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CD service concludes July 31, 2025

CELA's audiobooks and magazines are available in Direct to Player and downloadable formats. We no longer mail out CDs. Please contact us for more information.

Intermittent problems with Direct to Player titles

Some users are experiencing problems accessing titles on their Direct to player bookshelf, including with DAISY players, apps or Alexa devices. We are investigating the issue and we apologize for any inconvenience.

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Featured titles

Book cover of Three Parties

Three Parties

By Ziyad Saadi

Family stories, LGBTQ+ fiction

Book cover of JFK: Public, private, secret

JFK: Public, private, secret

By J. Randy Taraborrelli

Politics and government biography

Book cover of The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective

By Jo Nichols

Gentle mysteries, Mysteries and crime stories

New Reads for National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

Survivors Flag for Truth & Reconciliation
  • Waiting for the long night moon: Stories by Amanda Peters
  • Finding Otipemisiwak: The people who own themselves by Andrea Currie
  • Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School-resistance and a reckoning by Celia Haig-Brown
  • Who We Are: Four Questions For a Life and a Nation by Murray Sinclair

Top 5 Books

Most popular with our readers this month:

  1. Beach reads and deadly deeds by Allison Brennan, Women sleuths
  2. Tom Lake: a novel by Ann Patchett, Family stories
  3. The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb, Historical fiction
  4. The Story of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover by Jan Gradvall, Music biography
  5. The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden, Suspense and thrillers
Cover of the book Beach reads and dirty deeds by Allison Brennan.

On our Bookshelf

At 23, Ardra Shephard is living recklessly—dating the wrong guy, blowing money she doesn't have, and making the kinds of mistakes typical of your twenties—until a diagnosis of MS abruptly changes everything. As her condition progresses and she begins using mobility aids, Ardra grapples with fear, stigma, and the painful realization that society has lied about what it means to live with disability. Through it all, she discovers that a hard life isn’t a hopeless one, and in Fallosophy, she shares unflinching truths and hard-won wisdom with humor, grit, and zero sugarcoating.

Book cover of Finding Fallosophy

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