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Blue Skies and Boiler Rooms: Buying and Selling Securities in Canada, 1870-1940

By Christopher Armstrong

For Canadian stock exchanges, the Bre-X mining scandal shows the truth in Mark Twain’s description of a gold mine as “a hole in the ground with a liar standing next to it.” Author Christopher Armstrong, ... Read More »

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

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors of the Transition to Womanhood

By K. Wind Hughes and Linda Wolf, photos by Linda Wolf

Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun is the latest addition to the recent deluge of books that explore the perilous emotional passage of girls into womanhood. The book is a compilation of bittersweet ... Read More »

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

Growing up Naked: My Years in Bump and Grind

By Lindalee Tracey

When a stripper associate and I ran into Lindalee Tracey (aka “Fonda Peters”) in Montreal in the early 1980s, I was dutifully impressed. To be a famous stripper in a city that is so girl ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

How to See Fairies: A Fairy Gift Box

By Charles van Sandwyk

Charles van Sandwyk, a young Vancouver artist who splits his home between the West Coast and a remote Fijian island, has written and illustrated this keepsake fairy kit. The kit contains van Sandwyk’s book, a ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Seaside Alphabet

By Donna Grassby, Susan Tooke, illus.

This Atlantic alphabet book combines alliterative sentences with beautifully rendered realistic paintings. Each page consists of a large, detailed painting illustrating the sentence underneath; on either side of the sentence are small graphic boxes containing ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Wild Cameron Women

By Maureen Hull, Judith Christine Mills, illus.

Every night, frightening bears emerge from Kate’s closet. Then Kate’s Nana tells her how her ancestor, an early settler from Scotland, scared a bear away from her wilderness home while wearing skirts of the family ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Yuck, a Love Story

By Don Gillmor, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Austin Grouper doesn’t like his new next-door neighbour, Amy, but can’t get the curly-haired, freckle-faced girl out of his head. When Amy invites Austin to her birthday party, he decides to give her a very ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Cowboy Kid

By Gilles Tibo, Tom Kapas, illus.

In the time of then and once, of yet and still and will be, a boy lived deep in the canyons of the city. He was a cowboy of the streets and alleys, a garbage-can ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956

By Howard Margolian

Howard Margolian, author of Conduct Unbecoming, which told the story of the murder of Canadian prisoners of war in Normandy in 1944, turns his attention to refuting the common perception that Canada was a haven ... Read More »

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

Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond

By Michael Ignatieff

Michael Ignatieff requires little introduction to booksellers and librarians. He is the award-winning author of several non-fiction books including The Russian Album, which won the Governor General’s Award. This is the expatriate Canadian’s third book ... Read More »

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

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