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★ Cape Breton Road

Eyestone, the debut collection of short fiction by D.R. MacDonald, was the sort of book to make readers hold their collective breath. Nearly flawless in its own right, its publication in 1988 – an occasion ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bake It and Build It

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Tracy Walkeri, llus.

Whatever excellent taste they may promise, recipes for kids must be straightforward, precise, and leave little to the imagination.Bake It and Build It, a kind of edible architecture for the oven, certainly woos the prospective ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Makin’ Muffins

By Susan Devins, Yvonne Cathcart, illus.

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Vanilla Gorilla

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

The title of this first collection of children’s poetry sums it up: food, animals, and whimsy take centre stage. Vanilla Gorilla is a mix of nonsense verse, family life poems, and a lone haiku. A ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

By Sylvia Bashevkin

Feminists feeling vanquished by despair can take heart from Sylvia Bashevkin’s Women on the Defensive. While this respected political science professor can hardly be called a Pollyanna, she is no Cassandra either. Instead, she is ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Violence Against Women: Philosophical Perspectives

By Stanley G. French, Wanda Teays, Laura M.Purdy, eds.

The collected essays in Violence Against Women, edited by Canadian and American academics, are an excellent reflection of current, multicultural, and feminist-oriented philosophical thought about violence against women. However, a more appropriate subtitle would have ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Inner Hunger: A Young Woman’s Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia

By Marianne Apostolides

After 10 years of struggling with anorexia, binging, and bulimia, Marianne Apostolides woke up one morning so disgusted and tired with herself that instead of carrying out her usual routine of gathering food and purging ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Story of My Life (So Far): A Happy Childhood

By Charles Foran

Charles Foran is an acclaimed author and contributing editor to Saturday Night magazine. His reputation, however, could hardly be enhanced by his memoir of childhood. The Story of My Life (So Far) is an experiment ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Island Wings: A Memoir

By Cecil Foster

When Barbados-born Cecil Foster wrote on the meaning of being black in Canada, he won praise from his community and a Writer’s Development Trust award for non-fiction. Yet in a prickly review of his most ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Voice Great Within Us

By Charles Lillard & Terry Glavin

A Voice Great Within Us, the seventh title in New Star’s Transmontanus series, is a sensitive, poetic portrait of a language and an author lost to us. As an examination of the language once popular ... Read More »

February 24, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

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