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Empty spaces

By Jordan Abel. 2024

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY Audio (CD), DAISY Audio (Direct to Player), DAISY Audio (Zip), DAISY text (Direct to player), DAISY text (Zip), Word (Zip), ePub (Zip)
Indigenous peoples in Canada fiction, General fiction, Award winning fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille

Jordan Abel's extraordinary new book and debut work of fiction, Empty Spaces, grows out of his groundbreaking visual expression in…

NISHGA. That book integrated descriptions of the landscape from James Fenimore Cooper's settler classic The Last of the Mohicans into visual compositions. In Empty Spaces, Abel reinscribes those words on the page itself and in doing so subjects them to bold re-writings. Reimagining the nineteenth-century text from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga'a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial progress, Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular ideals about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and imagination, the successive chapters of Empty Spaces move toward an eerie, looping, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing--rather than turning to characters, plot, and conflict to explore truth, Empty Spaces invites us to instead understand that the land knows everything that can and will happen, even as the world lurches toward uncertainty

Mon frère (Roman)

By David Chariandy, Brother. 2024

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Multi-cultural fiction
Human-narrated audio

Grandir dans le Park, ghetto bétonné de la banlieue de Toronto, est une épreuve d'endurance. Francis lutte chaque jour contre…

la violence et les préjugés qu'on oppose d'emblée à la jeunesse noire. Mais son frère Michael n'aura pas à subir la même chose s'il suit ses conseils à la lettre : cacher ses faiblesses à tout prix, ne jamais se laisser intimider, agir comme un homme. Surtout lorsqu'il s'invite chez Desirea's, un salon de coiffure aux airs de boîte de nuit où Francis s'exerce aux platines avec son ami Jelly. C'est dans la vallée de la rivière Rouge, une cicatrice de nature sauvage qui traverse leur quartier, qu'ont lieu la plupart de ces leçons de vie. C'est aussi là que les frères discutent de musique, d'amour, des sacrifices de leur mère et de leurs rêves pour l'avenir.. Un événement tragique et d'une grande brutalité viendra cependant briser les aspirations de chacun à jamais. Et la famille devra chercher sa consolation dans la communauté, les souvenirs et la musique.. Né en 1969 à Scarborough de parents immigrés de Trinidad, David Chariandy est l'auteur de deux romans : Soucouyant (2007) et Brother (2017), finaliste à de nombreux prix et lauréat du Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Paru en Europe sous le titre 33 tours, Mon frère a été adapté au cinéma en 2022.. Traduit de l'anglais par Christine Raguet

Mémoire de fille

By Annie Ernaux. 2016

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
Serious and literary fiction, Award winning fiction
Human-transcribed braille

" Dans Mémoire de fille, Annie Ernaux replonge dans l'été 1958, celui de sa première nuit avec un homme, à…

la colonie de S dans l'Orne. Nuit dont l'onde de choc s'est propagée violemment dans son corps et sur son existence durant deux années. S'appuyant sur des images indélébiles de sa mémoire, des photos et des lettres écrites à ses amies, elle interroge cette fille qu'elle a été dans un va-et-vient implacable entre hier et aujourd'hui. " -- 4e de couv

Hier tu comprendras: roman

By Rebecca Stead. 2011

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), Braille (Uncontracted)
Friendship stories, Award winning fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Human-transcribed braille

1979. Miranda vit avec sa mère et son beau-père dans un quartier populaire de New York, partageant son quotidien de…

jeune adolescente avec son meilleur ami Sal. Mais, un jour, de curieux événements surviennent: sans raison apparente, Sal se fait frapper par un garçon et il cesse soudain dadresser la parole à Miranda ; la clé de secours de lappartement de Miranda disparaît, et celle-ci trouve une lettre énigmatique qui lui est adressée. Cette lettre déclare: Je viens pour sauver la vie de ton ami, et aussi la mienne. Jai deux services à te demander . De jour en jour, Miranda reçoit dautres lettres de ce mystérieux expéditeur, qui semble connaître son avenir. Petit à petit, la jeune fille reconstitue le puzzle composé par son correspondant, pour découvrir les raisons de son appel à laide, empêcher une mort annoncée et retrouver son amitié perdue. -- 4e de couv

Si tu passes la rivière: roman (Hamac)

By Geneviève Damas. 2013

Electronic braille (Uncontracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip), Braille (Uncontracted)
Serious and literary fiction, Award winning fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

" Si tu passes la rivière, si tu passes la rivière, a dit le père, tu ne remettras plus les…

pieds dans cette maison . Cest ainsi que commence la poignante histoire de François, jeune paysan naïf et ultra sensible en quête de vérité et de liberté. Prisonnier de son milieu familial rigide et fermé, il passe le plus clair de son temps à garder les cochons auxquels il parle et se confie. Avec ce premier roman, Geneviève Damas fait preuve dune maîtrise remarquable en dépeignant dune manière aussi juste un univers rempli dhumanité, de compassion et de silences... " -- 4e de couv

Veiller sur elle

By Jean-Baptiste Andrea. 2023

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Serious and literary fiction, Award winning fiction
Human-narrated audio

Août 1986. Dans un monastère italien où il vit depuis quarante ans, veillant sur sa dernière oeuvre, Mimo se meurt.…

Au cours de ses dernières heures, entre souvenirs et divagations, il plonge dans l'histoire de sa vie : son apprentissage chez un sculpteur alcoolique et brutal, sa rencontre avec Viola, fille unique de la famille Orsini, dont il tombe amoureux, et son succès. Prix Goncourt 2023.

The night birds

By Thomas James Maltman. 2007

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Award winning fiction, Family stories, General fiction, Historical fiction
Human-narrated audio

Minnesota, 1876. Lonely teenager Asa's aunt Hazel comes to live with his family after a long stay in a mental…

institution. Asa appreciates her company and stories, which teach him about his German-immigrant relatives, their divide over slavery, and Hazel's bond with a Dakota warrior. Violence, some strong language and some descriptions of sex. Alex Award. 2007.

The Sleeping Car Porter

By Suzette Mayr. 2022

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Historical fiction, LGBTQ+ fiction, Award winning fiction
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter,…

must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you’ll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter’s name isn’t George. But it’s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he’ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with “George.” On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter’s memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can’t part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor. "Suzette Mayr’s The Sleeping Car Porter offers a richly detailed account of a particular occupation and time—train porter on a Canadian passenger train in 1929—and unforcedly allows it to illuminate the societal strictures imposed on black men at the time—and today. Baxter is a secretly-queer and sleep-deprived porter saving up for dental school, working a system that periodically assigns unexplained demerits, and once a certain threshold is reached, the porter loses his job. Thus, success is impossible, the best one can do is to fail slowly. As Baxter takes a cross-continental run, the boarding passengers have more secrets than an Agatha Christie cast, creating a powder keg on train tracks. The Sleeping Car Porter is an engaging and illuminating novel about the costs of work, service, and secrets." – Keith Mosman, Powell's Books "I thought The Sleeping Car Porter was fantastic! It strikes a balance between being about the struggles of being black and gay at that time while not being too heavy handed with it. I enjoyed his constant mental math on how many demerits he might receive for each infraction. The reader really gets a sense of the conflict that Baxter is going through. I really liked reading a book from the perspective of a porter." – Hunter Gillum, Beaverdale Books

Gone with the wind

By Margaret Mitchell. 1974

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Movie and television tie-ins, Romance, Historical romance
Human-narrated audio

A romantic Civil War epic in which Scarlet O'Hara, a forceful and ruthless heroine, and Rhett Butler, a war profiteer,…

play out their tempestuous love affair against the background of the war-torn South. 1937 Pulitzer Prize winner. 1974, c1936.

My side of the mountain

By Jean Craighead George. 1959

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Adventure stories, Award winning fiction
Human-narrated audio

A New York City boy who wants the independent, self-sufficient life of the country runs away to the Catskill Mountains.…

Followed by "On the far side of the mountain" (DC09392). Grades 4-7. 1975, c1959.

Blueberries for Sal

By Robert McCloskey. 1976

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Animal stories, Award winning fiction
Human-narrated audio

One day in Maine, Little Sal goes blueberry picking with her mother. Little Bear also comes with his mother to…

eat blueberries on the other side of the hill. There is quite a mix up when the little ones stray from their mothers. Grades P-2. Caldecott Honor. c1976.

The secret river

By Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. 1955

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Family stories, Fantasy
Human-narrated audio

Because her father cannot catch any fish to sell, Calpurnia sets out with her dog, Buggy-horse, to find a secret…

river that will always be full of fish. Grades 2-4. 1956 Newbery Honor book. 1955.

All the king's men (The Modern library of the world's best books, 170)

By Robert Penn Warren. 1953

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, General fiction, Movie and television tie-ins
Human-narrated audio
A back-country lawyer in a southern state rises to become governor of the state with nearly absolute political power. Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. 1953.

Bridge to Terabithia

By Katherine Paterson. 1978

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Friendship stories, Movie and television tie-ins
Human-narrated audio
Jess and Leslie create an imaginary kingdom where they rule as king and queen, and no enemy can defeat them. Newbery Award winner. Grades 5-8. 1978.

Arrowsmith

By Sinclair Lewis. 1925

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Award winning fiction, General fiction
Human-narrated audio

Follows the scientific career of an inquisitive, dedicated physician from medical school and early practice to his work on a…

West Indian island and a directorship of a medical institute. Winner of the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for the novel. 1925.

Shen of the sea: Chinese stories for children

By Arthur Bowie Chrisman. 1953

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Short stories
Human-narrated audio
Sixteen classic Chinese tales with compact plots tell of the humourous and outrageous events of the characters. Winner of the 1926 Newbery Medal. Grades 5-8. 1953.

Steppenwolf

By Hermann Hesse. 1927

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Award winning fiction, Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio

Harry Haller, considering himself half man, half wolf of the steppes, embodies the conflict between spirit and nature. An indictment…

of Germany between the two World Wars. Nobel Prize 1946. 1955, c1927. Uniform title: Steppenwolf.

The house of sixty fathers

By Meindert De Jong. 1956

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, General fiction, War stories
Human-narrated audio

A small Chinese boy is separated from his family in wartime as their sampan breaks loose from its moorings and…

rushes down the river. When the sampan finally drifts ashore, the little boy finds himself in enemy territory with only his pet pig for comfort. A realistic story based on the author's experience in China during World War II. Grades 5-8. 1956.

The fixer

By Bernard Malamud. 1966

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Award winning fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, Mysteries and crime stories, Suspense and thrillers
Human-narrated audio

Based on an actual court case involving the attempt by the Russians to discredit Judaism by trying a Jew for…

a ritualistic murder. The book describes the dehumanizing abuse and torture endured by an innocent man awaiting trial. Winner of the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 1966.

Rabbit is rich (Rabbit series. #3.)

By John Updike. 1981

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), Serious and literary fiction
Human-narrated audio

In 1979 Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom finds himself fat, forty-six, and, at long last, affluent. He lives with his wife and…

mother-in-law in Brewer, Pennsylvania, and runs the Toyota dealership that the two women have inherited. For the first time in his life he feels almost happy - until a girl shows up at his shop. Sequel to "Rabbit Redux". Includes strong language and sex. 1981.

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