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In Shakespeare's time, women were not allowed to appear on stage, and so female parts were played by boy actors.

The novel revolves around the forced sale of a painting in Nazi-occupied Vienna.

Almost True is the story of an extraordinary friendship among four women living in a small village in Burgundy during World War II.

It is The War to End All Wars, and Ena Connelly, a keenly sensory and extraordinary woman, is newly married and living on an Ontario farm.

Tessa comes of age as the advent of Independence in a small British Caribbean island disturbs the status quo and establishes a new class and race hierarchy in a country that historically was a poly

Abandoned on the steps of a Belgian convent as a baby, thirteen-year-old Grace has grown up among the nuns.

Nova Scotia-born Will R. Bird miraculously survived the First World War and returned to Nova Scotia.

Through Sunlight and Shadows is an autobiographical novel about a young boy set in the small New Brunswick town of Bannonbridge in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Third Act deals with the intercultural struggles faced by Chinese students studying in North America in the present day and by an American playwright, Neil Peterson, caught up in the Nanjing Ma

Seventeen-year-old Christina McBurney has led a sheltered life.

The mystery surrounding Anna Grieve and her mentally fragile older sister, Esther, begins in Russia in the 1880s.

After Light spans four generations of the Garrison family, over the course of the twentieth century.

It is the summer of 1933 and young Haven Cattrell, seeking work, finds himself abandoned in the small northern Ontario town of Davisville.

West meets East as bootleggers and cops tangle with opium smugglers and corrupt officials in a new kind of gang warfare.

Things quickly go from bad to worse as Emily, Captain Fly Austen, and young Magpie each find themselves in treacherous waters.