Book of Jessica
By: Linda Griffiths
3.29
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Part dialogue, part narrative, part playscript, this unique book contains the award-winning play Je…
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1. Wide Sargasso Sea
By: Jean Rhys
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more
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"When trouble comes, close ranks"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought I'd try to write her a life"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
2. Harlem Duet
By: Djanet Sears
4.23
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic bl… read more
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- canadian literature
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4. The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
By: Tomson Highway
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award T… read more
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5. Dry Lips Oughta Move To Kapuskasing
By: Tomson Highway
4.12
Format: 543 pages, Paperback
Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells anot… read more
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- plays
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6. Indian Horse
By: Richard Wagamese
4.42
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s a reluctant reside… read more
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- canadian literature
- canada
"I discovered that being someone you are not is often easier than living with the person you are."-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We need mystery. Creator in her wisdom knew this. Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility is the foundation of all learning. So we do not seek to unra…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"Benjamin and I sat in the middle of one of the large canoes with our grandmother in the stern, directing us past shoals and through rapids and into magnificent stretches of water. One day the clouds …"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
"We were hockey gypsies, heading down another gravel road every weekend, plowing into the heart of that magnificent northern landscape. We never gave a thought to being deprived as we travelled, to be…"-Richard Wagamese, Indian Horse
7. In Search of April Raintree - Critical Edition
By: Beatrice Culleton , Beatrice Culleton Mosionier , Cheryl Suzack
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
Two young sisters are taken from their home and family. Powerless to change their fortunes, they ar… read more
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8. Where the Blood Mixes
By: Kevin Loring
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Where the Blood Mixesis meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author's First Nations… read more
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9. Half-Breed
By: Maria Campbell
2.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Metis woman's struggle to come to… read more
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10. A Raisin in the Sun
By: Lorraine Hansberry
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Hardcover
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more
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11. The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
By: George Ryga
4.04
Format: 156 pages, Paperback
George Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is perhaps the best known contemporary Canadian play - a lyri… read more
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12. Goodnight Desdemona
By: Ann-Marie MacDonald
3.76
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
In this exuberant comedy, MacDonald asks, What if Desdemona and Juliet were allowed to live? Consta… read more
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13. Scarborough
By: Catherine Hernandez
4.19
Format: 208 pages,
Scarborough is a low-income, culturally diverse neighborhood east of Toronto, the fourth largest ci… read more
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14. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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15. Billy Bishop Goes to War
By: Eric Peterson , John MacLachlan Gray
3.75
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Billy Bishop Goes to Warranks as one of Canada's most successful and endearing musical dramas in hi… read more
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16. Zong!
By: Marlene NourbeSe Philip , Setaey Adamu Boateng
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by… read more
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17. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Roger Luckhurst
3.85
Format: None pages,
Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, first published in 1886, became an i… read more
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18. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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19. Kim's Convenience
By: None , None
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
Winner of Best New Play and the Patron's Pick Award at Toronto's Fringe Festival, Kim's Convenience… read more
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20. Leaving Home
By: David French
5.00
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
David French's first play is a classic in Canadian drama. The first part of what has come to be kno… read more
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21. The Outer Harbour
By: Wayde Compton
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction; one strand … read more
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22. Young Mungo
By: Douglas Stuart
4.38
Format: 390 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more
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"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo
23. Five Little Indians
By: Michelle Good
4.48
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more
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24. Nishga
By: Jordan Abel
4.48
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastati… read more
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- canada
25. Trickster Drift (Trickster, #2)
By: Eden Robinson
4.29
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Following the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the sec… read more
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26. Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)
By: Eden Robinson
4.12
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
The third and final book of the brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy, from the bestselling a… read more
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27. 7 Stories
By: Morris Panych
3.92
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-stor… read more
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"Acting is such a desperately futile profession anyway. Playing out the lives of other men. Knowing of their failures and successes long before they ever do. Living, suffering, murdering, dying … all …"-Morris Panych, 7 Stories
28. Book of Jessica
By: Linda Griffiths
3.29
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Part dialogue, part narrative, part playscript, this unique book contains the award-winning play Je… read more
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29. In a World Created by a Drunken God
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
3.64
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Jason Pierce, a 31 year old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it… read more
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30. Drag Queens On Trial: A Courtroom Melodrama: They Lived By The Skin Of Their Spike Heels
By: Sky Gilbert
4.14
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
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31. Crow Gulch
By: Douglas Walbourne-Gough
4.38
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Shortlisted, NL Reads, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond S… read more
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