Reviews

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil

In attempting to remove confusion from some dimensions of what is essentially an insoluble issue, John G. Stackhouse Jr., a professor of religion at the University of Manitoba, has written a book that will work ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Celebrating Our Cultures: Language Arts Activities for Classroom Teachers

By Barbara DuMoulin and Sylvia Sikundar

Teachers looking for language arts ideas that can be integrated into a multicultural theme need look no further. Authors Barbara DuMoulin and Sylvia Sikundar have collaborated on a teacher resource book that not only gives ... Read More »

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

Safari

By Robert Bateman and Rick Archbold

Robert Bateman has earned an international name for himself as an artistic, distinctly realistic chronicler of Canadian wildlife. But he has also made many trips to Africa, and Safari is the result of his life-long ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Handmade Forests: The Treeplanter’s Experience

By Helene Cyr

Treeplanters are like relief workers: they head into remote locations to repair the devastation caused – more often than not – by humans. And like relief work, treeplanting is physically and mentally demanding, requiring long ... Read More »

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

Wintersleep

By Marie-Claire Blais, Nigel Spencer, trans.

Virtually none of novelist-poet Marie-Claire Blais’s plays have been read or performed in English. From this book it is easy to see why. Wintersleep is a collection of five chamber plays (written in the late ... Read More »

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

Escaped Domestics

By Robin McGrath

Robin McGrath’s first collection of poetry represents her eclectic interests and unique journey through life. A native of Newfoundland, McGrath lived for 15 years in London, Ontario, where she raised three children and completed a ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

She’s Gonna Be: Stories, Poems, Life

By Ann Decter, ed

An anthology of feminist writing, She’s Gonna Be brings together a collection of long-time activists, alumnae of feminist journals like Fireweed, and a few new young voices.It’s a great title and there’s a terrifically rousing ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Learning to Live Indoors

By Alison Acheson

The short stories in Alison Acheson’s Learning to Live Indoors deal with family relationships. Acheson, who lives in British Columbia, has previously published two young adult novels, one of which was short-listed for several awards. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Getting Out of Here Alive: The Ballad of Murray McLauchlan

By Murray McLauchlan

Murray McLauchlan says he wrote this autobiography to pass his stories on to his kids before he got “too old or too dead.” His children are lucky to have such a caring father. Readers are ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Rajah of Renfrew: The Life and Times of John E. Ducey, Edmonton’s Mr. Baseball

By Brent E. Ducey

There’s a Field of Dreams ambience about Brent Ducey’s book about a major Edmonton sports figure, but there, sadly, the resemblance ends.Ducey, a former newspaper reporter, attempts to bring together two parallel histories: a history ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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