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ID: 617614

Title: I Got a Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk

Author: Eliza Robertson, Myles Dolphin

Narrator: Eliza Robertson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7:52:49

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-23

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Canada

Genres: Biography & Memoir, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Women

Summary:

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A vivid and meticulous true-crime story that exposes the deep fractures in a system that repeatedly fails to protect women, while tracking the once-cold trail of a murderer still at large.

Krystal Senyk was the kind of friend everybody wants: a reliable confidant, a handywoman of all trades, and an infectious creative with an adventurous spirit. Most importantly, she was tough as nails. So when her best friend needed support to leave her abusive husband, Ronald Bax, Krystal leapt into action.

But soon Krystal became the new outlet for Bax’s rage. He terrorized and intimidated her for months on end, and finally issued a chilling warning to her and his ex-wife: the hunt is on. Krystal was scared but she was smart: she reached out to the RCMP for a police escort home. The officer brushed her off.

Bax’s threat had been all too real. At 29 years old, the woman who seemed invincible—who was a beloved sister, daughter, and friend—was shot and killed at her home in the Yukon. Ronald Bax disappeared without a trace.

Three decades later, Eliza Robertson has re-opened the case. In compelling, vibrant prose, she works tirelessly to piece together Krystal’s story, retracing the dire failings of Canadian law enforcement and Bax’s last steps. I Got a Name uses one woman’s tragic story to boldly interrogate themes of gender-based violence and the pervasive issues that plague our society. In this riveting true-crime story about victimhood, power, and control, Robertson examines the broken system in place, and asks: if it isn’t looking out for the vulnerable, the threatened, the hunted—who among us is it protecting?

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ID: 692073

Title: Electro Girl

Author: Lainie Chait

Narrator: Lainie Chait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:41:11

Language: English

Release date: 05-23-23

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness, Science & Technology, Medicine

Summary:

Lainie Chait was diagnosed with epilepsy in 1991 at the age of 19. At the time of diagnosis, there were three roads to go down - avoidance, acceptance or rebellion. Avoidance was her first choice. Falling in the shower, brain jerks and muscle twitches when she was 14 was the beginning of something 'not quite right' about her early teenage years. She hid these symptoms from family and friends for three years in the hope that they were just growing pains.

As she started reaching the age of independence (18 in Australia) and started to drink, stay up late and go out partying, these growing pains turned into a seizure condition that could no longer be ignored. Eventually doctors, diagnoses and medicines were brought into the equation.

She tried acceptance but at the time it wasnt the right fit, as the very thought of taming down her young, fun life and replace it with medicine, early nights and mature personal decisions was just too hard to fathom.

Rebellion then became her main focus and she achieved this by partying, staying up late and ignoring the triggers. This mindset carried with it an enormous amount of embarrassment and shame. She constantly felt like a failure after each of the 250+ Grand Mal seizures she endured over 25 years.

But she wasnt just rebelling against a diagnosis; she was rebelling against a system that has the capacity to make you feel better but at a price that also keeps you in a place of perpetual illness. She needed to know why she had epilepsy and the only way she was going to find this out was to take herself off all the meds and research it, live it, feel it, document and manage it for herself.

She did this much to the horror of her doctors, friends and family. She went on a journey to get to know her brain and what makes it tick and glitch. The journey was about finding out just how much control she did and didnt have over her seizures.

Electro Girl is Lainie Chait's story of resilience, growth and self advocacy.

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ID: 691954

Title: Sweet Heartbreak

Author: Alexandra Moody

Narrator: Kira Fixx

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12:16:06

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Teen, Romance

Summary:

Popular. Powerful. Filthy Rich.

Noah Hastings is everything Im not.

Our worlds never should have collided, but when my long-lost father reappears my life is flipped upside down. It turns out, hes ridiculously wealthy, and without warning he plucks me from my simple life and throws me into a world of excess.

Hes sending me to the most elite boarding school in the country, where money and status mean everything. He gives me only one rule while Im therestay away from Noah Hastings.

It should be a simple request. Noah is the king of Weybridge Academy, the heir to an empire and a serial heartbreaker. Im just the new girl who grew up waiting tables. I dont fit into Noahs world, and he could never be a part of mine.

Theres more to this boy than I expected though, and he seems just as drawn to me as I am to him.

But its not only our differences that stand between us it's the secrets we keep.

Sweet Heartbreak is the first part of a three-book series following Isobel and Noah story in the elite world of Weybridge Academy. Book 1 ends in a cliff-hanger.

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ID: 680511

Title: Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism

Author: Magda Teter

Narrator: Erica Stevens Abbitt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13:22:36

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-23

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Genres: Non-Fiction, Social Science

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Erica Stevens Abbitt presents a panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology

Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society, and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. Christian Supremacy demonstrates how theological and legal frameworks created by the church centuries ago laid the seeds of antisemitism and anti-Black racism and reveals why Christian identity lies at the heart of the worlds violent white supremacy movements.

In a powerful historical narrative spanning nearly two millennia, Magda Teter describes how Christian theology of late antiquity cast Jews as children born to slavery, and how the supposed theological inferiority of Jews became inscribed into law, creating tangible structures that reinforced a sense of Christian domination and superiority. With the dawn of European colonialism, a distinct brand of European Christian supremacy found expression in the legally sanctioned enslavement and exploitation of people of color, later taking the form of white Christian supremacy in the New World.

Drawing on a wealth of primary evidence ranging from the theological and legal to the philosophical and artistic, Christian Supremacy is a profound reckoning with history that traces the roots of the modern rejection of Jewish and Black equality to an enduring Christian heritage of exclusion, intolerance, and persecution.

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ID: 617691

Title: I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness

Author: Daniel Allen Cox

Narrator: Daniel Allen Cox

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5:01:03

Language: English

Release date: 05-09-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, World Religions, Religious & Inspirational, General

Summary:

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL*

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023

“I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself. You cannot be queer and a Jehovah’s Witness—it’s one or the other.”

Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays, voting in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on homosexuality would for him.

But even years after whispers of his sexual orientation reached his congregation’s presiding elder, catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between “in” and “out” isn’t always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group’s cultish tactics—from gaslighting to shunning—and their resulting harms—from simmering anger to substance abuse—all while redefining its concepts through a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a room full of books?

With great candour and disarming self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New York City, where he’s swept up in a scene of photographers and hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany of Armageddons.

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ID: 649818

Title: Meet Me at the Lake

Author: Carley Fortune

Narrator: Aj Bridel, Carley Fortune

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10:02:21

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Viking Canada

Genres: Romance, Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women

Summary:

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

*SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2024*

In this breathtaking new novel from the #1 bestselling author of Every Summer After, a random connection sends two strangers on a daylong adventure where they make a promise one keeps and the other breaks, with life-changing effects.

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent just twenty-four hours in her early twenties with the aggravatingly attractive, idealistic artist, a chance encounter that spiraled into a daylong adventure in Toronto. The timing was wrong, but their connection was undeniable: they shared every secret, every dream, and made a pact to meet one year later. Fern showed up. Will didn’t.

At thirty-two, Fern’s life doesn’t look at all how she once imagined it would. Instead of living in the city, Fern’s back home, running her mother’s Muskoka lakeside resort—something she vowed never to do. The place is in disarray, her ex-boyfriend’s the manager, and Fern doesn’t know where to begin.

She needs a plan—a lifeline. To her surprise, it comes in the form of Will, who arrives nine years too late, with a suitcase in tow and an offer to help on his lips. Will may be the only person who understands what Fern’s going through. But how could she possibly trust this expensive-suit wearing mirage who seems nothing like the young man she met all those years ago. Will is hiding something, and Fern’s not sure she wants to know what it is. 

But ten years ago, Will Baxter rescued Fern. Can she do the same for him?

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ID: 669448

Title: Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

Author: Jennifer Carlson

Narrator: Jennifer Cole

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:51:06

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-23

Publisher: Princeton University Press

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

Summary:

This audiobook narrated by Jennifer Cole paints an eye-opening portrait of the gun sellers who navigated the social turmoil leading up to the January 6 Capitol attack

Gun sellers sell more than just guns. They also sell politics. Merchants of the Right sheds light on the unparalleled surge in gun purchasing during one of the most dire moments in American history, revealing how conservative political culture was galvanized amid a once-in-a-century pandemic, racial unrest, and a U.S. presidential election that rocked the foundations of American democracy.

Drawing on a wealth of in-depth interviews with gun sellers across the United States, Jennifer Carlson takes readers to the front lines of the culture war over gun rights. Even though the majority of gun owners are conservative, new gun buyers are more likely to be liberal than existing gun owners. This posed a dilemma to gun sellers in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election: embrace these liberal customers as part of a new, perhaps post-partisan chapter in the American gun saga or double down on gun politics as conservative terrain. Carlson describes how gun sellers mobilized mainstays of modern conservative culturearmed individualism, conspiracism, and partisanshipas they navigated the uncertainty and chaos unfolding around them, asserting gun politics as conservative politics and reworking and even rejecting liberal democracy in the process.

Merchants of the Right offers crucial lessons about the dilemmas confronting us today, arguing that we must reckon with the everyday politics that divide us if we ever hope to restore American democracy to health.

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ID: 685937

Title: When Dreams Go Dry: How to live and lead when all seems lost

Author: Camis G Ware

Narrator: Camis G Ware

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3:52:35

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-23

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Religious Studies

Summary:

If you have ever felt lost or let down in life and yet you know God has something more for you, then you are sure to find this book helpful.

Join the author in an empathetic reflection on the life of Joseph. See how Joseph behaves and responds to devastating and demoralising situations in a way that sets him up for his unfathomable success.

Filled with practical applications, fresh insights and challenging questions this book equips you to live and lead through adversity by presenting a new perspective on your circumstances and your purpose in life.

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ID: 610794

Title: Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful

Author: Jolyon Maugham

Narrator: Jolyon Maugham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8:07:48

Language: English

Release date: 04-27-23

Publisher: PGRH UK

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics

Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin.

*Picked as a 2023 highlight by the Guardian*

A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of Good Law Project.

Our legal system often feels like it only works for the rich and powerful - for those who have the means to use the courts to enforce their will and defend their interests. But we can fight back.

Jolyon Maugham KC founded Good Law Project in 2017 with the belief that the law can also put power in the hands of ordinary people. It has brought a series of landmark cases against a dishonest and increasingly autocratic government and won widespread acclaim in successfully reversing Boris Johnson's unlawful suspension of Parliament. Already the largest legal campaign group in the UK, Good Law Project is shining light into corners the establishment would rather keep dark - from the failures of Brexit to the still-developing PPE scandal, to the tax arrangements of business giants like Uber.

In Bringing Down Goliath, Jolyon Maugham shares his inspiration and his purpose, and he reveals the story behind these landmark cases and the hidden fault lines of our judiciary system. He offers an empowering, bold new vision for how the law can work better for all of us in the fight against injustice.

©2023 Jolyon Maugham (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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ID: 683367

Title: Carmen's Legacy

Author: John Maher

Narrator: Cliff Reeve, Sarah Kennedy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4:24:18

Language: English

Release date: 04-21-23

Publisher: Authors Republic

Genres: Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family

Summary:

Carmen's Legacy tells the story of a family's journey of tragedy and hope. At Age forty-two, John Maher was involved in a fatal car crash in which he was severely injured and, the eighteen-year-old driver of the other vehicle was killed. Thankfully, John was not at fault. His injuries were so severe that doctors informed him he would never work again. Married with four daughters in either secondary school or university, this was a tremendous blow to this young family.

However, there was more tragedy to come for the Maher family. Just 30-months after John's horrific car crash, the youngest of their four beautiful daughters, 18-year-old Carmen, was killed in a car crash when she fell asleep at the wheel of her car and hit a tree.

In an even crueller twist, her eldest sister Michelle was the third car on the crash scene when on her way to work.

Carmen's Legacy has many lessons, and possibly the most powerful is how the love and support of family can overcome even the most devastating and tragic event.

Two years after Carmen's death when four 18-year-old students were killed in a car crash in Bendigo, John decided to educate young drivers about the dangers on our roads. He developed Carmen's Road Safety presentation and presented it at secondary schools. Telling Carmen's story to years 10, 11, and 12 students hoping they would never do to their family what Carmen has done to his.

Carmen's Legacy will take you on a journey of triumph over tragedy. It will also empower you to be a safer road user and help you understand who you are.

The Maher family didn't know that on November 18, 1995, they would lose their beautiful Carmen forever and they would never be able to cuddle her again.

We would love to give Carmen just one more cuddle.

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