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Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller’s Tales

As the veteran Lesley Krueger reader would expect, her new non-fiction release, Foreign Correspondences, is full of richly detailed descriptions of her travels. But this is a travel book with a twist. Part memoir, part ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Bone and Dream: Into the World’s Driest Desert

By Lake Sagaris

Lake Sagaris is more attracted to watery places than dry ones. In the desert, she initially sees a barren and lifeless landscape – but she soon recognizes that life there takes unaccustomed forms. In Bone ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science as I’ve Seen It

By Bob McDonald

Bob McDonald, the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, is a journalist who attempts to look at the poetry and beauty behind the gee-whiz science stories he reports. Measuring the Earth with a Stick ... Read More »

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

★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

By Paul Hoffert

It’s one of the central paradoxes of Internet culture. In the medium’s earliest, pre- e-commerce days, the vast majority of activity on the Net was social and community oriented. The new medium was supposed to ... Read More »

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

Whispering in Shadows

By Jeannette Armstrong

Best known for the novel Slash and the poetry collection Breath Tracks, Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong combines genres in her new novel to bring readers into the world of Penny Jackson, a painter, activist, and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Just for Comfort

By Ralph Osborne

Just for Comfort is a Canadian counter-culture road movie set to the page: Goin’ Down the Road meets Thelma and Louise. First-time novelist Ralph Osborne has written a gentle, comic tale of addiction and violence ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Fall of Gravity

By Leon Rooke

Don’t suspend disbelief. Don’t arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke’s literary contract. What the meta-narrator of The Fall of Gravity calls ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Purple for Sky

By Carol Bruneau

Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Robbiestime

By Don Dickinson

Robbiestime has some of the same characters who appeared in Don Dickinson’s first book, the short-story collection Fighting the Upstream. It also has some of that book’s old-fashioned Canadian qualities, such as a preoccupation with ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bathory

By Moynan King

Elizabeth Bathory, a cult favourite in the world of vampire films, was a 17th-century Hungarian countess, infamous for her obsession with virgin blood. In Bathory, Toronto playwright Moynan King reimagines the last years of Bathory’s ... Read More »

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

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Foreign Correspondences: A Traveller’s Tales

Bone and Dream: Into the World’s Driest Desert

Measuring the Earth with a Stick: Science as I’ve Seen It

★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

Whispering in Shadows

Just for Comfort

The Fall of Gravity

Purple for Sky

Robbiestime

Bathory

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