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Hench

A Novel

By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“Even supervillains need a good temp, and Anna is just fine at vaguely villainous data entry. On one job she is asked to point some sort of device at the mayor’s kid’s head, putting her directly in the path of the superhero SuperCollider. During her recovery, she begins to tally up the damage, human and monetary, that superheroes cause. Hench... Read more

Lean Out

A Meditation on the Madness of Modern Life

By: Tara Henley
Narrated by: Tara Henley
Length: 8 hours

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Travel to the land of Couldn't Be More Timely."--Margaret Atwood on Lean Out, in the West End Phoenix

"What begins as one woman's critique of our culture of overwork and productivity ultimately becomes an investigation into our most urgent problems: vast inequality, loneliness, economic precarity, and isolation from... Read more

Witches of Ash and Ruin

By: E. Latimer
Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Modern witchcraft blends with ancient Celtic mythology in an epic clash of witches and gods, perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab's Shades of Magic trilogy and A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.

Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her... Read more

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Best book I have read this year. An amazing, gripping tale of a young woman in a strange old house. It's an epic ghost story mixed with some element for "Girl with all the Gifts." Compelling characters and a twist ending that will have you in the edge of your seat until the very end. 10/10 would recommend. Read more

Dead Mom Walking

A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters

By: Rachel Matlow
Narrated by: Rachel Matlow
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Vine Award in Non-Fiction

"A comedy for catastrophic times." —CBC

"A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures." —Toronto Star

"How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers... Read more

This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart

A Memoir in Halves

By: Madhur Anand
Narrated by: Ellora Patnaik, Asha Vijayasingham & Raoul Bhaneja
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

WINNER OF THE 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION

“Wondrously and elegantly written in language that astonishes and moves the reader…This is an important book: an emotional and intellectual tour de force.” —Jane Urquhart

An experimental memoir about Partition, immigration, and generational storytelling, This Red Line Goes... Read more

This Is Not the End of Me

Lessons on Living from a Dying Man

By: Dakshana Bascaramurty
Narrated by: Farah Merani & A. K. Wilson
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2020
CBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020
The Globe and Mail’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020
Chatelaine’s 10 Best Books of 2020
The Walrus’s Favourite Books of 2020


For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air and Will Schwalbe, the moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who,... Read more

Songs for the End of the World

A Novel

By: Saleema Nawaz
Narrated by: Alex Paxton-Beesley, Amelia Sargisson, Tyrone Savage, Braden Wright, David Reale, Christina Ho, Douglas E. Hughes, Stephanie Belding, John Fray, Victoria Carr, Ali Hassan, Odario Williams, Nana aba Duncan & Amy Matysio
Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

"In these dark days, Saleema Nawaz dares to write of hope. Songs for the End of the World is a loving, vivid, tenderly felt novel about men, women, and a possible apocalypse. I couldn't put it down." –Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors and The Wagers

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. An immersive, deeply engaging, and hopeful novel about the power of... Read more

Missing from the Village

The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community

By: Justin Ling
Narrated by: Justin Ling
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community.
 
Shortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book Awards



In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay... Read more

Seven

By: Farzana Doctor
Narrated by: Farzana Doctor, Ellora Patnaik & Raoul Bhaneja
Length: 12 hours

When Sharifa and her husband travel to India, she expects her time will be spent researching her great-great grandfather, a wealthy businessman and philanthropist. However, what she doesn’t expect is to be swept up in the story of his four wives, oddly excluded from her family history.
 
As Sharifa’s imagination is overtaken with these four... Read more

A Woman Alone

By: Nina Laurin
Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

A high-stakes, pulse-pounding thriller from the bestselling author of Girl Last Seen.
A year after a brutal home invasion that left her traumatized, Cecelia, along with her husband and their three-year-old daughter, move into a new house with a complex security system that is supposed to make her feel safe.
But reality proves different as strange... Read more

Adventures in Opting Out

A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional Life

By: Cait Flanders
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Opt out of expectations and live a more intentional life with this refreshing guide from the national bestselling author of The Year of Less.
We all follow our own path in life. At least, that's what we're told. In reality, many of us either do what is expected of us, or follow the invisible but well-worn paths that lead to what is culturally... Read more

Disfigured

On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Exploded Views

By: Amanda Leduc
Narrated by: Amanda Barker
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm to Disney, showing us how they influence our expectations and... Read more

Moon of the Crusted Snow

A Novel

By: Waubgeshig Rice
Narrated by: Billy Merasty
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

“What happens during an apocalypse when you barely notice that the apocalypse has happened? The Anishinaabe tribe are outside of mainstream society and their people were decimated centuries ago. When they begin to lose services (electric, cell, internet) it’s more par for the course instead of 'oh no, the world is ending'. The community is used... Read more

The Residence

A Novel

By: Andrew Pyper
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

In this “chilling, profound” (Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie) horror story based on true events, the President’s late son haunts the White House, breaking the spirit of what remains of the First Family and the divided America beyond the residence’s walls.

The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce... Read more

Hunted by the Sky

Wrath of Ambar: Book #1

By: Tanaz Bhathena
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani & Neil Shah
Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

GUL haS SPENT HER LIFE RUNNING. She has a star-shaped birthmark on her arm, and in the kingdom of Ambar, girls Bhathena
with such birthmarks have been disappearing for years. Gul’s mark is what caused her parents’ murder at the hand of
King Lohar’s ruthless soldiers and forced her into hiding to protect her own life. So when a group of rebel women... Read more