Short-listed 2015 Governor General's Award (Drama)
Welcome to the small town of Tartan Cross, Nova Scotia, where skeletons rattle in closets and past histories are so intertwined that the lives of four forty-something, eccentric characters have become so complicated that something needs to change. In the comedy, Odd Ducks, award-winning playwright Bryden MacDonald positions his four characters at the brink of existential angst – and the action unfolds from there.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2015
5.5 W × 8.5 H × .5 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889229341
| Rights: WORLD
The play begs the question of how many of our freedoms have been lost to the institutions engaged in surveillance “for our own protection.”Cast of 2 women and 3 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2007
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.25 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889225626
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1976 Chalmers Award (Best Canadian Play)
On Christmas Eve the workers in a Montreal shipping room get drunk and go on strike. Cast of 8 men.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1976
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.33 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889221024
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Structured in three parts, On the Material is a meditation on language, geography, socio-economics and the body, moving from the glut of fossil-fuelled consumer excess to the materiality of a single book. The final section is a sequence of poems in memory of Stephen Collis’s departed sister, Gail Tulloch, becoming a way for the poet to read back into the elemental heart of absence and loss—the “material” of the books displacing, and in some way recovering, how language holds the materiality of the physical world.
$17.95 | 128 pages | Pub. Date: 2010
6.00 W × 9.00 H × .3 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226326
| Rights: WORLD
In this collection of long and serial poems, Stephen Collis returns to the commons, and to his ongoing argument with romantic poet William Wordsworth, to rethink the relationship between human beings and the natural world in the Anthropocene Era.
$18.95 | 148 pages | Pub. Date: 2016
6 W × 8.5 H × .315 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9781772010152
| Rights: WORLD
Charlie Evans, a pool shark, has two days to pay off a debt, or have his legs broken by a psychotic debt collector who is also having an affair with his wife. Cast of 2 women and 8 men.
$15.95 | 96 pages | Pub. Date: 2003
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889224889
| Rights: WORLD
Written in sixty short epistolary chapters, award winning author M.A.C. Farrant’s latest offering represents a search for hope and appeasement in a rapidly changing and often perplexing society.
$19.95 | 200 pages | Pub. Date: 2021
5 W × 7.5 H × 0.499 D inches
Non-Fiction | featured
| Bisac: BIO022000
ISBN 13: 9781772012842
| Rights: WORLD
Winner 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Award (Small Theatre: Outstanding New Play)
The emotional struggle of a Native woman who was adopted by a white family to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 1998
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.30000000000000004 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223844
| Rights: WORLD
Gil McElroy’s new book of poems sets out to give shape to time from four different referents: the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line of the High Arctic where McElroy’s father worked, the Julian calendar of classical antiquity, the structure of the Anglican lectionary and its cycle of daily and weekly scriptures (called “propers”), and Stephen Hawking’s description of imaginary time.
$17.95 | 112 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.35 D inches
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| Bisac: POE011000
ISBN 13: 9780889226753
| Rights: WORLD
Orwell in Cuba chronicles journalist Frédérick Lavoie’s attempts to unravel the motives behind the mysterious appearance of a new translation of George Orwell’s 1984, formerly taboo in Cuba, just ahead of the country’s twenty-fifth International Book Fair. Lavoie works to make sense of how Cubans feel about the past, present, and future of their island – and how the political regime is adapting, or not, to life in the twenty-first century. His intertwined quests give readers the unique experience of following a suspenseful trail while at the same time becoming increasingly familiar with Cubans’ relationship to the regime and their strategies for coping with the island’s often challenging living conditions.
$24.95 | 304 pages | Pub. Date: 2020
5.5 W × 8.5 H × 0.742 D inches
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| Bisac: POL005000
ISBN 13: 9781772012453
| Rights: WORLD
Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies of the Western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.
This updated third edition of Other Losses exists not to accuse, but to remind us that no country can claim an inherent innocence of or exemption from the cruelties of war.
$24.95 | 392 pages | Pub. Date: 2011
5.50 W × 8.50 H × 2 D inches
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| Bisac: HIS027100
ISBN 13: 9780889226654
| Rights: WORLD
Dramas that encourage adults to reflect on their past and young people to reflect on their future: Life Science, 2B WUT UR and Cost of Living.
$17.95 | 140 pages | Pub. Date: 1994
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 0.4 D inches
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| Bisac: DRA013000
ISBN 13: 9780889223462
| Rights: WORLD
Tough-minded reappraisals of canonicity, modernism, postmodernism, marginality and post-coloniality in Canadian writing.
$24.95 | 320 pages | Pub. Date: 1996
6.00 W × 9.00 H × 1 D inches
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| Bisac: LIT003000
ISBN 13: 9780889223639
| Rights: WORLD