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A Student of Weather

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Sochi Fried ...

Unabridged

11 hours 17 min

From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the ... Read more

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From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the
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Garbo Laughs

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

Unabridged

11 hours 41 min

Winner of the Ottawa Book AwardFinalist for the Governor General's Literary AwardA Globe and Mail Notable Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Top Five Canadian Fiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s Top Ten Book of the YearElizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past. ... Read more

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Winner of the Ottawa Book AwardFinalist for the Governor General's Literary AwardA Globe and Mail Notable Book of the YearA Quill & Quire Top Five Canadian Fiction Book of the YearA Maclean’s Top Ten Book of the YearElizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past.
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Small Change

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Kate Greenhouse ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the ... Read more

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These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the
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Late Nights on Air

by Elizabeth Hay ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Hay ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay.Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined.Dido and Harry are part of the cast of ... Read more

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The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay.Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined.Dido and Harry are part of the cast of
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Enduring Love

by Ian McEwan ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

9 hours 2 min

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose, ... Read more

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From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping to bring the balloon to safety, but unknown to Rose,
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Under a Dark Summer Sky

by Vanessa Lafaye ...

Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

Unabridged

11 hours 26 min

SUMMERTIME is set in Florida in 1935 in a small town struggling with the effects of the Depression, and at the time of the great hurricane. The racially charged narrative swirls around Missy, with her courageous dedication to duty, who works for the Kincaid family; Henry, a long absent WWI soldier who still loves Missy, the girl he left behind; Henry's sister and Missy's friend Selma with her no ... Read more

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SUMMERTIME is set in Florida in 1935 in a small town struggling with the effects of the Depression, and at the time of the great hurricane. The racially charged narrative swirls around Missy, with her courageous dedication to duty, who works for the Kincaid family; Henry, a long absent WWI soldier who still loves Missy, the girl he left behind; Henry's sister and Missy's friend Selma with her no
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Close to Hugh

by Marina Endicott ...

Narrated by Tom Rooney, Deborah Drakeford, Caitlin Driscoll, Marion Day ...

Unabridged

17 hours 13 min

This witty and compassionate national bestseller shows us how two generations in a seemingly ordinary small town navigate extraordinary rites of passage during a single, fateful week in autumn.Close to Hugh is a glorious, exuberant, poignant comic novel about youth and age, art and life, love and death--and about losing your mind and finding your heart's desire over the course of seven days one ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

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This witty and compassionate national bestseller shows us how two generations in a seemingly ordinary small town navigate extraordinary rites of passage during a single, fateful week in autumn.Close to Hugh is a glorious, exuberant, poignant comic novel about youth and age, art and life, love and death--and about losing your mind and finding your heart's desire over the course of seven days one
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The Last Days of Dogtown

A Novel

by Anita Diamant ...

Narrated by Kate Nelligan ...

Unabridged

10 hours 16 min

“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review).Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann in the early 1800s, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches. ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

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“An excellent novel. A lovely and moving portrait of society’s outcasts…affirms the essential humanity of its poor and stubborn residents, for whom each day of survival is a victory” (The New York Times Book Review).Set on the high ground at the heart of Cape Ann in the early 1800s, the village of Dogtown is peopled by widows, orphans, spinsters, scoundrels, whores, free Africans, and “witches.
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Last Night at the Blue Angel

A Novel

by Rebecca Rotert ...

Narrated by Andrus Nichols, Caitlin Davies ...

Unabridged

9 hours 42 min

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship.It is the early 1960s, and ... Read more

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Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their heartbreaking relationship.It is the early 1960s, and
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The O'Briens

by Peter Behrens ...

Narrated by Paul Hecht ...

Unabridged

13 hours 5 min

The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming ... Read more

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The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling possibilities and consuming
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Heart Like Mine

A Novel

by Amy Hatvany ...

Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

“You won’t want to put it down” (Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author) as you read this lyrical novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down when her fiancé suddenly becomes a full-time father to the children from his previous marriage.Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur ... Read more

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“You won’t want to put it down” (Emily Giffin, New York Times bestselling author) as you read this lyrical novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down when her fiancé suddenly becomes a full-time father to the children from his previous marriage.Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur
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Eloise

by Judy Finnigan ...

Narrated by Anna Bentinck ...

Unabridged

9 hours 19 min

She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave?After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems.With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown and her husband Chris, a psychiatrist, is ... Read more

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She was a daughter, a wife, a mother. She was my friend. But what secrets did Eloise take to her grave?After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing dreams that imply Eloise's death was not all it seems.With a history of depression, Cathy is only just recovering from a nervous breakdown and her husband Chris, a psychiatrist, is
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