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Books narrated by Rupert Callender

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  • What Remains?

    Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

    The world’s first ‘punk undertaker’ shares his unconventional perspective on grief, death, end-of-life, and the funeral business in this sharp and deeply moving memoir-manifesto.“Extraordinary . . . You’ll be changed. An instant classic.” —Rob Hopkins, author of From What Is to What If“Lovely and thoughtful and may make you rethink a few things.” —The GuardianWhen he became an undertaker, Rupert ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

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    What Remains?

    Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking

    Narrated by Rupert Callender ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. This book is his brilliant, unforgettable story—the life and work of the world’s first punk undertaker—but it's also about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion, to say goodbye to the people we love in our own way.In becoming the world’s first ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Metaphors We Live By

    From two renowned scholars, an "enjoyable and intellectually stimulating" look at how metaphors shape our perceptions and actions ( Language).The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seneca

    Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic

    Translated by Margaret Graver ...
    A selection of Seneca's most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life."There is only one course of action that can make you happy. . . . Rejoice in what is yours. What is it that is yours? Yourself; the best part of you."In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tolstoy and the Purple Chair

    My Year of Magical Reading

    "A dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature—to heal, to nurture and to connect us to our truest selves." —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. Nina Sankovitch's soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Socrates Cafe

    A Fresh Taste of Philosophy

    "A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O MagazineChristopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafés and coffee shops, senior centers, assisted ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • After Babel

    Aspects of Language and Translation

    "A brilliant work . . . A dazzling meditation on the very nature of language itself" from the world-renowned scholar and author of The Poetry of Thought ( Kirkus Reviews).In his classic work, literary critic and scholar George Steiner tackles what he considers the Babel "problem": Why, over the course of history, have humans developed thousands of different languages when the social, material, and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • They Left Us Everything

    A Memoir

    by Plum Johnson ...
    Winner of the 2015 RBC Taylor PrizeWinner of the 2016 Forest of Reading® Evergreen Award™After almost twenty years of caring for elderly parents—first for their senile father, and then for their cantankerous ninety-three-year-old mother—author Plum Johnson and her three younger brothers experience conflicted feelings of grief and relief when their mother, the surviving parent, dies. Now they must ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Hardship & Happiness

    Series series The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    Essays from the Stoic philosopher instructing how to find happiness in a world full of adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethical Wills

    Putting Your Values on Paper

    " Ethical Wills shows us in simple steps how to document and pass on our wisdom, experiences, life's lessons, and much more to those we love." —James V. Gambone, Ph.DAs evidenced in the Terri Schiavo case that made national headlines, in which a legal battle ensued over whether to prolong the life of a young woman in a vegetative state, having a living will is an essential element in ensuring ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Gang of Three: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

    Ancient Wisdom, #2

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 2 - Ancient Wisdom
    The thinkers who built the Western mind—and still shape your own.This is the best book on philosophy I have ever read. —Philip van Heusen for Readers' FavoriteThree men. Three rival visions of reality. And together, the hidden framework behind how you think about truth, morality, happiness, and meaning.Much of Western philosophy can be traced back to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—figures whose ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Here to the Great Unknown: Oprah's Book Club

    A Memoir

    #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole story for the first time in this raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough.A PEOPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARIn 2022, Lisa Marie Presley asked her daughter to help finally finish her ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD