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Dead white writer on the floor
Par Drew Hayden Taylor. 2011
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Par Sharon Pollock. 1984
Echoes of the ancient skies: the astronomy of lost civilizations
Par E. C Krupp. 1983
Discovering the iceman: what was it like to find a 5,300-year-old mummy? (I was there)
Par Shelley Tanaka. 1996
In 1991, two hikers discovered the remains of a Stone Age Man over 5,000 years old in the Alps. Be…
transported back to the Iceman's ancient world - find out who he was, how he lived, and how he died on a mountain ridge. Grades 3-6. 1996.Deep water, ancient ships: the treasure vault of the Mediterranean
Par Willard Bascom. 1976
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.Bones: discovering the first Americans
Par Elaine Dewar. 2001
With Native American activists, white supremacists, DNA experts, and anthropologists all vying for control of ancient remains, Dewar explores the…
ambiguous terrain left behind when a long-standing paradigm is swept away by new discoveries. Presents stories that rarely find their way into scientific journals or newspapers - stories of mysterious deaths, of the bones of evil shamans, and the shadows that fall on the lives of scientists who've pulled them from the ground. 2001.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.Bones of contention: controversies in the search for human origins
Par Roger Lewin. 1987
By focusing on several landmark fossil discoveries, the author reveals how the interpretation of data is heavily dependent upon an…
anthropologist's cultural and personal biases, emotions, pre-conceptions, and professional loyalties. 1987.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.Ascent to civilization: the archaeology of early man
Par John Gowlett. 1984
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.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.Arcadia (Acting Edition)
Par Tom Stoppard. 1993
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus…
Hodge. 180 years later Bernard Nightingale has arrived at this house to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park. 1993.Ancient people of the Arctic
Par Robert McGhee. 1996
McGhee, a curator of archeology with the Canadian Museum of Civilization, traces the lives of the Palaeo-Eskimos, who entered the…
northern extremes of the North American continent four thousand years ago. McGhee reconstructs what their life was like, explains how they dealt with sharp climate changes, and speculates on their eventual demise. 1996.