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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

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Jonny Appleseed

    A Novel

    by Joshua Whitehead ...
    Narrated by Joshua Whitehead ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for FictionFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for FictionLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqu... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    This Team Is Ruining My Life (But I Love Them)

    How I Became a Professional Hockey Fan

    by Steve “Dangle” Glynn ...
    Narrated by Steve “Dangle” Glynn ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    Steve Dangle’s incredible odyssey, from self-starting Leafs lover to sports-media starHow do you turn ranting about hockey into a career? Steve “Dangle” Glynn is a YouTuber, podcaster, and sports personality from Toronto, who managed to turn a 16-second online rant about the Maple Leafs into a career in sports media. From video blogging in his parents’ house at 19 to yelling on televisions across ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

    A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

    by Kai Cheng Thom ...
    Narrated by Adri Almeida ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 13 min

    At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood—and finds herself in a magical place known only as the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Annual Migration of Clouds

    by Premee Mohamed ...
    Narrated by Eva Tavares ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 49 min

    “This packs a punch.” — Publishers Weekly“One of the most unique and engaging voices in genre fiction.” — Booklist“In this rich and nuanced universe, Mohamed offers an emotionally fierce and human story that takes the time and space to personalize apocalypse.” — STARRED review, Quill & QuireA novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta; a woman infected with a mysterious parasite ... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Fifty-Four Pigs

    A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery

    by Philipp Schott ...
    Narrated by Miles Meili ...
    Audiobook 1 - A Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    For readers of The Thursday Murder Club comes a lighthearted mystery with an incredible sense of placeA swine barn explodes near a lakeside town, putting veterinarian Dr. Peter Bannerman on a collision course with murder and a startling conspiracy.Peter is an odd duck, obsessed with logic and measurable facts, an obsession he puts to good use in his veterinary practice. When a murder is connected ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Inside the Montreal Mafia

    The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa

    by Félix Séguin, Eric Thibault ...
    Narrated by Gianpaolo Venuta ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 39 min

    A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto familyFor the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by talking to journalists. From October 2014 to October 2019, Félix Séguin and Eric Thibault held multiple secret meetings with Andrew Scoppa, getting an exclusive inside look at the inner workings of the North ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Sleeping Car Porter

    by Suzette Mayr ...
    Narrated by Chris McPherson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEPUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP 20 LITERARY FICTION BOOKS OF 2022OPRAH DAILY: BOOKS TO READ BY THE FIRETHE GLOBE 100: THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022CBC BOOKS: THE BEST CANADIAN FICTION OF 2022When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his sec... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    At Last Count

    by Claire Ross Dunn, Beverley Cooper ...
    Narrated by Rebecca Auerbach, Meagan MacPherson ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 51 min

    A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022AS FEATURED IN TORONTO STAR, ZOOMER MAGAZINE, AND ON CBC'S ONTARIO MORNING AND GLOBAL TVFor readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally RooneyPaisley Ratchford is trying to keep it together, but in eight weeks, the Toronto apartment building she lives in will be demolished. A last-ditch effort to reclaim her abandoned childhood home on A... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Fractured

    A Memoir

    by Susan Mockler ...
    Narrated by Dianne Aguilar ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 21 min

    A collision with a moose on a dark highway left Susan Mockler with an incomplete spinal injury, suddenly compromising her ability to walk and to care for herself. She spent months in a rehabilitation facility learning how to adjust to her new reality, and though her body partially recovered, every aspect of her life changed.Fractured is a compelling illumination of the challenges of acquired ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Màgòdiz

    by Gabe Calderón ...
    Narrated by Everett Rain ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    Màgòdiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Queer Little Nightmares

    Narrated by Danielle Verayo ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 20 min

    The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Where To from Here

    A Path to Canadian Prosperity

    by Bill Morneau ...
    Narrated by Bill Morneau ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 50 min

    Bill Morneau’s experience as Canada’s finance minister crystalized his vision for the country’s potential for growth and prosperity. Where To from Here looks backward with coolness and candor and forward with a fresh vision of all that Canada can — and must — become.Much of the world reacted with surprise and admiration to the results of the 2015 Canadian federal election and the makeup of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Things I Came Here With

    A Memoir

    by Chris MacDonald ...
    Narrated by Max Lloyd-Jones ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 53 min

    “Does it hurt?” When you’re a tattoo artist, that’s the most universal question. For Chris MacDonald, the answer is simple: hurts less than a broken heart. Those words are painted above the entrance to his shop, Under My Thumb Tattoos, as a reminder.Chris and his brothers were as wild as the wind, in their house among the fields of Alliston, Ontario, when their parents divorced. Shell-shocked, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Big Men Fear Me

    The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul

    by Mark Bourrie ...
    Narrated by Tom Lute ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 48 min

    The remarkable true story of the rise and fall of one of North America's most influential media moguls.When George McCullagh bought The Globe and The Mail and Empire and merged them into the Globe and Mail, the charismatic 31-year-old high school dropout had already made millions on the stock market. It was just the beginning of the meteoric rise of a man widely expected to one day be prime ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Uncertain Harvest

    The Future of Food on a Warming Planet

    by Ian Mosby, Sarah Rotz, Evan D.G. Fraser ...
    Narrated by Jenny Hoops ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 26 min

    A menu for an edible future.In a world expected to reach a staggering population of 10 billion by 2050, and with global temperatures rising fast, humanity must fundamentally change the way it grows and consumes food. Uncertain Harvest brings together scientists, chefs, activists, entrepreneurs, farmers, philosophers, and engineers working on the global future of food to answer questions on how to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Good Girl

    by Anna Fitzpatrick ...
    Narrated by Mich Anger ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    Lucy tries so hard to be good. She was always a good student, tries to be a good friend, a good citizen, a good feminist, and now she wants a lover who will give her a good beating, preferably after tying her up.Dating swings from the sublime to the humiliating, but then Lucy hooks up with someone who challenges her to pursue the writing career she has been letting idle. When she discovers a teen ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Terrible Tide

    by Suzanne Meade ...
    Narrated by Dana Puddicombe ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 11 min

    November 18th, 1929. In her small village in Newfoundland, Celia is setting the table for her 13th birthday celebration when the house starts to shake. It’s an earthquake, rumbling under the Atlantic Ocean. A few hours later, the sea water disappears from the harbor, only to rush back in a wave almost 30 feet high, destroying nearly everything in its path. Buildings, boats, and winter supplies of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Hollow Tree

    Fighting Addiction with Traditional Native Healing

    by Herb Nabigon ...
    Narrated by Meegwun Fairbrother ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 38 min

    Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol. His powerful autobiography, The Hollow Tree, tells the story of his struggle to overcome addiction with the help of the spiritual teachings and brotherly love of his elders. Nabigon had spent much of his life wrestling with self-destructive impulses, feelings of inferiority and resentment, and alcohol ... Read more

    $20.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus