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The Ladies’ Lending Library

Janice Kulyk Keefer’s new novel starts out like something by John Updike – young mothers spending the summer at beach cottages and getting together on Friday afternoons to drink gin and to gossip about each ... Read More »

May 22, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Planet Reese

By Cordelia Strube

With this, her seventh novel, Cordelia Strube carries on with the brand of dystopic fiction that has become her trademark. The Strubian novel can be characterized thus: it has an ensemble of emotionally or physically ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Age of Confession: The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture

By Neil Bissoondath

Neil Bissoondath’s The Age of Confession was the inaugural Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture, delivered in Moncton in April 2006 as part of the Northrop Frye Festival. The objective of this new lecture series, according to ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Complete Trailer Park Boys: How to Enjoy the Trailer Park Boys When Your Cable Is Out

By Matthew Sibiga, Don Wininger

A good fan guide should do two things: give devotees of a TV series a chance to revisit great characters and moments from favourite episodes, and provide background information about the show. The Complete Trailer ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Beyond Endurance: 300 Boats, 600 Miles, and One Deadly Storm

By Adam Mayers

In Beyond Endurance, Toronto journalist Adam Mayers tells the story of the 1979 Fastnet race, the worst tragedy in ocean racing history, through the experiences of the crews of four Canadian boats.The storm that hit ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: History

Comfort Food for Breakups: The Memoir of a Hungry Girl

By Marusya Bociurkiw

Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups reveals the connections between food, memory, and life. Drawing on Bociurkiw’s Ukrainian upbringing in Alberta, Comfort Food is more than a simple memoir/travelogue filled with food, love, and loss. ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

In Bad Taste?: The Adventures and Science Behind Food Delicacies

By Massimo Francesco Marcone

If ever there were an Ace Ventura: Food Detective, it would be University of Guelph food scientist Massimo Marcone, who has, in this compact book, collected some of his globetrotting adventures in search of some ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Dead Centre: Hope, Possibility, and Unity for Canadian Progressives

By Jamey Heath

There is a considerable amount of frustration on display in Jamey Heath’s Dead Centre. The former research and communications director for the federal New Democrats under Jack Layton is calling for the consolidation of the ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Wanderlust: A Social History of Travel

By Laura Byrne Paquet

“Why Leave Home?” is the title of the first chapter of Wanderlust by Ottawa-based writer Laura Byrne Paquet. Good question.This is Paquet’s second foray into the social history genre, following 2003’s The Urge to Splurge: ... Read More »

May 18, 2007 | Filed under: Reference

Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, The Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II

By William Stevenson

Readers of William Stevenson’s 1976 book A Man Called Intrepid, about a Canadian-born Second World War spy for the British (named, oddly enough, William Stephenson) will find themselves in familiar territory with the author’s newest ... Read More »