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Books narrated by Elise Imbert

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  • Off the Record

    Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each accompanied by a short story, offer fascinating insight into the relationships between writers, their ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Pleased to Meet You

    Stories

    These nine razor-sharp stories herald the return of one of Canada’s most accomplished writers to the short story form. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, here are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human heart. A dying Finn, a philandering photographer recovering from an emergency splenectomy, a young woman heavy with an hysterical pregnancy - these ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sky Is Falling

    A Novel

    From the winner of the 2006 Marian Engel Award comes a funny, absorbing and timely novel about fear in our time.On a spring day in 2004, Jane Z. a physician's wife and mother of a teenage son, opens her morning newspaper and is shocked to see a familiar face on the front page. Sonia, a lost friend accused of terrorism, has just been released after twenty years in prison. It all comes flooding back ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sunny Days Inside

    and Other Stories

    When the “grownup virus” hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings.And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I, Bruno

    Illustrated by Helen Flook ...
    Series series Orca Echoes
    Bruno is a boy with particular tastes and ideas.He will not, for example, eat anything green. He spends one day as Sir Bruno and another as the Queen. He is an entrepreneur and he understands the language of Car. Bruno is a boy worth knowing. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middle of Nowhere

    At first Curtis isn't that worried when his mother doesn't come home from her all-night job at the local gas bar. She'll be back, he's ten out of ten positive. After all, she promised she would never leave him again. Besides, Curtis is used to looking after himself and his five-year-old brother, Artie, and for a time he manages things on his own, keeping their mother's absence a secret. He knows ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mostly True Story of Pudding Tat, Adventuring Cat

    Illustrated by Stacy Innerst ...
    The delightful adventures of a visually impaired barn cat and his annoying flea, as they set off to experience the world and find themselves participants in some of the most remarkable events of the early twentieth century.Pudding Tat is born on the Willoughby Farm in 1901 — just another one of Mother Tat’s kittens. But it turns out that Pudding is anything but ordinary. He is pure white with pink ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Canadian Stories 2019

    Series series Best Canadian
    Now in its 49th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Tamas Dobozy, Mavis Gallant, Douglas Glover, Norman Levine, Rohinton Mistry, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Kathleen Winter, and many others have appeared in its pages over ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Ellen In Pieces

    A Novel

    In this witty, compelling and genre-bending novel, a single mother navigates the loves, lusts and losses of middle age to arrive at a final, bittersweet contentment.Ellen McGinty: sexy, impulsive, loud-mouthed, chock full of regrets. In middle age she sells the house she raised her daughters in, slips off the shell of her old life, and steps out for a first, tentative foray into real contentment- ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Way to Be Happy

    Longlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the YearShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness.On New Year’s Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A History of Forgetting

    Caroline Adderson's Ellen in Pieces, forthcoming this fall, is whispered to be the best Canadian book of the year. The title story ("Ellen-Celine Celine-Ellen") won the Gold National Magazine Award in Canada in 2013. If Ellen in Pieces makes as many shortlists as we expect it might, Caroline Adderson will have considerable CDN media buzz going into spring 2015.A reprint title that's never been ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • A Russian Sister

    A Novel

    Inthis witty and colourfully peopled novel, Caroline Adderson effortlesslyplunges the reader into a nineteenth-century Russian tragicomedy. Aspiringpainter Masha C. is blindly devoted to Antosha, her famous writer-brother. Throughthe years Antosha takes up with numerous women from Masha’s circle of friends,yet none of these relationships threaten the siblings’ close ties until thewinter he falls ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD