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Ann-Marie Macdonald


Ann-Marie MacDonald was born in West Germany and spent the first few years of her life on a Canadian air force station near Baden Baden. Her father was an officer in the RCAF and the family was posted numerous times.

She attended one year at Carleton University, Ottawa, studying languages and Classics. She went to the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal where she trained as an actor, graduating from the program in 1980. She moved to Toronto where she began an acting career. She soon became involved in creating original Canadian work in a number of contexts: collective creation, collaboration...

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Adult Onset
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

eBook | pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Literary
978-0-345-80829-5 (0-345-80829-0)

September 30, 2014 | $14.99



From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love.
          Mary Rose MacKinnon--nicknamed MR or "Mister"--is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing...

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Adult Onset
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Hardcover | 400 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction - Contemporary Women; Fiction - Literary
978-0-345-80827-1 (0-345-80827-4)

September 30, 2014 | $32.00

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Adult Onset
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780345808271
Our Price: $32.00
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(Available September 30, 2014)


From the acclaimed, bestselling author of 2 beloved classics, Adult Onset is a powerful drama about motherhood, the dark undercurrents that break and hold families together, and the power and pressures of love.
          Mary Rose MacKinnon--nicknamed MR or "Mister"--is a successful YA author who has made enough from her writing...

Also available as an eBook.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-36633-7 (0-307-36633-2)

October 23, 2012 | $13.99

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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366337
Our Price: $13.99


What would happen if Juliet's and Desdemona's death sentences were reprieved?In this exuberant revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet, Constance Ledbelly, a dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and...

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The Way the Crow Flies
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

eBook | 832 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37591-9 (0-307-37591-9)

July 27, 2011 | $4.99

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The Way the Crow Flies
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307375919
Our Price: $4.99


“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.”

The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, is set on the Royal Canadian...



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Belle Moral
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-36991-8 (0-307-36991-9)

October 22, 2010 | $13.99

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Belle Moral
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307369918
Our Price: $13.99


Ann-Marie MacDonald’s love of the fabulous is in full force with this multi-layered reworking of her earlier play, The Arab’s Mouth.

Following her father’s death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family’s past, which her father had been kept hidden with the help of the family doctor...

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Fall on Your Knees
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36632-0 (0-307-36632-4)

March 9, 2010 | $13.99

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Fall on Your Knees
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307366320
Our Price: $13.99


“What a wild ride — I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough,” Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s dark, insightful...

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Belle Moral
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-307-39724-9 (0-307-39724-6)

May 13, 2008 | $19.95

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Belle Moral
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780307397249
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


Ann-Marie MacDonald’s love of the fabulous is in full force with this multi-layered reworking of her earlier play, The Arab’s Mouth.

Following her father’s death, amateur scientist Pearl MacIsaac struggles to discover the secret of her family’s past, which her father had been kept hidden with the help of the family doctor...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Way the Crow Flies
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Trade Paperback | 832 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97409-6 (0-676-97409-0)

August 17, 2004 | $23.00

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The Way the Crow Flies
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676974096
Our Price: $23.00
   Quantity: 1 


“The sun came out after the war and our world went Technicolor. Everyone had the same idea. Let’s get married. Let’s have kids. Let’s be the ones who do it right.”

The Way the Crow Flies, the second novel by bestselling, award-winning author Ann-Marie MacDonald, is set on the Royal Canadian Air...

Also available as an eBook.

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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Trade Paperback | 112 pages | Vintage Canada | Drama
978-0-676-97169-9 (0-676-97169-5)

September 8, 1998 | $18.95

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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676971699
Our Price: $18.95
   Quantity: 1 


What would happen if Juliet's and Desdemona's death sentences were reprieved?In this exuberant revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet, Constance Ledbelly, a dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and...

Also available as an eBook.

book cover
Fall on Your Knees
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-394-28178-0 (0-394-28178-0)

August 26, 1997 | $23.00

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Fall on Your Knees
Written by Ann-Marie Macdonald

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780394281780
Our Price: $23.00
   Quantity: 1 


“What a wild ride — I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough,” Oprah Winfrey told her viewers as she announced Fall on Your Knees as her February 2002 Book Club selection. Set largely in a Cape Breton coal mining community called New Waterford, ranging through four generations, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s dark, insightful...

Also available as an eBook.

              
              



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