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Moody Food

A Novel

by Ray Robertson ...

Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a ... Read more

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Inspired by the exploits of ill-fated country-rock visionary Gram Parsons, this mid-60s tale of idealism and escape traces the trials of a fictionalized draft-dodging flower child from the United States to Canada and back. It is the late 1960s in Yorkville, Toronto's hippie ghetto of artists, intellectuals, drunken poets, and would-be rock stars. In this idyllic haven, narrator Bill Hansen, a
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The Right to Be Wrong

by Ray Robertson ...

Series series To the Point
Religious or secular, fundamentalism is not unique to any particular political persuasion. To those in narrow-minded pursuit of ideological purity, disagreement is tantamount to treason and punishable by censure, ostracism, or cancellation. But how does this attitude shape how we engage with contemporary politics, public opinion, or art? Passionately argued, coolly critical, irreverently humorous, ... Read more

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Religious or secular, fundamentalism is not unique to any particular political persuasion. To those in narrow-minded pursuit of ideological purity, disagreement is tantamount to treason and punishable by censure, ostracism, or cancellation. But how does this attitude shape how we engage with contemporary politics, public opinion, or art? Passionately argued, coolly critical, irreverently humorous,
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Outcome

Breakers, Book 0.5

by Edward W. Robertson ...

Narrated by Ray Chase ...

Series Audiobook 0.5 - Breakers
Unabridged

2 hours 57 min

As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus - one she believes will wipe out mankind.With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiancé, Chip, to safety. But he's already been scooped up and quarantined - and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to ... Read more

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As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus - one she believes will wipe out mankind.With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiancé, Chip, to safety. But he's already been scooped up and quarantined - and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to
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Melt Down

Breakers, Book 2

by Edward W. Robertson ...

Narrated by Ray Chase ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Breakers
Unabridged

14 hours 4 min

In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents. Then the world ends.After Ness discovers his best friend dead of disease, Shawn takes their family to the mountains to wait out the plague.As Tristan's parents fall sick ... Read more

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In upstate Idaho, Ness Hook is run out of his mom's house by his bullying brother Shawn. In Redding, California, Tristan Carter is graduating college, but with no job and no prospects, she'll have to move back in with her parents. Then the world ends.After Ness discovers his best friend dead of disease, Shawn takes their family to the mountains to wait out the plague.As Tristan's parents fall sick
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Knifepoint

Breakers, Book 3

by Edward W. Robertson ...

Narrated by Ray Chase ...

Series Audiobook 3 - Breakers
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13 hours 10 min

Raina was just a girl when the plague came.She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch. After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. Their makeshift family lives a quiet life - until a man named Karslaw sails in from Catalina Island with an army of conquerors. ... Read more

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Raina was just a girl when the plague came.She survived. Her parents didn't. Neither did the world. As civilization fell, she took to the ruins of Los Angeles, eating whatever she could catch. After two years alone, she's found and adopted by a fisherman and his wife. Their makeshift family lives a quiet life - until a man named Karslaw sails in from Catalina Island with an army of conquerors.
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Estates Large and Small

by Ray Robertson ...

Winner of Georgian Bay Reads 2025Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and ... Read more

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Winner of Georgian Bay Reads 2025Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his secondhand bookstore and moved his business online. Smoking too much pot and
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Moody Food

by Ray Robertson ...

From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s a sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll-suffused modern tragedy. As Bill Hansen recounts the rise and fall of Thomas Graham and his musical vision, he simultaneously tells the story of frustrated idealism and the passing of an entire generation. ... Read more

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From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s a sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll-suffused modern tragedy. As Bill Hansen recounts the rise and fall of Thomas Graham and his musical vision, he simultaneously tells the story of frustrated idealism and the passing of an entire generation.
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Why Not?

Fifteen Reasons to Live

by Ray Robertson ...

crosses genres, and will appeal to a wide audience: self-help, literary, essays, philosophy, psychologyauthor suffers from serious depression related to OCD. This book came out of a suicidal period, when he came up with a list of fifteen reasons why he should not kill himself. Or, more optimistically, fifteen reasons to live. They range from Love and Work to Intoxication, and, paradoxically, death ... Read more

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crosses genres, and will appeal to a wide audience: self-help, literary, essays, philosophy, psychologyauthor suffers from serious depression related to OCD. This book came out of a suicidal period, when he came up with a list of fifteen reasons why he should not kill himself. Or, more optimistically, fifteen reasons to live. They range from Love and Work to Intoxication, and, paradoxically, death
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Dust

More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)

by Ray Robertson ...

“Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast MagazineIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s ... Read more

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“Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast MagazineIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an eclectic gathering of a dozen biographical and critical portraits of some of the twentieth century’s
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All the Years Combine

The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows

by Ray Robertson ...

A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row, courtesy of the group’s unorthodox decision to record all of their ... Read more

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A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life.Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing to being there in the third row, courtesy of the group’s unorthodox decision to record all of their
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How to Die

A Book About Being Alive

by Ray Robertson ...

A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy.“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, ... Read more

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A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy.“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality,
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Breakers

Breakers, Book 1

by Edward W. Robertson ...

Narrated by Ray Chase ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Breakers
Unabridged

12 hours 10 min

In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa.In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an ... Read more

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In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa.In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter. When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an
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