A Chinese son must tell his parents that he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called "Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Canada
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Author:Chan, MartySummary: -
Author:Avrich, BarrySummary:A sharp and witty exposé of show business and notorious characters Barry Avrich is a Montreal-born, self-made film producer/director, flamboyant advertising executive, and legendary biographer and connector of moguls and stars. For over...
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Author:Rubenstein, LorneSummary:The unique life story of late golfer Moe Norman
Moe Norman has been called “The Mysterious Genius of Golf.” His swing, his mannerisms, and his lifestyle were unusual to say the least: Moe played very quickly, never took...
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Author:Rubenstein, LorneSummary:Rubenstein offers a riveting exploration of the life of Moe Norman, known for his unusual swing on the course--and his crippling insecurity and introverted nature off of it.
- Author:Jacobsen, MikkaSummary:
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...
- Author:Steinke, GordSummary:
The prohibition laws of the U.S. in the 1920s led to lucrative dealings between business-savvy Canadians and their mobster connections below the 49th parallel. The stories in this collection are the stuff of legends, with brutal...
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Author:Summary:"Mobilizing Metaphor illustrates how artistic and radical efforts are reshaping disability activism in Canada and, in the process, challenging dominant perceptions of disability. Recent changes to Canadian disability policy have seen...
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Author:Gin, Pascal, Moser, WalterSummary:La mobilité - la capacité à se déplacer ou à être déplacé - est un élément si omniprésent dans la vie moderne qu'elle est tenue pour acquise, presque imperceptible en raison de sa constante présence. Dans Mobilités culturelles -...
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Author:Brooks, MarthaSummary:In 1981, sixteen-year-old Sally McLean is in a car full of teenagers when it plunges through the ice to the bottom of Mistik Lake. Sally is the only survivor. Many years later, Sally's teenaged daughter, Odella, is left wondering...
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Author:Souvaliotis, AndreasSummary:An inspiring memoir by one of Canada's most unusual, successful and socially conscious businesspeople. Was he gifted or a hopeless misfit? That was the defining dilemma of Andreas Souvaliotis's childhood, adolescence and young life....
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- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
A psychological time bomb is triggered in Kellen O’Reilly as he begins to experience disturbing “flashbacks” to his unresolved and turbulent past.
It is winter in Montreal. Dr. Satorius, head of Coldhaven Manor, a psychiatric...
- Author:Brunt, Stephen, Tootoo, JordinSummary:
For some hockey players, retirement marks the moment when it's all over. But Jordin Tootoo is not most hockey players. Having inspired millions when he first broke into the league, Tootoo continued to influence people throughout his...
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Author:Riteman, Philip, Baulu-MacWillie, MireilleSummary:Philip Riteman is a Holocaust survivor whose mission is to educate today’s youth on the atrocities committed against millions of Jews and Gentiles by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II. From the Pruzhany Ghetto, Poland,...
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Author:Wood, JamesSummary:This cultural history of the amateur military tradition traces the origins of the citizen soldier ideal from long before Canadians donned khaki and boarded troopships for the Western Front. Before the Great War, Canada’s military...
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Author:McKercher, Asa, Perras, Galen RogerSummary:Although fifty years have passed since Lester Pearson stepped down as prime minister, he still influences debates about Canada’s role in the world. Mike’s World explores the myths surrounding Pearsonianism to explain why he remains such...
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Author:Fox, Kit, Swaby, RachelSummary:In 1967, a thirteen-year-old girl named Maureen Wilton set the women's world marathon record, running 26.2 miles in 3:15:23. Nicknamed "Little Mo" by her track teammates, Wilton was already a headline-making athlete. But her...
- Author:Soop, AlexSummary:
Blackfoot storyteller Alexander Soop plunges us into a shocking well of imagination in his debut collection of short stories, Midnight Storm Moonless Sky. From hauntings on the Highway of Tears to fearful gatherings of ghosts and the...
- Author:Aguirre, CarmenSummary:
Carmen Aguirre has lived many lives, all of them to the full. At age six she was a Chilean refugee adjusting to life as a Latina in North America. At eighteen she was a revolutionary dissident married to a generous-hearted man she...
- Author:Boisvert, Alain PierreSummary:
« — Peux-tu me décrire, mon hibou, ce que tu avais dessiné dans ta classe? poursuit Ricky, encore un peu secoué par le tintouin amplifié de notre crocodile. — Une grande plage avec des jeux et la mer et le soleil et des oiseaux et des...
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