Gross, Paul 1959-Overview
Most widely held works by
Paul Gross
Wilby wonderful
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8 editions published between 2004 and 2010 in English and held by 461 libraries worldwide A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
Slings & arrows. Season 1
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 361 libraries worldwide Based in a fictional Canadian town where legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the Artistic Directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the Festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming General Manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet; the play that drove him mad.
Slings & arrows. Season 2
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5 editions published between 2005 and 2008 in English and held by 333 libraries worldwide Now ensconced as artistic director of the New Burbage theatre festival, Geoffrey Tennant must stage the cursed play Macbeth to fulfill the vision of his deceased predecessor Oliver Welles. The actor cast in the lead engages in a titanic clash of egos with Geoffrey, while Oliver weighs in confrontationally from the grave. The festival faces a financial crisis that forces its CEO to engage in some risky business, while leading lady Ellen Fanshaw endures a life-altering tax audit. Adding to the mayhem is the return of the madcap guest director Darren Nichols, who stages a post-post-modern Romeo and Juliet after the original director breaks her neck. Could it be the curse of Macbeth?
Slings & arrows. Season 3
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3 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 313 libraries worldwide Geoffrey, the emotionally fragile artistic director to a very dysfunctional Canadian theatre troupe puts on King Lear (casting a storied and ailing actor as Lear), while eager young performers throw themselves into a musical about a junkie prostitute.
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city
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5 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and held by 306 libraries worldwide In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection.
20, 000 leagues under the sea
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2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 228 libraries worldwide A mysterious monster is terrorizing the Atlantic Ocean and famous marine biologist Professor Aronnax is summoned to investigate. Accompanied by his daughter Sophie, the two trail the monstrous creature -- only to discover that the beast is actually a futuristic submarine captained by the eccentric Captain Nemo.
Men with brooms
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14 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 207 libraries worldwide Tells the story of a disgraced former curling champion who returns to his hometown in an attempt to lead his former team to glory.
Slings & arrows the complete collection
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 188 libraries worldwide Follows the fortunes of a dysfunctional Shakespearean theatre troupe, exposing the emotional battles the members of the group inflict on each other behind the scenes. Contains all 18 episodes from three seasons.
Aspen extreme
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5 editions published between 1993 and 2001 in English and French and held by 157 libraries worldwide Two buddies leave their blue-collar world to become ski instructors in Aspen. Once there, they enter the playground of the rich and famous, and experience extreme skiing, extreme wealth and extreme seduction.
Due South. Season one
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5 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 122 libraries worldwide Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police comes to Chicago to track down his father's killer. He stays and partners with Ray Vecchio, a local Chicago detective, to solve crimes.
Passchendaele
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11 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in English and held by 120 libraries worldwide "Set during the height of the First World War, ... Sergeant Michael Dunne [is] a soldier who is brutally wounded in France and returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred. While in the military hospital in Calgary, he meets Sarah ... a mysterious and attractive nurse with whom he develops a passionate love. When Sarah's younger brother David .. signs up to fight in Europe, Michael feels compelled to return to Europe to protect him. Michael and David, like thousands of Canadians, are sent to fight in the third battle of Ypres, a battle against impossible odds, commonly known as Passchendaele."--Container.
20, 000 leagues under the sea
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 106 libraries worldwide Captain Nemo guides the submarine Nautilus on a memorable voyage below the seven seas.
Due South : The ultimate collection
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 82 libraries worldwide Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came to Chicago to track down his father's killer. He stayed in Chicago and partnered with Ray Vecchio, a local Chicago detective to solve crimes.
Passchendaele : the novel based on the screenplay
by Paul Gross
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3 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 78 libraries worldwide
Due South. Season three
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4 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide Constable Benton Fraser of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police came to Chicago to track down his father's killer. He stayed in Chicago and partnered with Ray Vecchio, a local Chicago detective to solve crimes. In the third season, Fraser returns to Chicago after a vacation in Canada to find that another man has assumed Ray's identity.
Getting married in Buffalo Jump
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5 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 60 libraries worldwide A Toronto woman inherits a family ranch in Alberta, Canada. Ignoring the pleas of her mother to sell the rundown place, Sophie opts for the life of a rancher. She soon finds herself over her head financially, and turns to an old friend, Alex, to help her manage her landholdings. Alex proposes to Sophie for business reasons and the two embark on a rocky relationship that ends in genuine love.
Gunless Désarmé
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide When American gunslinger The Montana Kid staggers into the Canadian Hamlet of Barclay's Brush, life for the 17 inhabitants is about to get exciting.The Kid gets into an altercation with Jack the town's blacksmith which leads to the Kid calling him out for some some frontier justice. But without a single gun to be found, adhering to the code of the Wild West may prove difficult.
The Trojan horse
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1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 54 libraries worldwide After Canada decides to become a part of the United States, the former Prime Minister runs for the U.S. presidency as an independent candidate to get back at the people he thinks have stolen his country.
Ray Bradbury's chronicles the Martian episodes
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1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 49 libraries worldwide Venture onto the alien soil of the fabled Red Planet--and discover a realm beyond the imagination in these futuristic tales from science fiction master, Ray Bradbury.
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the city. [Disc 2, Episodes 3 & 4
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3 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 25 libraries worldwide In this chronicle of San Francisco in the 1970s, the carefree chaos revolves around the funky old apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane where landlady Anna Madrigal welcomes tenants by taping homegrown joints to their doors and presides over their lives with an almost maternal affection. more
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