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<h1 style="font-size:12px; font-weight:normal; color:#FFF; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height:150%;">And from now until November 16, receive 25% off the nominees when you use the promo code GGLA.</h1></td>
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<td width="408" align="left" style="font-size:10px;color:#000000;line-height:100%;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p class="Titles" style="color: #000;font-weight: bold;text-align: left;font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;"><em>Afterimage</em><br>
Robert Chafe<br>
978-0-88754-903-8 $16.95</p>
<p class="Copy" style="color: #FFF;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;">Set in Newfoundland, <em>Afterimage</em> is a gripping, literally electrifying play that addresses “otherness” in a highly original way. The play tackles the universal theme of connection through complex, strange characters who we immediately care about and whose stories are profoundly moving. </p></td>
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Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman<br>
978-0-88754-912-0 $16.95
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Michael Healey<br>
978-0-88754-930-4 $16.95</p>
<p class="Copy" style="color: #FFF;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;">In <em>Courageous</em>, Michael Healey’s characters grapple with hot button issues of Canadian society – the rights and freedoms associated with immigration, sexuality and religion. Unconventional in structure and risky in subject matter, <em>Courageous</em> is a hilarious comedy that rides on a keel of serious social argument.</p></td>
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<td align="left" valign="middle" style="font-size:10px;color:#000000;line-height:100%;font-family:trebuchet ms;"><p align="center" class="Titles" style="color: #000;font-weight: bold;text-align: left;font-size: 14px;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;"><em>Such Creatures</em><br>
Judith Thompson <br>
978-0-88754-922-9 $16.95 </p>
<p align="center" class="Copy" style="color: #FFF;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;">In <em>Such Creatures</em>, a Holocaust survivor returns to the concentration camp where as an adolescent she participated in an uprising. In Toronto’s inner city, a teenager prepares for the rite of passage of her first fist fight, while searching for her First Nations roots. Both girls are inspired by Shakespeare. A brilliant meditation on cruelty.</p></td>
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David Yee<br>
978-0-88754-907-6 $16.95 </p>
<p align="center" class="Copy" style="color: #FFF;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;"><em>Lady in the red dress</em> is a magic realist, noir comedy about how the unhealed wounds of historical wrongs live on in the present. At the centre of the story is Canada’s oppression of the Chinese community through the <em>Head Tax and Exclusion Act</em>. Using a theatrically-daring attack, David Yee cross-examines the notions of redress and reconciliation.</p></td>
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Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau<br>
978-0-88754-793-5 $18.95 </p>
<p align="center" class="Copy" style="color: #FFF;font-weight: normal;text-align: left;font-size: 12px;font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-style: normal;line-height: normal;">Linda Gaboriau’s ingenious and inventive translation eloquently carries over all the texture and emotional impact of Wajdi Mouawad’s lyrical play, bringing the work to life in English. A highly-accomplished work by a literary translator at the height of her talent.</p></td>
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