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Egg on Mao: the story of an ordinary man who defaced an icon and unmasked a dictatorship
Par Denise Chong. 2009
On May 23, 1989, as student protests raged, Lu Decheng and two other men hurled 30 paint-filled eggs at the…
immense portrait of Mao Zedong that dominates Beijing's Tiananmen Square. His poli-art stunt stranded Lu in prison for almost a decade, cost him his wife and daughter, and led to his eventual defection to Canada. While hoping to bring true democracy and to unmask the repression of Mao's reign, Lu learned that in China, preserving the Chairman's legacy mattered more. 2009.Dead white writer on the floor
Par Drew Hayden Taylor. 2011
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Par Sharon Pollock. 1984
East and West: The Last Governor Of Hong Kong On Power, Freedom And The Future
Par Chris Patten. 1998
Chris Patten reflects on his experiences as the governor of Hong Kong, why he adopted the stance he did, and…
how he fought his battles. Why has the Far East more generally prospered so spectacularly over recent decades, and how seriously should its recent crises be taken? What is the possibility of such conditions for prosperity being reproduced elsewhere? What are the connections between political freedom and the rule of law, and economic freedom and advance? What is China's role in the world to be? Patten discusses the answers to these and other questions. 1998.Disarming Iraq
Par Hans Blix. 2004
Blix reluctantly came out of retirement in 2000 to lead the U.N. weapons inspections team in Iraq because he was…
the only man everyone could agree on for the job. Three years later, those clamouring for military intervention grumbled at his inability (or, as they saw it, refusal) to present evidence of weapons of mass destruction, but he reminds readers that his assignment was to assess and report on the available evidence. A play-by-play account of the months of diplomacy and inspection efforts leading up to the Iraq war. Some descriptions of violence. 2004.Closed chambers: the first eyewitness account of the epic struggles inside the Supreme Court
Par Edward Lazarus. 1998
The author, a Supreme Court law clerk to Justice Harry Blackmun in 1988-89, recounts the methods and procedures the justices…
use in arriving at a decision. Now a federal prosecutor, Lazarus contends that politics has taken the place of debate and compromise. He analyzes court cases to illustrate his concerns. 1998.Complete works: one : 1954 - 1960 (Pinter, Harold Ser.)
Par Harold Pinter. 1976
Contains the first five of Pinter's plays, including "The birthday party", his first full-length drama, and two short stories. In…
typical Pinter style, they all include an exacting and complex use of language and the features that mark his 'comedies of menace'. 1976. Uniform title: Works.Complete works, Vol. IV
Par Harold Pinter. 1981
Contains five of Pinter's plays, including "Old times", "No man's land", and "Family voices". These works echo many of his…
earlier themes and techniques - struggles for power and an ambience of menace - while finding fresh subject matter and ways to express ideas. 1981. Uniform title: Works.Complete works, Vol. III
Par Harold Pinter. 1998
Contains such Pinter plays as "The homecoming" and "Landscape", as well as six revue sketches, the memoir "Mac", and the…
short story "Tea party". Pinter's work compels the reader to analyze the efficiency of language and its ability to convey meaning. 1998. Uniform title: Works.Complete works, Vol. II
Par Harold Pinter. 1990
Contains five of Pinter's plays, including "The Caretaker", and revue sketches. The characters and settings in these plays become more…
realistic, as opposed to the absurdist atmosphere of his first works. Also includes an introductory essay by Pinter, "Writing for myself". 1990. Uniform title: Works.China hands
Par Charles Taylor. 1984
Charles Taylor, a former Peking correspondent, has selected reports from the last 25 years to provide a first-hand account of…
this dramatic period in Chinese history. 1984. Uniform title: The Globe and mail.Chen Village: the recent history of a peasant community in Mao's China
Par Richard Madsen, Anita Chan, Jonathan Unger. 1984
Chinese lives: an oral history of contemporary China
Par Hsin-Hsin Chang, Ye Sang, W. J. F Jenner. 1987
Includes interviews with 60 Chinese people from every walk of life: a 13-year-old street vendor; a pop singer; gold miners;…
bus conductors; ex-Red Guards; and a woman who was sold into prostitution in Shanghai in the 1930s. Some descriptions of sex. 1987.Brighton Beach memoirs
Par Neil Simon. 1984
An autobiographical play set in 1937. Eugene, the 15-year-old narrator, dreams of becoming a writer and fulfilling his sexual curiosity.…
Includes strong language and sex. Winner of the 1983 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award. 1984.Blood brothers (Methuen Modern Classics Ser.)
Par Willy Russell. 2001
Twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them…
away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraternity until the inevitable quarrel unleashes a blood-bath. Includes strong language. 2001.Belle moral: a natural history
Par Kathleen Gallagher, Ann-Marie MacDonald. 2008
Scotland, 1899. Following her father's death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family's past, which…
her father had kept hidden with the help of the family doctor. A story of family secrets that have come to life and of the birth and evolution of ideas, including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, contemporary medical beliefs and the concept of eugenics. Some descriptions of sex. 2008.Balconville: a play
Par David Fennario. 1980
Montreal playwright Fennario presents the lives of people in the poor area of Pointe Saint-Charles. Three families, French and English,…
and Thibeault, the neighbourhood rummy, sit on their balconies and deal with unemployment, an election, and the losing Expos baseball team. Poverty, domestic problems and French-English relations are explored with humour as the characters endure a hot summer in the late 1970's. With French and English dialogue. Strong language.As you like it (Shakespeare, Penguin Ser.)
Par William Shakespeare, H. J Oliver. 1968
A pastoral comedy set primarily in the forest of Arden. A duke is exiled by his cruel brother, who later…
banishes his daughter as well. The action switches from the count to the forest where the exiles and friends wander in a maze of romances and mixed identities. For Senior High readers. 1968, c1599.Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918
Par Peter Balakian, Grigoris Palakʻean, Aris G Sevag. 2010
On April 24, 1915, Grigoris Balakian was arrested along with some 250 other leaders of Constantinople's Armenian community. It was…
the beginning of the Ottoman Empire's systematic attempt to eliminate the Armenian people from Turkey--a campaign that continued through World War I and the fall of the empire. Over the next four years, Balakian would bear witness to a seemingly endless caravan of blood, surviving to recount his miraculous escape and expose the atrocities that led to over a million deaths. 2010. Uniform title: Hay goghgotʻan.Animal farm (SmartPass)
Par George Orwell, Phil Viner, Jools Viner, Jonathan Lomas. 2006
Orwell's political fable is told from the viewpoint of its key characters--the animals--who are quizzed and questioned about how 'some…
animals are more equal than others' in this vibrant guided drama. 2006.