Children and YA Non-fiction

In the Blood: Battles to Succeed in Canada’s Family Businesses

Tolstoy’s chestnut about families – that all happy ones resemble each other, while each unhappy one is unique – is arguably even more accurate when applied to the bloody fights that can afflict family businesses. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Sale of the Century: Russia’s Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism

By Chrystia Freeland

I was only in Russia once, Moscow mostly, and for just a week, which means I can’t claim to have any kind of a command of the place. This was in the summer of 1997, ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

In Her Own Time: A Class Reunion Inspires a Cultural History of Women

By Maggie Siggins

It’s nice to have fun at a reunion of old pals, but definitely an extra blessing to come away with a fine idea for a book. Maggie Siggins, whose credits include A Canadian Tragedy: The ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Deadly Décisions

By Kathy Reichs

When Temperance “Tempe” Brennan first appeared on the fictional scene in 1997’s Déjà Dead, perceptive readers noted an almost slavish similarity to Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta character. The book’s most unique element was its Montreal ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Boy Must Die

By Jon Redfern

One of the prime directives of writing crime fiction is that retired homicide cops get no peace. Just as our first-few-pages hero is looking forward to a life of post-burnout relaxation, along comes a particularly ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Magic Eight Ball

By Marion Douglas

Calgary writer Marion Douglas has established herself as an eloquent prose stylist with special empathy for marginalized people, mainly lesbians. But her insight and creativity are open and available to any readers who appreciate a ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Paradigm of Earth

By Candas Jane Dorsey

Hospital child-care worker Morgan is trying to find reasons to keep living through an appalling synchronicity of failed relationships, the unexpected deaths of loved ones, and an increasingly reactionary Canada bent on punishing the poor ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Burning Ground

By Pearl Luke

Isolated from civilization for five months at the sardonically named Envy River Tower, with little more than a small cabin, watch tower, and outhouse, lives Percy Turner, a young woman deep in the throes of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Dwelling

By Susie Moloney

In this psychological horror novel, a cancer-stricken widow attempts to sell a house that she knows is inhabited by ghosts. The dwelling in question is a large semi-renovated three-story house that boasts such features as ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

If Angels Fall

By Rick Mofina

Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina has produced a debut thriller that isn’t exactly thrilling, but charges ahead anyway, until the reader gives in to its anguished momentum. The plot concerns a spate of child kidnappings in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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