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The Death of Albert Johnson

The Death of Albert Johnson

Mad Trapper of Rat River
by F.W. Anderson & Art Downs
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Albert Johnson was a loner, a deadly shot, who in 1932 triggered a gruelling manhunt that has become an Arctic legend. For over six weeks, amid blizzards and numbing cold, he eluded a posse of trappers, First Nations and RCMP, who for the very first time used a two-way radio and an airplane in their search.

 

Johnson was involved in four shoot-outs, …

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The Trial of Judith K.

The Trial of Judith K.

by Sally Clark
edition:Paperback
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Roughly based on The Trial by Franz Kafka, this black comedy changes the lead character to a modern business woman who finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The more she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare the more her ordered, little world unravels and the more she is entangled in the increasingly obscure process.

Cast of 3 women and 4 men.

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The Fairies Are Thirsty

The Fairies Are Thirsty

by Denise Boucher, translated by Alan Brown
edition:Paperback
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According to the 19th-century historian Michelet, “Les fées” were women who would rather sing than pray. For this crime, they were punished by being imprisoned in containers that would be opened only at the end of time. In Les fées ont soif (The Fairies Are Thirsty) Denise Bocher takes this image and focuses on it. The Fairies Are Thirsty is …

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The Execution

The Execution

by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by David Lobdell
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The Execution is Marie-Claire Blais’s only play for the stage. Set in a boarding school, it tells the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime. As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil and complicity, themes well-known to readers of Blais’s fiction.

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