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ID: 691800

Title: All Are Welcome: Give What You Can

Author: Alexandra Penfold

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Format: Unabridged

Length: 0:03:32

Language: English

Release date: 09-05-23

Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)

Genres: Kids, Health & Family

Summary:

Celebrate the act of giving with the beloved characters from the beloved bestseller All Are Welcome! This Step 2 early reader is perfect for emerging readers who are learning to give back to their communities.

Get together, lend a hand.

Can we do it? Yes, we can!

The kids from All Are Welcome are working together to give back to their community. How do they do it? By gathering a team to follow a dream and lending a hand when someone is in need.

Step 2 readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. They are ideal for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Perfect for children who are ready to read on their own!

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ID: 649130

Title: It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People

Author: Michael Simpson, Rueben George

Narrator: Rueben George

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:34:53

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Allen Lane Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Public Policy, History & Culture

Summary:

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GEORGE RYGA AWARD*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CITY OF VANCOUVER BOOK AWARD*

*LONGLISTED FOR THE SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS OF CANADA AWARD*

A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry, colonial government, and threats to the life-giving Salish Sea.

It Stops Here is the profound story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in the face of colonization. In deeply moving testimony, it recounts the  intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to overcome colonial harms and the powerful stance they have taken alongside allies and other Indigenous nations across Turtle Island against the development of the Trans Mountain Pipeline—a fossil fuel megaproject on their unceded territories.

In a firsthand account of the resurgence told by Rueben George, one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, It Stops Here reveals extraordinary insights and revelations from someone who has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting the project. Rueben shares stories about his family’s deep ancestral connections to their unceded lands and waters, which are today more commonly known as Vancouver, British Columbia and the Burrard Inlet. He discloses how, following the systematic cultural genocide enacted by the colonial state, key leaders of his community, such as his grandfather, Chief Dan George, always taught the younger generations to be proud of who they were and to remember the importance of their connection to the inlet.

Part memoir, part call to action, It Stops Here is a compelling appeal to prioritize the sacred over oil and extractive industries, while insisting that settler society honour Indigenous law and jurisdiction over unceded territories rather than exploiting lands and reducing them to their natural resources.

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ID: 700212

Title: Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

Author: Charlotte Gill

Narrator: Asha Vijayasingham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:09:07

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Science & Technology, Animals & Nature

Summary:

Winner of the BC National Award for Non-Fiction

A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest.

Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers.

In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts.

With eloquent insight into our slowest-growing 'renewable' resource, Eating Dirt joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees.

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ID: 676697

Title: Rage the Night: A Novel

Author: Donna Morrissey

Narrator: Jonathan Watton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:41:56

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

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

Summary:

National Bestseller

At once the intimate tale of one man's quest to discover the truth of his birth and a riveting account of a real-life Newfoundland tragedy from 1914, brilliantly and sensitively imagined by one of Canada's most beloved and bestselling authors.

When a deathbed confession uncovers secrets about his birth, twenty-year-old Roan—who has always believed himself an orphan, with no last name—sets off on a quest to discover the truth of his origins. His journey takes him across the snow-covered landscape of Newfoundland from the remote Northern Peninsula to St. John's and then onto the Newfoundland, one of the rickety and poorly equipped ships heading out to the sealing grounds for the spring hunt.

Between his farewell to Dr. Grenfell, the man who raised, educated, and cared for Roan since his toddlerhood, and the final discovery that will alter his life forever, Roan is tossed both emotionally and physically into harrowing situations that he could never have imagined. The people Roan meets along his journey are vivid and unforgettable, from young Ila, isolated and desperate as her mother coughs her life away in a frigid cabin, to the hulking, volcanic, unknowable Ashur Genge, whose own heartbreaking secret may hold the key to Roan's deepest desire.

As Roan's personal story entwines with the historical tale of the Newfoundland disaster, it is “the b'ys”—the simple men who risk their lives year after year on the ice—their brotherhood, their resilience, their heart, and their humour that carry him through tragedy and beyond.

Rage the Night showcases Donna Morrissey's extraordinary empathy, her remarkable characters, and her unique literary voice; it is a masterwork from one of our finest storytellers.

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ID: 708225

Title: Wraith's Revenge

Author: Keri Arthur

Narrator: Katherine Littrell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:15:13

Language: English

Release date: 08-28-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Paranormal

Summary:

You cant run from the past forever

Lizzie Grace has finally returned to Canberra, the city where she grew up and a place that holds so many bad memories. Not only does she have to testify at her fathers trial, but also deal with her exs will and relatives unhappy that shes inherited a good chunk of his assets.

Yet Canberra holds more than just memories of an unwanted marriage. Its where her sister was murdered, and the man responsible was never caught.

Witches are once again being ritualistically sacrificed, and it holds terrible echoes of those past deaths.

As the murders draw closer to home, Lizzie finds herself in a race to hunt down the wraith of a man after the ultimate revengethe soul of the woman who once escaped him.

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ID: 652136

Title: Eden

Author: Jim Crace

Narrator: Ben Allen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:44:30

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Religious Fiction, Apocalyptic & Dystopian

Summary:

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.

The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease and hunger rampage.

Eden is overseen by angels—their bodies covered in blue iridescent feathers, their beaks sharp and curved. It is a pleasant place where no one wants for a thing. But, as this story begins, something is wrong in Eden. Because years after Adam and Eve left the garden, another inhabitant has escaped…

Weaving together elements of the dystopian, but never letting go of the sense of the sacred that saturates western myths of a perfect world before the fall, Eden manages to be both a critique of those stories and a sad reprise of their now-lost themes.

In Crace’s wry, tender recreation, though, love does not bring the world crashing down. It is love that redeems it.

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ID: 648940

Title: River Mumma

Author: Zalika Reid-Benta

Narrator: Tymika Tafari

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:59:27

Language: English

Release date: 08-22-23

Publisher: Penguin Canada

Genres: Fiction & Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Coming of Age

Summary:

'Wholly original, remarkably crafted, and unmatched in voice. I loved this book!”—Cherie Dimaline, bestselling author of VenCo and Empire of Wild

Issa Rae's Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantasy novel about a young Black woman who navigates her quarter-life-crisis while embarking on a mythical quest through the streets of Toronto.

Alicia has been out of grad school for months. She has no career prospects and lives with her mom, who won’t stop texting her macabre news stories and reminders to pick up items from the grocery store.

Then, one evening, the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, appears to Alicia, telling her that she has twenty-four hours to scour the city for her missing comb.

Alicia doesn’t understand why River Mumma would choose her. She can’t remember all the legends her relatives told her, unlike her retail co-worker Heaven, who can reel off Jamaican folklore by heart. She doesn’t know if her childhood visions have returned, or why she feels a strange connection to her other co-worker Mars. But when the trio are chased down by malevolent spirits called duppies, they realize their tenuous bonds to each other may be their only lifelines. With the clock ticking, Alicia’s quest through the city broadens into a journey through time—to find herself and what the river carries.

River Mumma is a powerful portrayal of diasporic identities and a vital examination into ancestral ties. It is a homage to Jamaican storytelling by one of the most invigorating voices in Canadian literature.

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ID: 716199

Title: Beloved by the Boss

Author: Leighton Greene

Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9:23:24

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, LGBTQ+

Summary:

Its good to be the Boss. Thats what I thought my whole life.

Now I am the Boss. Ill shoulder that responsibility with my beloved husband beside me. As long as I have Finch, I can handle whatever life throws at me.

But what they say is true: Be careful what you wish for.

My Family has been decimated. My allies are few. Im holding onto power by a thread.

And the truth is, my husband is more vulnerable than ever. Hes always been a lost soul, and now hes suffered yet another crushing loss.

I cant protect him from Fates cruel blows. But Im determined to protect him from our enemies, no matter what it takesas soon as I get my own house in order.

Because Im starting to wonder if theres a traitor in the Morelli Family...

If I can't even trust my own men, how can I keep my beloved safe?

***

Beloved by the Boss is the sequel to Married to the Mobster, and is the second book in the Morelli Family Mafia Romance series.

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ID: 716197

Title: Married to the Mobster

Author: Leighton Greene

Narrator: Michael Ferraiuolo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:27:23

Language: English

Release date: 08-20-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Mystery, LGBTQ+

Summary:

When Finch saves the life of a nameless mobster one fateful night, he has no idea it will come back to haunt him five years later.Luca D'Amato is a ruthless killer, feared and respected by all who know him. But when he discovers that his next target is the man who once saved his life, he can't bring himself to go through with the hit. Instead, Luca pleads with his Boss to spare Finch's life - to take him as a hostage instead.

To keep Finch safe, Luca agrees to marry him, but finds his feelings for Finch run deeper than he ever thought possible.

But in a world where love is a weakness that can get them both killed, Luca knows he must keep his emotions in check.

Finch can't help but feel drawn to Luca. Yet every time he tries to get closer, Luca pulls away. But Finch is no quitter.

Can Luca protect Finch from the dangers of his world, or will love lead them both to ruin?

***

Married to the Mobsteris the first book in the Morelli Family Mafia romance series. Join Luca and Finch as they get married, fall in love, bicker...

And try to stay alive.

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ID: 702681

Title: Murder on the Oceanic - Ocean Liner Mysteries, Book 7 (Unabridged)

Author: Edward Marston

Narrator: James Langton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:04:48

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-23

Publisher: Zebralution

Genres: Thriller & Horror, Historical, International Mystery

Summary:

Southampton, 1910. When the Oceanic sets sail its ultimate destination is New York. But it must make one very important stop first: at Cherbourg, to pick up internationally renowned financier and art collector J. P. Morgan, fresh from a continental buying spree. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, the ship's detectives, are nervous about the presence of such an important passenger, not to mention his valuable cargo. After all, it is rare for a transatlantic voyage to pass without incident for the two sleuths. The everyday difficulties of managing passengers including a charming rake intent on causing mischief and a controversial painter travelling with his bohemian wife and his alluring French model, are brought to a pitch when a major art theft takes place and a throat is cut. Dillman and Masefield must draw upon all their experience to find the killer before it is too late.

Previously published under the name Conrad Allen, the Ocean Liner series is making waves with a new generation of readers.

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