Reclaiming Two-Spirits
Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America
Queer Ideas/Queer Action: Book #10
By Gregory D. Smithers
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their place in Native nations.
Reclaiming Two-Spirits decolonizes the history of gender and sexuality in Native North America. It honors the generations of Indigenous people who had... Read more »
Scary Monsters
By Michelle De Kretser
Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry & Ric Herbert
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants, and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbor. All the while, Lili is striving to be a bold, intelligent woman like Simone de Beauvoir.... Read more »
The Ukrainian Night
An Intimate History of Revolution
By Marci Shore
Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential
What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the... Read more »
You Still Look the Same
By Farzana Doctor
Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty & Farzana Doctor
Length: 1 hours 21 minutes
A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor.
This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life...
Read more »Young Mungo
By Douglas Stuart
Narrated by: Chris Reilly
Length: 13 hours 40 minutes
Young Mungo
“A truly devastating story told in decadent, layered prose. You cannot help but to love and want the best for Mungo in the hyper-masculine, violent world he lives in. I want to protect these characters and their love with all that I have.”
Mallory Melton, BookPeople
Portrait of an Unknown Lady
By Maria Gainza
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
New York Times Notable author María Gainza, who dazzled critics with Optic Nerve, returns with the captivating story of an auction house employee on the trail of an enigmatic master forger.
In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette... Read more »
The Bear Woman
By Karolina Ramqvist
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes
Feminist autofiction from one of Sweden’s blazing talents.
Blending autofiction and essay, The Bear Woman is a journey of feminism and literary detective work spanning centuries and continents. In the 1540s, a young French noblewoman, Marguerite de la Rocque, was abandoned on an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with her maidservant and...
Read more »A Different Pond
By Bao Phi
Narrated by: Bao Phi
Length: 14 minutes
As a young boy, Bao and his father awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. A successful catch meant a fed family. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their... Read more »