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Pacific

A Novel

by Tom Drury, Jesse LaVercombe ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

5 hours 59 min

In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drury's depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster.When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling ... Read more

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In a triumphant return to the characters that launched his career two decades ago, Tom Drury travels back to Grouse County, the setting of his landmark debut, The End of Vandalism. Drury's depictions of the stark beauty of the Midwest and the futility of American wanderlust have earned him comparisons to Raymond Carver, Sherwood Anderson, and Paul Auster.When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling
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The End of Vandalism

by Tom Drury, Jesse LaVercombe ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

10 hours 35 min

Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in the New Yorker, was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today, and was named a Best Book of the Year in multiple publications.Welcome to Grouse County—a fictional Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly eccentric—where a thief vacuums the church before stealing the ... Read more

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Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in the New Yorker, was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today, and was named a Best Book of the Year in multiple publications.Welcome to Grouse County—a fictional Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly eccentric—where a thief vacuums the church before stealing the
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Dreaming Sally

A True Story of First Love, Sudden Death and Long Shadows

by James FitzGerald ...

Narrated by Jesse LaVercombe, Mikaela Dyke, Thomas Hauff ...

Unabridged

11 hours 21 min

Prize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short.Sally will die in Europe this summer.George Orr dreamed that his girlfriend, Sally Wodehouse, would die on the trip she wanted to take, ... Read more

$32.00 CAD

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Prize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short.Sally will die in Europe this summer.George Orr dreamed that his girlfriend, Sally Wodehouse, would die on the trip she wanted to take,
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Hunts in Dreams

by Tom Drury ...

Narrated by Lloyd James ...

Unabridged

5 hours 54 min

In his follow up to The End of Vandalism, Drury depicts a quiet, Midwestern October weekend in the lives of the Darling family, whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for ... Read more

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In his follow up to The End of Vandalism, Drury depicts a quiet, Midwestern October weekend in the lives of the Darling family, whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a knowledge of the scope of his world, aided by prowling the empty town at night; and for
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Double Game, The

by Dan Fesperman ...

Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

Unabridged

12 hours 33 min

A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career in journalism ... Read more

$20.60 CAD

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A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he’d once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, a Foreign Service brat who grew up in the very cities where Lemaster’s books were set, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career in journalism
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Layover in Dubai

A Novel

by Dan Fesperman ...

Narrated by Christopher Lane ...

Unabridged

10 hours 46 min

Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while they’re traveling for the company. Ordinarily careful to a fault, Sam decides to live it up. What better spot for business-class hedonism than boomtown Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slope of a ... Read more

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Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while they’re traveling for the company. Ordinarily careful to a fault, Sam decides to live it up. What better spot for business-class hedonism than boomtown Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slope of a
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Long Way Home

by Cameron Douglas ...

Narrated by Cameron Douglas ...

Unabridged

15 hours 4 min

A “gripping" memoir (Rolling Stone) of one man’s descent into the depths of addiction and self-destruction—and his successful renewal of family ties that had become almost irreparably frayed.On the surface, Cameron Douglas had everything: descended from Hollywood royalty (son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas), he was born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort. But by the age of ... Read more

$34.00 CAD

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A “gripping" memoir (Rolling Stone) of one man’s descent into the depths of addiction and self-destruction—and his successful renewal of family ties that had become almost irreparably frayed.On the surface, Cameron Douglas had everything: descended from Hollywood royalty (son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas), he was born into a life of wealth, privilege, and comfort. But by the age of
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All Things Consoled

A daughter's memoir

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

Unabridged

7 hours 25 min

From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing ... Read more

$32.00 CAD

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From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton.Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing
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Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

by Sarah Smarsh ...

Narrated by Sarah Smarsh ...

Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

*Finalist for the National Book Award**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Instant New York Times Bestseller**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways... ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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*Finalist for the National Book Award**Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Instant New York Times Bestseller**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly*An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways...
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Murder in the Family

How the Search for My Mother's Killer Led to My Father

by Jeff Blackstock ...

Narrated by Roger Honeywell, Nicola Correia-Damude ...

Unabridged

10 hours 14 min

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime BookDiplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same.**"I think that my father murdered my mother."That terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a ... Read more

$24.95 CAD

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**Shortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime BookDiplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same.**"I think that my father murdered my mother."That terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a
... Read more

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The Monopolists

Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

by Mary Pilon ...

Narrated by Chris Sorensen ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the ... Read more

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The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man's lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game's questionable origins. Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the
... Read more

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Shrewed

A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls

by Elizabeth Renzetti ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Renzetti ...

Unabridged

6 hours 33 min

Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground?These are some of the questions that bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of original essays. ... Read more

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Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it’s the street or social media, still so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan’s playground?These are some of the questions that bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of original essays.
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