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ID: 566025

Title: Nine Paths to Wisdom: Living a Fuller Life

Author: David E C Huggins

Narrator: David E C Huggins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:18:47

Language: English

Release date: 12-11-21

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Health & Wellness, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

A supportive and balanced guide, centred on a professional coach's personal experiences, in applying a wisdom-based approach, to finding purpose and fulfilment in life. Concepts, analogies, models, self-inventories, anecdotes and detailed examples provide foundational and practical strategies to facilitate individual growth and development. The style is narrative and structured to enable personal reflection and progressive individual applications within a cohesive philosophy. It can serve as a dedicated self-improvement guide or as a source of practical ideas for parents and teachers who are entrusted with the development of younger people.

Prefaced by exposure to three popular yet disabling 'myths', three elegant pathways are identified to assist with the gathering of wisdom; three further pathways assist in the processing of valuable themes for the individual, and finally, three pathways provoke deeper, internal value creation.

The book comprises an introduction to the Opportunity, detailed development of an Action Plan, a building methodology and a Resource Bank of practical Assists.

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ID: 524568

Title: On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times

Author: Michael Ignatieff

Narrator: Michael Ignatieff

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:28:12

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Self Development, Health & Wellness, Psychology, Philosophy

Summary:

Timely and profound philosophical meditations on how great figures in history, literature, music, and art searched for solace while facing tragedies and crises, from the internationally renowned historian of ideas and Booker Prize-finalist Michael Ignatieff.

When someone we love dies, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes--war, famine, pandemic--we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic.

How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works--from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and Primo Levi--esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century.

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ID: 521045

Title: Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories

Author: Lily King

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot, Cassandra Campbell, Christa Lewis, Mark Bramhall, Stacey Glemboski

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:10:49

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Contemporary Women, Family Life

Summary:

Award-winning Lily Kings first-ever collection of exceptional and innovative short stories

With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily Kings books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country and established her as one of our most brilliant (New York Times), wildly talented (Chicago Tribune), and beloved authors in contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short storieshalf published in leading literary magazines and half brand newopening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.

Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A booksellers unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girls loss of innocence at the hands of her employers son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughters hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about Kings enduring subject of love.

Lily Kings literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.

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ID: 524320

Title: Joy: Life Lessons from a Tuscan Villa

Author: Debbie Travis

Narrator: Debbie Travis, Jacky Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:48:22

Language: English

Release date: 11-02-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Instructional & How To, Mindfulness & Meditation

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

 

Looking for the keys to a vibrant, joyful, vital life? Lifestyle pioneer Debbie Travis has found them in the Tuscan hills. And in her lively, inspiring way, she shares how to bring all that healthful magic home in Joy, a glorious book infused with the warmth and colour of life at the Villa Reniella, the thirteenth-century farmhouse retreat to which she welcomes guests from around the world.

For more than ten years, Debbie Travis has watched the guests who come to her Tuscan retreats transform over the course of a single week of talking, walking, and eating together, until even the most driven and stressed-out feel so much better about themselves. When it's time to leave, they tell her it's the simple priorities of Tuscan life—the way the village locals, from young to old, take time for each other every day—that hit them in their hearts, and they pepper her with questions about how to retain what they've experienced when they get home.

     In Joy, Debbie offers the answers she gives them to all of us, capturing the essentials of the Tuscan lifestyle in a series of ten engaging and practical lessons—on everything from how to get a good night's sleep, to how to find community and rediscover purpose, to how to eat and drink like an Italian—designed to make our lives sweeter and healthier. Delightfully down-to-earth, Debbie draws on her own life experience, the example of her Tuscan neighbours, whose fabled longevity springs from the wisdom she captures in her lessons, and the expertise of her long-time friend and colleague, nutritional therapist Jacky Brown. Whether you wish to hit the reset button, start a new endeavour, regain your confidence, turn a page in your relationship, make changes to your worklife or your community, or simply reboot your vitality, these lessons will help guide you to a life filled with joy.

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ID: 554402

Title: All the Sonnets of Shakespeare

Author: Paul Edmondson, Stanley Wells, William Shakespeare

Narrator: Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:36:14

Language: English

Release date: 10-28-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Drama, Shakespeare

Summary:

How can we look afresh at Shakespeare as a writer of sonnets? What new light might they shed on his career, personality, and sexuality? Shakespeare wrote sonnets for at least thirty years, not only for himself, for professional reasons, and for those he loved, but also in his plays, as prologues, as epilogues, and as part of their poetic texture. This ground-breaking book assembles all of Shakespeare's sonnets in their probable order of composition. An inspiring introduction debunks long-established biographical myths about Shakespeare's sonnets and proposes new insights about how and why he wrote them. This volume will be treasured by students, scholars, and every Shakespeare enthusiast.

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ID: 537143

Title: Cascade

Author: Craig Davidson

Narrator: Anand Rajaram, Ishan Davé, Stephanie Belding, Steve Byers, Timothy Carlson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:58

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-21

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary Fiction, General

Summary:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARDS

 

Reminiscent of Stephen King's brilliantly cinematic short stories that went on to inspire films such as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, here's a collection crackling with Craig Davidson's superb craft and kinetic energy: in the visceral, crystalline, steel-tipped prose; in the psychological perspicacity; and in the endearing humour.

Set in in the Niagara Falls of Davidson's imagination known as 'Cataract City,' the superb stories of Cascade shine a shimmering light on this slightly seedy, slightly magical, slightly haunted place. The six gems in this collection each illuminate familial relationships in a singular way. A mother and her infant son fight to survive a car-crash in a remote wintry landscape outside of town. Fraternal twins at a juvenile detention center reach a dangerous crisis point in their entwined lives. A pregnant social worker grapples with the prospect of parenthood as a custody case takes a dire turn. A hard-boiled ex-firefighter goes after a serial arsonist with a flair for the theatrical even as his own troubled sister is drawn towards the flames. These are just some of the unforgettable characters animating this stellar collection of tales--Davidson's first in 15 years, since Rust and Bone, which inspired the Golden Globe-nominated film.

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ID: 570588

Title: Young and Hungry

Author: Marlon P. S. White, Michel Moore

Narrator: Khalid Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:44:51

Language: English

Release date: 10-26-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Black Literature

Summary:

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death

Not only is the city of Detroit bankrupt, it also has one of the highest murder rates in the country. When government-enforced power restrictions are applied, hell on earth becomes hotter in the already anything-goes, cutthroat city. Even the predators become prey. No loyalty, no respect, and no limits! Its now neighbor against neighbor, sister against brother, friend against friend, and peoples true colors are tested and revealed by nightfall.

The only thing that could help Detroit at this point is a miracle, and even God is scared to visit the Devils playground.

Ms. Michel Moore and Marlon P. S. White deliver a gripping tale of disloyalty, murder, and mayhem against the backdrop of one of Americas most troubled cities.

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ID: 524571

Title: Apollo Murders

Author: Chris Hadfield

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15:13:53

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction & Literature, Action & Adventure

Summary:

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER

 

The #1 bestselling Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is back with an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race.

 

“An exciting journey to an alternate past” Andy Weir, author of The Martian

“Nail-biting” James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar and Titanic

“Not to be missed” Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal

“Explosive” Gregg Hurwitz, author of Orphan X

“Exciting, authentic” Linwood Barclay, author of Find You First

1973. A final, top-secret mission to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny module, a quarter of a million miles from home. A quarter of a million miles from help.

 

As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to breaking point back on Earth. Houston flight controller Kazimieras 'Kaz' Zemeckis must do all he can to keep the NASA crew together, while staying one step ahead of his Soviet rivals. But not everyone on board Apollo 18 is quite who they appear to be.

 

Full of the fascinating technical detail that fans of The Martian loved, and reminiscent of the thrilling claustrophobia, twists and tension of The Hunt for Red October, The Apollo Murders puts you right there in the moment. Experience the fierce G-forces of launch, the frozen loneliness of Space and the fear of holding on to the outside of a spacecraft orbiting the Earth at 17,000 miles per hour, as told by a former Commander of the International Space Station who has done all of those things in real life.

Strap in and count down for the ride of a lifetime.

 

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ID: 567580

Title: Trailer Park Trickster

Author: David R. Slayton

Narrator: Michael David Axtell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:42:26

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy

Summary:

They are my harvest, and I will reap them all.

Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, for the funeral of his mysterious and beloved aunt Sue, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adams family. It all seems linked to the death of Adams father many years agoa man who may have somehow survived as a warlock.

Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for, and finally comes face-to-face with the warlock he has vowed to stop.

Meanwhile, beyond the Veil of the mortal world, Argent the Queen of Swords and Vic the Reaper undertake a dangerous journey to a secret meeting of the Council of Races . . . where the sea elves are calling for the destruction of humanity.

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ID: 544456

Title: Fall on Your Knees

Author: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Narrator: Ann-Marie MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18:42:28

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life

Summary:

“What a wild ride -- I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough,” Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s dark, insightful and hilarious first novel focuses on the Piper sisters and their troubled relationship with their father, James. Winner of the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, it was a national bestseller in Canada for two years, and it has been translated into 17 languages.

At the start of the 20th century, James Piper sets fire to his dead mother’s piano and heads out across Cape Breton Island to find a new place to live, eventually eloping with 13-year-old Materia Mahmoud, the daughter of wealthy, traditional Lebanese parents. And so, from early on, Ann-Marie MacDonald establishes some major themes: racial tension, isolation, passion and forbidden love, which will gradually lead to incest, death in childbirth, and even murder. At the centre of this epic story is the nature of family love, beginning with the Piper sister who depend on one another for survival. Their development as characters -- beautiful Kathleen, the promising diva; saintly Mercedes; Frances, the mischievous bad girl, who tries to bear the family’s burden; and disabled Lily, everyone’s favourite -- forms the heart of the novel. And then there is James, their flawed father.

Moving from Cape Breton Island to the battlefields of World War I, to Harlem in New York’s Jazz Age and the Depression, the tense and enthralling plot of Fall on Your Knees contains love, pain, death, joy, and triumph. The structure of the narrative is multi-faceted, richly layered, and shifts back and forth through time as it approaches the story from different angles, “giving it a mythic quality that allows dark, half buried secrets to be gracefully and chillingly revealed” (The New York Times Book Review). As the details of the labyrinthine plot are pulled together, the question of whether it is possible to escape one’s family history gradually raises itself.

The book’s epigraph, taken from Wuthering Heights, seems appropriate to a novel concerned with the different, often violent, forms that love can take. On the inexorable journey towards tragedy we encounter dark yet vivid images of neglect and violence, yet the novel radiates an unquenchable life-force, and yet the novel radiates an unquenchable life-force, shimmering with emotional depth, sensual with virtuoso descriptions of the power of music. It is a saga haunted by ghosts and saints, religious fanaticism and magic. MacDonald gives the most ordinary lives extraordinarily dramatic dimensions.

The Sunday Times wrote, “It is the unpredictability of this huge book that is its greatest joy.” With allusions ranging from Hollywood stars to religious tracts, Fall on Your Knees simmers with vibrancy and crackling, effervescent, breathtaking language.

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