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Series: That Elusive Spark Paperback Janet Munsil 9781770912045 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 01, 2014

Neuropsychologist Helen Harlow is an expert at understanding the functions of the human brain, and yet her own remains a mystery. Turning her back on a once-brilliant future filled with scientific promise, Helen attempts to escape the mess of her life by diving headfirst into a new one: living in a frat-house basement, teaching Psych 101 to clueless freshmen, and confronting both her depression and the puzzling attentions of her slacker housemate Finlay. Pushed to the brink and increasingly desperate for some semblance of normalcy, Helen finds ... + Read More
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Series: An Almost Perfect Thing Paperback Nicole Moeller 9781770912076 $16.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2014

Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead of leading police to her captor, Chloe turns to Greg to share her story. Unfortunately for him, Chloe won’t provide names or locations, and instead dictates exactly how the story should be told. But Chloe has become an international celebrity—both respected and scrutinized by the public—and they all want to know,... + Read More
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Series: Between the Sheets Paperback Jordi Mand 9781770912106 $16.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2014

Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son’s young teacher, Teresa. Armed with love notes between Curtis and Teresa, Marion shows up to a parent-teacher interview to confront the woman who may be the thread that unravels her life. What ensues is a gripping and raw confrontation between two women, one fighting to protect her family, the other fighting for the family she always wanted.
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Series: Flesh and Other Fragments of Love Paperback Evelyne de la Chenelière 9781770912038 $16.95 DRAMA Feb 01, 2014

When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren’t expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during a walk along the beach. It’s not long before curiosity and obsession take over, and the couple begin to piece together Mary’s history using both facts and their imaginations. As her story comes alive, Mary’s presence integrates itself into Pierre and Simone’s lives, resurrecting their memories and regrets, fears and obsessions. Now they must str... + Read More
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Series: Mary's Wedding 3rd edition Paperback Stephen Massicotte 9781770911680 $16.95 DRAMA Sep 05, 2013

When Mary and Charlie, filled with the passion, vulnerability, and impulsiveness of youth, unexpectedly find one another sheltering in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and Mary and Charlie must surrender their love and fate to the uncertainties of their tumultuous times. A play with a heart as big as the land that serves as its backdrop, Mary's Wedding is a wonderfully tender, poignant story of innocent first love and the vicissitudes of fate.
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Series: The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Volume Two Paperback Denyse Lynde 9781550814668 $19.95 DRAMA Mar 01, 2014

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Volume 2, presents an exciting range of work by both established and emerging playwrights. In her eclectic choices, editor Denyse Lynde offers an extraordinarily varied collection of dramatic works hand-picked from the recent successful and active period of production in the province. Ben Pittman’s vivid, historical “The Fights” shares space with Lois Brown’s firmly present-day tale, “Sex, The Rules Of”. Kevin Major’s wartime drama “Lead Me Home” stands next to Ruth Lawrence’s comic romp, ... + Read More
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Series: Sequence Paperback Arun Lakra 9781770911970 $16.95 DRAMA Mar 01, 2014

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he’s getting ready to risk millions on the twenty-first when he is confronted by Cynthia, a young woman who claims to have figured out his mathematical secret. Stem-cell researcher and professor Dr. Guzman is on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery. She’s also learned that one of her students has defied probability to get all 150 multiple-choice questions wrong on his genetics exam, b... + Read More
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Series: The Grandkid Paperback John Lazarus 9781770912137 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 01, 2014

Julius Rothstein and his granddaughter Abby have loved each other from opposite ends of Canada since Abby was born. But now, accepted as a freshman student at the university where Julius teaches, Abby is moving in with him to be close to school and to keep her newly widowed grandfather company. The two must negotiate a new relationship as housemates and friends, which means dealing with issues of youth and age, work and play, activism and apathy, homework and heart attacks, and those three tricky topics: sex, politics, and religion.
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Series: This Is What Happens Next Paperback Daniel MacIvor 9781770912007 $16.95 DRAMA Apr 20, 2014

Most people hope for happy endings. For Warren, a gay divorcee, that means getting his stuff back; most importantly, his cherished John Denver CD. And then there's Warren's assortment of friends: Susan, a Percocet-fuelled divorce lawyer whose daughters are giving her a hard time; Tarot-reading Aaron, who is dating Susan and who secretly used to be known as Erin; Mike, an alcoholic who sometimes sees his son on Saturdays; and Kevin, Mike's kid who has an imaginary friend. Observing and directing all of their lives is the human will—or Will, as h... + Read More
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Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre Theatres of Affect Paperback Erin Hurley 9781770912168 $25.00 LITERARY CRITICISM May 01, 2014

What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and its production centre stage? As theatre people, we are well equipped for the challenges of this task, for we labour expressly, consistently, and consciously with emotion, feeling, mood, and affect. In essays by seasoned and emerging scholars, Theatres of Affect takes the emotional temperature of Canadian performances, ranging from a verbatim theatre piece on the emotional labours and costs of kin care, to the Canadian military's "theatre of war," to disabi... + Read More
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Series: Once More, With Feeling Five Affecting Plays Paperback Erin Hurley 9781770912175 $25.00 DRAMA May 01, 2014

This anthology brings together plays that highlight different types of affective experience—thematically in their content, dramaturgically in their structure, or technically in their production. They focus on how theatre uses a range of feeling-technologies, including plot, haracterization, special effects, and verbatim dialogue, to produce moving moments in performance and to elicit affective responses in audiences. As a companion collection to Theatres of Affect, Once More, With Feeling celebrates and interrogates the variable experiences of ... + Read More
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Series: The Arts Club Anthology 50 Years of Canadian Theatre in Vancouver Paperback Rachel Ditor 9781770912182 $24.95 DRAMA Jan 20, 2015

As the largest theatre in Western Canada, the Arts Club Theatre Company has attracted millions of people to celebrate artistic talent during its impressive fifty-year history. An integral part of Vancouver's theatre scene and Canadian theatre history, the company helped launch the careers of many Canadian talents and introduced the city to tremendous playwrights such as Carol Bolt and Michel Tremblay. This anthology celebrates that history by collecting six of the most unique and cherished plays that have premiered at the Arts Club Theatre over... + Read More
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Series: Performing Back Post-Colonial Theatre Paperback Dalbir Singh 9781770912199 $19.95 LITERARY CRITICISM May 01, 2015

The area of post-colonial studies is primarily concerned with how societies and cultures have been affected through the processes of colonization, and Canada is considered by many literary and cultural critics to be such a nation not only due to its historical lineage as a settler colony but also by playing host to many multicultural immigrant communities that bring with them their own histories embedded in colonialism. Performing Back aims to generate discussion about the different kinds of theatrical and political output this country is gener... + Read More