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In Canadas first bilingual play, an award-winning classic, the English and the French-Canadian working class take on the Establishment. Three families and the neighbourhood delivery boy sit on balconies in the heat of a Montreal summer, forced to listen to election promises in both languages from the broadcast truck of Gatan Bolduc, who is running for re-election for the Liberals.

The heroic struggle for joy of two "tramps" in a hotel boiler room. Cast of 1 woman and 2 men.

A novel about mountains by one of Canada's greatest writers on nature, depicting the heart's desire to go beyond mountains.

This volume contains two uniquely Canadian stories of exile: "The Island of Demons" and "Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted."

A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor. Cast of 7 men.

Working-class survivors of the 1960s stage a workers' sit-down strike. Cast of 9 men.

An innovative "country opera" with a captivating parallel to Shakespeare's "Othello." Cast of 5 women, 10 men and a band.

A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938. Cast of 7 women and 4 men.

A novel of Pauline Archange's desire to translate the events of her life into words.

Three short plays by Cook: "Tiln," "Quiller" and "Therese's Creed."

The destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade. Cast of 5 women and 13 men.

Plays by Quebec's best-known playwright: "La Duchesse de Langeais"; "Berthe"; "Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs"; "Surprise, Surprise"; "Gloria Star."

Two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate. Cast of 3 women and 17 men.

On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.

A look at post-World War II Canada from a recent high-school graduate's viewpoint. Cast of 2 women and 9 men.

The life of a lower-class family in East End Montreal. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

Jane Rule's first collection of short stories.

A classic tragedy about the Inuit, white settlers, priests and government officials. Cast of 6 women and 9 men.

A woman forces three men to play roles as son, husband and lover. Cast of 1 woman and 3 men.

A mosaic of experiences that form a childhood. Cast of 2 women, 2 men, 1 girl and 1 boy.

Lucid, original and ultimately wise, this book is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy.

Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four fortysomething, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy, Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst and the action unfolds from there.At the centre of the drama is Ambrose Archibald, an irredeemable reprobate and the type of guy who rants philosophically at the bar while mooching beer from his friends. Hes a narcissist who thinks hes Gods gift to women. And hes having an affair with the charming and beautiful Mandy Menzies, who was the high school beauty queen but is now stuck in a marriage of convenience and a life of boredom. Her housekeeper, Estelle Carmichael, has seen it all, but her prickly exterior belies a loving heart. The dryly funny Freddy Durdle is the perfect counter-balance to over-the-top Ambrose.All four oddballs seem stuck in their lives, but searing sarcasm relieves the boredom and crazy, everyday dramas aid their struggle to move on and keep things lightCast of 2 women and 2 men.

In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors day deal. But its not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime its also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality.Along for the ride is Phyllis, Almas frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentors cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. Its Alma who does the talking when the pair is apprehended at the grocery store by Dom, an overzealous rookie security guard. Guided by the strictness of his born-again Christian belief, Dom is ready to handcuff the culprits and call the police, but his affable senior partner, Otto, intervenes with a more sympathetic view of the crime: Its just a couple a steaks. As Alma, Phyllis, Dom, and Otto share their wildly different takes on the situation, complex views on morality and ethics begin to emerge.With its cast of oddball characters, Panychs comedy offers biting observations about societys haves and have-nots and how much they might actually have in common.Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Sachiko Murakami's poems respond to the out-of-time, out-of-place environments of airports, using the crowd-sourced observations of weary travelers as inspiration.

A mixed-race woman reflects on a life of hardship, triumph-contemplating ways in which bloodlines shaped her response to different circumstances.

This novel explores the snares of individual and collective memory as they are used to justify and preserve ancestral grudges.