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By Maja Ardal. 2009
When Elsa and her family move from Iceland to Scotland she is filled with uncontrollable joy over the new…
adventure she is about to begin With her infectious energy and love for the dramatic Elsa stands out both in her community and within her classroom but this exuberance also targets her as an outcast Only through the faith of a new friend and the strength of her imagination does Elsa find the courage to look inside herself and find pride in who she is and where she came from Through her vivid characters Maja Ardal depicts Scotland in the 50s as a place of hope and harsh discrimination for immigrantsBy Beth Graham. 2015
Iris Trimble is trying to hold it all together She may very well fly off the face of the…
earth if she doesn t hang on to the kitchen counter At least that s how she feels after her mother Bernice a lively recently widowed fifty-nine-year-old breaks the news that she has Alzheimer s In an effort to cope with the stress Iris makes her mother s famous Everything That Is Bad For You Casserole a childhood favourite Her siblings on the other hand are on opposite sides of the spectrum Sarah the eldest irately demands a second opinion while Peter the youngest seems completely unfazed As for Bernice she s still as vivacious as ever always up for a good laugh and most of all ready to finally put herself firstBy Andrew Moodie. 2009
When top Crown attorney Thomas Matthews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a…
Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to the surface. Cutting deep into the lawyers' private lives, their families and foibles are richly portrayed as an integral part of Toronto's shifting mosaic. From an ostensibly routine traffic stop, each character must come to terms with the city's racial politics and how they have shaped their own beliefs and prejudices. Written in response to the rise of gun crime in the streets of Canada's largest city, Toronto the Good probes the problems that perpetuate the changing metropolis and explores how they have been allowed to flourish.By Rick Chafe. 2008
Living in a wild world full of unpredictable creatures beasts beggars witch hunters and actors…
William s family must find a way to cope with their changing Elizabethan world With four legs a keen eye and a sharp tongue Hooker Shakespeare s dog tells the story of how the Stratford rogue became the world s most famous playwright Based on the novel by Leon Rooke Shakespeare s Dog tells the tale of the Bard s life from a unique perspective showing that in the Elizabethan era lust love and lives collide and it is anyone s guess who is top dogBy Arun Lakra. 2014
Theo has been named Time Magazine s Luckiest Man Alive For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double…
or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss And he s getting ready to risk millions on the twenty-first when he is confronted by Cynthia a young woman who claims to have figured out his mathematical secret Stem-cell researcher and professor Dr Guzman is on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery She s also learned that one of her students has defied probability to get all 150 multiple-choice questions wrong on his genetics exam but it s not until he shows up to her office in the middle of the night that she s able to determine if it s simply bad luck The two narratives intertwine like a fragment of DNA to examine the interplay between logic and metaphysics science and faith luck and probability Belief systems clash ideas mutate and order springs from chaos With razor-sharp wit and playful language Sequence asks in our lives in our universe and even in our stories does order matterBy Daniel Macivor. 2013
On a publicity tour in Japan Carl a Canadian author finds himself falling in love amidst the…
sacred stages of Noh theatre and the seedy dance clubs in Tokyo wired on cocaine and sake His object of affection is the young seductive actor Yori but the affair becomes complicated when Carl s translator and Yori s sister Nushi becomes entranced with him As his tour continues he straddles the fragmentary place between two cultures one of individuality and directness the other of tradition and formality and uncovers the dualities that exist in life and love Based on The Tale of Genji one of the world s oldest pieces of literature MacIvor s script takes us into the centre of a clandestine Japan as experienced by the visiting outsiderBy Rick Chafe. 2013
This heartwarming and often hilarious play tells the story of Ernie and George an estranged father and son who…
are reunited when a debilitating stroke leaves Ernie with a speech disorder and memory loss While George is undeniably hurt and betrayed by the man who abandoned him as a child Ernie can t remember his words or where he lives Together they must find a way to make sense of their past and their future through fractured memories and muddled languageBy Daniel Macdonald. 2013
Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history One boat carries a…
father and daughter the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe the other carries the only hope for a new beginning Daniel Macdonald crafts a stunning tale of myth and reality at the end of the world and at its creationBy Mj Cruise. 2013
Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary the…
couple s children send them on a Caribbean cruise Free of chores and children Ernie and Twink are wined dined and introduced to exciting people When they meet the rich seductive Blake and Beth who still seem to have a perfect life together after ten years of marriage Twink becomes infatuated with the glamour of the other couple s lives and seeks to reignite the spark in her own marriageBy Meg Braem. 2013
Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned…
along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after their remarkable recovery, and quickly find themselves the subject of endless experiments. In a quest to study Poubelle and Angelique's undeniable bond, Dr. Glass's questionable practices are soon scrutinized by a young doctor who might be the twins' only hope for a normal life. Blood: A Scientific Romance probes the questions: Do relationships take on new meaning when they begin to shape not only our experiences, but our biology? And do we, in fact, complete one another?By Jordi Mand. 2014
Marion a working mother with a special-needs child has discovered a devastating secret her husband Curtis has…
been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son s young teacher Teresa Armed with love notes between Curtis and Teresa Marion shows up to a parent-teacher interview to confront the woman who may be the thread that unravels her life What ensues is a gripping and raw confrontation between two women one fighting to protect her family the other fighting for the family she always wantedBy Janet Munsil. 2014
Neuropsychologist Helen Harlow is an expert at understanding the functions of the human brain and yet her own remains…
a mystery Turning her back on a once-brilliant future filled with scientific promise Helen attempts to escape the mess of her life by diving headfirst into a new one living in a frat-house basement teaching Psych 101 to clueless freshmen and confronting both her depression and the puzzling attentions of her slacker housemate Finlay Pushed to the brink and increasingly desperate for some semblance of normalcy Helen finds herself in a doctor s office looking for a change But not everyone chooses to change Certainly not Phineas Gage a construction foreman in 1848 who miraculously survives an explosion that shoots an iron rod though his head While Phineas makes an extraordinary physical recovery he has a dramatic change in personality Attended to and observed by the young doctor James Harlow Helen s ancestor the legacy of Phineas s dramatic story shows how far we have come scientifically and yet how little we can comprehend of the mystery of our own hearts and mindsBy Hannah Moscovitch. 2013
Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through an atrocity while…
holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As each of them is interviewed by an unseen broadcasting organization, they recount their version of events leading up to the horrific incident with painful, relenting replies. What begins to form is a picture of the effects of guilt and the psychological toll of violence in a war where the enemy is sometimes indiscernible.By Nigel Spencer, Evelyne de la Chenelière. 2012
Ever since her brother s untimely death Marie has been fascinated with angels believing her brother has become…
one Now as a young woman she has dedicated her doctoral thesis to the subject the sudden portrayal of angels with feet in Renaissance paintings As Marie tries to analyze the motive behind this she begins to uncover questions of existentialism societal perceptions of women and the meaning of art and life Her biggest challenge though becomes grasping a seemingly impossible understanding of her brother s suicide and dealing with her own dislocationBy Michael Healey. 2013
Shortly after the Conservatives win a majority government in the 2011 federal election the prime minister discovers a secret…
weapon in his caucus Jisbella Lyth a single mother with a limited understanding of her role as an MP Using her ignorance to his advantage the PM hatches a plan to have Jisbella front and centre in a campaign of misdirection and distraction Humorous and clever Proud explores the corrosive nature of the politics of divisionBy Daniel Karasik. 2013
Convinced she is not like the rest of her boring family, nine-year-old Marnie McPhee decides it's time to leave Earth…
and take her place among the stars. But as she builds her spaceship, she realizes that maybe Earth isn't so bad after all, even if it is filled with imperfect human families. The Remarkable Flight of Marnie McPhee is a charming story of the infinite reaches of the imagination and the pleasure of dreaming.By Ravi Jain, Asha Jain. 2012
In 2007 Ravi Jain completed school and was itching to get his feet wet in the theatre scene With…
plans to begin his own company Ravi put off marriage for a few years much to the disappointment of his mother Asha who was getting impatient with Ravi s non-traditional approach to life In this autobiographical story of the Jain family Ravi recalls a trip to India with his parents in tow where they ambushed him with a series of prospective wives at every turn Conveyed through storytelling A Brimful of Asha is a comedic and heartwarming tale of a family caught between two culturesBy Brad Fraser. 2012
When Olivia loses control at her fiftieth birthday party her four best friends decide to intervene once and for…
all much to the irritation of Olivia and her lover Norma But is she the only one battling a demon Or do each of these women face an addiction of one kind or another Five Fifty is a raw and darkly comedic portrayal of turning fifty in contemporary society and of the friendships we can t live withoutBy Catherine Hernandez. 2012
In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles…
to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school kids pitting the voice of God and thousands of years of scripture against the voice of their own bodies, Kilt Pins cheekily asks "Is your kilt pin up or down?"By Florence Gibson Macdonald. 2013
Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are as renowned for their passionate relationship as they are their poetry…
How Do I Love Thee revisits the life of the 19th-century poets from their courtship carried out entirely through letters to their sudden elopement to their tumultuous marriage marred by drug addiction and financial strife