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Study for Obedience

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote
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Poor Baby

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Sarah Bernstein, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience, remakes the Gothic in a novel haunted by the spectres of complicity and inheritance.An unnamed narrator and her partner, Emil, are the new occupants of Westermoy, an old gamekeeper’s cottage, hidden from the rest of a vast country estate by a dense wood. He is overseeing an ... Read more

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Sarah Bernstein, a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Study for Obedience, remakes the Gothic in a novel haunted by the spectres of complicity and inheritance.An unnamed narrator and her partner, Emil, are the new occupants of Westermoy, an old gamekeeper’s cottage, hidden from the rest of a vast country estate by a dense wood. He is overseeing an
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The Coming Bad Days

A Novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

The “lucid, funny and darkly alive” (Daisy Lafarge) debut novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Giller Prize-winning author of Study for Obedience.A woman leaves the man she lives with and moves to a low stone cottage in a university town. She joins an academic department and, high up in her office on the thirteenth floor, begins a research project on the poet Paul Celan. She knows nothing of Celan, ... Read more

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The “lucid, funny and darkly alive” (Daisy Lafarge) debut novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Giller Prize-winning author of Study for Obedience.A woman leaves the man she lives with and moves to a low stone cottage in a university town. She joins an academic department and, high up in her office on the thirteenth floor, begins a research project on the poet Paul Celan. She knows nothing of Celan,
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Study for Obedience

A novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Narrated by Sarah Bernstein ...

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3 hours 59 min

**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote ... Read more

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**WINNER OF THE 2023 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEShortlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023Longlisted for the Dublin Literary AwardFor readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.**A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote
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The Coming Bad Days

A Novel

by Sarah Bernstein ...

Narrated by Sarah Bernstein ...

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4 hours 11 min

The “lucid, funny and darkly alive” (Daisy Lafarge) debut novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Giller Prize-winning author of Study for Obedience.A woman leaves the man she lives with and moves to a low stone cottage in a university town. She joins an academic department and, high up in her office on the thirteenth floor, begins a research project on the poet Paul Celan. She knows nothing of Celan, ... Read more

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The “lucid, funny and darkly alive” (Daisy Lafarge) debut novel from the Booker-shortlisted, Giller Prize-winning author of Study for Obedience.A woman leaves the man she lives with and moves to a low stone cottage in a university town. She joins an academic department and, high up in her office on the thirteenth floor, begins a research project on the poet Paul Celan. She knows nothing of Celan,
... Read more

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Living among the Dead

My Grandmother's Holocaust Survival Story of Love and Strength

by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky ...

Narrated by Adena Bernstein Astrowsky, Sarah Anne Astrowsky, Gabriella Grace Astrowsky, Zachary William Astrowsky ...

Unabridged

3 hours 23 min

This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the ... Read more

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This is the story of one remarkable young woman's unimaginable journey through the rise of the Nazi regime, the Second World War, and the aftermath. Mania Lichtenstein’s dramatic story of survival is narrated by her granddaughter and her memories are interwoven with beautiful passages of poetry and personal reflection. Holocaust survivor Mania Lichtenstein used writing as a medium to deal with the
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The Children's Table

Childhood Studies and the Humanities

by Annette Ruth Appell, James Marten, John Wall, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Lesley Ginsberg, Lucia Hodgson, Lynne Vallone, Robin Bernstein, Roy Kozlovsky, Sarah E. Chinn, Sophie Bell, Susan Honeyman, Carol J. Singley ...

Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said ... Read more

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Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of humanities scholarship. The Children's Table brings together scholars from architecture, philosophy, law, and literary and cultural criticism to provide an overview of the innovative work being done in childhood studies—a transcript of what is being said
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All the Colour in the World

A Novel

by CS Richardson ...

Narrated by Frank Cox-O'Connell ...

Unabridged

3 hours 20 min

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GILLER PRIZE • The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.“Bold and resplendent.” —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid“Supremely artful.” —Toronto Star**Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks, ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 GILLER PRIZE • The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.“Bold and resplendent.” —Nita Prose, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid“Supremely artful.” —Toronto Star**Henry, born 1916, thin-as-sticks,
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Learned By Heart

A Novel

by Emma Donoghue ...

Narrated by Shiromi Arserio ...

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8 hours 49 min

A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The WonderFinalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeNational BestsellerDrawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart... ... Read more

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A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The WonderFinalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction PrizeNational BestsellerDrawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart...
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Snow Road Station

A Novel

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

Unabridged

6 hours 1 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age."Joyous and lyrical." —Mary Lawson"[In Snow Road Station,] Hay makes a case for the simplicity of pleasure." —The New Yorker**In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age."Joyous and lyrical." —Mary Lawson"[In Snow Road Station,] Hay makes a case for the simplicity of pleasure." —The New Yorker**In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without
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The Double Life of Benson Yu

A Novel

by Kevin Chong ...

Narrated by Eric Yang ...

Unabridged

7 hours 3 min

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize“A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior ChinatownA fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize“A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior ChinatownA fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year
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On the Ravine

A Novel

by Vincent Lam ...

Narrated by Vincent Lam, Amy Matysio ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that ... Read more

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**From the bestselling, Giller Prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of the Year.**In his downtown Toronto condo, Dr. Chen awakens to the sound of streetcars below, but it is not the early morning traffic that
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