Indigenous Authors

The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls

By: James Bird

Narrated by: Christopher Salazar

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Waterfalls is a troubled kid: he steals as the quickest way to fill the emptiness in his life. Plus, he enjoys the danger, and it makes him feel good to sneak some money into his mom’s purse when rent is due. His Native American mother has tried everything to help Benny find a better path, but when he lands in court in front of an... Read more

Sports Day

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
It’s official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school’s annual Sports... Read more

The Ones That Got Away

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.

A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be... Read more

The Education of Augie Merasty

By: Joseph Auguste Merasty

Narrated by: Lorne Cardinal

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Named the fourth most important “Book of the Year” by the National Post in 2015 and voted “One Book/One Province” in Saskatchewan for 2017, The Education of Augie Merasty launched on the front page of The Globe and Mail to become a national bestseller and an instant classic. A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie... Read more

Aloha Betrayed

By: Noenoe K. Silva

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate.



This event was unknown to many contemporary Hawaiians until Noenoe K. Silva... Read more

Potlatch as Pedagogy

By: Sara Florence Davidson & Robert Davidson

Narrated by: Sara Florence Davidson & Gary Farmer

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge... Read more

The Truth You’re Told

By: Michael J. Clark

Narrated by: Saffron Henderson

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

People die. Secrets don’t. Sam Hutchings was looking for a writing muse. She hoped that the family cabin at Bird Lake would spark her keyboard, a fire that had been smothered by self-loathing, cheap wine, and her daughter Meg’s summer vacation. An innocent stroll down memory lane begins to unravel the story Sam had heard about her father:... Read more

The Road to Eleusis

By: Albert Hofmann

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the... Read more

A New Knight

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2024 R.E.A.L. Awards
Shortlisted for the 2024 Yabba Awards, Fiction for Younger Readers

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
After... Read more

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

By: Kyle T. Mays

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues... Read more

Crazy Horse and Custer

By: S. D. Nelson

Narrated by: Courage & Eric G. Dove

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people’s resistance against the white man’s invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last... Read more

Rez Rules

By: Chief Clarence Louie

Narrated by: Chief Clarence Louie

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A common-sense blueprint for what the future of First Nations should look like as told through the fascinating life and legacy of a remarkable leader.

In 1984, at the age of twenty-four, Clarence Louie was elected Chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band in the Okanagan Valley. Nineteen elections later, Chief Louie has led his community for nearly four... Read more

Yemaya

By: Raven Morgaine

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Yemaya, queen of the sea, first emerged in Yorubaland (now in modern Nigeria). A primordial deity, considered the mother of all, she is perceived by some to be at the root of numerous ancient goddesses, including Isis. During the Middle Passage, Yemaya accompanied her enslaved devotees to the Western Hemisphere, where her eventual association... Read more

Hunting by Stars

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother & Michelle St. John

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.

Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped... Read more

Iwígara

By: Enrique Salmón

Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Tap into thousands of years of plant knowledge



The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and... Read more

All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

Narrated by: Lincoln McGowan

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Winner of the 2022 Indigenous Voices Awards’ Published Prose in English Prize
Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
Longlisted for CBC Canada Reads 2022
Longlisted for First Nations Community Reads... Read more

Once Upon a Seaside Murder

By: Maggie Blackburn

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

There's no place like home for the holidays—even if home is sleepy beachside Brigid's Island, North Carolina. During this season for giving, the town wakes up to a welcome throng of shoppers—and Beach Reads is no exception. But bookseller Summer Merriwether's Christmas cheer turns to cringing fear when she uncovers a deadly secret about her late... Read more

Unreconciled

By: Jesse Wente

Narrated by: Jesse Wente

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction
SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book Award

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

"Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to... Read more

Wrist

By: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, MFA

Narrated by: Wesley French & Simon Lee Phillips

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness.Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must... Read more

Richard Wagamese Selected

By: Richard Wagamese

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writingsRichard Wagamese, one of Canada’s most celebrated Indigenous authors and storytellers, was a writer of breathtaking honesty and inspiration. Always striving to be a better, stronger person, Wagamese shared his journey through writing, encouraging others to do the same.Following the... Read more

The Flip Out

By: Sam Kerr & Fiona Harris

Narrated by: Lisa Bailey

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Australian Matildas and World Cup superstar Sam Kerr teams up with Aki Fukuoka to bring young readers this fun and inspiring illustrated series about soccer, school, sport, friendship, dealing with bullies and following your dreams.
 
Sam Kerr is an Aussie rules football fan through and through. But when she’s excluded from her team she doesn’t... Read more

Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories

By: Dan SaSuWeh Jones

Narrated by: Wes Studi & DeLanna Studi

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from abreadth American Indian nations.Dark figures in the night. An owl's cry on the wind. Monsters watching from the edge of the wood.Some of the creatures in these pages might only have a message for you, but some are... Read more

The Beginning and End of Rape

By: Sarah Deer

Narrated by: Rainy Fields

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial violence. This book, like all of Sarah Deer's work, is aimed at engaging the problem head-on—and ending it.



The Beginning and... Read more

In My Own Moccasins

By: Helen Knott

Narrated by: Helen Knott

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and... Read more