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By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2007
A consortium of German developers arrives at Otter Lake Reserve with an offer: they want to improve the local economy…
with the creation of "OjibwayWorld", a Native theme park. Designed to attract European tourists, it instead causes personal and political divisions within the local community, as well as hilarity. 2007.By Jean Cocteau. 1938
Michel et son père sont amoureux de la même femme. Le père s'en aperçoit et essaie de dire à son…
fils qu'il a un rival sans que sa femme connaisse l'histoire. 1938.By Jean Cocteau. 1948
By Maurice Maeterlinck. 1970
La veille de Noël, une fée emmène deux enfants au pays du souvenir, au palais de la nuit, au jardin…
du bonheur et au royaume de l'avenir à la recherche de l'oiseau bleu. 1970.By Eugène Labiche, Édouard Martin, Jacques Nathan. 1954
Tous deux prétendants d'Henriette Perrichon, Daniel et Armand tentent, par des procédés différents, de mettre son père de son côté.…
Plus habile que son rival, Daniel obtient la préférence .... jusqu'à ce que ses supercheries soient découvertes. 1954.By Marcel Dubé. 1960
Passe-Partout voudrait remplacer Tarzan à la tête d'un groupe de contrebandiers. Sa trahison entraîne la condamnation de Tarzan pour le…
meurtre d'un douanier. Après son évasion, que fera Tarzan? Reprendre la direction de la bande ou fuir à l'étranger? 1960.By William Shakespeare, Richard Armour. 1957
Tongue-in-cheek retellings of William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) best-known plays: Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of…
Venice, and Othello. Includes introduction, questions, appendices, and footnotes intended to contribute to a clearer misunderstanding of the subject. 1957.By Aristophanes. 1961
A Greek comedy featuring two fugitives from Athenian taxation and litigation, who persuade the birds to found a city in…
the clouds, Cloud-Cuckoo Land. In time, utopia under bird rule exists. First performed in 414 BCE. 1961.By Mark Shulman, Andrea Montejo, Lisa Kopelke, Oscar de la Hoya. 2006
By Jim Joyce, Scott Roberts, Thomas Hylton, Jill Homer, Geoff Husband, Bill Joyce, Ted Katauskas, Ella Lawrence, Jay T. McCamic, Gianna Bellofatto, Theresa Russell, Mason St. Clair, Bradley Swink, Andy Wallen, James Brink, Cathy Dion, John Stuart Clark, Alan Ira Fleischmann, Rhona Fritsch, Dave Fritsch. 2007
A collection of articles, essays, and poetry that Joyce deems "a celebration of the bicycle by people who ride." Includes…
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Hylton's editorial about cycling-friendly communities, an interview with Lance Armstrong's coach Chris Carmichael, joyful accounts of cycling adventures, and travel and mechanical advice. 2007First published in 1930, this collection includes "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a novel about a beautiful youth whose portrait…
has supernatural qualities; "The Importance of Being Earnest," a comic, satirical play about a rakish nobleman; "Lady Windermere's Fan," a comedy of manners; "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," an autobiographical account of Wilde's imprisonment; and other short works of drama, prose, and poetryBy Anton Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Avrahm Yarmolinsky. 1978
A collection of twenty-eight short stories including "The Man in a Shell," "Gooseberries," and "The Darling;" two plays, "The Boor,"…
and "The Cherry Orchard;" and selected letters of Chekhov. Includes a chronology of his life and a selected bibliography of his worksBy Wendy Wasserstein. 1990
Twenty-eight essays and a one-act play by the winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for drama, which she received for…
the play, "The Heidi Chronicles." In a lighthearted, witty way, she discusses nail boutiques, the fitness craze, who wears plaid--and why, backstage at the Kabuki theatre, and lunch at the Metropolitan Museum of ArtBy Molière. 1959
Alceste vows to speak and act with complete honesty; he will no longer adhere to the conventions of the hypocritical…
society that surrounds him. Somewhat contradictorily, he prefers vain, coquettish Celimene to gentle, sincere Eliante. First published in the 17th century. 1959. Uniform title: Misanthrope.By Patrick F McManus. 1987
Outdoor humourist McManus' essays are on subjects such as filleting fish, tying flies and shooting marbles. Some of his cronies…
include Retch Sweeney and Rancid Crabtree, an extraordinary mountain man. Bestseller 1987.By Robert Marinier. 2021
Dans un futur pas si lointain ravagé par les dérèglements climatiques, des villes sont submergées, des routes sont détruites et…
les flots de migrants convergent vers les dernières terres arables. Au Canada, une faction extrémiste du Parti vert organise un coup d’État et condamne à mort tous ceux qui ont nié le réchauffement de la planète. Une rébellion se lève.Persuadé d’être dans une pièce de théâtre, Guy Coudonc reste détaché de la catastrophe avant d’être catapulté au rang de personnage principal de cette fable écologique.Exploration théâtrale à l’humour grinçant, Un conte de l’apocalypse met en lumière les impacts qu’ont nos décisions sur notre histoire et notre environnement.By Martin Michael Driessen, Jonathan Reeder. 2019
In a small town on the Adriatic coast, postman Andrej and funicular railway conductor Josip discover each other's secrets and…
begin blackmailing the other. A strange friendship develops, but war looms. Translated from the original 2017 Dutch edition. Some violence and some strong language. 2019By LeAnne Howe. 2007
Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back…
and forth from 1969 during the Vietnam War to present-day Ada. The story focuses on an Indian baseball team but brings a new understanding to the term "America's favorite pastime." For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball was an extension of a sport they'd been playing for centuries before their forced removal to Indian Territory. In this lively and humorous work of fiction informed by careful historical research, LeAnne Howe weaves original and fictive documents such as newspaper clippings, photographs, typewritten letters, and handwritten journal entries into the narrative. Adult. UnratedBy Gary D. Schmidt. 2007
Long Island, 1967. Seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood knows that Mrs. Baker "hates his guts" because she would have Wednesday afternoons free…
if he went to catechism or Hebrew school like his classmates. Mrs. Baker worries about her husband in Vietnam and introduces a reluctant Holling to Shakespeare. For grades 5-8. Newbery Honor. 2007By Elizabeth Gilbert. 2009
« Depuis l'âge de 17 ans, Eustace Conway renonce au confort et rejette la vie en société, le progrès et…
le matérialisme, pour vivre dans les bois. Cela fait donc plus de vingt ans qu'il habite dans un tipi, frotte du bois pour faire du feu et chasse pour se nourrir et se vêtir. Charmant, charismatique, heureux, irritant et plein de contradictions, il cherche à convertir les autres à son mode de vie. » -- 4e de couv