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Beautiful mornin': the Broadway musical in the 1940s
By Ethan Mordden. 1999
Discusses the shift in the focus of 1940s musicals from comedy routines to plays and identifies some defining features of…
the new form. The emergent musical productions and their original-cast recordings found a permanent place in our society, with many of the shows still being performed in the 1990s. 1999.Ballet 101: a complete guide to learning and loving the ballet
By Robert Greskovic. 1998
Axel's castle: a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 (Scribner library)
By Edmund Wilson. 1969
Art attack: a short cultural history of the avant-garde
By Marc Aronson. 1998
An account of various twentieth-century art movements including dance, music, and painting that shocked the mainstream establishment at the time…
with their newness and innovation. Includes pop art, surrealism, cubism, jazz, rock and roll, and ballet as well as individual portraits of various artists. For senior high and older readers. 1998.An inspector calls (SmartPass)
By Phil Viner, Jools Viner, J. B Priestley, Gil Maine, Jonathan Lomas. 2006
Peel away the layers of Priestley's complex drama to appreciate this powerful warning play, wrapped up in the genre of…
a gripping detective story, to truly understand that "We don't live alone. We are members of one body". For senior high readers. 2006, c1945.An artificial wilderness: essays on 20th-century literature
By Sven Birkerts. 1987
An empire of their own: how the Jews invented Hollywood
By Neal Gabler. 1988
Gabler presents the lives of some of the great founding Hollywood moguls such as Adolph Zukor, the Warner brothers, William…
Fox, and Louis B. Mayer, and shows how the empire they helped build reflected their vision of America. These former East European Jews began a dream factory in which they rejected their past and embraced their new country. Includes strong language. 1989, c1988.American Bandstand: Dick Clark and the making of a rock 'n' roll empire
By John A Jackson. 1997
Chronicles the career of Dick Clark from a little-known radio disc jockey to the host of the national teen dance…
show "American Bandstand". Explores Clark's nonstop pursuit of wealth, his escape from the 1959 payola scandal, and his business affairs after the popularity of the show decreased. 1997.Air Farce: 40 years of flying by the seat of our pants
By Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott. 2011
Written by the founding members of Air Farce - Roger Abbott and Don Ferguson - this memoir, full of anecdotes,…
scripts, and other memorabilia from the authors' private collection describes every aspect of their hard-scrabble early life in 1970 as an onstage comedy troupe, their historic run on radio, and their success on prime-time television. With contributions from many of their longtime friends and collaborators, they take readers behind the scenes, and onstage, into the day-to-day creative vortex of one of the most popular comedy shows in the history of Canadian television. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 2011.Agatha Christie's secret notebooks: fifty years of mysteries in the making
By Agatha Christie, John Curran. 2009
Literary advisor to the bestselling queen of crime's estate describes, excerpts, and discusses the seventy-plus notebooks discovered at Christie's family…
home after her daughter's 2004 death. Includes notes about Christie's books, alternative plot ideas, and two previously unpublished stories featuring her long-running protagonist Hercule Poirot. 2009.A writer's Ireland: landscape in literature
By William Trevor. 1984
A reader's guide to the Canadian novel
By John George Moss. 1987
These 300 essays provide a critical, comprehensive look at Canadian fiction from 1769 to the present time. Includes entries on…
writers of historical importance as well as established authors such as Timothy Findley and Margaret Atwood, and new writers such as Janette Turner Hospital and Joy Kogawa. 1987.A dream betrayed: the battle for the CBC
By Tony Manera. 1996
On February 3, 1994, Tony Manera was appointed the president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Almost exactly one year later,…
Manera resigned in protest when the government cut the CBC's budget by $270 million. In "A dream betrayed," Manera tells the story of what went on behind the scenes at the CBC, why he left, and why he is still a passionate supporter of the CBC. 1996.A kestrel for a knave (SmartPass)
By Barry Hines, Mike Reeves, Phil Viner, Jools Viner. 2006
Experience the gritty realism of Billy Casper's world, as he fights to escape the confines of life in a 1960's…
Yorkshire mining town by training and flying a hawk. Junior and senior high readers. 2006, c1968.A history of reading
By Alberto Manguel. 1996
Author and translator Alberto Manguel tells the story of the act of reading, from Pliny the Younger to the lures…
of cyberspace. Exploring what it means to be a reader of books, he considers what happens when we read, how our reading habits have developed over the centuries, and how, ever since writing began, the act of reading has become a part of being human. 1996.À force de voir: histoire de regards
By Pierre Ouellet. 2005
Beaucoup plus qu'un catalogue commenté de 65 oeuvres d'art (peintures, photographies, sculptures, dessins, vidéos, collages, etc.) qui constituent la "réserve…
d'oxygène" de l'auteur, ce bel album propose une somme d'aperçus et de réflexions sur l'art, sur les relations entre les arts, en particulier l'écriture et les arts visuels, sur l'omniprésence du corps dans les arts de représentation, etc. Prix du Gouverneur général 2006, catégorie études et essais. 2005.100 Westerns (Screen Guides)
By Edward Buscombe. 2006
Buscombe provides a guide to a hundred key films from Broken Arrow to the Wild Bunch. Each entry includes a…
plot synopsis, major credits, and a commentary on the film's significance. Considers the defining features of the Western and traces its main cycles, from the epic Westerns of the 1920s and singing cowboys of the 1930s to the Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2006.The merry heart: selections 1980-1995
By Robertson Davies. 1996
A collection of Robertson Davies' reflections on books, reading, and writing. These essays, book reviews, and other writings, taken from…
a selection which he had planned to publish before his death, reveal Davies at his vintage best. 1996.The library at night
By Alberto Manguel. 2006
An account of Manguel's astonishment at the variety, beauty and persistence of our efforts to shape the world and our…
lives, most notably through something almost as old as reading itself: libraries. The result is both personal and wide-ranging: a study of the mysteries of libraries, a thorough analysis of their history throughout the world, and an esoteric celebration of reading. 2006.