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The Wedding

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran ... Read more

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You’re invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran
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Help! I’m Alive

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help! ... Read more

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A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help!
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Someone You Love Is Gone

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonPerfect for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Anne Tyler, Someone You Love Is Gone is a beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets ... Read more

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"A beautiful, haunting story of one family, spanning generations and continents, as they face life's inevitable losses, struggle with grief and reach for redemption."—Shilpi Somaya Gowda, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden SonPerfect for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Anne Tyler, Someone You Love Is Gone is a beautifully rendered, multi-generational story of secrets
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Everything Was Goodbye

by Gurjinder Basran ...

THE YOUNGEST OF SIX daughters raised by a widowed mother, Meena is a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Originally from India, her family still holds on to many old-world customs and traditions that seem stifling to a young North American woman. She knows that the freedom experienced by others is beyond her reach. But unlike her older sisters, Meena refuses to accept a life ... Read more

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THE YOUNGEST OF SIX daughters raised by a widowed mother, Meena is a young woman struggling to find her place in the world. Originally from India, her family still holds on to many old-world customs and traditions that seem stifling to a young North American woman. She knows that the freedom experienced by others is beyond her reach. But unlike her older sisters, Meena refuses to accept a life
... Read more
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The Writer's Studio Anthology

by Gurjinder Basran, T. M. Baldwin, Lis Jakobsen, S. L. Shields, Tatiana Lee, Thomas Onstott, Michael Zibauer, Stephanie Gray, Robyn Drage, Cynthia C. Huijgens, Samantha Balliet, Elecia Chrunik, Shilpa Raju, Leslee Silverman, Michelle Stack, Neda Tanha, Tanya Boteju, Neha Puntambekar, Adriana Louis, Lorna Carley, Maureen Butler, Kathryn Lee, Scott Lear, Patrick Lucas, Christy Dunsmore, Leslie West, Megan Abele, Chelene Knight, Josh Keefer, Sharon Miki, Alyssa Hanada, Reese Kim Carrozzini, Urith Hayley, Gina-Lily D’Attilio, Carlie Blume, Fatima Amarshi, Sarah Amormino, Leslie Jenneson, Kurt Trzcinski, Cara Waterfall, Natasha Sanders-Kay, Stephen T. Berg, Viola Prinz, Graham McGarva, Junie Désil, Mak Berry, Paolo Marcazzan, Christine Leviczky Riek, Kimberley Phillips Boehm, Daniela Cohen ...

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Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to ... Read more

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Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal.Words are only words until the writer, like an alchemist, blends them with sweat and self-reckoning to
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Help! I’m Alive

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Narrated by Hillary Warden ...

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7 hours 59 min

A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help! ... Read more

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A powerfully emotional story of four people touched by a teen’s death, award-winning author Gurjinder Basran’s Help! I’m Alive is a clear-eyed exploration of meaningful connection in the modern eraAfter video footage of Jay’s death is shared on social media, a suburban Vancouver community is left to try to make sense of what happened to Jay and whether his death was an accident or a suicide.Help!
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The Wedding

A Novel

by Gurjinder Basran ...

Narrated by Jeed Saddy ...

Unabridged

7 hours 5 min

You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran ... Read more

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You're invited to The Wedding, an electrifying novel about the joining of two South Asian families, and the secrets, resentments, and unspoken truths boiling just beneath the surface.Interweaving themes of identity, culture clashes, and the immigrant experience as found in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri with the exuberance and sharp humour of Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians, Gurjinder Basran
... Read more

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by katherena vermette ...

Narrated by katherena vermette, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Sheila McCarthy, Tracey Nepinak, Caleb Stull ...

Unabridged

6 hours 38 min

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE**FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.**June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.Lyn has her pottery artwork, her ... Read more

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE**FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD*From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.**June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.Lyn has her pottery artwork, her
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Sophie's World

A Novel About the History of Philosophy

by Jostein Gaarder ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

16 hours 55 min

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does ... Read more

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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does
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Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

Unabridged

10 hours 59 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.“Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique. ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (People) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.“Tell Me Everything hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout’s shimmering technique.
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Sandwich

A Novel

by Catherine Newman ...

Narrated by Nan McNamara ...

Unabridged

5 hours 43 min

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake“If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . . . I stand in awe, it’s just perfect.”—Elin Hilderbrand ... Read more

$23.99 USD

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life."—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake“If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . . . I stand in awe, it’s just perfect.”—Elin Hilderbrand
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Amy and Isabelle

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout ...

Narrated by Stephanie Roberts ...

Unabridged

11 hours 27 min

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a strange and startling place.”—The New York Times
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