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Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake

Janet Warner’s Other Sorrows, Other Joys will please three kinds of readers. New Age enthusiasts will like the novel’s description of Blake’s ecstasies; poetry and art lovers will delight in the accounts of his creative ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey

By Cecil Harris

Things have never been better for black players in professional hockey. In 2002, Jarome Iginla became the first black scoring champion in the National Hockey League. In May 2003, Anson Carter scored the game-winning goal ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Coyote: A Mystery

By Brian Brett

With his new novel, Saltspring Island poet and novelist Brian Brett has created a postmodern, Gulf Island-based, Buddhism-infused, eco-psycho-killer thriller. Coyote is at once leisurely paced and thrilling, thought-provoking and humorous, character-focussed and intellectually challenging. ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae and Love

By Tony Burgess

“Contaminated but beautiful in the television light” is how the narrator of “Bug Day,” the penultimate story in Tony Burgess’s fourth book, describes the face of his lover. He could just as easily be describing ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

By Bruce Dowbiggin

The Calgary-based sportswriter Bruce Dowbiggin is pushing hard to become Canada’s next great chronicler of our national pastime. Dowbiggin, a frequent hockey commentator on radio and television and a writer for the Calgary Herald, has ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

One Large Coffin to Go: A Polly Deacon Murder Mystery

By H. Mel Malton

This is the fourth in Malton’s series of cosy mysteries featuring an Ontario puppet-maker eking out a precarious lifestyle in the cottage-country bush somewhere north of Toronto. The approaching winter season finds Polly Deacon three ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Opium Lady

By Joanne Soper-Cook

Imagine moving into a house and finding an old family photo album tucked deep in the corner of a dusty bedroom closet, flipping through the photos, and inventing intricate stories for the strangers in the ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

By Anne McPherson

Ways of the Wilderness, the new book from Ontario writer and art curator Anne McPherson, is rooted in McPherson’s academic work some 40 years ago. Inspired by H.A. Williams’ The True Wilderness, McPherson realized that ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Parlance

By Suzanne Zelazo

Though Parlance is her first book-length publication of poetry, Toronto poet Suzanne Zelazo’s name is likely familiar to many through her role as editor of the Queen Street Quarterly. This literary magazine has a reputation ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

By Madeleine Gagnon, Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, trans.

Women in a World at War, by Quebec writer Madeleine Gagnon, is an extraordinary work. Less investigative journalism than an extended effort to view the war-torn world through a poet’s gaze, the book crosses borders ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: History

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Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake

Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey

Coyote: A Mystery

Fiction for Lovers: Freshly Cut Tales of Flesh, Fear, Larvae and Love

Money Players: How Hockey’s Greatest Stars Beat the Nhl at Its Own Game

One Large Coffin to Go: A Polly Deacon Murder Mystery

The Opium Lady

Ways of the Wilderness: A Personal Journey Through Religion and Literature

Parlance

Women in a World at War: Seven Dispatches from the Front

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