After her parents are duped by a coyote who is a master of disguise, Harriet ('Harry' for short) and her seven younger siblings are left to fend for themselves. Their only resource is their parents' now-empty bedroom, so...
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Auteur: Richardson, BillSommaire: - Auteur: Fayth, AshleySommaire:
There is nothing better than a bit of nonsense, and The Sniger and the Floose is a marvellous example of nonsense at its best. The random animals of "a very Random Island in the North Atlantic [Sea]" will delight people of all...
- Auteur: Doody, LoriSommaire:
An island off the coast of another island is home to a small community; life is rich with joy and challenges, and the people who live there love their island home. One day they learn that the government will move them off the island, to...
- Auteur: Ouchi, MiekoSommaire:
Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature film in fifty years. A thought...
- Auteur: Banks, CatherineSommaire:
Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues...
- Auteur: Junaid, BushraSommaire:
'What truths would you utter from your mouthIf you could tell us your story'- The Possible Lives of W.H., SailorIn this powerful and deeply moving poetic narrative, author/artist Bushra Junaid gives presence to W.H., a...
- Auteur: Kanagawa, HiroSommaire:
Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred-a formerly promising novelist-now struggling with his...
- Auteur: Banks, CatherineSommaire:
When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways...
- Auteur: Chafe, RobertSommaire:
Spanning two decades, Smallwood's story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston's most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with the past and alcohol...
- Auteur: MacIvor, DanielSommaire:
Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a Gay Days parade. Now her two sons, Kyle and Hamilton, have the task of arranging her funeral and caring for her most beloved companion, a troublesome Italian greyhound named...
- Auteur: Fine, LoSommaire:
Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having multiple flings. When she meets Freda, a woman who exposes Jem's vulnerabilities, her preconceived notions of who she is...
- Auteur: Shields, ErinSommaire:
In a sweaty hotel room, a lonely businessman and a young woman meet for sex. Somewhere between reality and fantasy, the sex becomes talk and the talk becomes dangerous. Nothing is off limits in this battle of morality, economics and...
- Auteur: Heiti, MatthewSommaire:
The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow of a black dog. Two is fraught....
- Auteur: Laborde, RosaSommaire:
Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende's assassination. Told through Leo's memories, the play travels through childhood...
- Auteur: Coles, Megan GailSommaire:
Annie Runningbird doesn't have time for the games boys want her to play. She's aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How...
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Twenty-six writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood's opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of...
- Auteur: Swanson, Ruby RemendaSommaire:
Ruby Swanson's life changed when her sixteen-year-old son walked to her office, closed the door, and with his hand still on the doorknob said, 'I'm gay.' Despite her initial reaction of shock, fear, and denial, Ruby...
- Auteur: Yee, DavidSommaire:
Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a...
- Auteur: Alfano, MichelleSommaire:
No mother is prepared for the moment when a child comes out to her as a person whose physical gender is out-of-keeping with his emotional and psychological gender-identity. In Michelle Alfano's intimate memoir, she recounts her...
- Auteur: Irani, AnoshSommaire:
From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition ofThe Bombay Playsfeaturing two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play Finalist for the 2007...
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