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The Man Who Couldn't Die. The Tale of an Authentic Human Being – audiobook
Olga Slavnikova
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union’s collapse from him in order to keep him - and his pension - alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova’s The Man Who Couldn’t Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life - and the means and meaning of their own lives - by creating a world that...Data dostępności:
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Day Nine. A Postpartum Depression Memoir – audiobook
Amanda Munday
Nine days after the birth of her daughter, Amanda was involuntarily admitted to a Toronto psychiatric ward for postpartum depression (PPD). The typical hold-and-release process in Ontario is seventy-two hours. She stayed eighteen days. New parent sleep deprivation is familiar, but Munday’s tumultuous experience with depression is one rarely discussed within parent communities. Any mental illness comes...Data dostępności:
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Near Death. Power of the Blood World. Book 2 – audiobook
Nancy Kilpatrick
The second book in Kilpatrick's Power of the Blood World, NEAR DEATH is the story of the vampire David Lyle Hardwick - a poet who for over a century has lived in the unholy world of the undead, resisting his thirst for blood. Zero, a beautiful, wounded mortal, is sent to destroy him but falls for his seductive power and together they set out in search of his enemies. As their torrid love affair grows,...Data dostępności:
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Chop Suey Nation – audiobook
Ann Hui
In 2016, Globe and Mail reporter Ann Hui drove across Canada, from Victoria to Fogo Island, to write about small-town Chinese restaurants and the families who run them. It was only after the story was published that she discovered her own family could have been included - her parents had run their own Chinese restaurant, The Legion Cafe, before she was born. This discovery, and the realization that...Data dostępności:
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Red Coat Diaries. True Stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police – audiobook
Aaron Sheedy Veronica Fox
True stories from the Women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Red Coat Diaries brings tales from the RCMP, but with a new and unique perspective. Editor Aaron Sheedy has compiled over 30 stories from the women of the RCMP. These stories include stories from officers, civilians and retired members of the Force. These true stories offer a unique insider's perspective of the "Mounties" and reveal...Data dostępności:
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This One's Trouble. Dime Crime. Volume 3 – audiobook
Peter Sellers
This One's Trouble offers a collection of some of the best hard-hitting crime stories from acclaimed writer Peter Sellers. Hailed as "one of the key figures in the Canadian mystery renaissance" in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Peter Sellers' entertaining and offbeat crime fiction stories have appeared in every major mystery magazine including Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock...Data dostępności:
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The Stone Frigate. The Royal Military College's First Female Cadet Speaks Out – audiobook
Kate Armstrong
A memoir from the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. Kate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive childhood behind her when she became the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. As she struggled for survival in the ultimate boys’ club, she called on her fierce and humourous spirit to push back against the whims...Data dostępności:
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Paint – audiobook
Jennifer Dance
It's the late 1800s. A Lakota boy finds an orphaned mustang foal and brings her back to his family's camp. Naming her Paint for her black-and-white markings, boy and horse soon become inseparable. Together they learn to hunt buffalo, their fear of the massive beasts tempered by a growing trust in each other. When the U.S. Cavalry attacks the camp, the pair is forced onto separate paths. Paint's fate...Data dostępności:
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Hawk – audiobook
Jennifer Dance
Hawk, a First Nations teen from northern Alberta, is a cross-country runner who aims to win gold in an upcoming competition between all the schools in Fort McMurray. But when Hawk discovers he has leukemia, his identity as a star athlete is stripped away, along with his muscles and energy. When he finds an osprey, "a fish hawk," mired in a pond of toxic residue from the oil sands industry, he sees...Data dostępności:
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How to Lead Smart People. Leadership for Professionals – audiobook
Arun Singh Mike Mister
Using over 40 simple lessons, How to Lead Smart People shows you how to manage a team of equals with intelligence and diplomacy. Traditional skills are re-evaluated for the leader of a smart team. Split into three sections: leading yourself, leading your team and leading your organisation, the book offers advice for 360-degree management. How to Lead Smart People teaches core skills such as decision-making...Data dostępności:
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Valentine for a Dead Lady. Dime Crime. Volume 1 – audiobook
Mel D. Ames
Valentine For a Dead Lady, an introduction to Mel D. Ames's classic intrepid and daring Detective Cathy Carruthers. In the male dominated world of hard-boiled detectives, Ames's genre changing Lieutenant Carruthers pioneered a new exciting direction with these fast-paced tales of vice and villainy. Originally published in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Ames’s stories evoke the golden era of short crime...Data dostępności:
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Emancipated Women. Book 1 – audiobook
Bolesław Prus
Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...Data dostępności:
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The Wealthy Renter. How to Choose Housing That Will Make You Rich – audiobook
Alex Avery
A National Bestseller! Why be house poor when you can rent rich? “Why rent when you can buy?” More than any other, this phrase captures the overwhelmingly unanimous promotion of home ownership to Canadians. Real estate agents, mortgage brokers, family, friends, and even the government promote ownership as a safe, attractive, and sure-fire path to personal wealth. This one-size-fits-all advice ignores...Data dostępności:
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Emancipated Women. Book 2 – audiobook
Opracowanie zbiorowe
Emancipated Women (Emancypantki), by the acclaimed Polish author Boleslaw Prus, was first published as a serial in the Daily Courier (Kurier Codzienny) from 1890 to 1893, and as a book in 1894. Leading his readers, in a manner reminiscent of Dickens, from an elegant girls' school in Warsaw to a provincial town-from a magnate's palace to a boarding house for working women and a secret lying-in hospital...Data dostępności:
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Songs in the Key of Death. Dime Crime. Volume 2 – audiobook
William Bankier
"Songs in the Key of Death," an anthology of music-infused crime stories by acclaimed author William Bankier. For over thirty years, starting in the 1960s, Bankier's love affair with music mixed with his hard-boiled crime stories to produce some of the most exhilarating and dramatic crime fiction of his generation. Many of Bankier's best works originally graced the pages of classic pulp magazines like...Data dostępności:
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The Matiushin Case. Tales from the Last Days. Book 2 – audiobook
Oleg Pavlov
The Matiushin Case is among the most powerful recent works of Russian fiction. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (2013, And Other Stories), from Oleg Pavlov's experience of the declining Soviet Union, it follows Matiushin, a young man damaged by brutality at home and then in the army. Drawing on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "labor-camp writing," Oleg Pavlov builds a unique tension between the horrors...Data dostępności:
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The Song of Leonard Cohen – audiobook
Harry Rasky
"'Harry, this is Leonard. I just wanted you to know I watched your film on me and it struck me I never thanked you enough at the time for the magnificent gift you gave with that film. Call me.' Then he left his personal number.' – Harry Rasky, April 2000. No other book about Leonard Cohen gets so close to the man, his city, his poems and songs, his friends, his background, and the many original influences...Data dostępności:
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At the Mercy of Strangers. Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland – audiobook
Gitel Hopfeld
At the Mercy of Strangers is an important addition to Holocaust literature for a number of reasons. It is a document about the survival of one individual and her two children. As a first hand account about survival during the Holocaust, it offers unique insight. It also documents how Polish friends, acquaintances and even strangers helped to ensure the survival of one Jewish family during the bleak...Data dostępności:
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Atlantis Rising. Tom 1. Rycerze Atlantydy – audiobook
Evan Currie
Przegraliśmy wojnę. Nadeszła zguba. Czas na rewanż. Po upadku cywilizacji władzę w dawnej domenie ludzi objęły demony. Wspaniałe dzieła ludzkości zostały zniszczone, ci, którzy przetrwali, żyli pokornie w niewoli, nie pamiętając o wielkich osiągnięciach swoich przodków. Byli jednak też tacy, którzy chcieli walczyć, i zapłacili za swój opór krwią. Ostatecznie demony zwyciężyły, pozostało im tylko pozbyć...Data dostępności:
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Endek. UKR – audiobook
Przemysław Lis Markiewicz
Історія існує не для того, щоб її вифантазовувати в диму сигарет, а для того, щоб, писана кров’ю в гарматному диму, вона стала уроком для нащадків. Вибір. Це те, що автор постійно заставляє робити своїх героїв. Як бути, коли твого сина вбили люди, яким ти зобов’язаний життям? Чи варто підтримувати інтереси нації, представники якої письмово начебто взяли на себе вину за смерть твоєї матері? І як оцінити...Data dostępności:
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