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What It Takes: To Live and Lead with Purpose, Laughter, and Strength , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 557min
The trajectory of Zahra Al-harazi’s life defies expectations. In this electrifying book that travels from a small village in Yemen to a small town in Minnesota to a Calgary suburb, Al-harazi describes surviving two civil wars, her years as a young, stay-at-home, immigrant mother with little education, and how she became one of Canada’s most successful businesswomen.Navigating two worlds, Al-harazi has struggled to find her own way between East and West, religion and belief, freedom and obligation, family and desire, love and honor, despair and gratitude, war and war again. With warmth and courageous honesty, she recounts how it is that only through gratitude and persistence that we can find happiness and the courage to build the life we want. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zahra Al-harazi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/191136/bk_acx0_191136_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Third Riel Conspiracy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 517min
It is the spring of 1885 and the Northwest Rebellion has broken out. Amid the chaos of the Battle of Batoche, a grisly act leaves Reuben Wake dead. A Metis man is arrested for the crime, but he claims innocence. When Durrant Wallace, sergeant in the North West Mounted Police, begins his own investigation into the man’s possible motives, he learns there were many who wanted Wake dead. What Durrant uncovers is a series of covert conspiracies surrounding Metis leader and prophet, Louis Riel. And, during the week-long intermission in Riel’s trial, he sets a trap to find Wake’s true killer. The Third Riel Conspiracy is the second book in the Durrant Wallace Mysteries, a series of historical murder mysteries set during pivotal events in western Canada’s history. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alan Marriott. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014691/bk_adbl_014691_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Vices of My Blood: A Murdoch Mystery, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 609min
The compelling new novel by Canada’s answer to Anne Perry. In his forties, the Reverend Charles Howard still cut an impressive figure. A married Presbyterian minister in Toronto’s east end, Howard was popular with the congregation that elected him, especially with the ladies, and most particularly with Miss Sarah Dignam. Respected in the community, Howard, as Visitor for the House of Industry, sat in judgment on the poor, assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now Howard is dead, stabbed and brutally beaten by someone he invited into his office. His watch and boots are missing. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance? Murdoch’s investigation takes him into the arcane Victorian world of queer plungers - men who fake injury all the better to beg - and the destitute who had nowhere left to turn when they knocked on the Reverend Howard’s door. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Marantz. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003564/bk_adbl_003564_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13–November 6, 1944 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1027min
On September 4, 1944, Antwerp, Europe’s largest port, fell to the Second British Army and it seemed the war would soon be won. But Antwerp was of little value unless the West Scheldt Estuary linking it to the North Sea was also in Allied hands. In his greatest blunder of the war, Field Marshal Montgomery turned his back on the port, leaving the First Canadian Army to fight its way up the long coastal flank. By the time the Canadians and others serving with them reached the area, it had been transformed into a fortress manned by troops ordered to fight to the death. Crushing the Nazi defenders required all of the Canadians’ courage, endurance and skill. The battle that raged until November was Canada’s bloodiest of World War II, costing more than 6,000 casualties. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Conlan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/010583/bk_adbl_010583_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Deadly Appearances: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery, Book 1 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 519min
The first of Gail Bowen’s popular Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, originally published in print in 1990 and reprinted again and again, as well as leading to a popular TV series, is now available in audio. Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician - until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life - family, friends, enemies - are there. Boychuk steps up to the podium to make a speech, takes a sip of water, and drops dead. Joanne Kilbourn, in her début as Canada’s leading amateur sleuth, is soon on the case, delving into Boychuk’s history. What she finds are a Bible college that’s too good to be true, a woman with a horrifying and secret past, and a murderer who’s about to strike again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lisa Bunting. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bigh/000473/bk_bigh_000473_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Murder at Moose Jaw , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 407min
Bognor braves the frost to discover who has murdered Canada’s richest manIn his lavish private train car, Sir Roderick Farquhar draws a bath. When it has been filled to his satisfaction, the portly captain of industry tips in three drops of bath oil and lowers himself into the steam. Within seconds, the poison in the oil has stopped his heart and ruined Simon Bognor’s winter. A special investigator for Britain’s Board of Trade, Bognor makes the mistake of believing a Canadian friend’s assurances that Toronto is never cold in November. He is coatless and shivering when he learns the news about Farquhar, an unsavory businessman whom the Board of Trade had previously suspected of drug smuggling, identity fraud, and worse. Sir Roderick had ties to organized crime, pro-Nazi groups, and Amtrak, and Bognor will have to determine which faction poisoned the man’s bath - or shiver to death trying. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Lee. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017321/bk_adbl_017321_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Mortgage Code: Helping You Move Up the Property Ladder, Get the Best Mortgage, Avoid Costly Mistakes, and Save Money , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 338min
Getting the best home mortgage is about more than just considering interest rates, points, or who offers the best free giveaways. You want a package that fits your lifestyle and financial goals. To get it, you need to boost your mortgage IQ. In The Mortgage Code, Angela Calla, one of Canada’s top mortgage professionals, uses her method of “proactive mortgage management” to lay out all of the information you need to be intelligent, prepared, and involved before you borrow. She deconstructs myths and misconceptions, tells you what banks won’t tell you, outlines a borrower’s responsibilities, explains the changing market, and much more. No matter if you are buying your first home, downsizing, looking to move up the property ladder, refinancing, renewing, or building a real estate portfolio, this audiobook can help you understand the mortgage process, save money, and make the right mortgage decisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Calla. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/142221/bk_acx0_142221_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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They Call Me George: The Untold Story of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 776min
A CBC Books Must-Read Nonfiction Book for Black History MonthNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger - yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social imagination that determined who was and who was not considered Canadian. Subjected to grueling shifts and unreasonable standards - a passenger missing his stop was a dismissible offense - the so-called Pullmen of the country’s rail lines were denied secure positions and prohibited from bringing their families to Canada, and it was their struggle against the racist Dominion that laid the groundwork for the multicultural nation we know today. Drawing on the experiences of these influential black Canadians, Cecil Foster’s They Call Me George demonstrates the power of individuals and minority groups in the fight for social justice and shows how a country can change for the better. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dillon Taylor. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/054454/bk_adbl_054454_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Never-Ending Present: The Story of Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1075min
From our talent-rich neighbor to the north comes this biography of one of the most successful Canadian rock bands, The Tragically Hip, which announced a year-long tour after sharing the news of lead singer Gord Downie’s inoperable cancer. Now available to US listeners, The Never-Ending Present details what led up to the memorable night when music fans all over the world watched Downie’s heroic final performance. Author Michael Barclay explores the band’s musical and cultural importance through interviews with friends, fans, and others they touched. Broadcaster George Stroumboulopoulos narrates the Hip’s saga from its start in Kingston, Ontario, in 1984 to its superstar status as kings of the Canadian music scene—even conquering what Barclay calls the "American albatross." This audiobook is for anyone interested in rock music biographies in general or "Canada’s band" in particular, and how fans’ love for a band can foster a profound cultural moment of unity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: George Stroumboulopoulos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/033277/bk_adbl_033277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Entitlement: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 595min
A story about identity—about who we think we are and where we really stand. Set in rural Ontario, this novel takes a provocative and honest look at class, power, male relationships, death, and the familial bonds that protect and harm us most. After a lifetime intertwined with the Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy Kronk has finally forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past returns in the form of Trudy Clark. She’s writing a tell-all biography of the Aspinall family and wants Andy’s perspective. Over the course of a weekend, Andy unravels his knotted mess of a life and begins to wonder if he’s revealed too much information. Written in forceful prose, this novel opens up the world of power to reveal something essentially, heartbreakingly human. This reissue includes a special section with author interviews, new insights, and a bonus work from the author. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gary Dikeos. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008064/bk_adbl_008064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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