Children and YA Non-fiction

The Bald-Headed Hermit & the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus

Everybody knows the futility of trying to look up a “dirty” word in the dictionary. Even a quite ordinary word such as cunnilingus is not listed in every dictionary – a quick browse through my ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Junk Style

By Melanie Molesworth, Tom Leighton, photog.

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Flea Market Style: Decorating with a Creative Edge

By Emelie Tolley and Chris Mead

I can’t find a word for “fear of antiques,” but I know one must be out there. After years of being told not to sit on a chair, step on a rug, or drink from ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Avventura: Journeys in Italian Cooking

By David Rocco

In a perfect world, all cookbooks would be as enjoyable on the coffee table as they are on the kitchen counter. As it is, too many cookbooks are either weak on recipes but pretty to ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Holy Writ

By K.D. Miller

Canada hasn’t produced many homegrown Annie Dillards or Anne Lamotts – “literary” authors whose spiritual writing enjoys both popular and critical acclaim. So Holy Writ is a daring book of sorts. K.D. Miller, author of ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Sailing Home: A Journey Through Time, Place and Memory

By Gary Geddes

Sailing Home is British Columbia poet Gary Geddes’s voyage into the past, his “male menopause” (as his daughter calls it), and his exploration of history both personal and far-reaching. Accompanied by the ghosts of Charles ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

No Guts No Glory: How Canada’s Greatest Ceos Built Their Empires

By David Olive

What is happiness? The feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome.” David Olive cites that line from Friedrich Nietzsche as the epigraph of his new book. The quotation is a signal that ... Read More »

February 9, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Eye on Canada: Nova Scotia

By Harry Beckett

The first five titles in the Eye on Canada series are an effective reminder of just how much information a well-planned and carefully organized 32-page book can present. Harry Beckett, the series’ author, is a ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Eye on Canada: Nunavut

By Harry Beckett

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

What’s Left Us

By Aislinn Hunter

The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

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