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A Fight for Justice

The Compelling Story of Temporary Foreign Workers & Human Rights

by Joe Barrett ...

In April 2006, 42 Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the Canada Line SkyTrain. They thought they'd won the lottery with promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But the reality was miserable wages, unpaid overtime and inadequate living conditions. It was the beginning of the Canadian construction industry's reliance on migrant workers and the treatment of ... Read more

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In April 2006, 42 Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the Canada Line SkyTrain. They thought they'd won the lottery with promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But the reality was miserable wages, unpaid overtime and inadequate living conditions. It was the beginning of the Canadian construction industry's reliance on migrant workers and the treatment of
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While Drowning in the Desert

by Don Winslow ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 5 - The Neal Carey Mysteries
Unabridged

3 hours 50 min

Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, ... Read more

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Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress,
... Read more
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A Cool Breeze on the Underground

by Don Winslow ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Neal Carey Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author“One of America’s greatest storytellers.”―Stephen KingNeal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a PI who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients ... Read more

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30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author“One of America’s greatest storytellers.”―Stephen KingNeal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a PI who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients
... Read more
Prerequisites to Suicide

by Joe Barrett ...

The intended audience of Prerequisites to Suicide is those who live with depression or suicidal ideation, yet often suffer in silence without understanding or hope. It is also for those who care about the suicidal but feel ill equipped to help due to a lack of understanding. The book is about the good, bad, and ugly of the often unfathomable pain, shame, and self-hate that the suicidal live with. ... Read more

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The intended audience of Prerequisites to Suicide is those who live with depression or suicidal ideation, yet often suffer in silence without understanding or hope. It is also for those who care about the suicidal but feel ill equipped to help due to a lack of understanding. The book is about the good, bad, and ugly of the often unfathomable pain, shame, and self-hate that the suicidal live with.
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Late to the Ball

Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis. Win.

by Gerald Marzorati ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old . . . yet. But we sense it coming: Careers are winding down, kids are gone, parents are dying (friends, too), and our bodies are no longer youthful or even middle-aged. Learning to play tennis in your fifties is no small feat, but becoming a serious, ... Read more

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Being a man or a woman in your early sixties is different than it was a generation or two ago, at least for the more fortunate of us. We aren't old . . . yet. But we sense it coming: Careers are winding down, kids are gone, parents are dying (friends, too), and our bodies are no longer youthful or even middle-aged. Learning to play tennis in your fifties is no small feat, but becoming a serious,
... Read more
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Henderson the Rain King

by Saul Bellow ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

14 hours 25 min

Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson’s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe—but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere ... Read more

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Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson’s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe—but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere
... Read more
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The Influence

by Bentley Little ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

Everything is about to change…When Ross Lowry moves into his cousin's guest house in the small community of Magdalena, Arizona, he expects nothing more than breathing room and a brief respite from his economic woes. But something is not right in the desert. After a raucous party on New Year's Eve, the luck of the attendees undergoes an immediate U-turn. The rich and successful suddenly find ... Read more

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Everything is about to change…When Ross Lowry moves into his cousin's guest house in the small community of Magdalena, Arizona, he expects nothing more than breathing room and a brief respite from his economic woes. But something is not right in the desert. After a raucous party on New Year's Eve, the luck of the attendees undergoes an immediate U-turn. The rich and successful suddenly find
... Read more
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Globalists

The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

by Quinn Slobodian ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

11 hours 15 min

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.Slobodian begins in Austria in the 1920s. ... Read more

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Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.Slobodian begins in Austria in the 1920s.
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Way Down on the High Lonely

by Don Winslow ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 3 - The Neal Carey Mysteries
Unabridged

9 hours 17 min

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the authorFrom domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey’s got more than studying on his plate.Neal Carey’s three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to ... Read more

$32.15 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the authorFrom domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey’s got more than studying on his plate.Neal Carey’s three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a return on their investment. They want him to
... Read more
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Turn to Stone

A Jonathan Stride Novella

by Brian Freeman ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 5.6 - The Jonathan Stride Series
Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

Turn to Stone takes place in the days immediately preceding the events of The Cold Nowhere, the sixth book in Freeman's thrilling Jonathan Stride series. On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one ... Read more

$23.75 CAD

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Turn to Stone takes place in the days immediately preceding the events of The Cold Nowhere, the sixth book in Freeman's thrilling Jonathan Stride series. On his way back to Duluth, Stride stops to visit the grave of his mother in a small Wisconsin town. After a shocking occurrence in the cemetery, Stride becomes enmeshed in a gruesome and suspenseful search for a killer who knows things no one
... Read more

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The Mission, the Men, and Me

Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander

by Pete Blaber ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

As a commander of Delta Force—the most elite counterterrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life.As the smoke clears from ... Read more

$27.95 CAD

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As a commander of Delta Force—the most elite counterterrorist organization in the world—Pete Blaber took part in some of the most dangerous, controversial, and significant military and political events of our time. Now he takes his intimate knowledge of warfare—and the heart, mind, and spirit it takes to win—and moves his focus from the combat zone to civilian life.As the smoke clears from
... Read more

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Goodbye to the Dead

A Jonathan Stride Novel

by Brian Freeman ...

Narrated by Joe Barrett ...

Series Audiobook 7 - The Jonathan Stride Series
Unabridged

11 hours 55 min

Detective Jonathan Stride’s first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride’s relationship with his current lover and fellow detective Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride’s life.At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of ... Read more

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Detective Jonathan Stride’s first wife, Cindy, died of cancer eight years ago, but her ghost hangs over Stride’s relationship with his current lover and fellow detective Serena Dial. When Serena witnesses a brutal murder outside a Duluth bar, she stumbles onto a case with roots that go all the way back to the last year of Cindy Stride’s life.At the time, Cindy and Stride were on opposite sides of
... Read more

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