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We Inherit the Fire

A Novel

by Kagiso Lesego Molope ...

Narrated by Jane Sopeng ...

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11 hours 49 min

**One of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026A gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter—set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.**There is that photograph, of course. My mother: standing in front of a soldier, closer than anyone else would dare . . .In late-1980s South Africa, teenager Kelelo is ... Read more

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**One of Ms. Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026A gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter—set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.**There is that photograph, of course. My mother: standing in front of a soldier, closer than anyone else would dare . . .In late-1980s South Africa, teenager Kelelo is
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Hovel

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by Ailsa Ross ...

Narrated by Rebecca Auerbach ...

Unabridged

5 hours 48 min

**A CBC and Globe and Mail Spring Book PickIn this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book for those fascinated by female interiority.**Homesickness takes many forms. Alone in the mountains ... Read more

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**A CBC and Globe and Mail Spring Book PickIn this debut novel, a young woman in the Rocky Mountains, separated from the ancestral rhythms of her home in Scotland, turns to ancient rituals to find solace and connection. With shades of Olga Tokarczuk, Ali Smith, and Rachel Cusk, Hovel is a book for those fascinated by female interiority.**Homesickness takes many forms. Alone in the mountains
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Fancy Gap

A Novel

by Zak Jones ...

Narrated by Emily Dunlop ...

Unabridged

12 hours 32 min

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEA powerful, unforgettable debut: three estranged generations in Appalachia grapple with loss, poverty, and their individual demons, until an explosive climax brings them together in apocalyptic deliverance.**In the hills and isolated mountain enclaves of southern Appalachia, Nana Grace has left her own family behind to become the ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZEA powerful, unforgettable debut: three estranged generations in Appalachia grapple with loss, poverty, and their individual demons, until an explosive climax brings them together in apocalyptic deliverance.**In the hills and isolated mountain enclaves of southern Appalachia, Nana Grace has left her own family behind to become the
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Seven Heavens Away

A Novel

by Ashraf Zaghal ...

Narrated by Neil Shah ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.The sudden death of Hassan at the hands of an Israeli shakes his friends Aziz and Mustafa to their core, leaving them grappling with grief, guilt, and an uncertain future. Drawn into the orbit of Hassan's father—a respected community leader known for his charity work and fiery speeches—they ... Read more

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A Palestinian teenager finds his footing amid escalating violence across Jerusalem in this taut debut novel.The sudden death of Hassan at the hands of an Israeli shakes his friends Aziz and Mustafa to their core, leaving them grappling with grief, guilt, and an uncertain future. Drawn into the orbit of Hassan's father—a respected community leader known for his charity work and fiery speeches—they
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Born to Walk

My Journey of Trials and Resilience

by Alpha Nkuranga ...

Narrated by Tyla Collier ...

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8 hours 5 min

"My grandparents used to tell me Rwanda is a country unlike any other, and I knew they spoke the truth. Blessed with majestic mountains and breathtaking valleys, it is a sacred and spiritual land. And yet Rwandan men drenched the land in blood in acts of hate so horrific that the stains of those three years will not fade in one hundred lifetimes."At the age of eight, Alpha Nkuranga made a fateful ... Read more

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"My grandparents used to tell me Rwanda is a country unlike any other, and I knew they spoke the truth. Blessed with majestic mountains and breathtaking valleys, it is a sacred and spiritual land. And yet Rwandan men drenched the land in blood in acts of hate so horrific that the stains of those three years will not fade in one hundred lifetimes."At the age of eight, Alpha Nkuranga made a fateful
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Ghost-Eye

by Amitav Ghosh ...

Narrated by Ranjit Madgavkar ...

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min

Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type."Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, in a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked ... Read more

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Past and present collide in a novel about a girl who might just be a "case of the reincarnation type."Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, in a mud house by a river where she caught and cooked
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Library of Brothel

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by Anakana Schofield ...

Narrated by Anakana Schofield ...

Unabridged

7 hours 13 min

**The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize (UK).“One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.”—Toronto Star“Schofield’s novels are existentially confounding, syntactically wild, and buckshot with wit.” —The Guardian (UK)“Schofield ... Read more

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**The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize (UK).“One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.”—Toronto Star“Schofield’s novels are existentially confounding, syntactically wild, and buckshot with wit.” —The Guardian (UK)“Schofield
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein

A Fiction

by Deborah Levy ...

Narrated by Kristin Atherton ...

Unabridged

3 hours 55 min

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton."[Kristin Atherton's] narration is cool, precise and perfectly paced." — The Guardian"[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah] Levy's curious turns of ... Read more

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In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton."[Kristin Atherton's] narration is cool, precise and perfectly paced." — The Guardian"[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah] Levy's curious turns of
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The Last of Earth

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by Deepa Anappara ...

Narrated by Rea Malhotra Mukhtyar ...

Unabridged

12 hours 56 min

From the award-winning author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a “splendid” (The New York Times) novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom.“An epic, perilous odyssey . . . scrupulous in its excavation of our spooky, imperfect pasts.”—The ... Read more

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From the award-winning author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a “splendid” (The New York Times) novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom.“An epic, perilous odyssey . . . scrupulous in its excavation of our spooky, imperfect pasts.”—The
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Motherclown

A Novel

by Harriet Alida Lye ...

Narrated by Harriet Alida Lye, Chala Hunter ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

**Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 • CBC Books Spring Fiction List 2026 • CBC Books Canadian Fiction BestsellerA dual coming-of-age story about performance—both public and private—sexuality, envy, and grief. Motherclown explores the most fundamental and potentially explosive of human relationships: that of a mother and her daughter.**In the wake of her father’s death, twenty-one-year-old ... Read more

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**Indigo’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 • CBC Books Spring Fiction List 2026 • CBC Books Canadian Fiction BestsellerA dual coming-of-age story about performance—both public and private—sexuality, envy, and grief. Motherclown explores the most fundamental and potentially explosive of human relationships: that of a mother and her daughter.**In the wake of her father’s death, twenty-one-year-old
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Glyph

A Novel

by Ali Smith ...

Narrated by Lesley Sharp ...

Unabridged

4 hours 56 min

From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.Ghosts don’t exist.They don’t. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it r... ... Read more

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From a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.Ghosts don’t exist.They don’t. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.Is it imaginary? Is it r...
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We, the Kindling

A Novel

by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek ...

Narrated by Shelby Mwambu ...

Unabridged

4 hours 44 min

**WINNER OF THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE • Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2025 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2025“There is so much care in the way Bitek alchemizes living memory. It’s folk tale, documentary and precise prose woven into a transformative novel.” —Valérie Bah, author of ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2026 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE • Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2025 • CBC’s Best Canadian Fiction of 2025“There is so much care in the way Bitek alchemizes living memory. It’s folk tale, documentary and precise prose woven into a transformative novel.” —Valérie Bah, author of
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