Children and YA Non-fiction

All the Seas of the World

With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »

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

Courage My Love

By Sarah Dearing

You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »

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

The African Safari Papers

By Robert Sedlack

The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »

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

Personal Pilgrimage: One Day Soul Journeys for Busy People

By Viki Hurst

As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice

By Cheryl Peppers and Alan Briskin

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Bone: Dying into Life

By Marion Woodman

With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »

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

Meeting Death: In Hospital, Hospice, and at Home

By Heather Robertson

With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »

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

The Strength of Materials

By Rhea Tregebov

Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »

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

Hamburger Valley, California

By David McGimpsey

The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »

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

The Predicament of or

By Shani Mootoo

As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »

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

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All the Seas of the World

Courage My Love

The African Safari Papers

Personal Pilgrimage: One Day Soul Journeys for Busy People

Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice

Bone: Dying into Life

Meeting Death: In Hospital, Hospice, and at Home

The Strength of Materials

Hamburger Valley, California

The Predicament of or

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