A History of Marriage

What are the core values of marriage? How does money, or the lack of it, affect the roles of spouses? What became of the double standard that permitted “a husband to take legal action against ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

By Glenn Dixon

Calgary journalist and linguist Glenn Dixon is in love not only with languages but with travel, too. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words pays homage to both. Dixon employs a chatty, informal tone to recount ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion

By Rod McQueen

Rod McQueen’s new book features a foreword by tech giants Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of the Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion. Typically, this would mean that the main figures in the book have, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

By Alan Bradley

Last year, Alan Bradley made a splash in the mystery world with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, which introduced 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, one of the most original and charming sleuths to ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thin Bruised Line: The Imminent Threat to Police and Public Safety

By Doug Clark

The notion that police work in Canada is becoming harder is nothing new; Thin Bruised Line, a thoroughly researched volume by veteran investigative journalist Doug Clark, examines the reasons why this notion is especially true ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Hunter’s Confession

By David Carpenter

The title of Warren Cariou’s foreword to Welcome to Canada, a volume of David Carpenter’s new and selected stories, is “You Are Now Entering Carpenter Country.” Carpenter’s fictional landscape – located mainly in the outposts ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Welcome to Canada

By David Carpenter

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Skeleton Dance

By Philip Quinn

For Robert Walker, the tormented mid-thirties anti-hero of Philip Quinn’s second novel, there’s “Always something breached, open, some wound, hole.... Some box you’re trying to get out of, or into.” Ruptures and imprisonments figure prominently ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Breakwater House

By Pascale Quiviger; Lazer Lederhendler, trans.

A house “as close to the sea as a house can get before becoming a boat”; a house that appears on no map and therefore possesses no postal code; a house with no electricity or ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In Ojibway mythology, Nanabush is a mischievous trickster, shapeshifter, and culture hero. Journalist, playwright, and author Drew Hayden Taylor uses this figure, and his manic spirit, as inspiration in his first novel for adults. Recently ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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A History of Marriage

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

Thin Bruised Line: The Imminent Threat to Police and Public Safety

A Hunter’s Confession

Welcome to Canada

The Skeleton Dance

The Breakwater House

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

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