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    The Wake

    The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

    by Linden MacIntyre ...
    Narrated by Linden MacIntyre ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up ... Read more

    $27.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Beyond the Trees

    A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

    by Adam Shoalts ...
    Narrated by Adam Shoalts ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    A mesmerizing odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, and the rich history it reveals.What does it mean to explore and confront the unknown? Beyond the Trees recounts Adam Shoalts's epic, never-before-attempted solo crossing of Canada's mainland Arctic in a single season. It's also a multilayered story that weaves the narrative of Shoalts's journey into accounts of other adventurers, explorers, ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Great and Noble Scheme

    The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 52 min

    In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality-to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England-had been one of the ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A History of Antisemitism in Canada

    by Ira Robinson ...
    Narrated by Dan Rosen ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    This state-of-the-art account gives readers the tools to understand why antisemitism is such a controversial subject. It acquaints readers with the ambiguities inherent in the historical relationship between Jews and Christians and shows these ambiguities in play in the unfolding relationship between Jews and Canadians of other religions and ethnicities. It examines present relationships in light ... Read more

    $47.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    James Douglas

    An Opera

    by Obediya Jones-Darrell, Wayde Compton, Jónína Kirton ...
    Narrated by Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    "Imagine it is the mid 1800’s, Western Canada. Also known as ""the father of British Columbia"", James Douglas is the governor of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Governor Douglas was born in British Guiana into a ""Scotch West Indian"" family with a Scottish father and a Caribbean mother. At Fort St. James he married Amelia Connolly, of Métis ancestry. In 1864 Douglas ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Cobalt

    Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

    by Charlie Angus ...
    Narrated by Charles Constant ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the proliferation of digital and clean technologies. But this "demon metal" has a horrific present and a troubled history. The modern search for cobalt has brought investors back to a small town in Northern Canada, a place called Cobalt. Like the demon metal, this town has a dark and turbulent history. The tale of the early-twentieth-century mining rush ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bloody Falls of the Coppermine

    Madness and Murder in the Arctic Barren Lands

    by McKay Jenkins ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 10 min

    In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Lethbridge

    by Terry McConnell ...
    Narrated by Charles Robert Fox ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 59 min

    A love story set against the backdrop of the First World War, the events in Lethbridge unfold in disparate locales, from London to Boston, from Maine to Niagara Falls, from the trenches of wartime France to the military hospitals of England. Yet the lives of its three protagonists come together in one place: the frontier western Canadian city of Lethbridge, Alberta.Inspired by a true story, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Niagara

    Daredevils, Danger & Extraordinary Stories

    by Andrew Hind, Maria Da Silva ...
    Narrated by Janice Ryan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 46 min

    Niagara is rich with fascinating stories, from daredevils to heroics.From the horrors during the War of 1812, to murder, to technological innovation and the birth of the modern tourist industry, Niagara has seen it all:In 1901, Annie Taylor was the first person to go over the falls in a barrel…and survive.It is said that the former Houdini Hall of Fame was cursed by the dead escape artist himself, ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Power of Dreams

    by Dave Neads, Rosemary Neads ...
    Narrated by Colleen Winton, Tim Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 49 min

    The Power of Dreams tells the story of a couple, already in their 40’s, who uprooted themselves from urban life to follow their dream of living in the wilderness. They settled in a remote mountain valley called Precipice Valley, part of the ancient trade route linking B.C.’s Chilcotin plateau to the Pacific Coast.Surrounded by mountain vastness they lived there for nearly three decades, much of it ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Day the World Came to Town

    9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

    by Jim DeFede ...
    Narrated by Ray Porter ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 28 min

    Perfect for fans of the musical Come From Away!When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and ... Read more

    $34.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Dix journées qui ont fait le Québec

    by Pierre Graveline, Collectif ...
    Narrated by Winston McQuade ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    "Si l’histoire d’une nation se construit dans la durée, on sait aussi qu’elle s’écrit dans de formidables moments d’accélération déclenchés par un événement précis. Passionnant voyage dans l’aventure québécoise, ce livre nous invite à traverser quatre siècles en dix escales : jours de colère ou de liesse, de défaite ou de victoire, de recul ou de progrès, dates fatidiques qui continuent aujourd ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Klondike Gold Rush, The: A Captivating Guide to the Major Migration of Gold Miners to Yukon and Its Impact on the History of Canada and the United States of America

    by Captivating History ...
    Narrated by Jay Herbert ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 7 min

    Did you know that the Klondike Gold Rush was the biggest and fastest movement of people in North American history?From 1897 to 1898, over 100,000 men and women walked, rode, paddled, and sailed thousands of miles to the Klondike River area of the Canadian Yukon in search of gold.Out of those 100,000 people, only about a quarter ever made it to the goldfields, and those who did mostly went home ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Inventing Niagara

    Beauty, Power, and Lies

    by Ginger Strand ...
    Narrated by Karen White ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 11 min

    Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery-waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films, and ... Read more

    $32.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    We the North

    Canada's Team: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

    by Doug Smith ...
    Narrated by Kia Nurse, Matt Devlin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Doug Smith always gets the first question in any Raptors press conference--as the dean of our press corps, he's been in the front row for every development over the past 25 years. There's no one better placed to write a history of our team's first quarter century."--Nick Nurse, head coach, Toronto RaptorsBringing Jurassic Park to your home, a celebration of Canada's most ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Donnellys

    Powder Keg: 1840-1880

    by John Little ...
    Narrated by Gareth Richards ...
    Audiobook 1 - Comprehensive Donnellys

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Donnellys

    Massacre, Trial, and Aftermath: 1880-1916

    by John Little ...
    Narrated by Gareth Richards ...
    Audiobook 2 - Comprehensive Donnellys

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    A story made all the more shocking because it's true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys's enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders. The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Above the Fold

    A Personal History of the Toronto Star

    by John Honderich ...
    Narrated by Robin Honderich, John Nelles ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 17 min

    A remarkable memoir and journalistic history of the Toronto Star, the newspaper that has shaped and continues to shape the issues most important to Canadians.Don't let them ruin the newspaper. . . These were the dying words of Beland Honderich to his son, John. The newspaper was the Toronto Star, founded in 1892 by Joseph E. (Holy Joe) Atkinson and, to this day, one of the world’s leading and most ... Read more

    $39.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Hearts on Fire

    Six Years that Changed Canadian Music 2000-2005

    by Michael Barclay ...
    Narrated by Michael Barclay ...

    Unabridged

    30 hours 52 min

    Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s, which captured the world's attention in entirely new ways. The Canadian wave didn't just sweep over one genre or one city, it stretched from coast to coast, affecting large bands and solo performers, rock bands and DJs, and it connected to international scenes by capitalizing on new technology and old-school DIY ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Killer Whale Who Changed The World, The

    by Mark Leiren-Young ...
    Narrated by Mark Leiren-Young ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 26 min

    The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale a story that forever changed the way we see orcas and sparked the movement to save them. Killer whales had always been seen as bloodthirsty sea monsters. That all changed when a young killer whale was captured off the west coast of North America and displayed to the public in 1964. Moby Doll, as the ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Toronto Book of the Dead

    by Adam Bunch ...
    Narrated by Adam Bunch ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 10 min

    Exploring Toronto’s history through the stories of its most fascinating and shadowy deaths.If these streets could talk…With morbid tales of war and plague, duels and executions, suicides and séances, Toronto’s past is filled with stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. The Toronto Book of the Dead delves into these: from ancient First Nations burial mounds to the grisly murder of Toronto ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Louis Riel

    by Dan Asfar, Tim Chodan ...
    Narrated by Steve Jodoin ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    Champion of a people or traitorous rabble-rouser? Political visionary or religious lunatic? Louis Riel is one of the most ambiguous figures in Canadian history, a man who stood and fell for the Métis nation. Read about the fascinating western icon in this well-paced biography. The doomed struggle of Louis Riel and his Métis people against the new Canadian government is a story rich in drama and ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Great Chiefs

    Volume I

    by Tony Hollihan ...
    Narrated by Dana Negrey ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    A tribute to the courageous chiefs and warriors who fought to protect their people and preserve the Native way of life in the face of European expansion across North America:Sequoyah, a Cherokee who invented a system of writing for his peopleitting Bull, the powerful warrior and spiritual leader of the Lakota Sioux who doggedly fought white incursions on Sioux landChief Joseph, who led the Nez ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Fighting Dirty

    How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

    by Poh-Gek Forkert ...
    Narrated by Vivian Hisey ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial