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The Commons

The Commons, the new novel from B.C.’s Matthew Hughes, is introduced by editor Robert J. Sawyer as a “fixup”: a novel knitted together out of a series of previously published short stories. In this case, ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

By D.R. MacDonald

It takes only a few paragraphs to be captivated by the comfortable cadence of D.R. MacDonald’s storytelling. From the first page, the reader is drawn into the vibrant portrait he paints of Lauchlin MacLean and ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Glass Voices

By Carol Bruneau

Carol Bruneau writes about the interior lives of seemingly ordinary characters. In her newest novel, 71-year-old Lucy Caine is a woman few people would look at twice on the street, yet Lucy’s life has been ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Silent Raga

By Ameen Merchant

If you’d like to take a detailed fictional journey into the world of middle-class, Tamil-speaking Brahmin girls in India, this could be your novel. There can be no doubt that Ameen Merchant, a transplanted Indian ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Footstop Café

By Paulette Crosse

Documenting the lives of the offbeat and bizarre can make for compelling fiction. However, stuffing a novel beyond capacity with the weird and shocking can end up being simply boring. The Footstop Café, the first ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

When All You Have Is Hope

By Frank O’Dea with John Lawrence Reynolds

Meet Frank O’Dea, co-founder of Second Cup, Landmines International, and CANFAR, former alcoholic and streetperson, pilot, political wonk, husband, father, and motivational speaker. With this book, he adds “published author” to the list – but ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Orpheus Lost

By Janette Turner Hospital

In Orpheus Lost, Australian-born author Janette Turner Hospital attempts to rework the titular myth to frame a story of love and terror in the post-9/11 age. Though the idea is ambitious and interesting, the book ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win

By Warren Kinsella

The War Room, the latest book by longtime political operative Warren Kinsella, purports to be a guide of sorts, but a more accurate subtitle would have been “You Just Paid Nearly 30 Bucks to Have ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Safe Haven: The Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World

By Larry Gaudet

Larry Gaudet’s Safe Haven, a rambling treatise about searching for places of refuge from a hectic society, is too long by at least half. Gaudet, the author of the novels Media Therapy and The Peacekeeper’s ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

By Mark Paterson

Mark Paterson’s second book is a punchy, off-kilter, and highly imaginative collection of stories, worthy of mention for its title alone. Briskly paced and with an overriding sense of immediacy, A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine ... Read More »

December 20, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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The Commons

Lauchlin of the Bad Heart

Glass Voices

The Silent Raga

The Footstop Café

When All You Have Is Hope

Orpheus Lost

The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win

Safe Haven: The Possibility of Sanctuary in an Unsafe World

A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine

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