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ID: 399486

Title: Dead Mom Walking: A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters

Author: Rachel Matlow

Narrator: Rachel Matlow

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:22:57

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Health & Wellness, General, Death & Bereavement

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Vine Award in Non-Fiction

'A comedy for catastrophic times.' --CBC

'A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures.' --Toronto Star

'How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers and their suffering . . . and we can't, but we can. And there's so much relief in that.' --Carolyn Taylor, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW

 

A whip-smart and darkly funny memoir about an unconventional family, the limits of wellness fads, and the mother of all catastrophes.

 

Rachel Matlow’s eccentric mom, Elaine, never quite followed the script handed down to her. Her bold out-there-ness made it okay for Rachel to be their genderqueer self and live life on their own terms. But when Elaine decides to try to heal her cancer naturally, Rachel has to draw the line.

 

What ensues is a tug of war between logical and magical thinking, an odyssey through New Age remedies ranging from herbal tinctures and juice cleanses to a countryside ayahuasca trip, and a portrait of a mother and child who’ve never been physically closer or ideologically further apart.

 

In facing their inimitable mother’s death, Rachel has written a book bursting with life—the epic adventures and epic fails, the broken limbs and belly laughs. As hilarious as it is poignant, Dead Mom Walking is about writing the story of your life only to find out that life has other plans.

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ID: 419375

Title: Malarky

Author: Anakana Schofield

Narrator: Anakana Schofield

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:05:35

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Black Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

Our Woman refuses to be sunk by what life is about to serve her. She’s just caught her son Jimmy in the barn with another man. She’s been accosted by Red the Twit, who claims to have done the unmentionable with her husband. And now her son’s gone and joined the only group that will have him: an army division on its way to Afghanistan.

Setting aside her prim and proper ways, Our Woman promptly embarks on an odyssey of her own – one that forces her to look grief in the eye and come face-to-face with the mad agony of longing.

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ID: 398386

Title: Overdose: Heartbreak and Hope in Canada's Opioid Crisis

Author: Benjamin Perrin

Narrator: John Cleland

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:16:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Psychology, Social Science

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 BC Book Awards' George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

SHORTLISTED for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, for both the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes

SHORTLISTED for the 2021 J. W. Dafoe Book Prize

SHORTLISTED for the 2020 Lane Anderson Award

“Overdose is a necessary and searching investigation into a devastating epidemic that should never have happened. Benjamin Perrin painstakingly shows that it need not continue if we, as a society, heed the evidence.”

—Gabor Maté M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction

An astonishing and powerful look at the ongoing opioid crisis

North America is in the middle of a health emergency. Life expectancies are declining. Someone is dying every two hours in Canada from illicit drug overdose. Fentanyl has become a looming presence—an opioid more powerful, pervasive, and deadly than any previous street drug.

The victims are many—and often not whom we might expect. They include the poor and forgotten but also our neighbours: professionals, students, and parents. Despite the thousands of deaths, these victims have remained largely invisible.

But not anymore. Benjamin Perrin, a law and policy expert, shines a light in this darkest of corners—and his findings challenge many assumptions about the crisis. Why do people use drugs despite the risk of overdosing? Can we crack down on the fentanyl supply? Do supervised consumption sites and providing “safe drugs” enable the problem? Which treatments work? Would decriminalizing all drugs help or do further harm?

In this urgent and humane look at a devastating epidemic, Perrin draws on behind-the-scenes interviews with those on the frontlines, including undercover police officers, intelligence analysts, border agents, prosecutors, healthcare professionals, Indigenous organizations, activists, and people who use drugs. Not only does he unveil the many complexities of this situation, but he also offers a new way forward—one that may save thousands of lives.

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ID: 421814

Title: Fight Like a Girl

Author: Sheena Kamal

Narrator: Sheena Kamal

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:50:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-31-20

Publisher: Penguin Teen

Genres: Teen, General, Tough Topics

Summary:

The Beauty of the Moment meets Exit, Pursued by a Bear. Award-winning thriller writer Sheena Kamal delivers a kick-ass debut YA novel that will have fans crying out for more.

Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai kickboxing, an unlikely sport for a slightly built girl of Trinidadian descent. Her father comes and goes as he pleases, his presence adding a layer of tension to the Toronto east-end townhouse that Trisha and her mom call home, every punch he lands on her mother carving itself indelibly into Trisha's mind. Until the night he wanders out drunk in front of the car Trisha is driving, practicing on her learner's permit, her mother in the passenger seat. Her father is killed, and her mother seems strangely at peace. Lighter, somehow. Trisha doesn't know exactly what happened that night, but she's afraid it's going to happen again. Her mom has a new man in her life and the patterns, they are repeating.

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ID: 424422

Title: Sleep: Harness the Power of Sleep for Optimal Health and Wellbeing

Author: Petra Hawker

Narrator: Charlotte Hamblin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2:11:04

Language: English

Release date: 03-24-20

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Disorders & Diseases, Fitness

Summary:

Make excellent sleep a life-changing reality for you - now.

New science has revealed the importance of sleep as one of the key foundation stones of good health.

Take control of your sleep with over 40 proven strategies, based on a 360-degree approach to achieving excellent sleep. Find targeted meditation, movement and breathing exercises; discover how light, colour, and sound could hold the key to healthy sleep; and find out how to get to the root of the underlying causes of chronic sleep problems.

Listen to Charlotte Hamblin narrate this audiobook and reset your sleep patterns to suit your lifestyle and draw on practical techniques to overcome common sleep disruptors, including stress, jet-lag, and shift-work.

Let the dream of better sleep become a life-changing reality.

Petra Hawker PhD leads the Sleep Psychotherapy service at The London Sleep Centre in Harley Street, London, offering Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I) and other forms of Counselling, Coaching and Therapy to assist with Sleep Health and Wellbeing. She has a PhD in Social Science which includes Psychology, Hypnotherapy, Counselling and Analysis and over 25 years of experience in psychotherapy and counselling.

© 2019 Petre Hawker, PhD © 2020 DK Audio

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ID: 442286

Title: One Life One Chance: A story of adrenalin and adventure in the most unforgiving places on earth.

Author: Luke Richmond

Narrator: Luke Richmond

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:35:34

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Memoir, History & Culture, Teen, Historical, Outdoor Recreation

Summary:

Born to nomadic parents and humble beginnings, Luke Richmond grew up running wild and free in the Australian outback. After finishing school, he joined the Australian Army and served his country overseas as an infantry soldier an experience that sparked in him an unrelenting desire for adventure.

But when he leaves the army Luke finds himself broke and adrift in London, caught up in a soulless world of drug and alcohol addiction. When he wakes up in a police cell with no memory of how he got there, he knows he has hit rock bottom, and makes the snap decision to turn his life around.

Within days he is in Thailand, training his mind and body at a Muay Thai boxing camp in the jungles of Phuket. In suffering Luke finds his salvation, and he decides to make the most out of life by seeking adventure in the remote corners of the world.

Since then Luke has climbed the highest mountains on six continents, set a new world record for ocean rowing across the Atlantic, battled -60 degree temperatures in the Antarctic, witnessed death at high altitude, was held captive in the humid jungles of West Papua and has thrown himself from cliffs in the adrenalin-fueled world of BASE jumping.

More than an awe-inspiring story of endurance and adventure, One Life One Chance will ultimately remind you that we only have one shot, so dont waste a second of it.

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ID: 431918

Title: Play Big, Brand Bold: It's Your Time to Step Up, Show Up and Stand Out!

Author: Suzanne Chadwick

Narrator: Suzanne Chadwick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:49:31

Language: English

Release date: 03-20-20

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Business & Economics, Marketing & Advertising, Management & Leadership

Summary:

Play Big, Brand Bold is your guide to building a stand-out brand, getting out of your own way and understanding how to hire yourself as the CEO in your business.If you're ready to stop playing small, step up and start doing bigger things then you've come to the right place.

After building a successful business and brand post a few false starts Suzanne shares stories and insights from her journey in life and business as well as some key lessons she's learnt along the way. As a business, branding and speaker coach, Suzanne has worked with hundreds of women in business through to corporate CEOs to support them to play bigger and brand bolder.

Interviewing over 50 women one-on-one to understand what makes them tick, why they play small, what they really desire for themselves, their business, their family and their lives, Suzanne shares four key things:

1.Why we play small and the five mindset minefields that hold us back

2.How to start branding bolder

3.How to market like it's your new-found love

4.What it takes to step up to the plate and take your business from basic biscuits to got-to-have goodness

This book is for those who want more, who want to be more, do more and create more impact. It's for those who want to become braver in how they go after what they want and those who want to think bigger.

It's your time to step up, show up and stand out and I'm here to help you do that.

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ID: 411810

Title: Samsung Rising: Inside the secretive company conquering Tech

Author: Geoffrey Cain

Narrator: Michael Braun

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:06:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-19-20

Publisher: Penguin Books LTD

Genres: Business & Economics, Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Business Development

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

Can the Asian giant beat Apple?

Based on years of reporting on Samsung for the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and Time from his base in South Korea, and his countless sources inside and outside the company, Geoffrey Cain offers the first deep look behind the curtains of the biggest company nobody knows.

How has this happened? Forty years ago, Samsung was a rickety Korean agricultural conglomerate that produced sugar, paper, and fertilizer. But with the rise of the PC revolution, Chairman Lee Byung-chul came up with an incredibly risky multimillion dollar plan to make Samsung a major supplier of computer chips. Lee had been wowed by a young Steve Jobs who sat down with the chairman to offer his advice, and Lee quickly became obsessed with creating a tech empire.

Today, Samsung employs over 350,000 people over four times as many as Apple and their revenues have grown 40 times their 1987 level. Samsung alone now make up more than 20% of South Koreas exports and sells more smartphones than any other company in the world. And furthermore, they dont just make their own phones, but are one of Apples chief supplier on technology critical to the iPhone. Yet their disastrous recall of the Galaxy Note 7, with numerous reports of phones spontaneously bursting into flames, reveals the dangers of the company's headlong attempt to overtake Apple at any cost.

A sweeping, insider account of the Korean's company's ongoing war against the likes of Google and Apple, Samsung Rising shows how a determined and fearless Asian competitor is poised to take on the giants of the tech world.

© Geoffrey Cain 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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ID: 427422

Title: It Can't Be True! Poo!: Packed with Pootastic Facts

Author: Andrea Mills

Narrator: David Thorpe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1:14:00

Language: English

Release date: 03-18-20

Publisher: DK Audio

Genres: Kids, Animals & Nature

Summary:

This audiobook stinks!

Hold your nose while you find out absolutely everything you never knew about poo! Did you know that..

A week's worth of elephant poo weighs as much a 25 people?

A lifetime of farts would fill 2,000 balloons?

The world uses enough loo paper in an hour to wrap around the Earth 14 times?

This irresistibly disgusting audiobook for children will teach you all you need to know about all kinds of animal dung and human waste - what it's for, how it's made, where it goes, and lots more!

Poo comes in all shapes and sizes. Every animal has its own special sort and some have fascinating uses for it. Wombats use their cube-shaped droppings to mark their territory; potato beetles build a shield of dung for defence; male hippos spray out a faecal shower to attract mates; and rabbits and dung beetles eat their pellets for extra nutrition. We might call it 'waste' but in fact, poo is among the most useful stuff on Earth. From building materials and paper to coffee and even water purification, there's a multitude of manure-based matter in our lives.

This unique audiobook is jam-packed with scientific explanations and amazing trivia about human and animal deposits. Did you know, for example, that the global population produces more than a million tonnes of poo every day? Or that an average poo contains 10 trillion bacteria? Or that wars have been fought over guano? All these facts and more are presented with endlessly interesting information that makes it easy to understand.

It Can't Be True! Poo is the perfect way to entertain and amuse your friends, family, and yourself. In fact, you'll never look at poo in the same way again!

© 2019 Dorling Kindersley Ltd © 2020 DK Audio

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ID: 422784

Title: Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

Author: Angus Deaton, Anne Case

Narrator: Kate Harper

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11:48:09

Language: English

Release date: 03-17-20

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Politics, Science & Technology, Medicine, Public Policy

Summary:

A New York Times Bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

A New Statesman Book to Read

This audiobook narrated by Kate Harper reveals how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class, and includes an introduction and preface read by the authors themselveseconomist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton

Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a rowa reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism have risen dramatically, and now claim hundreds of thousands of American lives each yearand they're still rising. Anne Case and Angus Deaton, known for first sounding the alarm about deaths of despair, explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. They demonstrate why, for those who used to prosper in America, capitalism is no longer delivering.

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline. For the white working class, today's America has become a land of broken families and few prospects. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. In this critically important book, Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and, above all, to a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. Capitalism, which over two centuries lifted countless people out of poverty, is now destroying the lives of blue-collar America.

This book charts a way forward, providing solutions that can rein in capitalisms excesses and make it work for everyone.

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