Children and YA Non-fiction

Rust and Bone

There is a familiar pattern to intergenerational politics. The young folk look at their parents and see nothing but bad choices and misguided values. They vow to do things better, to avoid all the old ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Banana Kiss

By Bonnie Rozanski

The frightening world of mental illness is illuminated through Bonnie Rozanski’s fictitious tale of schizophrenic Robin Farber, a young woman whose home is the harsh enclosure of a psychiatric institution. Trapped in a whirlwind of ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

By Lydia Millet

Lydia Millet’s new novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, accurately sees the American invention of the atomic bomb as an unparalleled moment in the history of the human species and the planet. The opening page ... Read More »

September 19, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Unyielding Clamour of the Night

By Neil Bissoondath

The set-up of Neil Bissoondath’s latest novel might sound a tad familiar. Take a stranger and drop him down in a strange place. See what happens. See how he changes. But take heart! Even the ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Time in Between

By David Bergen

Anyone who has ever served on a hiring committee will know the type: the candidate who is perfect on paper – brilliant resumé, glowing references, Booker-calibre cover letter – but who, in person, turns out ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

By John Ralston Saul

After decades of incessant talk from pundits about the inevitability of multinational capitalism, many have come to consider globalized market forces to be as unavoidable as, say, gravity. Corporate and public institutions have linked their ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

400 Kilometres

By Drew Hayden Taylor

With 400 Kilometres, the final installment of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday trilogy, the story of Janice Wirth comes full circle. The trilogy began with Janice, then a baby named Grace Wabung, being plucked from her ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Far Away Home

By Marci Denesiuk

In a world that can overwhelm us with the carefree fantasies of self-help books and distorted, media-saturated hyper-happiness, the stories of Marci Denesiuk leave us with the idea that loneliness is the normal human condition. ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Blood Price

By Jon Evans

If you have certain preconceptions about the lives of computer programmers, I heartily recommend you set them aside and read Blood Price, the new novel by Jon Evans. In Dark Places, Evans’ first novel, Paul ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Adieu, Betty Crocker

By François Gravel; Sheila Fischman, trans.

Arlette is the perfect housewife and mother, the one whose son had the first Beatles jacket in the neighbourhood because she sewed it for him, the one whose Christmas Eve celebrations looked like the pictures ... Read More »

September 14, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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