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Making it Home

A Novel

by Alison DeLory ...

One family from Canada and another from Syria search for a sense of home in a novel written "with love and empathy towards the refugee experience" (Ahmad Danny Ramadan, award-winning author of The Clothesline Swing).Shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeTinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton ... Read more

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One family from Canada and another from Syria search for a sense of home in a novel written "with love and empathy towards the refugee experience" (Ahmad Danny Ramadan, award-winning author of The Clothesline Swing).Shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeTinker Gordon doesn't want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton
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Making It Home

by Alison DeLory ...

Narrated by Dan Barton ...

Unabridged

8 hours 46 min

Tinker Gordon doesn’t want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small—a world away, in the Middle East, in the land of opportunity in western Canada, and in his own home in Falkirk Cove—threaten to turn everything Tinker has ever ... Read more

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Tinker Gordon doesn’t want anything to change. He thinks that if he holds on tightly enough, his family, his tiny Cape Breton Island community, his very world will stay exactly the way it has always been. But explosions large and small—a world away, in the Middle East, in the land of opportunity in western Canada, and in his own home in Falkirk Cove—threaten to turn everything Tinker has ever
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All We Knew But Couldn't Say

by Joanne Vannicola ...

Narrated by Joanne Vannicola ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction and the July/August selection for the Amnesty International Book Club.Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Nonfiction and the July/August selection for the Amnesty International Book Club.Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to
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White Tears

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by Hari Kunzru ...

Narrated by Lincoln Hoppe, Danny Campbell, Dominic Hoffman ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

**White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues."An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books**Two twenty ... Read more

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**White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues."An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books**Two twenty
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One Amazing Thing

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ...

Narrated by Purva Bedi, Soneela Nankani, Neil Shah ...

Unabridged

7 hours 58 min

Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose. ... Read more

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Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose.
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Moon of the Crusted Snow

A Novel

by Waubgeshig Rice ...

Narrated by Billy Merasty ...

Unabridged

6 hours 46 min

A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, ... Read more

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A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voiceWith winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after,
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A Woman Is No Man

A Novel

by Etaf Rum ...

Narrated by Ariana Delawari, Dahlia Salem, Susan Nezami ...

Unabridged

10 hours 15 min

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • A Marie Claire Best Women’s Fiction of 2019 • A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel • A Refinery 29 Best Books... ... Read more

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICKA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • A Marie Claire Best Women’s Fiction of 2019 • A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel • A Refinery 29 Best Books...
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No Good Asking

A Novel

by Fran Kimmel ...

Narrated by Tracey Hoyt, Jonathan Watton ...

Unabridged

8 hours 15 min

A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows.When ... Read more

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A profoundly moving exploration of our capacity to heal one another.Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. With every passing day, Ellie’s hopes are buried deeper in the harsh winter snows.When
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Butter Honey Pig Bread

by Francesca Ekwuyasi ...

Narrated by Amaka Umeh ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

2021 CANADA READS FINALISTLonglisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAn intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of ... Read more

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2021 CANADA READS FINALISTLonglisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller PrizeAn intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.Butter Honey Pig Bread is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of
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The Round House

A Novel

by Louise Erdrich ...

Narrated by Gary Farmer ...

Unabridged

12 hours 39 min

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in ... Read more

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Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in
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Frying Plantain

by Zalika Reid-Benta ...

Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and ... Read more

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Set in the neighbourhood of “Little Jamaica,” Frying Plantain follows a girl from elementary school to high school graduation as she navigates the tensions between mothers and daughters, second-generation immigrants experiencing first-generation cultural expectations, and Black identity in a predominantly white society.Kara Davis is a girl caught in the middle — of her North American identity and
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Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

by Megan Gail Coles ...

Narrated by Megan Gail Coles ...

Unabridged

12 hours 21 min

#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentine’s Day, the longest day of the year.A fierce ... Read more

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#1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentine’s Day, the longest day of the year.A fierce
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