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Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

So many catalogues and coffee table books have been published on the art of Bill Reid that it is hard to believe that this scholarly text by Maria Tippett is the first complete biography on ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

All My Friends Are Superheroes

By Andrew Kaufman

As they appear in Andrew Kaufman’s debut novel, Toronto’s superheroes are a rather sad-sack bunch. There’s The Couch Surfer, with the mysterious power to survive on nothing but handfuls of breakfast cereal and slices of ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A House by the Sea

By Sikeena Karmali

Zahra, the narrator of Sikeena Karmali’s A House by the Sea, wants nothing more than “to take my home off my back and lay it down, here, lay my burden down and sort through it.” ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Salt Roads

By Nalo Hopkinson

The Salt Roads, the new novel from Toronto writer Nalo Hopkinson, is a sprawling, ambitious exploration of mythology and history, race and gender. Hopkinson, who is widely respected for her fantasy writing, casts as her ... Read More »

November 11, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure

By Maria Coffey

Following the death of Maria Coffey’s life partner, elite British mountaineer Joe Tasker, on Everest’s then-unclimbed Northeast Ridge in 1985, Coffey moved to Canada and reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, Fragile Edge, ... Read More »

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

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

By Janet Warner

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

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

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Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

All My Friends Are Superheroes

A House by the Sea

The Salt Roads

Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Dark Side of Extreme Adventure

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

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

One Large Coffin to Go: A Polly Deacon Murder Mystery

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