The Town That Drowned

In 1967, a residential area of the Saint John River Valley in New Brunswick was flooded to create a hydroelectric dam. Out of the inspiration from this historical event, Riel Nason builds her first novel. ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Large Harmonium

By Sue Sorensen

Sue Sorensen mines her own experiences in her first novel, a charming and gentle look at a year in the life of an English professor at a college in Winnipeg. Dr. Janet Erlicksen is attempting ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453

By C.C. Humphreys

The new novel from Vancouver writer and actor C.C. Humphreys (who also writes young adult fiction as Chris Humphreys) is not only a panoramic recreation of the fall of Constantinople in 1453, but also a ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Far Side of the Sky

By Daniel Kalla

Physicians face many ethical dilemmas in wartime. Should scarce medical supplies be used to save an enemy’s life? What if saving that life could have disastrous personal consequences? These are the types of moral quandaries ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Our Daily Bread

By Lauren B. Davis

With her new novel, Montreal-born writer Lauren B. Davis, who currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey, has created a powerful, harrowing, and deeply unsettling work. It’s the sort of novel that keeps you reading even ... Read More »

September 26, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

By Charlotte Gill

Start with a winter in the mountains of temperate Vancouver Island, then add a troop of tree planters, about to begin their annual cycle once more. Then add Charlotte Gill. After 20 years on the ... Read More »

September 20, 2011 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live

By Ray Robertson

Toronto author Ray Robertson’s Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live is equal parts intimate autobiography, philosophical treatise, and cri de coeur regarding the sorry state of Canadian culture. Peppered liberally with quotations from the poets, ... Read More »

September 19, 2011 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Dancing Lessons

By Olive Senior

Olive Senior’s debut novel is the latest addition to the author’s acclaimed fictions of postcolonial Jamaican culture, which include the 1986 story collection Summer Lightning, winner of the inaugural Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dirt Chronicles

By Kristyn Dunnion

The Dirt Chronicles follows a group of Toronto-area teens and young adults making their way in a world that has given them nothing and kicked them on the way down. Kristyn Dunnion (also known as ... Read More »

August 29, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Cat’s Table

By Michael Ondaatje

Certain experiences are galvanizing and become indelible, shaping a life. Such is true of the sea voyage at the heart of Michael Ondaatje’s sixth novel, a story so enveloping and beautifully rendered, one is reluctant ... Read More »

August 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The Town That Drowned

A Large Harmonium

A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453

The Far Side of the Sky

★ Our Daily Bread

★ Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe

Why Not? Fifteen Reasons to Live

Dancing Lessons

The Dirt Chronicles

★ The Cat’s Table

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