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  • Recipe for Hate
    Author:

    Kinsella, Warren

    Summary:

    How a group of Portland, Maine, punks defeated a murderous gang of neo-Nazis. The X Gang is a group of punks led by the scarred, silent, and mostly unreadable Christopher X.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian fiction, Young adult fiction

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  • The Year Is a Circle A Celebration of Henry David Thoreau
    Author:

    Friesen, Victor Carl

    Summary:

    Henry David Thoreau is remembered as a foremost nature writer. He was an ecologist before the term was invented.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian poetry

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  • Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess
    Author:

    Griffths, Linda

    Summary:

    Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama

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  • How do I love thee
    Author:

    Gibson MacDonald, Florence

    Summary:

    Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are as renowned for their passionate relationship as they are their poetry. How Do I Love Thee?

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama

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  • Age of Minority Three Plays by Jordan Tannahill
    Author:

    Tannahill, Jordan

    Summary:

    Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama, Young adult fiction

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  • 1979
    Author:

    Healey, Michael

    Summary:

    It’s December 1979 and Clark’s minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama, Political fiction

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  • Shakespeare's Dog
    Author:

    Chafe, Rick

    Summary:

    Living in a wild world full of unpredictable creatures—beasts, beggars, witch hunters, and actors—William's family must find a way to cope with their changing Elizabethan world.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama

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  • Three in the Back, Two in the Head
    Author:

    Sherman, Jason

    Summary:

    The issue of loyalty and betrayal is dramatized through dialogue in the Governor-General's-Award-winning Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which appears to have been based on the assassinati

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian drama

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  • Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway? A Home Child Story
    Author:

    Pettit, Mary

    Summary:

    Home child Mary Janeway runs away from her farm placement, grows into adulthood, and ultimately comes to terms with life in Hamilton, Ontario.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian fiction, Historical fiction

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  • Outcasts A Love Story
    Author:

    Papp, Susan M.

    Summary:

    In this story of love and loss, Tibor Schroeder, a Christian and reservist in the Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany, and Hedy Weisz, a young Jewish woman meet and fall in love during the Se

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Historical fiction

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  • Second Rising A Novel
    Author:

    Wiebe, Catherine M.A.

    Summary:

    People cannot readily be categorized, nor some books. Second Rising is one of them.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian fiction

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  • Underground A Novel
    Author:

    Sileika, Antanas

    Summary:

    A tragic love triangle set in a forgotten place during an invisible war.

    Genre: Biographical fiction, Canadian fiction, Romance fiction

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