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MacDonald Ann-Marie

Fall On Your Knees (Oprah's Book Club)

Touchstone

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The Piper family is steeped in secrets, lies, and unspoken truths. At the eye of the storm is one secret that threatens to shake their lives -- even destroy them.

Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Theirs is a world filled with driving ambition, inescapable family bonds, and forbidden love.

Compellingly written, by turns menacingly dark and hilariously funny, this is an epic tale of five generations of sin, guilt, and redemption.

A sprawling saga about five generations of a family from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is the impressive first fiction from Canadian playwright and actor Ann-Marie MacDonald. This epic tale of family history, family secrets, and music centers on four sisters and their relationships with each other and with their father. Set in the coal-mining communities of Nova Scotia in the early part of this century, the story also shifts to the battlefields of World War I and the jazz scene of New York City in the 1920s.
The Way the Crow Flies: A Novel (P.S.)

Harper Perennial

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The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air Force base near the Canadian border. Secure in the love of her beautiful mother, she is unaware that her father, Jack, is caught up in a web of secrets. When a very local murder intersects with global forces, Jack must decide where his loyalties lie, and Madeleine will be forced to learn a lesson about the ambiguity ofhuman morality -- one she will only begin to understand when she carries herquest for the truth, and the killer, into adulthood twenty years later.

The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald's follow-up novel to her bestselling debut (and Oprah Book Club pick), Fall on Your Knees, opens in 1962 when the McCarthy family moves from Germany to their new home on a Canadian air force base near London, Ontario. Madeleine, eight and already a blossoming comic, is particularly close with her father, Jack, an air force officer. Her loving Acadian mother, Mimi, and older brother Mike round out this family, whose simple goodness reflects the glow of an era that seemed like paradise. But all that is about to change. The Cuban Missile Crisis is looming, and Jack, loyal and gullible, suddenly has an important task to carry out that involves a scientist--a former Nazi--in Canada.

While Jack scrambles to keep his activities hidden from his wife, Madeleine too is learning to keep secrets (about a teacher at school). The Way the Crow Flies is all about the fertility of lies, how one breeds another and another. Although the writing flows with a strong current, the profusion of pop references, especially ad slogans, grows tiresome. The author can, however, capture a lovely image in few words: "The afternoon intensifies. August is the true light of summer" and "yes, the earth is a woman, and her favorite food is corn." At times the story is marvelously compelling, as the mystery of a horrific murder in the fields near the base is unravelled. When events lead to a trial and its outcome, the story peaks, in a conclusion with no easy answers. The last third of the book takes place, for the most part, 20 years later. Here the novel meanders somewhat, losing its ability to captivate with the same intensity. The reader longs to return to the earlier world, which MacDonald has captured in vital detail. --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)

Grove Press

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In this exuberant comedy and original revision of Shakespeare's Othello and Romeo and Juliet -- Constance Ledbelly, a drab and 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 Desdemona, has a hand in saving them, and finds out what these women are about. In true Shakespearean spirit, Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fights, dances, seductions, and wild surprises, the play is an absolute joy of theatricality.
Belle Moral: A Natural History

Playwrights Canada Press

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Premiered at the Shaw Festival one of the largest classical repertory theatres
The Arab's Mouth

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ThE Way the Crow Flies

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Final senior class at old GAHS receive diplomas at ceremony - Daily Sentinel
Daily Sentinel, OH - May 23, 2009
Final senior class at old GAHS receive diplomas at ceremony Ashley Nicole McCombs, Jacob Ryan McDonald, Samantha Nichole McGuire, Amy Renea Meeks; Jamie Renee Saunders, Sarah Elisabeth Saunders, William Clint Saunders, Xavier Troy Davis Savage, Ann Marie Saxon, Leah Rae Sayre, Melissa Ann-Marie Sexton,

Tee talk: Hornblower tourney a favorite at PCC - Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin, MA - May 22, 2009
Tee talk: Hornblower tourney a favorite at PCCAnn Marie Smith and Nancy Ceccarelli carded a 72 good for third place. Kathy Stefani teamed with Gabby Nugent at 73 to finish fourth. The Tournament was played in dense fog as the event unfolded. After a short delay due to rainy conditions the Tass

Heroes honoured at glamour night - Falkirk Herald
Falkirk Herald, UK - May 22, 2009
Heroes honoured at glamour night guests were entertained from music by Craig Jeffrey and the MacDonald Brothers. Former Central FM station boss Tom Bell, who has recently returned to work with the station, received a lifetime achievement award from his colleagues. Ann Marie Miller

The Atlantic Gets Artsy w/ Luminato - mediabistro.com
mediabistro.com, NY - May 12, 2009
The Atlantic Gets Artsy w/ Luminato - mediabistro.com Hospitality 1st (press release)The Atlantic Gets Artsy w/ LuminatoThe Atlantic will work with Luminato on an additional panel discussion for the 2009 Festival that is already slated to showcase the likes of Ann-Marie MacDonald, Neil Gaiman, and 2008 Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga. Luminato, its sponsors and arts The Atlantic teams up with Luminato

PSU GRADUATE LIST - Laconia Citizen
Laconia Citizen, NH - Feb 11, 5295
PSU GRADUATE LISTKristen Abbott, Londonderry; William Abbott, Holderness; Kristen Abdulla, Salem; Matthew Acker, Litchfield; Regina Adams, New Hampton; Kayla Adie, Hudson; Jacqueline Albers, Henniker; Angela Allard, Lebanon; Matthew Allen, Franklin; Ann-Marie Alosa,