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9781772010237 | Talonbooks Ltd, November 15, 2016, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Quebec City, 1908. Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter to a controversial visitor to their city: the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt.']As part of her long career, Bernhardt â known to her loyal fans as âThe Divineâ â visited Canada several times between 1880 and 1917, most often visiting Montreal, but once â just once â alighting in Quebec City...read more
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9780889229587 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 13, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Quebec City, 1908.
Product Description: Linda Gaboriauâs English translation stays loyal to Evelyne de la Chenelièreâs beautiful imagery and poetic language in this stunning adaptation of Marie Cardinalâs celebrated novel, Une vie pour deux.When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage...read more
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9781770912038 | Playwrights Canada Pr, September 9, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Linda Gaboriauâs English translation stays loyal to Evelyne de la Chenelièreâs beautiful imagery and poetic language in this stunning adaptation of Marie Cardinalâs celebrated novel, Une vie pour deux.
Product Description: Michel Marc Bouchardâs latest play tells the story of Queen Christina of Sweden, who wreaked havoc throughout northern Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century. An enigmatic monarch, a flamboyant and unpredictable intellectual, a woman eager for knowledge, and a feminist before her time, Christina reigned over an empire she hoped to make the most sophisticated in all of Europe...read more
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9780889228986 | Talonbooks Ltd, September 9, 2014, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Michel Marc Bouchardâs latest play tells the story of Queen Christina of Sweden, who wreaked havoc throughout northern Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century.
Product Description: In Heavens, the fourth and final instalment of his critically lauded Blood Promises cycle, Wajdi Mouawad crafts a fierce and poignant play that penetrates the intersection where violence, terror, beauty, and art converge. Isolated in a secret location, an international team of intelligence personnel are given the task of intercepting and decoding cryptic messages from terrorists...read more
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9781770911536 | Playwrights Canada Pr, March 11, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In Heavens, the fourth and final instalment of his critically lauded Blood Promises cycle, Wajdi Mouawad crafts a fierce and poignant play that penetrates the intersection where violence, terror, beauty, and art converge.
Product Description: A call late at night has Wahab springing into action. Despite a blinding snowstorm, an irritating bus driver, and a spinning wheel of worries, Wahab travels to his dying motherâs hospital room. A journey of two kinds, A Bomb in the Heart is about a young manâs relationship to his mother, the pain of loss, and about understanding the voice deep within...read more
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9781770911031 | Italian edition edition (Playwrights Canada Pr, April 9, 2013), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A call late at night has Wahab springing into action.
Product Description: Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis  neither of whom know Tom even exists...read more
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9780889227590 | Reprint edition (Talonbooks Ltd, May 14, 2013), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Following the accidental death of his lover, and in the throes of his grief, urban ad executive Tom travels to the country to attend the funeral and to meet his mother-in-law, Agatha, and her son, Francis  neither of whom know Tom even exists.
Product Description: In the seemingly endless small-town summer of 1968, a twelve-year-old girl contemplates with dread the social prospects of her fast-approaching enrollment in a class for gifted students at the local high school, arranged by her mother who Âblows upâ at the drop of a hatÂshe doesnât intend to let her daughter marry Âthe first man to come along,â and she is prepared to do anything to make sure her children donât grow up Âignorant,â like Judithâs sister, Claire...read more
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9780889226777 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 6, 2011, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In the seemingly endless small-town summer of 1968, a twelve-year-old girl contemplates with dread the social prospects of her fast-approaching enrollment in a class for gifted students at the local high school, arranged by her mother who Âblows upâ at the drop of a hatÂshe doesnât intend to let her daughter marry Âthe first man to come along,â and she is prepared to do anything to make sure her children donât grow up Âignorant,â like Judithâs sister, Claire.
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9780887549267 | 2 edition (Playwrights Canada Pr, January 25, 2011), cover price $18.95
Product Description: In ÂThe Axeâ a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night. On his way he has stumbled (with a flask of whiskey) through the pouring rain, stopping in a city park to vandalize the statue of an angel, tormented by the image of his lifeâs work, ninety-seven poems he has left behind in flames in his apartment...read more
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9780889226456 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 15, 2010, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In ÂThe Axeâ a literature professor arrives at the door of one of his students in the middle of the night.
Product Description: At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary...read more
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9780889226418 | Talonbooks Ltd, March 5, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: At the end of the First World War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic brought home by returning soldiers, a young priest recently arrived in the Parish of Lac St-Jean commissions a wandering Italian painter to decorate the walls of the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
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9780887547935 | Playwrights Canada Pr, April 1, 2010, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: By the author of Scorched, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002.
Product Description: Michel Tremblayâs well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life. The older Albertines warn the younger ones of what is to comeÂÂOur fate depends on you,â Albertine at 70 says to Albertine at 30...read more
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9780889226272 | Talonbooks Ltd, May 19, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Michel Tremblayâs well-loved and award-winning play presents the story of one woman, Albertine, at five different times in her life.
Product Description: A young man enters a hotel room and spends a sleepless night, jotting words down on paper, the prelude, perhaps, to a novel in the making. Haunted by his imagination and by the characters who appear to him, the writer, slowly but surely, will recognize someone who will complete this world: the Hotelkeeper, a woman who has never been haunted by such questions, but who has suddenly become a victim of fate...read more
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9780887548703 | Playwrights Canada Pr, April 30, 2008, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A young man enters a hotel room and spends a sleepless night, jotting words down on paper, the prelude, perhaps, to a novel in the making.
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9780887548666 | Playwrights Canada Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $17.95
Product Description: And here she is in person: Maggie. She appears on the sidewalk just as Junior makes a big decision: this very night, he's going to make a run for it to achieve his great dream of becoming an astronaut⦠You've got to run fast to escape from your childhood...read more
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9780887548840 | Playwrights Canada Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: And here she is in person: Maggie.
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9780889225411 | Talonbooks Ltd, October 1, 2006, cover price $17.95
Product Description: A northern Canadian village, one of many remote settlements dotting the Quebec landscape, is in transition. Originally dependent on subsistence farming and logging, supplemented by winter hunting, its economy has gradually changed over the years: first increasingly dependent on guiding southern urbanites on hunting trips; then on providing a habitat for birdwatchers, nature tourists and collectors of antiques and local crafts; now primarily dependent on income flows from cottagers and retirees...read more
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9780889225343 | Talonbooks Ltd, March 1, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A northern Canadian village, one of many remote settlements dotting the Quebec landscape, is in transition.
Product Description: Voices From France is the result of a rich collaboration between The Banff Centre, the Societe des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, supported by the French Embassy in Canada, and the Maison Antoine Vitez in France, and features English translations of five French contemporary plays...read more
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9781894773256 | Banff Centre Pr, February 7, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Voices From France is the result of a rich collaboration between The Banff Centre, the Societe des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, supported by the French Embassy in Canada, and the Maison Antoine Vitez in France, and features English translations of five French contemporary plays.
Product Description: In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimerâs ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologuesÂto settle old scores and misunderstandings between them...read more
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9780889225305 | Talonbooks Ltd, December 20, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimerâs ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologuesÂto settle old scores and misunderstandings between them.
Product Description: Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother, who is about to die, other characters come into the storyâwitnesses or key players able to assist in the investigation...read more
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9780887547607 | Playwrights Canada Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twin children Jeanne and Simon want to solve the mystery of their origins.
Product Description: Daniel Danisâs homage to Aeschylus, the Âfather of tragedy,â is set on an imaginary island in the St. Lawrence River. The eccentric islanders are about to join in the outdoor ÂRagesâ staged by the trickster CoyoteÂwild Bacchanalia where the participants, under the influence of his potions, lose all vestiges of their civility and abandon themselves to the elemental forces of life and death...read more
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9780889225190 | 1 edition (Talonbooks Ltd, May 1, 2005), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Daniel Danisâs homage to Aeschylus, the Âfather of tragedy,â is set on an imaginary island in the St.
Product Description: The Concise Köchel cannot be substituted for the ÂCompleteâ catalogue. Published in response to the many requests from musicologists and musicians received by the publishers Breitkopf and Hartel, this abridged, less costly and easier-to-handle edition is designed to meet the most frequent needs of those interested in the works of Mozart...read more
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9780889225183 | 1 edition (Talonbooks Ltd, May 1, 2005), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The Concise Köchel cannot be substituted for the ÂCompleteâ catalogue.
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9780889224933 | Talonbooks Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $11.95
Product Description: Torrential rains have descended upon a small isolated village, and the overflowing river has washed away everything in its path. The mudslide has gutted the writing room, the place where a group of senior citizens used to meet to record their memories...read more
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9780889224926 | Talonbooks Ltd, January 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Torrential rains have descended upon a small isolated village, and the overflowing river has washed away everything in its path.
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