her. But the Jilted Duke will soon discover looks have nothing to do with love.

The Duke and the Wallfloweris the first book in the steamy, heart-stopping historical romance series, The Unwanted Dukes. If you love sexy, spellbinding romance and heartwarming humor, dont miss this captivating series from bestselling author Jessie Clever. Discover adventure and romance when you downloadThe Duke and the Wallflowertoday.

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ID: 524696

Title: Awake: The Legacy of Akara

Author: Dayna Dunbar, Julia Nadine Padawer

Narrator: Gary Tiedemann

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:10:34

Language: English

Release date: 10-05-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Religious Fiction

Summary:

Oprah Winfrey Network TV show host and#1New York Timesbestselling author Iyanla Vanzant callsAwake, A visionary page-turner!'

Akara is home to a civilization far more evolved than our own ...

Long ago, on Akaraa planet in the Pleiades clusterthe Ravaging Era raged. It was a time of toxic greed, rampant warfare, and environmental devastation. Akarans were on the brink of extinction. Out of the turmoil, a critical mass of beings experienced an awakening, which sparked a spontaneous shift in consciousness across the planet and ushered in the Rebirthing.

A thousand years later ...

Mobiusa candidate for the Discovery Corps, Akaras elite space programstumbles upon an ancient relic. The artifact reveals that a rogue space commander from the Ravaging Era attempted to colonize the Earth. The legacy of his reign now places Earth in jeopardy, and Mobius is compelled to try to save the precious blue planet. He embarks on a quest that not only unlocks his secret destiny but also points to the possibility of a mass awakening of human consciousness. A Rebirthing on Earth.

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ID: 610594

Title: Ruby Wishfingers: Skydancer's Escape

Author: Deborah Kelly

Narrator: Coco Hannah

Format: Unabridged

Length: 00:56:54

Language: English

Release date: 10-01-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature, Health & Family

Summary:

Ruby Wishfingers is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary name. Only nobody else seems to think so. That is until Ruby Wishfingers wakes up with a strange feeling in the tips of her fingers. She soon finds out that there is far more to being a Wishfingers than having a funny name.

Ruby can wish for whatever she wants with her wish fingers. However, she soon realises that they create more trouble than good.

Ruby Wishfingers will take you on a magical adventure, featuring talking cats, jelly bean rain and pocket-sized unicorns.

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