The Best Game You Can Name

Hockey nomad/writer and Rheostatics guitarist Dave Bidini’s latest effort is an entertaining collection of candid outtakes from interviews with mostly 1970s and ’80s NHL players, overlaid with way too much detail about the fun yet ... Read More »

October 26, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Against the Grain: An Irreverent View of Alberta

By Catherine Ford

If you buy into the stereotype of Albertans as a bunch of redneck, fundamentalist, rural yahoos whose solution to everything is to cut taxes and put the snakeskin cowboy boots to the liberal elites of ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

On Songwriting

By Bob Snider

Toronto folksinger Bob Snider stretches the definition of a book in his new work. On Songwriting consists of the relatively short title essay accompanied by the lyrics to, and the stories behind, 10 of Snider’s ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Lady Franklin’s Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History

By Ken McGoogan

Some memorable historical figures worked hard at achieving greatness, others were born to it. Then there’s Sir John Franklin, who had the good fortune to die dramatically and leave behind a remarkable spouse dedicated to ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ Dead Man in Paradise

By J.B. MacKinnon

It’s rare that a work of historical non-fiction grabs a reader from page one, but Dead Man in Paradise does exactly that, holding the reader captive as author J.B. MacKinnon embarks on a remarkable journey ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

As if by Accident

By Julie Johnston

It is somewhat frightening to contemplate how vulnerable we are to the vagaries of fate, chance, accident. Children’s author Julie Johnston’s engaging novel (her first for adults) about two people whose paths cross in the ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Bicycle Eater

By Larry Tremblay; Sheila Fischman, trans

In this highly ambitious debut novel, Quebecois playwright Larry Tremblay creates a world of surrealist marvel and grotesquerie where nothing is quite what it seems. The book’s narrator, a photographer named Christophe Langelier, is much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Smoke

By Elizabeth Ruth

The brutal disfigurement of 15-year-old Buster McFiddie sets into motion this second novel by Elizabeth Ruth. In the frenetic opening scene, as Buster’s father vomits beside the bathtub while dousing his son’s melted skin, we ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns

By David Munroe

Like one of those people who love to call phone-in shows, the narrator of The Unexpected and Fictional Career Change of Jim Kearns is a combative know-it-all who long ago resolved not to achieve much ... Read More »

October 25, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Tesseracts Nine: New Canadian Speculative Fiction

By Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman, eds.

Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman selected 23 of the best recent works of Canadian speculative short fiction and poetry, from both established and emerging writers, moulding an anthology that places the genre firmly alongside fantastical ... Read More »

October 21, 2005 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

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