Children and YA Non-fiction

Purple for Sky

Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Excessive Joy Injures the Heart

By Elisabeth Harvor

It’s an informal genre but a recognizable one: the novel of a second coming rather than a coming of age, of a still-young woman forced to begin again after the failure of a marriage spanning ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Among the Lions: A Lamb in the Literary Jungle

By Harold Horwood

From its chuckle-inspiring title to its high-minded sermonizing on home-schooling and the value of literature, Among the Lions offers a glimpse into the harrumphing mind of one of Newfoundland’s most prolific writers.In this, his second ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Fortune’s Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order

By James R. Davis

Three years ago, a recently retired Canadian army sergeant named James Davis wrote an interesting and timely exposé of life in the lower ranks of the Canadian armed forces. The Sharp End: A Canadian Soldier’s ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Ice & Fire: Dispatches from the New World

By Stephen Osborne

Stephen Osborne is one of the original founders of Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press (known as Pulp Press in the 1970s). He is the publisher of Geist magazine, and Ice & Fire is the first title ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Criticism & Essays

The True Intrepid: Sir William Stephenson and the Unknown Agents

By Bill Macdonald

William Stephenson was one of Winnipeg’s most illustrious exports: knighted by the King, he became the first non-American to receive the presidential Medal of Merit and was later admitted to the Order of Canada. Fellow ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Toe Rubber Blues: Midlife Thoughts on the Prospects of Aging

By Tom Allen

When Tom Allen started work on his first book, he must have been about 35, which is the same age Dante was when he began writing The Divine Comedy. Like Dante, Allen is concerned about ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

A Personal Calligraphy

By Mary Pratt

Artists are not always content to let their art speak for them. Some, like Newfoundland painter Mary Pratt, choose to stack prose up against their paintings, providing another piece to the puzzle that is their ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Canada: A People’s History (Volume One)

By Don Gillmor and Pierre Turgeon

The English writer Saki quipped that the people of Crete have always made more history than they can consume locally. In Canada, there are those who’ll argue that we go the other way, and that ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

A Fit Month for Dying

By M.T. Dohaney

From page one, A Fit Month for Dying, the final novel in a trilogy chronicling the trials of the Corrigan family, promises heartbreak. “Sooner or later life’ll break the heart of ye,” warns Bertha Corrigan, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

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