Jason Stevens is an angry 15-year-old when his parents decide to move from Toronto to Lucan, Ontario, site of the notorious 1880 massacre of the Irish-Canadian Donnelly family. In the big city,...
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Author: McRae, DavidSummary:Genre: Canadian fiction, Juvenile fiction -
Author: Reibetanz, DavidSummary:The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable. They illuminate the shadows of memory that slip into our darker corners,...
Genre: Canadian poetry, Poetry -
Author: Helwig, DavidSummary:A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures,...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Humorous fiction -
Author: Elliott, David R.Summary:A one-stop guide for people seeking information about their ancestors in Ireland. This book will help all those, no matter where they live, who are searching for ancestors in Ireland. David R....
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Author: Fitzgerald, Judith; Labrèche-Larouche, Michelle; Braid, Kate; Rigelhof, T.F.; Plante, Raymond; Slade, Arthur; Wilson, John; Bridge, Kathryn; Stewart, Roderick; Stewart, Sharon; Macpherson, Margaret; Goodall, Lian; Paulin, Marguerite; Legaré, Francine; Evans, Gary; Cowley, Deborah; Shardlow, Tom; Kirk, Heather; Cimon, Anne; Vanasse, André; Larsen, Wayne; Henighan, Tom; Maes, Nicholas; Ferguson, Julie H.; Knowles, Valerie; Lahey, D.T.; Butts, Edward; Leavey, Peggy Dymond; Sadlier, Rosemary; Argyle, Ray; Tidridge, Nathan; Martin, GedSummary:This special bundle contains the first thirty-five books in the Quest Biography series, which profiles the lives of Canadians who have had a profound effect on their country and the world. Some of...
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Author: Hunter, MartinSummary:The final installment of the critically acclaimed memoir series Done Hunting brings Martin Hunter's memoirs to a close, sharing adventures and observations from his sixth to ninth decades....
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Author: MacArthur, GregSummary:Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada's most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large...
Genre: Canadian drama -
Author: Pierson, Ruth RoseSummary:Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two -- an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so...
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Author: Williamson, MargauxSummary:"Like all my favorite art, these paintings bring out that covetous feeling. I want to wear them, dance to them, show them off as an example of how life feels to me: dirty, dumb, terrifying,...
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Author: Graham, Kenneth; Kolentsis, AlysiaSummary:
Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Literary arts, Essays -
Author: Russell, DavidSummary:Winston Patrick reluctantly leads some kids in suing their school when a same-sex partner is refused entry to the prom, but opponents will stop at nothing to make their point, not even murder....
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Author: Creighton, DavidSummary:Who were the beats? Not the sandle-clad "beatniks" of popular lore but dedicated writers, experimenters, skit improvisers, theorizers, hedonists, close friends, bisexual free lovers,...
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Author: Kemp, DavidSummary:Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in...
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Author: Dyment, David; Rae, BobSummary:Advance Praise for Doing the Continental: "Everyone has opinions about the state of Canada-U.S. relations, but few have the knowledge to provide informed judgments. Professor Dyment happily...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Skene-Melvin, DavidSummary:The period from the early 1880s through the First World War has been called "The Golden Age of the Storytellers." These were the writers who sought not to write great literature, but to entertain...