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  • In the Belly of the Congo

    by Blaise Ndala ...
    Translated by Amy B. Reid ...
    A sweeping historical novel and an intergenerational family saga about the mysterious disappearance of a Congolese princess and the niece who is determined to uncover her fate more than four decades later, by the internationally acclaimed and award-winning Congolese Canadian author Blaise Ndala.April 1958. Princess Tshala Nyota, daughter of King Kena Kwete III of the Kuba people in Congo, is among ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The War You Don't Hate

    by Blaise Ndala ...
    Translated by Dimitri Nasrallah ...
    In Blaise Ndala's magnificent second novel, originally published as Sans Capote Ni Kalachnikov in 2017, the paths of a Canadian documentary filmmaker and two former rebel soldiers from the Congo collide in this searing revenge tale about those who profit from the misery of others.Los Angeles, 2002. Véronique Quesnel accepts the Best Documentary Oscar for "Sona: Rape and Terror in the Heart of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    In the Belly of the Congo

    by Blaise Ndala ...
    Narrated by Christel Mutombo ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    April 1958.Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair, the biggest international event since the end of the Second World War, subcommissioner Robert Dumont cedes to pressure from the royal palace: there will be a “Congolese village” in one of the seven pavilions devoted to the settlements. Among the eleven membersof this “human zoo” assembled to put on a show at the foot of the Atomium is the young ... Read more

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    The African Samurai

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    by Craig Shreve ...
    Narrated by Korey Jackson ...

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    Set in late 16th-century Africa, India, Portugal, and Japan, The African Samurai is a powerful historical novel based on the true story of Yasuke, Japan’s first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent—for readers of Esi Edugyan and Lawrence Hill.In 1579, a Portuguese trade ship sails into port at Kuchinotsu, Japan, loaded with European wares and weapons. On board is Father ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    A History of Burning

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    by Janika Oza ...
    Narrated by Lipica Shah, KP Upadhyayula ...

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    13 hours 41 min

    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the 2024 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature • Finalist for the 2023 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. • Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Globe and Mail, CBC Books, Kobo Canada, and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Book of Rain

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    by Thomas Wharton ...
    Narrated by Thomas Wharton, Ishan Davé, Alex Paxton-Beesley, Derek Kwan, Sofia Banzhaf, Yolanda Bonnell ...

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    11 hours 49 min

    A groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven.The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. ... Read more

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    Ghost Girl, Banana

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    by Wiz Wharton ...
    Narrated by Hanako Footman, Jennifer Leong ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 15 min

    Set between the last years of the “Chinese Windrush” in 1966 and Hong Kong’s Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother’s homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. ... Read more

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    Independence

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    by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ...
    Narrated by Sneha Mathan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    “Divakaruni tells the story of India’s independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant. You will, too.”— Lisa See, #1 New York Times bestselling authorSet during the partition of British ... Read more

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    The Light of Eternal Spring

    by Angel Di Zhang ...
    Narrated by Angel Di Zhang ...

    Unabridged

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    Angel Di Zhang's intensely cinematic debut novel travels from the streets of New York City to northeast China, on the trail of a young photographer who needs to reconcile with her dead mother before she is able to see the world again.Amy Hilton, born Wu Aimee in the tiny Chinese village of Eternal Spring, has been living and working as a photographer in New York City for so long she’s started to ... Read more

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    Sans Souci

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    by Dionne Brand ...
    Narrated by Patrice Henry, Andrea Holstein, Jessica Powell, Emerjade Simm, Sashoya Simpson ...

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    5 hours 13 min

    **The breathtaking debut short story collection—first published in 1989—from one of Canada's most original and influential writers. Newly available in a special reissue edition from Knopf Canada.“This is political art at its searing best.”—The Women's Review of Books**Since her the appearance of her novel In Another Place, Not Here, which was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998, award-winning ... Read more

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    Now You See Us

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    by Balli Kaur Jaswal ...
    Narrated by Angela Lin ...

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    11 hours 11 min

    Crazy Rich Asians meets The Help!From Reese’s Book Club veteran Balli Kaur Jaswal comes a wildly entertaining and sharply observed story of three women who work in the homes of Singapore’s elite, and band together to solve a murder mystery involving one of their own.“Tender and heartfelt, Now You See us also manages to be laugh-out-loud funny. An uplifting story of courage and hope that will keep ... Read more

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    Hollow Bamboo

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    by William Seto Ping ...
    Narrated by Richard Lam ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 23 min

    2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER'S PRIZE SHORTLISTAMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLISTTHOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD SHORTLISTBMO WINTERSET AWARD SHORTLISTDUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAM AND WINNIPEG FREE PRESSThe hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings... ... Read more

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