Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lavendar Lewis, Paul Irving, and the twins Dora and Davy. Narrated by Colleen Winton, a Vancouver actor, singer, dancer, director and choreographer...and now a narrator. Colleen has appeared at Stratford, Shaw and Charlottetown Festivals, was part of the original Canadian companies of CATS and Show Boat, extensive film/TV credits, and numerous directing/choreographing credits. Her stage work has been honoured with numerous nominations and a Jessie and Ovation Award and she received a cultural award given by her local Chamber of Commerce. She recently played Marilla Cuthbert in a production of the musical Anne of Green Gables at Theatre Calgary (Spring 2013).

Audio Book: Anne of Avonlea, by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Narrated by Colleen Winton

We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts. This surge of violence has occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In this new work that revisits some of the main themes of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici examines the root causes of these developments and outlines the consequences for the women affected and their communities

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in his famous 1937 paper “The Nature of the Firm,” provided an economic explanation for this: Organizations lowered transaction costs, making the provision of goods and services cheap, efficient, and reliable. Today, this organizational advantage is rapidly disappearing. The Internet is lowering transaction costs—costs of connection, coordination, and trade—and pointing to a future that increasingly favors distributed sources and social solutions to some of our most immediate needs and our most intractable problems. 

As Silicon Valley thought-leader Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future, portrays, a thriving new relationship-driven or socialstructed economy is emerging in which individuals are harnessing the powers of new technologies to join together and provide an array of products and services. Examples of this changing economy range from BioCurious, a members-run and free-to-use bio lab, to the peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club, to the remarkable Khan Academy, a free online-teaching service. These engaged and innovative pioneers are filling gaps and doing the seemingly impossible by reinventing business, education, medicine, banking, government, and even scientific research. Based on extensive research into current trends, she travels to a socialstructed future and depicts an exciting vision of tomorrow.

Audio Book: The Nature of the Future, Marina Gorbis

This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. The latest edition, available only through our web site (the audible edition does not include the revisions) includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do. 
 
In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction--for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident--as do the solutions.

Daniel Maté’s warm and sensitive narration, gift with dialogue, and engagement with the authors writing make this an enjoyable and informative listen.

Audio Book: Hold On to Your Kids: Revised & Updated, Dr. Neufeld & Maté

Freud said dreams were the “royal road” to the unconscious, and then along came a superhighway: psychedelics. Personally, we can access the psychedelic experience, but Frank Ogden shepherded over a thousand people’s experiences. What is presented is the howling unconscious released from the normal chemical constraints that restrict it. Written in the simple, but vivid style Frank popularized in his bestselling, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read, Shamanic Graffiti presents an alternative history of the brain and it’s functions: shamanism. Giving real world examples, the book finishes-up by exploring the theories of two pre-eminent psychedelic theoreticians, Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Stan Grof and looks at the future of psychedelic drugs.

Audiobook: Shamanic Grafffiti by Marcus Rummery and Frank Ogden

In this new book, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours. Beginning with a dramatically close view of his drug addicted patients, Dr. Maté looks at his own history of compulsive behaviour. He weaves the stories of real people who have struggled with addiction with the latest research on addiction and the brain. Providing a bold synthesis of clinical experience, insight and cutting edge scientific findings, Dr. Maté sheds light on this most puzzling of human frailties. He proposes a compassionate approach to helping drug addicts and, for the many behaviour addicts among us, to addressing the void addiction is meant to fill. Narrated by Daniel Maté. Available for purchase soon through Post Hypnotic Press, www.posthypnoticpress.com.

"In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction," by Gabor Maté

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability.

Audiobook: The Enablers:

In April 2013, Karin Konoval travelled by train to New Orleans for a four-month film shoot. While this story isn’t about the film, the fact that she was portraying an orangutan in it laid the path, in a unique way, for her personal journey beyond the work. On Constance is Karin’s memoir of this journey to and through the remarkable city of New Orleans, finding resonance and ultimately joy . . . in the most unexpected encounters and unlikely places.​

Audiobook: Karin Konoval: On Constance, read by the author.

Is there a universal language of love, a "kinship with all life" that can open new horizons of experience?

Example after example in this unique classic -- from "Strongheart" the actor-dog to "Freddie" the fly -- resounds with entertaining and inspiring proof that communication with animals is a wonderful, indisputable fact. All that is required is an attitude of openness, friendliness, humility, and a sense of humor to part the curtain and form bonds of real friendship.

For anyone who loves animals, for all those who have ever experienced the special devotion only a pet can bring, Kinship With All Life is an unqualified delight. Sample these pages and you will never encounter "just a dog" again, but rather a fellow member of nature's own family.

Audiobook: Kinship with All Life by J. Allen Boone, read by Michael Puttonen

The King of Elfland's Daughter is one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time. Lord Dunsany, in his inventive, poetic style, tells the heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess. This masterpiece has influenced some of our greatest contemporary fantasists, including Neil Gaiman, J.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Ursula K. Le Guin, and C.L. Moore, who stated: "No one can imitate Dunsany, and probably everyone who's ever read him has tried." Dunsany's "The Gods of Pegana" follows "The King of Elfland's Daughter." "Pegana" is collection of vignettes and prose poems written in the style of a religious text; taken together, they create a mythology. Dunsany's inventive use of archaic language and repetition add a dream-like quality to "Pegana." Golden Voice narrator Gerard Doyle, whose voice embodies these books in a mystical, dreamy way, is the perfect narrator for this book.

The - King - Of - Elflands - Daughter - 5min - Sample

JUNE 2014 - June is Audiobook Month - get this and other audiobooks for 50% off @ www.posthypnoticpress.com 

Profoundly original, bestselling writer and physician Gabor Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours.

AUDIOFILE REVIEW: "[Gabor Maté's] nuanced understanding of pleasure seeking and pain avoidance inspires empathy for a wide range of addictions—from cocaine and alcohol to destructive patterns of shopping, eating, and sexual behavior. Along with his authentic-sounding dialogue Daniel Mate’s performance is notable for its emotional resonance with the author’s patients and their journeys. ... His engagement with the author’s writing makes this a moving invitation to the complex world of addictions." T.W. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2011, Nov. 2011

Audio Book: In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor Maté

Dozens of books on acting exist, but none of them quite like this. On Acting and Life provides both insightful acting advice and the memoir of an acclaimed actor of both stage and screen. Modelled after Stephen King’s bestseller, On Writing, the book is divided into two parts.

Part one takes readers on a seventy-year journey that begins with William B. Davis, at age twelve, riding his bicycle through the streets of Toronto to his first acting classes, and eventually leads to him starring in the long-running television series, The X-Files. From a summer theatre in Ontario to the National Theatre of Great Britain to the National Theatre School of Canada to the William Davis Centre for Actors’ Study in Vancouver, few have achieved such a colourful journey. Along the way, Davis met all sorts of familiar faces, including Donald Sutherland, Brian Cox, Albert Finney, Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, David Duchovny, and Gillian Anderson, among others.

Although there is a lot about acting in part one, the heart of the book for an aspiring or working actor is in part two. What has Davis learned in seventy years of working both in the theatre and in film and television? A lot, as you will see. Davis’ grasp of the art of acting is vast and practical. And in some ways, original.

In his final chapter, Davis explores the underlying philosophy of acting and actor training and argues for bringing the work in to the twenty-first century.

Audiobooks: William B. Davis, "On Acting ... and Life," read by the author.

Gkisedtanamoogk - Kevin Loring - Meetings

Widely praised and winner of the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, this book illuminates why Lincoln’s unprecedented welcoming of African American men and women to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. From his 1862 meetings with Black Christian ministers, Lincoln began inviting African Americans of every background into his home, from ex-slaves from the Deep South to champions of abolitionism such as Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.

More than a good-will gesture, the president conferred with his guests about the essential issues of citizenship and voting rights. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how African Americans used the White House as a national stage to amplify their calls for equality. Even more than 160 years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s inclusion of African Americans remains a necessary example in a country still struggling from racial divisions today.

Warning: As much as possible, the author has given the accounts in the words of the participants themselves. His "goal is to reproduce the voices of Lincoln’s guests, as well as of some of their critics in the white press, enabling readers to see the White House as they saw it, and the president as they encountered him." This included using the "n" word in the quoted text. After much deliberation, we elected to record the "n" word without censoring it, too, as we felt that it better reflected the atmosphere and blatant racism of Lincoln's time.

Dec 20, 2023

A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House by Jonathan W. White

By turns somber and funny but above all provocative, Elizabeth Benedict’s Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own is a most unconventional memoir. With wisdom, self-effacing wit, and the storytelling skills of a seasoned novelist, she brings to life her cancer diagnosis and committed hypochondria. As she discovers multiplying lumps in her armpit, she describes her initial terror, interspersed with moments of self-mocking levity as she indulges in “natural remedies”, among them chanting Tibetan mantras, drinking shots of wheat grass, and finding medicinal properties in chocolate babka. She tracks the progression of her illness from muddled diagnosis to debilitating treatment as she gathers sustenance from her family and an assortment of urbane, ironic friends, including her fearless “cancer guru”.

In brief, explosive chapters with startling titles–“Was It the Krazy Glue?” and “Not Everything Scares the Shit out of Me”–Benedict investigates existential questions: Is there a cancer personality? Can trauma be passed on generationally? Can cancer be stripped of its warlike metaphors? How do doctors’ own fears influence their comments to patients? Is there a gendered response to illness? Why isn’t illness one of literature’s great subjects? And delving into her own history, she wonders if having had children would have changed her life as a writer and hypochondriac. Post diagnosis, Benedict asks, “Which fear is worse: the fear of knowing or the reality of knowing?"

Throughout, Benedict’s humor, wisdom, and warmth jacket her fears, which are personal, political, and ultimately global, when the world is pitched into a pandemic. Amid weighty concerns and her all-consuming obsession with illness, her story is filled with suspense, secrets, and even the unexpected solace of silence.

Elizabeth Benedict: Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own, read by the author.

The central feature of today's geopolitical landscape is the decline and fall of America's global empire. The nature of our response to it will determine much of our future trajectory, with repercussions reaching far beyond the United States' borders.

John Michael Greer challenges the conventional wisdom of empire, offering a wealth of historical examples combined with groundbreaking original analysis. Greer illustrates how, in the pursuit of political and economic power, the USA has backed itself into a corner, explores the inevitable consequences of imperial collapse, and argues the only constructive way forward is a renewal of democratic institutions.

Rather than ask whether today's American empire should survive, Greer examines whether it can survive, and argues persuasively that the answer to the latter question is "no," An invaluable contribution to the body of speculative post-industrial literature, Decline and Fall is a must-read for anyone concerned about the state of the Union or who believes that it is time to reinvent the American Dream. 


Audiobook: Decline and Fall, John Michael Greer

Gabrielle Ginsberg was a public defender with plenty of nerve and Braden Pierce was an assistant district attorney with a whole lot of swagger. Gabrielle wanted Braden and Braden wanted Gabrielle. Could true love overcome a lack of privacy, interference by jealous rivals and the insanity of the criminal court system?

Audio Book: Law of Attraction, by N.M. Silber, narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Margaret Trudeau reflection on life and aging offers women sage advice that is honest, straightforward, and ultimately hopeful. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of other women, Trudeau discusses everything from pension planning and retirement homes to sex and "grey divorce." Trudeau promotes a more proactive, engaged aging process and encourages baby boomers to serious about finding joy in their "third act." All rights reserved.

Audiobook: Margaret Trudeau, "Time of Your Life," narrated by Colleen Winton

After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.

What is the world going to look like when all these changes have run their course? Author John Michael Greer seeks to answer this question, and with some degree of accuracy, since civilizations tend to collapse in remarkably similar ways.

AUDIOBOOK: Dark Age America by John Michael Greer, read by Michael Dowd

"In When the Body Says No," Gabor Maté writes: “People have always understood intuitively that mind and body are not separable. Modernity has brought with it an unfortunate dissociation, a split between what we know with our whole being and what our thinking mind accepts as truth.” The mind and body are not just connected, but inseparably intertwined, and, Maté believes, certain chronic diseases - ALS, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, breast cancer - are at least in part “an expression of an internal disharmony” brought on by the effects of stress.
	The significance of the mind-body connection is not new, but modern medicine has a tendency to split the two. However, in recent years an entire field of research, psychoneuroimmunology, has begun to explore “how the mind. . . profoundly interacts with the body’s nervous system and how both of them, in turn, form an essential link with our immune defenses.” And it is not such a stretch to see the connection between organic disease and “stress,” a relentless pressure that can twist around the immune system’s protective powers into a “suicidal assault”: what Maté calls “a civil war inside the body”. 
	It is how Maté defines stress that is so different from mainstream interpretations as to be practically revolutionary. Probing deeply into the life histories and psyches of many patients he has treated during his years as a palliative care physician, he emerges with nothing short of a revelation. 
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When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Maté

This radical treatise on public education has been a bestseller in print for 10 years! Thirty years in New York City’s public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine.

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, by John Taylor Gatto

Kiera Van Gelder's 1st suicide attempt when she was only  12 years of age marked the beginning of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships. Despite these issues, it took 20 years before Van Gelder was diagnosed as having of borderline personality disorder.

An often debilitating and misunderstood condition, "The Buddha and the Borderline" offers a window into this mysterious disorder. An unblinking portrayal of one woman's fight against the devastation of borderline personality disorder, this haunting, intimate memoir chronicles Kiera's a devastating period in Kiera's life and her eventual diagnosis and inspirational recovery. Recovery isn't easy, but it's possible. Kiera's journey included therapy, Buddhist spirituality, and a few online dates gone wrong. Her story sheds light on the difficulties this disorder presents for all concerned: the people who suffer with it, their families and friends who struggle to support them, and the difficulties in obtaining a correct diagnosis and finding suitable treatment. Carla Mercer-Meyer's narration brings this struggle to life - riveting listen.

Audio Book: Buddha And The Borderline by Kiera Van Gelder

From the writer of the hit film and international bestselling book The Corporation comes a shocking look at the widespread manipulation of children by profit-seeking corporations. Childhood Under Siege reveals how big business sees our children as resource to be mined for profit. From unabashed exploitation, clued-out parents, and governments that look the other way, it tells the chilling and at times darkly humorous story of business’s plans to turn kids into obsessive and narcissistic mini-consumers, media addicts, cheap and pliable workers, and chemical industry guinea pigs.

Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children, by Joel Bakan

In Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks - writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual - writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for Hooks, the teacher's most important goal.

Audio Book: bell hooks, Teaching To Transgress 5min - Sample

In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.

Audio Book: bell hooks, feminism is for everybody, narrated by Robin Miles 5min - Sample

In 1972, British scientist John Yudkin proved that sugar was very bad for our health, but he was ignored or maligned by the majority of the medical profession and the food industry. Forty years later, Dr. Robert Lustig (author of Fat Chance), "discovered" the dangers of sugar through his own research, and also rediscovered John Yudkin's work and early warnings. This is a recording of Yudkin's book, with an intro by Dr. Lustig. 
Using everyday language and a range of scientific evidence, Professor Yudkin explores the ins and out of sugar, from the different types – is brown sugar really better than white? – to how it is hidden inside our everyday foods and how it is damaging our health.

Audio Book: Pure White Deadly by John Yudkin, narrated by Chris MacDowell

This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time--peers replacing parents in the lives of children--is now more relevant than ever. This sample is from the original edition. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do, and is available only through our site (www.posthypnoticpress.com).
 
In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction--for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident--as do the solutions.

Daniel Maté’s warm and sensitive narration, gift with dialogue, and engagement with the authors writing make this an enjoyable and informative listen.

Audio Book: Hold On To Your Kids, Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld

John Taylor Gatto's "Weapons of Mass" Instruction focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling which cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorization drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down" (also available in audio from Post Hypnotic Press), put the now-famous expression of the title in common use worldwide. "Weapons of Mass Instruction" promises to add another chilling metaphor to the brief against schooling. Available to download or as a MP3 or regular CD set. Narrated by Michael Puttonen. Purchase a download or CDs from our web site (www.posthypnoticpress.com) or on amazon.ca (CDs), audible, emusic, etc. 


Audiobook: John Taylor Gatto: Weapons of Mass Instruction, read by Michael Puttonen

Written from the inside by a person who himself has ADD, with the wisdom gained through years of medical practice and research, Scattered Minds explodes the myth of ADD as a genetically based illness, offering real hope and advice for children and adults who live with this disorder.

Scattered Minds

Audio Book: Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté. Read by Daniel Maté

“Enlightenment”—is it a myth or is it real? In every spiritual tradition, inner explorers have discovered that the liberated state is in fact a natural experience, as real as the sensations you are having right now—and that through the investigation of your own thoughts, feelings, and perceptions you can awaken to clear insight and a happiness independent of conditions.

The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works

Audio Book: The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young. Read by Edoardo Ballerini.

Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, a literary classic that has entertained audiences of all age all over the world. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince Edward Island, and who had intended to adopt a boy to help them. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school and the town.

Narrated by Vancouver actress Colleen Winton, a Vancouver actor, singer, dancer, director and choreographer...and now a narrator. 

AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE REVIEW:
"Colleen Winton captures the charm of Anne Shirley in this delightful edition for a new generation of listeners. Anne is an orphan who is mistakenly sent to Green Gables farm--and soon wins her way into the hearts of everyone in Avonlea. Winton brings the perfect amount of wide-eyed wonder and spark to Anne. As Anne finds herself in many adventures throughout the story, Winton strikes the right balance between drama and humor. She also excels with a pitch-perfect pensive and stoic Marilla and the quiet and shy Matthew. Her comfortable storytelling pace allows listeners to get lost in Anne's world. With its great production quality and an array of expression and voices from Winton, this is an excellent new version of a beloved classic." S.B.T. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: MARCH 2014]

Audio Book: Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, read by Colleen Winton

Narrated by Edward Dalmas. Peak Everything addresses many of the cultural, psychological and practical changes we will have to make as nature rapidly dictates our new limits. This latest book from Richard Heinberg, author of three of the most important books on Peak Oil, touches on the most important aspects of the human condition at this unique moment in time. Go to http://www.posthypnoticpress.com to purchase and download.

"Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines," Richard Heinberg

JULIA CAMERON, author of the perennial bestseller on the creative process, "The Artist's Way," is an award-winning writer of over 30 books. IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BEGIN AGAIN: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond," offers a 12-week course aimed at defining - and creating - the life you want to have as you redefine and re-create yourself. This book includes simple tools that will guide and inspire you to make the most of this time in your life: 

“The book you hold in your hands is the distillate of a quarter century’s teaching. It is my attempt to answer, ‘What next?’ for students who are embarking on their ‘second act.’" - Julia Cameron

Audiobook: "It's Never Too Late to Begin Again" by Julie Cameron

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