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ID: 564313

Title: Way the Crow Flies

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 29:02:00

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, War & Military

Summary:

In The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to the early 1960’s, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War—a world filtered through the imagination of Madeleine McCarthy, a spirited nine-year-old. Unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in his own web of secrets, she at first welcomes her family’s posting to a sleepy air force base in southern Ontario.

The base, however, is home to some intriguing inhabitants, including the unconventional Froehlich family, and the odd Mr. March, whose power over the children is a secret burden that they carry. Then tragedy strikes, and a local murder intersects with global forces, binding the participants for life. As tension in the McCarthy’s household builds, Jack must decide where his loyalty lies, and Madeleine learns about the ambiguity of human morality—a lesson that will become clear only when the quest for the truth, and the killer, is renewed twenty years later.

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ID: 548439

Title: Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance, and Show Tunes

Author: David Pevsner

Narrator: David Pevsner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:05:31

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Social Science, General, Art & Music

Summary:

A funny, daring, bawdy and incredibly honest memoir from the anti-ageist, anti-body shaming, pro-sex advocate and erotic provocateur.

Over the course of his 35-year career in show business, David Pevsner has done it all. He’s acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in independent films and on numerous TV network shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family and Criminal Minds.

 

As he continues his career in entertainment, Pevsner has also dedicated himself to exploring his deepest sexual fantasies. In his late 30s he became a mature male escort and over the last several years has attracted a large international fan base through his blog of erotic photographs celebrating nudity and sexuality.

 

Damn Shame is David Pevsner’s incredible story and is a passionate and poignant look at one man’s journey from a thin, shy boy ashamed of his body and sexuality to a defiant, fearless everyman exploring his erotic desires, everything from leather and S&M to nude/erotic/hardcore modelling. Along the way, he fights back against society’s demonization of gay sex, body shaming and ageism while pursuing his own very personal definition of success and seeking love, validation and self-esteem.

 

Damn Shame gives a loud and powerful voice to a generation of mature men who have been conditioned to believe from society (and especially younger members of the gay community) that they are sexually irrelevant, old and undesirable. Pevsner’s life story goes in directions that many couldn’t imagine, but the lessons learned through his experiences will resonate with readers of every age.

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ID: 549724

Title: Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas

Author: Harley Rustad

Narrator: Harley Rustad

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:42:39

Language: English

Release date: 01-11-22

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Travel, Asia, General

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

ONE OF CBC'S BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION BOOKS OF 2022

For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the riveting story of the unsolved disappearance of an American backpacker in India—one of at least two dozen tourists who have met a similar fate in the remote and storied Parvati Valley.

For centuries, India has enthralled Westerners looking for an exotic getaway, a brief immersion in yoga and meditation, or, in rare cases, a true pilgrimage to find spiritual revelation. Justin Alexander Shetler, an inveterate traveler trained in wilderness survival, was one such seeker.

    In his early thirties, Justin quit his job at a tech startup and set out on a global journey—across the United States by motorcycle, then down to South America, and on to the Philippines, Thailand, and Nepal—in search of authentic experiences and meaningful encounters while documenting his travels on Instagram. His enigmatic character and magnetic personality gained him a devoted following who lived vicariously through his adventures. But the ever-restless explorer was driven to seek out ever-greater extremes, and greater risks, in what had become a personal quest—his own hero’s journey.

    In 2016, he made his way to the Parvati Valley, a remote and rugged corner of the Indian Himalayas steeped in mystical tradition and shrouded in darkness and danger. There he spent weeks studying under the guidance of a sadhu, an Indian holy man, living and meditating in a cave. At the end of August, accompanied by the sadhu, he set off on a spiritual journey to a holy lake—one from which he would never return.

    Lost in the Valley of Death is about one man’s search to find himself, in a country where, for many Westerners, the path to spiritual enlightenment can prove fraught, even treacherous. But it is also a story about all of us and the ways, sometimes extreme, we seek fulfillment in life.

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ID: 521047

Title: Curse of Salem

Author: Kay Hooper

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:29:07

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police Stories, Paranormal

Summary:

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper is back with a brand new thrilling paranormal suspense novel in the Bishop/Special Crimes Unit series.

The small town of Salem has been quiet for monthsor so Bishop and his elite Special Crimes Unit believe. But then Hollis Templeton and Diana Hayes receive a warning in Dianas eerie gray time between the world of the living and the realm of the dead that a twisted killer is stalking Salem, bent on destroying in the most bloody and horrifying way possible the five families that founded the town.

The stakes are high, especially for new friends Nellie Cavendish and Finn Deverell, both members of the Five, and this time Bishop and his wife Miranda will lead the team to hunt down a vicious killer and uncover a dark and ancient curse haunting Salem.

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ID: 529938

Title: Hatbox Letters

Author: Beth Powning

Narrator: Martha Irving

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14:32:21

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-21

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Health & Wellness, Essays & Anthologies, General, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

In this beautiful and deeply moving novel, a young widow struggles to come to terms with her solitary life in the rambling Victorian house she shared until recently with her husband and children in semi-rural New Brunswick.

It is in this house, surrounded by heirloom gardens and the gentle sounds of a river, that Kate Harding, 52, faces her second winter since the untimely death of her husband. Her children, now grown, are living away, and Kate is truly on her own. In her living room are several hatboxes filled with letters and other ghostly ephemera, recently brought by her sister from the attic of their grandparents’ 18th-century Connecticut house. Their sweet mustiness tinges the air and makes Kate dream of her childhood and of her beloved grandparents. She remembers the sense of permanence and refuge that she felt in their apple-scented world, as well as, more recently, with her husband. As she begins to read the hatbox letters, she discovers that what to a child seemed a serene and blissful marriage was in fact founded on a tragic event. As Kate’s eyes clear to the truth of the past, a new tragedy unfolds, and her own house, filled with the shared detritus of marriage and motherhood, becomes the refuge where Kate can connect the strands of her unravelled life.

In The Hatbox Letters — which is both sad and exhilarating, touching and illuminating — Beth Powning offers readers an unforgettable story of love, grief and renewal, both past and present, as well as her extraordinary perceptions of the natural world.

Excerpt from The Hatbox Letters

The birds rise with a muted thunder, their wings serrate the light. For an instant, a peregrine falcon zigzags through the flock. Then it drops from the belly of the rising bird-cloud. In its talons is a sandpiper, crumpled like a ball of paper. It is hard to decide which drama to observe, the escape of the falcon with its prey or the flock’s display as the birds rush seaward like a single entity, a ballooning flame that rises and falls, expands and implodes, one instant silver and the next black. The flock speeds back towards the beach, passes close to the watchers, makes a dazzling turn, fast as thought. Then, with a diminishing roar, the birds waver, their legs drop, stretch. They touch down. They fluff their feathers, Kate observes, the way humans pull coats up around necks after a shock. Trying to put ourselves back as we were.

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ID: 580571

Title: Prince in the Studio: The Exclusive Studio Stories behind the Hits: 19771994

Author: Jake Brown

Narrator: Jake Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:46:16

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Arts & Entertainment

Summary:

Princes most prolific period between 1977 and 1994 is explored here for the first time in depth via exclusive, firsthand interviews with his key engineers, including fan faves Susan Rogers and David Leonard and Peggy McCreary, along with Matt Dr Fink re-creating the making of all Princes greatest hits for fans, from 1999 and Purple Rain to Bat Dance and Kiss, every album and hit are broken down in exciting detail as fans are taken inside Paisley Park and Princes world.

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ID: 580573

Title: Devil Made Me Do It

Author: Colette R. Harrell

Narrator: Kris Rom

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:19:35

Language: English

Release date: 12-28-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. Shes a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it.

Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his fathers worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns to be his own man. His past mistakes have caused him a private life of hurt and loneliness.

Esther and Briggs meet and develop a deep soul connection, until tragedy strikes and the two are thrust apart. Their separation leads each down a different path scattered with emotional minefields. While each step they take brings them closer to who they were always meant to be, the devil is on assignment. He sends in reinforcements to usher in confusion and create chaos, and soon no one is safe. The members of Love Zion church reel from the rumors, innuendo, and downright sabotage that is going on around them.

When others devise evil schemes to seek the destruction of Esther and Briggs through jealousy, greed, and murder, only divine intervention can save them. As an all-out battle for dominion breaks out in the heavens, will Esther and Briggs become a casualty of war?

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ID: 556155

Title: Apocalypse for Beginners

Author: Nicolas Dickner

Narrator: Al Dano

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:27:27

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-21

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age

Summary:

From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh.

The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad.

In the summer of 1989, Hope Randall's mother, in an attempt to forestall the latest imminent apocalypse, loads up the Lada and heads west from Yarmouth. After their car dies in Rivière-du-Loup, the mother and daughter put down roots, as yet another day of reckoning comes and goes.

Mickey Bauermann has never seen the likes of the red-headed wonder that is Hope, whose idea of a good time is spending Friday nights watching David Suzuki reveal the mysteries of science on TV. The Bauermann family has been in the concrete business for generations, but Mickey has other ideas of what he wants to do with his life. For now, he spends every available second with Hope, whose mother has become increasingly unhinged. The teens take refuge in Mickey's bungalow basement, aka The Bunker, where they watch the twentieth century crumble and transform on the small screen.

But when Hope's destiny as a Randall is revealed by chance—and by a bomb shelter's worth of ramen noodles—the time for hiding out is past. For Hope, the only way to deal with the end of the world is to confront it head on. The journey begins...

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ID: 578420

Title: Firefly: Carnival

Author: Una McCormack

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:36:49

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Space Opera

Summary:

A heist by the Serenity crew goes badly wrong in a captivating original Firefly tie-in novel from the award-winning series by Titan Books.

City of sinNeapolis: a desert city on planet Bethel where all manner of entertainment is found: high-stakes gambling, luxurious hotels, exclusive clubs, and any form of diversion imaginable may be had for a price. Its the eve of the annual carnival: three days of decadent revelry, and Serenity arrives to take a security job, guarding a costly shipment.

An unattainable ransomTragedy strikes: the shipment is stolen, and the wealthy owner kidnaps Zoë and Book, holding them to ransom for the lost shipments value. If Mal cant find the enormous sum of five hundred platinum by the next evening, both of them will be killed.

A race against timeAs the carnival begins the crew must attempt the impossible, calling on contacts, calling in favors, and revealing hidden talents to save their crewmates lives. Meanwhile, the hostages have their own plans

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ID: 578419

Title: Mimi Lee Cracks the Code

Author: Jennifer J. Chow

Narrator: Natalie Naudus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:55:18

Language: English

Release date: 12-14-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Detective Stories, Cozy Mystery

Summary:

When murder follows Mimi Lee to her romantic island getaway, she puts on her best sleuthing hat with her sassy cat in tow in this adventurous cozy mystery by Jennifer J. Chow.

Mimi Lee just found an extra perk to being a pet groomer at Hollywoof (other than cuddling animals all day long, that is). Pixie St. James, one of Mimis clients and also the investor behind Hollywoof, has offered her and her boyfriend, Josh, a weekend getaway at her vacation home, nestled on the beautiful Catalina Island. Arriving just outside of Los Angeles but still far enough from the hustle and bustle, Mimi, Josh, and their cat Marshmallow (who, of course, wouldnt be caught dead in a dingy pet hotel) are excited about their relaxing weekend at the island.

That is, until Pixies last renter, Davis D. Argo, turns up dead. Mimi and Joshs romantic getaway immediately turns into an enormous buzzkill, especially when Pixie asks Mimi for help. The police suspect Pixie, and Mimi knows a thing or two about wrongful allegations. Mimi figures it couldnt hurt to snoop a little since shes already there, and soon discovers that a valuable item is missing. Except Pixie isnt the only one in the neighborhood who has been robbed. There is something strange happening on the island, and Mimi wont stop until she finds out what it is.

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