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Midnight at the Dragon Café

This is a terrific, page-turner of a first novel from Judy Fong Bates, who has previously published a book of short stories. Set in the 1950s, the novel tells the story of a young Chinese ... Read More »

January 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Front Yard Gardens: Growing More than Grass

By Liz Primeau

Liz Primeau knew something was wrong when she realized that insects and neighbourhood pets avoided her manicured lawn in favour of bushes and shady gardens. When she thought about it, she decided that she couldn’t ... Read More »

December 10, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

By Gillian Robinson, ed.

The Inuit-made film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner gains much of its power from documentary verisimilitude, to say nothing of the unforgettable image of a naked man running for his life over a vast ice floe. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Croatia: Travels in an Undiscovered Country

By Tony Fabijancic

Tony Fabijancic, a Canadian educator and writer with Croatian roots, forgoes the usual blend of ethnography, historical writing, and travel journalism in this short, sweet examination of Croatian culture.The eloquent opening chapter focuses on the ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

The Original Canadian City Dweller’s Almanac: Facts, Rants, Anecdotes and Unsupported assertions for Urban Residents

By Hal Niedzviecki and Darren Wershler-Henry

In answer to the ongoing success of The Farmer’s Almanac for rural readers comes The Original Canadian City Dweller’s Almanac, a quirky, occasionally amusing potpourri of facts, rants, and anecdotes for theurban global villager. Like ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

By Stan Douglas

Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

A Day Does Not Go by

By Sean Johnston

In A Day Does Not Go By, Sean Johnston arranges his themes – the fear of betrayal, the fragility of love, the haplessness of old age, the inadequacy of language – into 27 short vignettes.In ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

With Axe and Flask: The History of Persephone Township from Pre-cambrian Times to the Present

By Dan Needles

Playwright and columnist Dan Needles’ With Axe and Flask will resonate with fans of Stephen Leacock’s understated but bitingly funny tales set around the fictional town of Mariposa, Ontario. Needles, creator of the popular Wingfield ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Romantic

By Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy’s new novel is not called The Pragmatist for a reason. Its heroine, Louise Kirk, loves in a fantastic, humongous way, and with the kind of searing heat usually seen only in acetylene welding ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kipligat’s Chance

By David N. Odhiambo

Vancouver writer David N. Odhiambo’s Kipligat’s Chance departs from the experimental syntax and grammar of his first novel, diss/ed banded nation, but a close attention to language also makes his second novel a forceful read. ... Read More »

December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Midnight at the Dragon Café

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Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Croatia: Travels in an Undiscovered Country

The Original Canadian City Dweller’s Almanac: Facts, Rants, Anecdotes and Unsupported assertions for Urban Residents

Every Building on 100 West Hastings

A Day Does Not Go by

With Axe and Flask: The History of Persephone Township from Pre-cambrian Times to the Present

The Romantic

Kipligat’s Chance

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