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Satellite Love

A Novel

by Genki Ferguson ...

Narrated by Aya Furukawa, Alex Aoki, Hiro Kanagawa ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of ... Read more

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A beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl, a boy, and a satellite—and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness, alienation, and what it means to be human. Longlisted for Canada Reads, shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction and for Speculative Fiction. Named CBC Radio's Q Book Pick of the Month, a CBC Books Spring Reading List Title, a Shelf Life Books Book of
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Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic

Edited by Kenichi Aoki, Alex Mesoudi ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

This volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The
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Convergence Problems

by Wole Talabi ...

Narrated by Ben Arogundade ...

Unabridged

10 hours 28 min

From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice ... Read more

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From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves.In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice
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Kill the Mall

by Pasha Malla ...

Narrated by Anand Rajaram ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for ReproductionDouglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall.After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for ... Read more

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"Pasha Malla writes like a reincarnated Kafka." —Ian Williams, winner of the Giller Prize for ReproductionDouglas Adams meets David Lynch in this ingenious, witty fable about one of North America's most surreal inventions—the local mall.After writing a letter in praise of malls, our eccentric narrator is offered a residency at a shabby suburban shopping centre. His mission: to occupy the mall for
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Kinning

by Nisi Shawl ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Series series Everfair
Unabridged

14 hours 18 min

Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores ... Read more

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Kinning continues the stunning alternate history where bark cloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and colonies claim their freedom from imperialist tyrants.The Great War is over. Everfair has found peace within its borders. But our heroes' stories are far from done.Tink and his sister Bee-Lung are traveling the world via air-canoe, spreading the spores
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A House Is a Body

Stories

by Shruti Swamy ...

Narrated by Soneela Nankani ...

Unabridged

6 hours 30 min

"This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of HeavyIn two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young ... Read more

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"This collection will change the way all stories—short and long—are told, written, and consumed." —KIESE LAYMON, author of HeavyIn two-time O. Henry-prize winner Swamy's debut collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity, and women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. In "Earthly Pleasures," Radika, a young
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The Secret Talker

A Novel

by Geling Yan ...

Narrated by Angela Lin ...

Unabridged

3 hours 54 min

""The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment."" -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ""GLOBETROTTING"" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful, ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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""The Secret Talker is a profound meditation on love, the difficulties of communication and the agonizing joy and brutality of commitment."" -- THE NEW YORK TIMESA NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021 AND ""GLOBETROTTING"" PICK!A woman reclaims her own story in this taut and wholly original literary tale from one of China’s literary superstars.Hongmei is the perfect Chinese wife: beautiful,
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors

by Kawai Strong Washburn ...

Narrated by Tui Asau, G.K. Bowes, Kaleo Griffith, Jolene Kim ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, ... Read more

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Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water,
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You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

by Sheung-King ...

Narrated by Kenny Wong ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for FictionFinalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for CBC Canada Reads 2021A Globe and Mail Best Book Debut of 2020A young translator living in Toronto frequently travels abroad—to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo—often with his unnamed lover. In restaurants and hotel rooms, the couple begin telling folk tales to each
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The Night Piece

Collected Short Fiction

by André Alexis ...

Narrated by Andrew Moodie ...

Unabridged

11 hours 7 min

A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis's acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the ... Read more

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A career-spanning collection of stories from the author of Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and Canada Reads.Vivid, profound, moving, and with moments of sly humour, the stories in The Night Piece reveal worlds both familiar and deeply strange. Drawing from Alexis's acclaimed debut collection, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and the
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Only Living Girl on Earth, The

by Charles Yu ...

Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky ...

Unabridged

1 hour 12 min

From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future.Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

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From the genre-defying, critically beloved author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown and one of the creative minds behind HBO’s Westworld comes a sweet and searing, unexpected and delightfully absurd vision of life on Earth a thousand years in the future.Jane is the only person left on the planet, minding the only business left: a gift shop. She wasn’t
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We Two Alone

by Jack Wang ...

Narrated by Samantha Quan ...

Unabridged

6 hours 14 min

Winner, 2020 Danuta Gleed AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2022A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy ... Read more

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Winner, 2020 Danuta Gleed AwardLonglisted for Canada Reads 2022A masterful collection of stories that dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years, We Two Alone is Jack Wang’s astonishing debut work of fiction.Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century, We Two Alone traces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy
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