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ID: 502347

Title: Sister's Tale

Author: Beth Powning

Narrator: Martha Irving

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:16:33

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Health & Wellness, Death & Bereavement, Family Life

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

 

A novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold us together when things fall apart.

With murder dominating the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the case of a British home child whose bad luck has turned worse. Mortified that she must purchase the girl in a pauper auction to save her from the lechery of wealthy townsmen, Josephine Galloway finds herself suddenly the proprietor of a boarding house kept afloat by the sweat and tears of a curious and not completely compatible collection of women, including this English teenager, Flora Salford. Flora's place in her new 'family' cannot be complete until she rescues the missing person in her life, the only one who understands the trials she has come through and fresh horrors met since they were separated years before.

Reconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved The Sea Captain's Wife, The Sister's Tale is a story of women finding their way, together, through terrible circumstances they could neither predict nor avoid, but will stop at nothing to overcome.

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ID: 518722

Title: Real Estate

Author: Deborah Levy

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:28:34

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies, Literary Criticism

Summary:

WINNER of the 2021 Los Angeles Times-Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose

 

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the highly anticipated final installment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' series.

'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in their property portfolios at the end of their lives. Literally, her physical property and possessions, and then everything else she valued, though it might not be valued by society. What might she claim, own, discard and bequeath? Or is she the real estate, owned by patriarchy? In this sense, Real Estate is a tricky business. We rent it and buy it, sell and inherit it--but we must also knock it down.'

Following the international critical acclaim of The Cost of Living, this final volume of Deborah Levy's 'living autobiography' is an exhilarating, thought-provoking, and boldly intimate meditation on home and the spectres that haunt it.

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ID: 516499

Title: Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right

Author: Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Narrator: Kelly Burke

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:25:28

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Political Ideologies

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Kelly Burke reveals the unexpected places where violent hate groups recruit young people

Hate crimes. Misinformation and conspiracy theories. Foiled white-supremacist plots. The signs of growing far-right extremism are all around us, and communities across America and around the globe are struggling to understand how so many people are being radicalized and why they are increasingly attracted to violent movements. Hate in the Homeland shows how tomorrow's far-right nationalists are being recruited in surprising places, from college campuses and mixed martial arts gyms to clothing stores, online gaming chat rooms, and YouTube cooking channels.

Instead of focusing on the how and why of far-right radicalization, Cynthia Miller-Idriss seeks answers in the physical and virtual spaces where hate is cultivated. Where does the far right do its recruiting? When do young people encounter extremist messaging in their everyday lives? Miller-Idriss shows how far-right groups are swelling their ranks and developing their cultural, intellectual, and financial capacities in a variety of mainstream settings. She demonstrates how young people on the margins of our communities are targeted in these settings, and how the path to radicalization is a nuanced process of moving in and out of far-right scenes throughout adolescence and adulthood.

Hate in the Homeland is essential for understanding the tactics and underlying ideas of modern far-right extremism. This eye-opening book takes readers into the mainstream places and spaces where today's far right is engaging and ensnaring young people, and reveals innovative strategies we can use to combat extremist radicalization.

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ID: 518720

Title: Things I Don't Want to Know

Author: Deborah Levy

Narrator: Juliet Stevenson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:59:43

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-21

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

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

Summary:

A luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, a witty response to George Orwell's influential essay 'Why I Write'

Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'living autobiography' on writing and womanhood.

Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory as a young woman and shape it to her need. Things I Don't Want to Know is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers.

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ID: 462999

Title: Day the World Stops Shopping

Author: J.B. Mackinnon

Narrator: Kaleo Griffith

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:53:21

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: Random House Canada

Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Social Science, Business Development

Summary:

A FINALIST FOR THE 2021 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR NONFICTION

In a brilliant work of imaginative non-fiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks what would happen--to our economy, our ecology, our products, our selves--if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in?

'We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma.'

     The planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the earth's resources at a rate five times faster than they can regenerate. And despite our efforts to 'green' our consumption--by recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar power--we have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions.

     The economy says we must always consume more, because, as we've seen in the pandemic, even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosures.

     Addressing this paradox head-on, J.B. MacKinnon asks, What would really happen if we simply stop shopping? Is there a way to reduce our consumption to earth-saving levels without triggering an economic collapse?

     At first, this question took him around the world, seeking answers: from America's big-box stores, to the hunter-gatherer cultures of Namibia, to communities in Ecuador that consume at an exactly sustainable rate. Then his thought experiment came shockingly true, as the coronavirus brought shopping to a halt and MacKinnon's ideas were tested in real time.

     Drawing on experts ranging from economists to climate scientists to corporate CEOs, MacKinnon investigates how living with less would change our planet, our society and ourselves. Along the way, he reveals just how much we stand to gain.

     Imaginative and inspiring, The Day the World Stops Shopping will empower you to imagine another way.

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ID: 517470

Title: Are You Really OK?: Getting Real About Who You Are, How Youre Doing, and Why It Matters

Author: Debra Fileta

Narrator: Debra Fileta

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:40:54

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: ONE Audiobooks

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Counseling & Inspirational

Summary:

Just Because You’re a Christian Doesn’t Mean You’re Healthy

We tend to assume we’re okay—until we’re not. Getting healthy is an ongoing process that requires you to stop, dig deep, and ask yourself the hard questions.

In Are You Really OK? author and licensed counselor Debra Fileta challenges you to get real with who you are and how you’re doing spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically so you can recognize where you need growth and healing. You’ll learn to… 

- understand and express your emotions in healthy and helpful ways

- get to the root of what you believe about yourself, others, and God

- recognize the influences of past traumas and replace them with God’s truth

- honestly assess your own mental health, and pursue help when it’s needed

- prioritize your physical wellbeing and see how it affects every other area of your life

It’s time to get intentional about pursuing health in every part of your life. Using a combination of science, psychology, and faith, Are You Really OK? will help you get healthy from the inside out.

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ID: 518025

Title: Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgicas Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Author: Julian Sancton

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:28:29

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: History, World, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter

August 1897: The Belgica set sail, eager to become the first scientific expedition to reach the white wilderness of the South Pole. But the ship soon became stuck fast in the ice of the Bellinghausen sea, condemning the ship's crew to overwintering in Antarctica and months of endless polar night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness, their minds ravaged by the sound of dozens of rats teeming in the hold, they descended into madness.

In this epic tale, Julian Sancton unfolds a story of adventure gone horribly awry. As the crew teetered on the brink, the Captain increasingly relied on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in captivity - Dr. Frederick Cook, the wild American whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship's first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, who later raced Captain Scott to the South Pole. Together, Cook and Amundsen would plan a last-ditch, desperate escape from the ice-one that would either etch their names into history or doom them to a terrible fate in the frozen ocean.

Drawing on first-hand crew diaries and journals, and exclusive access to the ship's logbook, the result is equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror. This is an unforgettable journey into the deep.

'An unforgettable tale brilliantly told' -- Scott Anderson

'It grips from first sentence to last' -- Lawrence Osborne

'The next great contribution to polar literature' -- Hampton Sides

© Julian Sancton 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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ID: 501944

Title: Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Author: Lucas Bessire

Narrator: John Chancer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6:19:23

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

Finalist for the National Book Award

This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland

The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair. The imminent depletion of the Ogallala and other aquifers around the world is a defining planetary crisis of our times. Running Out offers a uniquely personal account of aquifer depletion and the deeper layers through which it gains meaning and force.

Anthropologist Lucas Bessire journeyed back to western Kansas, where five generations of his family lived as irrigation farmers and ranchers, to try to make sense of this vital resource and its loss. His search for water across the drying High Plains brings the reader face to face with the stark realities of industrial agriculture, eroding democratic norms, and surreal interpretations of a looming disaster. Yet the destination is far from predictable, as the book seeks to move beyond the words and genres through which destruction is often known. Instead, this journey into the morass of eradication offers a series of unexpected discoveries about what it means to inherit the troubled legacies of the past and how we can take responsibility for a more inclusive, sustainable future.

An urgent and unsettling meditation on environmental change, Running Out is a revelatory account of family, complicity, loss, and what it means to find your way back home.

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ID: 486012

Title: Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player

Author: Fred Sasakamoose

Narrator: Wilton Littlechild

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:10:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, Other, History & Culture

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

'Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person.'

--Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba NDP and author of The Reason You Walk

Trailblazer. Residential school Survivor. First Treaty Indigenous player in the NHL. All of these descriptions are true--but none of them tell the whole story.

Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL, making his official debut as a 1954 Chicago Black Hawks player on Hockey Night in Canada and teaching Foster Hewitt how to pronounce his name. Sasakamoose played against such legends as Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, and Maurice Richard. After twelve games, he returned home.

When people tell Sasakamoose's story, this is usually where they end it. They say he left the NHL to return to the family and culture that the Canadian government had ripped away from him. That returning to his family and home was more important to him than an NHL career. But there was much more to his decision than that. Understanding Sasakamoose's choice means acknowledging the dislocation and treatment of generations of Indigenous peoples. It means considering how a man who spent his childhood as a ward of the government would hear those supposedly golden words: 'You are Black Hawks property.'

Sasakamoose's story was far from over once his NHL days concluded. He continued to play for another decade in leagues around Western Canada. He became a band councillor, served as Chief, and established athletic programs for kids. He paved a way for youth to find solace and meaning in sports for generations to come. Yet, threaded through these impressive accomplishments were periods of heartbreak and unimaginable tragedy--as well moments of passion and great joy.

This isn't just a hockey story; Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir sheds piercing light on Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows this extraordinary man's journey to reclaim pride in an identity and a heritage that had previously been used against him.

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ID: 509778

Title: DK Life Stories Queen Elizabeth II: Amazing people who have shaped our world

Author: Brenda Williams, Brian Williams

Narrator: Penelope Rawlins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:49:00

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-21

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, General, Biography & Memoir

Summary:

Explore the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II in this children's biography. Discover the inspiring story of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history.

At just 25 years of age, Princess Elizabeth succeeded King George VI to the British throne. This compelling audiobook looks at Elizabeth's life as both a public and private figure. It traces her early years as a princess, her experiences in the women's army during World War II, her coronation, and her life as queen both at home and in the public eye. The audiobook looks at Elizabeth's marriage to Prince Philip, her husband of more than 70 years, and her life as a mother to her four children, including her eldest son Prince Charles, the heir to the throne. In this biography audiobook for kids ages 8-11, learn how Elizabeth has worked alongside 13 British prime ministers, met leaders from around the world, and has remained a stable presence as head of the British royal family.

This new kids' biography series from DK goes beyond the basic facts to tell the true life stories of history's most interesting and inspiring people.

Authors: Brian and Brenda Williams are highly experienced writers of history books for children. They have written numerous biographies and books on royalty, including Queen Victoria, published by Heinemann and Kings and Queens (of Britain) for Pavilion Books. For the BBC, they have written life stories of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip for use by teachers in Britain.

Literacy consultant: Stephanie Laird is an instructional coach at Mitchellville Elementary in Mitchellville, Iowa, and is currently serving on the International Literacy Association's (ILA) Board of Directors through 2019.

Consultant: Dr. Elena Woodacre specialises in queenship and all things royal. She has published some books on royalty and has run workshops for children on medieval queens.

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