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ID: 536687

Title: In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience

Author: Helen Knott

Narrator: Helen Knott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:54:30

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Women

Summary:

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.

With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit.

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ID: 487699

Title: Coke Machine Glow

Author: Gordon Downie

Narrator: Bruce Mcculloch, Clare Downie, Clemens Downie, Dan Ayckroyd, Dave 'billy Ray' Koster, Johnny Fay, Kaya Usher, Lou Downie, Paul Langlois, Robbie Baker, Ron Maclean, Sarah Harmer, Various , Willo Downie

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:04:45

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Art & Music

Summary:

Gordon Downie, lead singer and lyricist for the popular Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, released his first solo record, Coke Machine Glow in Spring 2001. Alongside the album, his first book of poetry and prose under the same title was published, including the lyrics to the sixteen songs on the record. Now, 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. 

Coke Machine Glow is a rich, haunting collection that reveals both the public and private selves of one of Canada's most enigmatic musicians. In poetry that is urban, gritty and political, as well as romantic, nostalgic and whimsical, Downie allows us a glimpse inside his world. With his acute and observing eye, he gives us snapshots of his life, both on the road and at home; he writes of loneliness and isolation; of longing and desire; of the present and the past; of dreams and nightmares; love lost and love of family. Ultimately, this book is about the distances that bridge and separate us.

Layered and deceptively simple, imbued with Downie's wit, insight, anger, compassion and rock'n'roll edge, Coke Machine Glow is a remarkable debut from a remarkable creator. 

This special audiobook edition features readings from Downie's family and friends, including:

Dan Ayckroyd

Robbie Baker

Andrew Cash

Dave Clark

Julie Doiron

Charlyn Downie

Clare Downie

Clemens Downie

Lou Downie

Mike Downie

Patrick Downie

Paula Downie

Willo Downie

Johnny Fay

Josh Finlayson

Sarah Harmer

Kevin Hearn

Dave 'Billy Ray' Koster

Paul Langlois

Andy Maize

Ron MacLean

Bruce McCulloch

Dale Morningstar

Larry Murphy

Andrea Nann

Dr. Pee

Damian Rogers

Jonathan Shedletzky

Gord Sinclair

Kaya Usher

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ID: 524567

Title: Fight Night

Author: Miriam Toews

Narrator: Georgia Toews, Miriam Toews

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:20:01

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

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

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail ● CBC ● USA Today ● NPR

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

An Amazon Editors’ Pick

An Indie Next Pick

An Apple Book of the Month

One of Indigo’s “Top 10 Best Canadian Fiction Books of 2021”

The beloved author of bestsellers Women Talking, All My Puny Sorrows, and A Complicated Kindness returns with a funny, smart, headlong rush of a novel full of wit, flawless writing, and a tribute to perseverance and love in an unusual family.

 

Fight Night is told in the unforgettable voice of Swiv, a nine-year-old living in Toronto with her pregnant mother, who is raising Swiv while caring for her own elderly, frail, yet extraordinarily lively mother. When Swiv is expelled from school, Grandma takes on the role of teacher and gives her the task of writing to Swiv's absent father about life in the household during the last trimester of the pregnancy. In turn, Swiv gives Grandma an assignment: to write a letter to 'Gord,' her unborn grandchild (and Swiv's soon-to-be brother or sister). 'You’re a small thing,' Grandma writes to Gord, 'and you must learn to fight.'

As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, love, laughter, and above all, will to live a good life across three generations of women in a close-knit family. But it is Swiv’s exasperating, wise and irrepressible Grandma who is at the heart of this novel: someone who knows intimately what it costs to survive in this world, yet has found a way—painfully, joyously, ferociously—to love and fight to the end, on her own terms.

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ID: 558138

Title: Hot Mess

Author: Edd McNair

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:44:00

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

When Alecia Joy Middleson meets Minke, a young hustler from Brooklyn, he quickly becomes her world. He feels the same way about hershe is his better half. By the age of eighteen, Alecia is married and has two children by Minke. Their life is like a fairy tale, until Minke discovers that hes been deceived by his wife and leaves her and her children with only the clothes on their backs.

Heartbroken and lonely, Alecia cant shake the feeling that she will never be the same. Her mother always told her that this day would come and she hates herself for not being prepared for it. Now shes alone and her confidence is shot. Shes lost what she thought was the perfect size eight frame and shes not comfortable in her new full-figured body. Desperate for attention from anyone, she finds herself in one bad situation after another, from living in shelters to dealing with abusive men, from drug use to fighting with her selfish mother. The only good thing in her life is her kids. All in all shes a hot mess.

On the brink of a mental breakdown, she finally gathers the courage to change her outlook on life and take charge. Along the way she will make some choices that arent always the best, but if this hot mess can stay the course, she just might find her happiness again.

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ID: 513632

Title: Redemptor

Author: Jordan Ifueko

Narrator: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:22:14

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Teen, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Summary:

The hotly anticipated sequel to the instant New York Times bestselling YA fantasy about Tarisais quest to change her fate

For the first time, an Empress Redemptor sits on Aritsars throne. To appease the sinister spirits of the dead, Tarisai must now anoint a council of her own, coming into her full power as a Raybearer. She must then descend into the Underworld, a sacrifice to end all future atrocities.

Tarisai is determined to survive. Or at least, thats what she tells her increasingly distant circle of friends. Months into her shaky reign as empress, child spirits haunt her, demanding that she pay for past sins of the empire.

With the lives of her loved ones on the line, assassination attempts from unknown quarters, and a handsome new stranger she cant quite trust, Tarisai fears the pressure may consume her. But in this finale to the Raybearer duology, Tarisai must learn whether to die for justice or to live for it.

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ID: 558137

Title: Clean Up Man

Author: M. T. Pope

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:23:49

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Fiction & Literature, General, Black Literature

Summary:

M. T. Pope delivers another hot, scandalous tale full of lust, infidelity, and over-the-top drama.

Kraig Holmes is a hard-working independent contractor living in Baltimore. Hes an average guywith one exception. A painful secret haunts him daily. Kraig had a one-time sexual experience with a man he knew little about. It propelled him into a lifestyle of promiscuity and an insatiable appetite for dangerous sex. When the guy disappeared into thin air, Kraig was left hurt and devastated.

Now Kraig has developed a taste for the married men who pursue him while hes working on their homes. When his sexual escapades spiral out of control and out into the open, he quickly tries to get things under wraps. Then the unexpected happensa chance encounter with his one-night stand from college. Kraig is hurt when he discovers the man doesnt even remember him.

Kraig vows to set up the man who turned him out and disappeared. What Kraig doesnt know is that his victim isnt the lay-down-and-take-it type. He has a few cards up his sleeve that will deliver damaging blows to Kraigs life. When its all said and done, the truth with be revealed, and there will be consequences.

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ID: 558141

Title: We Share the Same Sky: A Memoir of Memory & Migration

Author: Rachael Cerrotti

Narrator: Rachael Cerrotti

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:50:43

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture

Summary:

In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in her family alive at the end of the war. Rachael also knew that she survived because of the kindness of strangers. It wasnt a secret. Hana spoke about her history publicly and regularly. But, Rachael wanted to document it as only a granddaughter could. So, thats what they did: Hana talked and Rachael wrote.

Upon Hanas passing in 2010, Rachael discovered an incredible archive of her life. There were preserved albums and hundreds of photographs dating back to the 1920s. There were letters waiting to be translated, journals, diaries, deportation and immigration papers as well as creative writings from various stages of Hanas life.

Rachael digitized and organized it all, plucking it from the past and placing it into her present. Then, she began retracing her grandmothers story, following her through Central Europe, Scandinavia, and across the United States. She tracked down the descendants of those who helped save her grandmothers life during the war. Rachael went in pursuit of her grandmothers memory to explore how the retelling of family stories becomes the history itself.

We Share the Same Sky weaves together the stories of these two young womenHana as a refugee who remains one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and Rachael, whose insatiable curiosity to touch the past guides her into the lives of countless strangers, bringing her love and tragic loss. Throughout the course of her twenties, Hanas history becomes a guidebook for Rachael in how to live a life empowered by grief.

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ID: 524564

Title: Undersong

Author: Kathleen Winter

Narrator: Clare Kissane, Nneka Okoye, Tim Bruce

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:17:55

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Fiction

Summary:

“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph.' —Toronto Star

 

From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen Winter (author of the bestseller Annabel): A stunning novel reimagining the lost years of misunderstood Romantic Era genius Dorothy Wordsworth.

When young James Dixon, a local jack-of-all-trades recently returned from the Battle of Waterloo, meets Dorothy Wordsworth, he quickly realizes he’s never met another woman anything like her. In her early thirties, Dorothy has already lived a wildly unconventional life. And as her famous brother William Wordsworth’s confidante and creative collaborator—considered by some in their circle to be the secret to his success as a poet—she has carved a seemingly idyllic existence for herself, alongside William and his wife, in England’s Lake District. 

 

One day, Dixon is approached by William to do some handiwork around the Wordsworth estate. Soon he takes on more and more chores—and quickly understands that his real, unspoken responsibility is to keep an eye on Dorothy, who is growing frail and melancholic. The unlikely pair of misfits form a sympathetic bond despite the troubling chasm in social class between them, and soon Dixon is the quiet witness to everyday life in Dorothy’s family and glittering social circle, which includes literary legends Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincy, William Blake, and Charles and Mary Lamb.

 

Through the fictional James Dixon—a gentle but troubled soul, more attuned to the wonders of the garden he faithfully tends than to vexing worldly matters—we step inside the Wordsworth family, witnessing their dramatic emotional and artistic struggles, hidden traumas, private betrayals and triumphs. At the same time, Winter slowly weaves a darker, complex “undersong” through the novel, one as earthy and elemental as flower and tree, gradually revealing the pattern of Dorothy's rich, hidden life—that of a woman determined, against all odds, to exist on her own terms. But the unsettling effects of Dorothy’s tragically repressed brilliance take their toll, and when at last her true voice sings out, it is so searing and bright that Dixon must make an impossible choice.

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ID: 596784

Title: Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes

Author: Chris C. Funk

Narrator: Trevor White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:29:10

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-21

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science & Technology, Animals & Nature, Technology & Engineering

Summary:

Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future: NOW. This book describes how and why climate change is already fomenting dire consequences, and will certainly make climate disasters worse in the near future. Chris C. Funk combines the latest science with compelling stories, providing a timely, accessible, and beautifully-written synopsis of this critical topic. The book describes our unique and fragile Earth system, and the negative impacts humans are having on our support systems. It then examines recent disasters, including heat waves, extreme precipitation, hurricanes, fires, El Niños and La Niñas, and their human consequences. By clearly describing the dangerous impacts that are already occurring, Funk provides a clarion call for social change, yet also conveys the beauty and wonder of our planet, and hope for our collective future.

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ID: 555855

Title: Love and the Silver Lining

Author: Tammy L. Gray

Narrator: Kelli Tager

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:00:17

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-21

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Genres: Romance, Religious & Inspirational, Clean & Wholesome

Summary:

Darcy Malones dreams of mission work are dashed on the eve of fulfilling them: the Guatemalan school she was going to teach at has closed, and shes already quit her job and given up her apartment. Stuck in her worst-case scenario, Darcy accepts an unexpected offer to move in with Bryson Katsaross little sister, despite the years of distrust between her and Bryson, the lead singer in her best friend Camerons band. But as she meets those close to Bryson, Darcy quickly discovers there is more to him than just his bad-boy persona.

Needing to find a purpose for all her sudden free time, Darcy jumps at the chance to care for and train a group of unruly dogs, with the aim of finding each a home before their bereaved owner returns them to animal control. But its Darcy herself who will encounter a surprising rescue in the form of love, forgiveness, and learning to let go.

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