Children and YA Non-fiction

Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree

In her new book, Maggie Siggins, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning Revenge of the Land, sets out to reveal the human face behind native issues by writing a history of the Pelican Narrows Cree ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman’s Journey Through Iraq

By Hadani Ditmars

aDncing in the No-Fly Zone, the first book by Vancouver journalist Hadani Ditmars, looks back from her last visit to Iraq in 2003 to her five previous visits beginning in November 1997. As a Lebanese-Canadian ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination

By Lance Berelowitz

Incorporated in 1886, Vancouver is a young city, even by New World standards. And to author Lance Berelowitz, the city is full of youthful potential. “If Paris is a movable feast,” writes the architect and ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Pale Indian

By Robert Arthur Alexie

Adding to the genre of shameful histories of white exploitation of the Canadian native population, The Pale Indian is a fictionalized account of a Northwest Territories aboriginal community that has seen its share of racism, ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Bloodknots

By Ami Sands Brodoff

Ami Sands Brodoff is not afraid of blood and guts imagery or the narrative intricacy that her characters’ densely packed psyches seem to demand. In these 12 ambitious stories, Brodoff probes and prods our most ... Read More »

June 9, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

One Foot in Heaven

By David Waltner-Toews

There’s a quietness at the heart of One Foot in Heaven, the first collection of short stories from veterinary professor and poet David Waltner-Toews. Given the subject matter – Prairie-dwelling Mennonites – the sense of ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Blind Crescent

By Michelle Berry

Suburb-lit is one of those classically American phenomena, like jazz or drive-through churches. From Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt to Updike’s Rabbit to Carver’s cavalcade of losers, the suburbs have been a mainstay of the American literary ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Spiral Garden

By Anne Hines

In The Spiral Garden, Toronto writer Anne Hines takes the Biblical character Ruth and gives her a decidedly modern slant. Meet Ruth Broggan, a divorced, empty-nester mother of two and Christian minister who is searching ... Read More »

June 8, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Twelve Days of Summer

By Jan Andrews, Susan Rennick Jolliffe, illus.

From The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Kandy Radzinski to Emily Brenner’s On the First Day of Grade School, the familiar Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” has inspired lots of picture book adaptations. ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Ben Over Night

By Sarah Ellis

Governor General’s Award-winning Vancouver author and Q&Q contributing editor Sarah Ellis follows up her charming Big Ben with Ben Over Night. The youngest member of a family of five, Ben wants to sleep over at ... Read More »

April 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

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