Zest for Life: Classic Dishes for Family and Friends from the Fifties to the Nineties

Ostensibly, Zest for Life is a cookbook hybridized with the autobiography of Vancouver chef, restaurateur, and former Canadian Olympian Diane Clement. But like most tools designed for two jobs, it does neither particularly well, and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

By Don Ledger

By now, most people have absorbed the popular wisdom that when a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world, such minuscule turbulence can initiate a chain of unforeseen effects, resulting in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Pat Lowther’s Continent: Her Life and Work

By Toby Brooks

This relatively short biography – the first to appear since Pat Lowther died 25 years ago – is the result of Toby Brooks’ longstanding devotion to the poet and her work. Brooks, who counselled battered ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

By Les D. Brown

No one knows for sure how many Canadians fought within the American forces in the Vietnam conflict; estimates range from 5,000 to 40,000. Some, of course, travelled south to volunteer. But one Canadian, Les Brown, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Double Negative

By Leona Gom

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death at Windsor Castle

By C. C. Benison

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ukrainian Wedding

By Larry Warwaruk

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hoot to Kill

By Karen Dudley

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sounding the Blood

By Amanda Hale

Amanda Hale’s training as a poet shows in her debut novel, Sounding the Blood, a finely woven tale of five lives lived at a remote whaling station in 1915. The training is there in the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

By Michael David Kwan

Despite its unprepossessing title, Vancouverite Michael David Kwan’s memoir, spanning the mid-1930s to the late ’40s, is an engrossing book. The son of a young Swiss woman (who quickly disappears from his life) and a ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

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Zest for Life: Classic Dishes for Family and Friends from the Fifties to the Nineties

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

Pat Lowther’s Continent: Her Life and Work

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

Double Negative

Death at Windsor Castle

The Ukrainian Wedding

Hoot to Kill

Sounding the Blood

Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China

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