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“james m boyden”

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  • Hurricane Katrina in Transatlantic Perspective

    by James M. Boyden, Richard Campanella, Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Thomas Adams ...
    "There is no such thing as a 'natural' disaster," writes Romain Huret in his introduction to this multidisciplinary study of the events surrounding and the legacy of Hurricane Katrina. Though nature produced Katrina's rising waters and destructive winds, a vast array of manmade factors shaped the scope of the storm's impact as well as the local and national response to it. In Hurricane Katrina in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Through Black Spruce

    by Joseph Boyden ...
    Narrated by James Jenner, Ali Ahn ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 20 min

    Joseph Boyden's first novel, Three Day Road, was a Today Show Book Club selection. Through Black Spruce is the exceptional follow-up to his acclaimed debut. Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated by great distances, beaten and broken, and searching ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Annabel

    by Kathleen Winter ...
    Narrated by Tandy Cronyn ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    Kathleen Winter's poignant debut novel was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. In it, Winter explores society's views of gender identity through the eyes of a child born with male and female sex organs. At their doctor's urging, the Blakes decide to raise their child as a boy, Wayne, giving him hormones to suppress his feminine physical traits. But after discovering the secret about his ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    Medicine Walk

    by Richard Wagamese ...
    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 1 min

    Growing up in the care of the “old man” he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters that haunt the boy.But when father, coming to the end of his alcohol-ruined life, reaches out to sixteen-year-old son their first and last journey together begins. Hesitantly, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    Narrated by Lorne Cardinal ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 56 min

    The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the ... Read more

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    The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

    by Heidi W. Durrow ...
    Narrated by Emily Bauer, Karen Murray, Kathleen McInerney, Multiple Narrators ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Orphaned and alone, Rachel is taken under the wing of her strict African-American grandmother and moved to a mostly black community where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and astonishing beauty start to attract a troubling level of attention. As the terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her own self-image in a world that wants to see her as either Black ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

    A Novel

    by Nadia Hashimi ...
    Narrated by Mozhan Navabi ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 46 min

    Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's literary debut novel is a searing tale of powerlessness, fate, and the freedom to control one's own fate that combines the cultural flavor and emotional resonance of the works of Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Lisa See.In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school, and can rarely leave ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    A Fine Balance

    by Rohinton Mistry ...
    Narrated by Madhur Jaffrey ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 18 min

    With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Somewhere in France

    A Novel of the Great War

    by Jennifer Robson ...
    Narrated by Alison Larkin ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 57 min

    #1 Globe and Mail BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerA daring young woman will risk her life to find her destiny in this atmospheric, beautifully drawn historical debut novel—a tale of love, hope, and danger set during the First World War.Lady Elizabeth Neville-Ashford wants to travel the world, pursue a career, and marry for love. But in 1914, the stifling restrictions of aristocratic British society ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Chai Tea Sunday

    by Heather A. Clark ...
    Narrated by Robin Miles ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    Critics and audiences alike have hailed Heather A. Clark's Chai Tea Sunday as a rich and powerful debut novel. Here, 30-something Nicky Fowler tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered marriage after it is destroyed in the wake of an unspeakable tragedy. Traveling to Kenya to volunteer at an orphanage, Nicky hopes that her fragile spirit can be repaired. Aided by chai-fueled conversations with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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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

    $25.99 USD

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  • Michelle Obama

    A Life

    by Peter Slevin ...
    This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama.With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law ... Read more

    $13.99 USD