Children and YA Non-fiction

Travelling Light

Most of this collection’s 23 short stories were published in Peter Behrens’ first book, 1987’s Night Driving; in an author’s note, Behrens says he revised “but tried to avoid rewriting” them. A cynic might suggest ... Read More »

April 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

★ Nocturne: On the Life and Death of My Brother

By Helen Humphreys

Loss is an open wound, a pain so enormous we reflexively turn away from it to keep from breaking. To examine grief would be to welcome the pain, to keep it alive. In her new ... Read More »

April 15, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

By Terence Dickinson

Since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in April 1990, the 12-ton behemoth has been responsible for creating an image archive that accounts for 50 tetrabytes of data: the equivalent of five times ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Devil’s Curve: A Journey into Power and Profit at the Amazon’s Edge

By Arno Kopecky

Over the past two decades, the so-called “resource curse” has become one of the central problems of development economics. Academics, politicians, and policymakers have all struggled to understand the paradox of resource-rich countries around the ... Read More »

January 3, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk

By Sam Sutherland

In the introduction to Sam Sutherland’s Perfect Youth: The Birth of Canadian Punk, the author eruditely sets out the far-reaching effects of the first wave of punk in Canada, and – in appropriately irreverent fashion ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Walls: Travels Along the Barricades

By Marcello Di Cintio

Ursula K. Le Guin begins her seminal novel The Dispossessed with a characteristically simple yet profound observation about a wall: “Like all walls it was ambiguous and two-faced. What was inside it and what was ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

The Goal of My Life

By Paul Henderson with Roger Lajoie

If you’re under the age of 45, chances are you’ve heard of the Canada–Soviet Union Summit Series only in the hushed tones reserved for great and important events. Paul Henderson, a hard-working kid from Lucknow, ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Shore Girl

By Fran Kimmel

The debut novel from Alberta-based author Fran Kimmel revolves around a young girl’s turbulent and peripatetic life with her mother – a conflict that initially strikes a too-familiar chord. But the story’s twists and turns ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Anna from Away

By D.R. MacDonald

Readers can be forgiven for glancing at the cover image and title of D.R. MacDonald’s new novel and thinking, “Oh no, not another Canadian novel of austere landscapes and rural folk who don’t take to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Gethsemane Hall

By David Annandale

With Gethsemane Hall, Winnipeg writer David Annandale has created that rarest of books: a genuinely chilling horror novel. And a fresh take on the hoary old haunted house novel, no less. Following the death of ... Read More »

August 15, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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