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Tales from Shakespeare
By Tina Packer. 2004
Ten of Shakespeare's best-known plays retold as stories: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Much Ado about Nothing, Macbeth, The Tempest,…
Othello, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. Includes a brief introduction to Shakespeare's life and times. Grades 5-8. 2004.Randy Bachman: takin' care of business
By John Einarson, Randy Bachman. 2000
A biography of rock guitarist Randy Bachman, from his early days in Winnipeg, to his years with the Guess Who…
and BTO. A songwriter, producer, guitarist, and session player, Bachman has played an integral role in the evolution and growth of the Canadian music industry. Some strong language. 2000.Les belles soeurs
By Michel Tremblay. 1974
Jack, a life with writers: the story of Jack McClelland
By James King. 1999
Though officially a biography of the head of publishing house McClelland & Stewart, this book is equally about business and…
the Canadian literary scene. Jack McClelland was credited with introducing many well-known authors to Canada and the rest of the world, including Margaret Atwood, Pierre Berton, Irving Layton, Mordecai Richler and Margaret Laurence. The book reveals him to also be a fervent nationalist, devoted family man and perpetrator of often wild stunts that brought attention to his company's books. Some strong language.In the blood: battles to succeed in Canada's family business
By Gordon Pitts. 2000
Dramatic stories of twelve business families and the trials and triumphs each has faced in trying to maintain their dynasty.…
Some of Canada's most prominent business families describe the successes and failures of their empires at the hands of family members. 2000.Always fresh: the untold story of Tim Hortons by the man who created the Canadian cultural and business icon
By Robert Thompson, Ron Joyce. 2006
Ron Joyce tells the story of how he built the Tim Hortons empire before and after the death of the…
hockey star who started the franchise. Explains some of the key strategic decisions that fuelled the company's growth, celebrates the importance of hard work and discipline, and argues Mr. Joyce made a terrible mistake when he handed the operation over to the Wendy's restaurant chain and its founder Dave Thomas, rather than going public with an IPO. 2006.Boyzone - by request (Youth project)
By B. P Fallon. 1999
This is the story behind Boyzone's greatest hits, revealing their thoughts on songwriting and the inspiration for each song -…
songs which have catapulted them into the charts many times. The book is the official tie-in to the "Boyzone's Greatest Hits" album. For junior and senior high students.Seven plays: Seven Plays
By Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin. 1981
Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider…
cultural concerns? John Butt sums up recent debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. 2002.The colour of justice: based on the transcripts of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry (Modern Plays Ser.)
By Richard Norton-Taylor. 1999
A dramatised reconstruction of the events in the six month inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence. The case has…
gone from being a black family tragedy to a British tragedy, with the public identifying with his parents' loss and subsequent sense of outrage.The Miller companion to jazz in Canada and Canadians in jazz: And Canadians In Jazz
By Mark Miller. 2001
I know that name!: the people behind Canada's best known brand names from Elizabeth Arden to Walter Zeller
By Mark Kearney, Randy Ray. 2002
Every day Canadians buy groceries at Loblaws or Sobeys, develop film at Black's, or grab a coffee at Tim Hortons…
without giving it a second thought. These brands are in our lives and in the public eye. We're familiar with the names, but what do we really know about the people behind them? 2002.Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing: a play
By Tomson Highway. 1989
Sequel to "The rez sisters" (EB64360), this play tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve. Focuses on…
seven "Wasy" men and the game of hockey. Some strong language. 1989.The rez sisters: a play in two acts
By Tomson Highway. 1988
Seven women attempt to beat the odds by winning the biggest bingo in the world and escaping their tortured lives.…
Winner of the 1986 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play and nominated for the Governor General's Award. 1988.Adventures of a black girl in search of God
By Djanet Sears. 2003
Set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community, Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with…
the loss of her daughter, the disintergration of her marriage and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade. 2003.26 Italian songs and arias, medium high: Medium High Voice (26 Italian Songs And Arias Ser.)
By John G. Paton, John Glenn Paton. 1997
Cat on a hot tin roof
By Tennessee Williams. 1986
Maggie the Cat fights for the lives of her damaged and drinking husband Brick, herself, and their unborn children in…
the revised version of the dramatization of Big Daddy's birthday and deathday party and family gathering. Winner of the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for drama.Timothy Eaton and the rise of his department store
By Joy L Santink. 1990
This business biography of Timothy Eaton, who opened his first dry goods store in Toronto in 1869, is also a…
history of the retail trade in Canada. An Irish immigrant with little formal education, this visionary man had a major impact on Canada's culture.The oratorio anthology: Soprano
By Richard Walters. 1994
A collection of solo arias from oratorios, masses and cantatas. The literature was confined to work by major composers, and…
bypasses the dated oratorio literature found in previous collections. The most famous music is here, and so is interesting and less famous music by masters. There are new music engravings for each aria, and extensive historical notes and translations. 1994.Home truths: a play
By David Lodge. 1999
Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path.…
His university friend Sam Sharp, a successful screenwriter, drops in on the way to Los Angeles, fuming over a dreadful profile of him in a Sunday newspaper. Together they decide to take revenge on the interviewer, though Adrian is risking what he values most - his privacy. 1999.