The conventional opinion is that professional Canadian theatre began in 1953 with the founding of the Stratford Festival. But Susan McNicoll asks how this could be, when the majority of those taking the stage at Stratford were...
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Auteur:Wagamese, RichardSommaire:One Native Life is Richard Wagamese’s look back at the long road he traveled in reclaiming his identity. It's about the things he's learned as a human being, a man, and an Ojibway. Whether he's writing about playing baseball,...
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Auteur:Saso, EmilySommaire:A thrilling novel about two people stranded under mysterious circumstances in the South China Sea, battling the memories of the crimes that haunt them. A U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Jess is serving on an aircraft carrier (the first...
- Auteur:Jacobsen, MikkaSommaire:
Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place. In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is...
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Auteur:Rose, R. S.Sommaire:The life and career of a spy, the German-born Johann Heinrich Amadeus "Johnny" de Graaf (1894-1980), who was a double agent for the British against the Soviets before the Second World War, and worked for Canada against Canadian Fascists...
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Auteur:Shaffer, Mary AnnSommaire:It's a book club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island. Juliet Ashton, a London writer, converses in letters with the Society's members, learning about...
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Auteur:Vonnegut, KurtSommaire:The author looks at personal and cultural events and issues of the 1980s.
- Auteur:Savignac, LinaSommaire:
Tome 1 Entre 1910 et 1955, trois femmes issues de milieux différents habitent le village de Sainte-Élisabeth. Menant leur vie en parallèle, elles subissent l’influence de la toute puissante religion qui régissait tout jusqu’à la...
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Auteur:Follett, Ken.Sommaire:Edge of Eternity, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment,...
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Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the...
- Auteur:Havel, VáclavSommaire:
An intimate history of Czechoslovakia under communism; a meditation on the social and political role of art, and a triumphant statement of the values underlying all the recent revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
- Auteur:Charland, Marie-ClaudeSommaire:
Alors qu’elle fait ses débuts comme demoiselle de compagnie de Norah Fedmore, Lauriane tente de reprendre une vie normale suite aux événements qui ont bouleversé son existence. Mais il y a encore de l’orage dans l’air… Un malheureux...
- Auteur:Chamoiseau, PatrickSommaire:
Aimé Césaire. Saint-John Perse. Édouard Glissant. Trois des plus grands poètes de tous les siècles. Pourtant, il nous est difficile d'envisager une entité pareille. Dans l'ordinaire perception, on les distingue, on les oppose, on les...
- Auteur:Chilton, JohnSommaire:
Portrays the famed jazz singer's life and career, recounting her tragic fate stemming from stardom, loneliness, and drug addiction.
- Auteur:Djian, Jean-MichelSommaire:
À l’occasion du cinquantenaire des Indépendances africaines, célébré durant toute cette année en France comme dans 14 pays d’Afrique, et du quarantième anniversaire de l’avènement de la notion même de francophonie, paraît la première...
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Auteur:Laurence, MargaretSommaire:In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit...
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Auteur:Brose, Eric DornSommaire:Known as the "Great War," World War One was one of history's greatest tragedies. It eventually dragged most of Europe and the world into its bloody quagmire, inflicting more than four years of suffering, misery, maiming, and death on...
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