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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

    by Katherine Boo ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    by David Hare, Katherine Boo ...
    It's not just that rich people don't know what they've got. They don't even know what they throw away.India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an obstacle, amakeshift slum. It's home to foul mouthed Zehrunisa and her garbage sorting son Abdul, entrepreneurs both. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju, schoolteacher, hopes to be the settlement's first ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Behind the Beautiful Forevers

    Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

    by Katherine Boo ...
    Narrated by Sunil Malhotra ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 16 min

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    Escape from Camp 14

    One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

    by Blaine Harden ...
    Narrated by Blaine Harden ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 44 min

    A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017.North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It is also armed with nuclear weapons. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people are being held in its political ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Ru

    by Kim Thúy ...
    Narrated by Kim Thúy ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow--of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to ... Read more

    $25.00 CAD

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    The Orphan Master's Son

    A Novel

    by Adam Johnson ...
    Narrated by Adam Johnson, Tim Kang, Josiah D. Lee, James Kyson Lee ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 20 min

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic journey into the heart of North Korea and the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on which [Adam] Johnson is painting here.”—The Washington PostONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARPak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Dovekeepers

    A Novel

    by Alice Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Aya Cash, Tovah Feldshuh, Jessica Hecht, Heather Lind ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 1 min

    An ambitious and mesmerizing historical novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new novel in biblical history, with a devotion and seriousness of purpose” (Entertainment Weekly).Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

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    The Purchase

    by Linda Spalding ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 54 min

    In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the family' s values and beliefs are sorely tested. In 1798, Daniel Dickinson, recently widowed and shunned by his fellow Quakers when he marries his young servant girl to help with his five small children, moves his ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Virgin Cure

    by Ami McKay ...
    Narrated by Aidan deSalaiz, Martha Irving, Sofia Banzhaf ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 4 min

    The much-anticipated follow-up to The Birth House, The Virgin Cure secures Ami McKay's place as one of our most powerful storytellers."I am Moth, a girl from the lowest part of Chrystie Street, born to a slum-house mystic and the man who broke her heart."The Virgin Cure begins in the tenements of lower Manhattan in the year 1871. A series of betrayals lead Moth, at only twelve years old, to the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Silver Star

    A Novel

    by Jeannette Walls ...
    Narrated by Jeannette Walls ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon**, Jeannette Walls’s gripping coming-of-age novel about two sisters “transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away” (O, T... ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    The Tiger's Wife

    A Novel

    by Téa Obreht ...
    Narrated by Susan Duerden, Robin Sachs ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 22 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST •The instant classic debut novel from the author of Inland and The Morningside, hailed as “a thrilling beginning to what will certainly be a great literary career” (Elle)“Spectacular . . . [Téa Obreht] spins a tale of such marvel and magic in a literary voice so enchanting that the mesmerized reader wants her never to stop.”—Entertainment ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    The Light Between Oceans

    A Novel

    by M.L. Stedman ...
    Narrated by Noah Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    The captivating and beautiful years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture, now in a gorgeous new package designed for the modern reader.After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day’s journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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