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    The United Church of Canada

    A History

    Narrated by Braden Wright ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 52 min

    From its inception in the early 1900s, The United Church of Canada set out to become the national church of Canada. This book recounts and analyzes the history of the church of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination and its engagement with issues of social and private morality, evangelistic campaigns, and its response to the restructuring of religion in the 1960s.A chronological history is ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The H Factor of Personality

    Why Some People are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone

    by Kibeom Lee, Michael C. Ashton ...
    Narrated by Miles Meili ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    7PoliticsKibeom Lee, and Michael C. AshtonHow personality influences political attitudes. We focus on the role of low O (Openness to Experience) in social conservatism, as well as the role of low H in preference for social hierarchy. ... Read more

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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

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Critical Condition

    Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity

    by Patrick Finn ...
    Narrated by Patrick Finn ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    Chapter 1 Foolish Question: Isn’t It Time We Replaced Critical Thinking?Discusses how Finn came to this topic. Originating in a debate that arose after he gave a TEDx talk focused on these issues, the topic seems to have a life to its own. Finn has given dozens of talks and workshops on these issues in many countries since that first TEDx talk. ... Read more

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    And Peace Never Came

    by Elisabeth M. Raab ...
    Narrated by Iris Quinn ...
    Series series Life Writing

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    “It is Easter Sunday, April 1945, early in the morning, maybe just dawn. We stand still, like frozen grey statues. Us. Seven hundred and thirty women, wrapped in wet, grey, threadbare blankets, standing in the rain. Our blankets hang over our heads, drape down to the soil. We hold them closed with our hands from the inside, leaving only a small opening to peer out, so that we save the precious ... Read more

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    The Queen of Peace Room

    by Magie Dominic ...
    Narrated by Ryanne Chisholm ...
    Series series Life Writing

    Unabridged

    4 hours

    What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a writer — and frees herself from the memories of her violent past. On an eight-day ... Read more

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    Blocking Public Participation

    The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression

    by Byron Sheldrick ...
    Narrated by Miles Meili ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) involves lawsuits brought by individuals, corporations, groups, or politicians to curtail political activism and expression. An increasingly large part of the political landscape in Canada, they are often launched against those protesting, boycotting, or participating in some form of political activism. A common feature of SLAPPs is that ... Read more

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    Soldiers of Song

    The Dumbells and Other Canadian Concert Parties of the First World War

    by Jason Wilson ...
    Narrated by Jason Wilson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 28 min

    The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story.Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a “lady,” were taken from the line and put onstage for the ... Read more

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    Rough and Plenty

    A Memorial

    by Raymond A. Rogers ...
    Narrated by Jeff Schwager ...
    Series series Life Writing

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    As a commercial fisher in Nova Scotia in the early 1990s, Raymond Rogers experienced the collapse of Canada’s East Coast fishery first-hand. Afterward, while preparing to leave the province to find work elsewhere, Rogers noticed a lone gravestone across the road from his home in Shelburne County that commemorates the life of Donald McDonald, a crofter from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, who ... Read more

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    Beauty in a Box

    Detangling the Roots of Canada's Black Beauty Culture

    by Cheryl Thompson ...
    Narrated by Koumbie ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 2 min

    One of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada’s black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have played in its development, Beauty in a Box widens our understanding of the politics of black hair.The book analyzes advertisements and articles from media—newspapers, advertisements, television, and other sources—that focus on black communities in Halifax, Montreal, ... Read more

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    163256

    A Memoir of Resistance

    by Michael Englishman ...
    Narrated by Garry Williams ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation by Allied soldiers in 1945 and his emigration to Canada. Surviving by his wits, Englishman ... Read more

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    Bird-Bent Grass

    A Memoir, in Pieces

    by Kathleen Venema ...
    Narrated by Catriona LeBlanc ...
    Series Audiobook 59 - Life Writing

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s ... Read more

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