Children and YA Non-fiction

The Valley

A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years ago she distanced herself from the religious faith that gives her parents much solace, and ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf

By Marc Vachon with François Bugingo; Charles Phillips, trans.

Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order to survive. In his memoir, Rebel Without Borders, Vachon tells how he transferred those street ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The Alchemy of Loss: A Journey Through Grief

By Abigail Carter

The alchemists sought a formula for turning lead into gold. In her memoir, The Alchemy of Loss, Abigail Carter uses the analogy to illustrate her own experience of the transformative power of tragedy. Carter’s story ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

No Further Messages

By Brett Alexander Savory

No Further Messages assembles 20 of Brett Alexander Savory’s stories – most of which were published over the last nine years, three of them original to this collection. Two of those original stories – the ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste

By Carl Wilson

The latest installment in 331/3, the book series that celebrates significant pop records, is unlike any of its predecessors in that its subject, the titular 1997 Céline Dion album, is abhorred by its author. Carl ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Remains of the Dead

By Wendy Roberts

The tagline for B.C. author Wendy Roberts’ newest novel, The Remains of the Dead, dubs it “A Ghost Dusters Mystery.” In it, Sadie Novak operates Scene-2-Clean, a crime-scene cleanup company that pretty much corners the ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Angel of Vengeance: The “Girl Assassin,” the Governor of St. Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World

By Ana Siljak

In Angel of Vengeance, Queen’s University history professor Ana Siljak tells the story of Russian radicalism, taking as her hook the life of would-be assassin and revolutionary doyenne Vera Zasulich. Of Zasulich herself, there isn’t ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters

By Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter, eds.

While the traditional handwritten love letter may have lost its preeminence in the electronic age, editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have attempted to resurrect the art of literary lovemaking with this anthology. Each of ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Happiness and Other Disorders

By Ahmad Saidullah

“Page after page of my sketchbook has drawings of glow-worms, butterflies, and geckoes and their tails that keep twitching even after they have dropped off.” So says Raheela, the narrator of “Fifteen Sketches of Rumi,” ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Commons

By Matthew Hughes

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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