Children and YA Non-fiction

The War in Heaven

Kent Nussey’s new collection of stories, The War in Heaven, explores the emotional state of gender warfare from the male point of view. The seven short stories and one novella in the book are populated ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Best Canadian Stories 96

By Douglas Glover, ed.

The short story is not, despite reports, Canadian by birth or naturalization. Still, every so often you’ll hear us claiming custody, ready to point to some quasi-demographic mirage showing that Canadians produce more extraordinary writers ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

The Days of Miracles and Wonders: A Novel of East and West

By Simon Louvish

A jet-setting doctor named Angel performs surgery in the war zones of Beirut before his mysterious kidnapping. A reincarnated English king named Richard the Lionheart travels modern-day Middle Eastern battlefields, dreaming blood-spattered dreams of his ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium

By Michael Adams

What is it with these guys? Earlier this year we had demographer David Foot telling us in Boom, Bust and Echo that demographic research explains “two-thirds of everything.” Then we had Angus Reid warning in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

When We Were Young: A Collection of Canadian Stories

By selected by Stuart McLean

The broadcast industry has perfected the rerun, so we shouldn’t be surprised book publishers are following suit. They’ve put their own spin on the strategy, but the basic idea is the same: if something sells ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Cereus Blooms at Night

By Shani Mootoo

Mala Ramchandin, an old woman living on the island of Lantanacamara, is brought to the Paradise Alms House one night under restraints. Her gay nurse, Tyler, relates the old woman’s scandalous history. Having just returned ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies…

By Persimmon Blackbridge

Until Sunnybrook, visual artist Persimmon Blackbridge wrote as part of a team, often exploring mental health and anti-censorship issues. Her co-authored books include Still Sane, the postcard book Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Tongues of the Children: The Upper Canada Chronicles

By John B. Lee

In 1995, prolific Brantford poet John B. Lee won the CBC Tilden Award for “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” an ethnographically valuable series of poems about slavery and the history of blacks in Upper Canada. The ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Arguments with Gravity

By Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey’s first book of poems, Arguments with Gravity is broken into five sections, each introduced by a contemporary epigram that encapsulates the poet’s concerns and acknowledges his influences. Unfortunately, everyone else is alive in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Stand and Deliver: Inside Canadian Comedy

By Andrew Clark

Canadians are funny. There’s Jim Carrey and his $20-million mug; there’s what’s left of the SCTV gang; there’s Lorne Michaels, who invented Saturday Night Live. Before them went Wayne and Shuster, who are still famous ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

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