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Outspoken

My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

by Sima Samar ...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.**“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.**“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most
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Outspoken

My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan

by Sima Samar ...

Narrated by Sally Armstrong, Wajma Soroor ...

Unabridged

9 hours 40 min

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.**“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most ... Read more

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTSNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls and women.**“I have three strikes against me. I’m a woman, I speak out for women, and I’m Hazara, the most
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A Darker Shade of Blue

A Police Officer's Memoir

by Keith Merith ...

Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Unabridged

11 hours 14 min

When sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from within.Twelve years and a multitude of infuriating applications later, Merith is finally hired by York Regional Police. ... Read more

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When sixteen-year-old Keith Merith finds himself pulled over, berated, and degraded by a white police officer, he's outraged. He's done nothing wrong. But the officer has the power, and he doesn't. From that day on, he vows to join a police service and effect change from within.Twelve years and a multitude of infuriating applications later, Merith is finally hired by York Regional Police.
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One Way Back

A Memoir

by Christine Blasey Ford ...

Narrated by Christine Blasey Ford ...

Unabridged

8 hours 44 min

**This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News.The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation**On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an ... Read more

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**This program is read by the author and includes clips from her testimony, a Trump rally, C-SPAN, CNN, and ABC News.The compelling true story behind the testimony that awed the nation**On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which was considering the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court. She described an
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Letters to a Writer of Color

by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo ...

Narrated by Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

8 hours 12 min

**A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work“Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once.”—Laila Lalami, author of Conditional ... Read more

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**A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work“Electric essays that speak to the experience of writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all at once.”—Laila Lalami, author of Conditional
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The Prospectors

A Novel

by Ariel Djanikian ...

Narrated by Jorjeana Marie, Samara Naeymi ...

Unabridged

13 hours 49 min

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.“Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail, The Prospectors immerses us in the Yukon Gold Rush so deeply, you can feel the grit on your hands.”—Celeste Ng""Smart, surprising, and epic: the sort of adventure that brings to life both a nineteenth ... Read more

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A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush.“Told in glimmering prose and rich with historical detail, The Prospectors immerses us in the Yukon Gold Rush so deeply, you can feel the grit on your hands.”—Celeste Ng""Smart, surprising, and epic: the sort of adventure that brings to life both a nineteenth
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Loving

Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

by Sheryll Cashin ...

Narrated by Trei Taylor ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

**A powerful look at Loving v. Virginia—the landmark case of interracial love and marriage that changed American history and inspired the 2016 film.“White supremacy has long foiled love, and love has long foiled white supremacy. Sheryll Cashin offers us this essential historical revelation . . . and urges us to renew our old fight for the human right to love.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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**A powerful look at Loving v. Virginia—the landmark case of interracial love and marriage that changed American history and inspired the 2016 film.“White supremacy has long foiled love, and love has long foiled white supremacy. Sheryll Cashin offers us this essential historical revelation . . . and urges us to renew our old fight for the human right to love.” —Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped
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Cloistered

My Years as a Nun

by Catherine Coldstream ...

**AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It’s about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously vulnerable to threats from inside their walls.” - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious ... Read more

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**AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A profoundly moving memoir which gripped me . . . It’s about spirituality and asceticism and silence and sisterhood, but also about how flawed human beings can abuse power and how hermetically sealed communities, which should care for and protect their members, can be dangerously vulnerable to threats from inside their walls.” - Mark Haddon, author of The Curious
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A Very Private School

A Memoir

by Charles Spencer ...

**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2024 | PEOPLE’SBEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS 2024 |TOWN & COUNTRY’SBEST NEW ROYAL BOOKS 2024 |THE TIMES (LONDON) 10 BEST BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS 2024 |WINNIPEG FREE PRESS’SBEST BOOKS 2024NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD“A tour de force.” —The Washington PostIn this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer—the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Princess Diana ... Read more

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**INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2024 | PEOPLE’SBEST CELEBRITY MEMOIRS 2024 |TOWN & COUNTRY’SBEST NEW ROYAL BOOKS 2024 |THE TIMES (LONDON) 10 BEST BIOGRAPHIES AND MEMOIRS 2024 |WINNIPEG FREE PRESS’SBEST BOOKS 2024NOW WITH A NEW AFTERWORD“A tour de force.” —The Washington PostIn this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer—the 9th Earl Spencer and younger brother of the late Princess Diana
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From Bear Rock Mountain

The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor

by Antoine Bear Rock Mountain ...

In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school—and his path to healing.In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school—run by the ... Read more

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In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school—and his path to healing.In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school—run by the
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Who We Are

Four Questions For a Life and a Nation

by Murray Sinclair ...

Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important ... Read more

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Judge, senator, and activist. Father, grandfather, and friend. This is Murray Sinclair’s story—and the story of a nation—in his own words, an oral history that forgoes the trappings of the traditionally written memoir to center Indigenous ways of knowledge and storytelling. As Canada moves forward into the future of Reconciliation, one of its greatest leaders guides us to ask the most important
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Mad Wife

A Memoir

by Kate Hamilton ...

**Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husbandBut she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving**In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the ... Read more

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**Submitting to unwanted sex destroyed Kate’s love for her husbandBut she considered killing herself before she could imagine leaving**In this electrifying literary memoir, Kate Hamilton deftly traces her complicated journey from loving wife to gaslit victim to furious feminist with an urgent goal: to expose how women are pressured to uphold the institutions of marriage and family, no matter the
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