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Help! I’m Alive

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Narrated by Hillary Warden ...

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7 hours 59 min

A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help! ... Read more

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A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help!
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Help! I’m Alive

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help! ... Read more

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A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help!
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The Wedding

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran ... Read more

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You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran
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Everything Was Goodbye

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Raised by her widowed mother and the youngest of six daughters, Meena is a young Indo-Canadian woman struggling to find her place in the world. As a restless and headstrong teenager, she knows that the freedom experienced by her Canadian peers is beyond her reach. But unlike her older sisters, Meena refuses to accept a life that is defined by an arranged marriage. She befriends a young man named ... Read more

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Raised by her widowed mother and the youngest of six daughters, Meena is a young Indo-Canadian woman struggling to find her place in the world. As a restless and headstrong teenager, she knows that the freedom experienced by her Canadian peers is beyond her reach. But unlike her older sisters, Meena refuses to accept a life that is defined by an arranged marriage. She befriends a young man named
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Someone You Love Is Gone

by Gurjinder Basran ...

"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief, and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonHaunted by visions of her recently departed mother...Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and ... Read more

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"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief, and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonHaunted by visions of her recently departed mother...Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and
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The Writer's Studio Anthology

by Gurjinder Basran, T. M. Baldwin, Lis Jakobsen, S. L. Shields, Tatiana Lee, Thomas Onstott, Michael Zibauer, Stephanie Gray, Robyn Drage, Cynthia C. Huijgens, Samantha Balliet, Elecia Chrunik, Shilpa Raju, Leslee Silverman, Michelle Stack, Neda Tanha, Tanya Boteju, Neha Puntambekar, Adriana Louis, Lorna Carley, Maureen Butler, Kathryn Lee, Scott Lear, Patrick Lucas, Christy Dunsmore, Leslie West, Megan Abele, Chelene Knight, Josh Keefer, Sharon Miki, Alyssa Hanada, Reese Kim Carrozzini, Urith Hayley, Gina-Lily D’Attilio, Carlie Blume, Fatima Amarshi, Sarah Amormino, Leslie Jenneson, Kurt Trzcinski, Cara Waterfall, Natasha Sanders-Kay, Stephen T. Berg, Viola Prinz, Graham McGarva, Junie Désil, Mak Berry, Paolo Marcazzan, Christine Leviczky Riek, Kimberley Phillips Boehm, Daniela Cohen ...

Series Book 17 - emerge
Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to ... Read more

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Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to
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The Wedding

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran ... Read more

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You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran
... Read more

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Someone You Love Is Gone

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Narrated by Laara Sadiq ...

Unabridged

6 hours 28 min

"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief, and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonHaunted by visions of her recently departed mother...Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief, and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonHaunted by visions of her recently departed mother...Simran is unable to move on. Grappling with the growing estrangement of her sister and
... Read more

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Katerina

by James Frey ...

Narrated by James Frey ...

Unabridged

7 hours 17 min

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey’s highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles.A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the explosive ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey’s highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles.A kiss, a touch. A smile and a beating heart. Love and sex and dreams, art and drugs and the madness of youth. Betrayal and heartbreak, regret and pain, the melancholy of age. Katerina, the explosive
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real ones

a novel

by katherena vermette ...

Narrated by katherena vermette, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sheila McCarthy, Tracey Nepinak, Caleb Stull ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE**FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.**June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.Lyn has her pottery artwork, her ... Read more

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE**FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.**June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.Lyn has her pottery artwork, her
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The Life Impossible

A Novel

by Matt Haig ...

Narrated by Joanna Lumley, Jordan Stephens ...

Unabridged

10 hours 47 min

The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . .”When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a rundown house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

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The remarkable new novel from Matt Haig, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, which has sold more than ten million copies worldwide“What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . .”When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a rundown house on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza from a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her.
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Secrets of Nanreath Hall

A Novel

by Alix Rickloff ...

Narrated by Lauren Irwin, Laura Waddell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive ... Read more

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This incredible debut historical novel—in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson—tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive
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