The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 was followed not by a sudden flowering of democracy, but by the seizure of political and economic power by former Communist apparatchiks. Opposition to the new regimes by ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ October

By Richard B. Wright

A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Great Questions of Canada (Revised Edition)

By Rudyard Griffiths, ed.

New books by well-known journalists and authors Roy MacGregor and Andrew Cohen, as well as a revised anthology from the Dominion Institute, all attempt to examine the current Canadian zeitgeist. It may be an impossibly ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Life on the Refrigerator Door

By Alice Kuipers

The form of Life on the Refrigerator Door, Alice Kuipers’ first novel, is not exactly a standard one: the entire book consists of notes that appear on a fridge over the course of nine months.The ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People

By Roy MacGregor

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Out of Cleveland

By Lolette Kuby

With Out of Cleveland, poet and academic Lolette Kuby has produced a promising and occasionally brilliant first collection of short stories.The book’s first tale, “Ninety East,” weaves back and forth between the minds of two ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

By Andrew Cohen

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Girls Who Saw Everything

By Sean Dixon

In fiction, homage is a tricky undertaking. Should an author indulge readers of the original, or satisfy those as yet unfamiliar? In The Girls Who Saw Everything, a re-setting of The Epic of Gilgamesh in ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Outlander

By Gil Adamson

What was Gil Adamson thinking when she titled her novel The Outlander? What was Anansi thinking? After all, that’s the name of the first book in Diana Gabaldon’s wildly successful time-travel series that spirits a ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

By Marie-Claire Blais; Nigel Spencer, trans.

Marie-Claire Blais, one of Quebec’s most prolific and celebrated writers, delivers the third volume in a prize-winning trilogy. Augustino and the Choir of Destruction is a dense and daring apocalyptic literary vision. Set on an ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

★ October

Great Questions of Canada (Revised Edition)

Life on the Refrigerator Door

Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People

Out of Cleveland

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

The Girls Who Saw Everything

The Outlander

Augustino and the Choir of Destruction

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