Whale: Giant of the Ocean

The text is hardly worth a glance, but the pictures are pretty in this small coffee table book offering from Key Porter. The new whaling, like the new safari, is seeking to reclaim the bloodthirsty ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball

By Stephen Brunt

For those of us who have followed the Toronto Blue Jays from their cellar-dwelling expansion years through their back-to-back World Series wins and beyond, it’s sometimes hard to believe they have been with us for ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Cheat of Words

By Steve McCaffery

In canto IX of the Inferno, just after we have been titillated and terrified by the Furies, Dante turns to his reader and says: “O ye who have sane intellects for guide/Consider well the doctrines ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Nightwatch: New & Selected Poems 1968 – 1996

By Dennis Lee

It is impossible to calculate the contribution Dennis Lee’s long career as poet, theorist, editor, and children’s writer has made to Canadian literature. One of the epigrams to “Civil Elegies,” the epic lament that opens ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The League of Nathans

By Jason Sherman

Jason Sherman’s seriocomic The League of Nathans is an immensely entertaining play which, time and again, masterfully executes one of the great theatrical tricks: Sherman is an expert at allowing the prevailing comic tone of ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Claudia’s Shadow

By Charlotte Vale Allen

Although Charlotte Vale Allen’s 31st novel is one of the rare Mira hardcovers aimed at the mainstream fiction market, it has some of the qualities of the paperback category romances published by the imprint’s parent, ... Read More »

March 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Runaway Wedding

By Ruth Jean Dale

The casual observer might swear that there isn’t much to distinguish between the romance novel and the soap opera. Both, after all, are about the many and various vicissitudes of love. But the major difference ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Waiting at the Altar

By Amy Frazier

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Amaryllis

By Jayne Castle

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Rebel and the Redcoat

By Karyn Monk

First, Karyn Monk took on the French Revolution; now she’s tackled the American one. It’s a three-book deal – could Russia be next?No matter – in the meantime, her fans can lose themselves in the ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Whale: Giant of the Ocean

Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball

The Cheat of Words

★ Nightwatch: New & Selected Poems 1968 – 1996

★ The League of Nathans

Claudia’s Shadow

Runaway Wedding

Waiting at the Altar

Amaryllis

The Rebel and the Redcoat

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