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This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors

Outdoor folk art often gets a bad rap: Think overly adorned mailboxes, pink flamingos, and smiling gnomes. Curator, writer, and broadcaster Phil Tilney sets out to polish the tarnished image of this often misunderstood craft ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario

By Ruth Cohen, ed.

While it can be argued that the half-dozen years of Ontario’s Harris government have produced little of lasting value, the same might be said for critical works on a government whose premier is commonly referred ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality

By Bob Cotton and Richard Oliver

BOOK DESIGN TODAY is driven by magazine design. Magazines, with their quick cycles and relatively low production costs, are highly responsive to design trends and consumer caprice. And they’re ephemeral – you can correct your ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence

By Audrey and Paul Grescoe

The Book of War Letters is the ambitious second entry in Paul and Audrey Grescoe’s planned trilogy of collected Canadian letters. Spanning this country’s entry into the Boer war in 1899 to the death of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

In the Name of Salomé

By Julia Alvarez

With In the Name of Salomé, Latin American writer Julia Alvarez returns to the same ground she covered with In the Time of the Butterflies. Here, as there, Alvarez fictionalizes a historical story of women ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bonnie Stern’s Essentials of Home Cooking

By Bonnie Stern

Bonnie Stern has finally seen the light: fat is beautiful. The home economist and chef who made her name by preaching the dogma of low-fat in three “heart smart” cookbooks has dredged her newest book, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

2015: After the Boom

By Garth Turner

FINANCIAL PLANNING BOOKS have become a fixture of the fall market heralding the tax preparation season to come. The offerings include books of self-promoting advice published by or for mutual fund vendors; better ones merge ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy’s Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse

By Ruth Teichroeb

Ruth Teichroeb covered the longest inquest in Manitoba history for the Winnipeg Free Press. When it was over, she still had questions about the suicide of 14-year-old Lester Desjarlais and many others like him. She ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

Krekshuns

By Dennis E. Bolen

It takes a lot longer to get this dark novel out of your mind than it does to read it. Another in Bolen’s series about Vancouver parole officer Barry Delta, the book is a discordant ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

By Diane Schoemperlen

For 15 years, Kingston, Ontario’s Diane Schoemperlen has used formal pranks to reveal an imagination as quick and associative as a hummingbird’s wing. Her novel, In the Language of Love, was a long – and ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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This Other Eden: Canadian Folk Art Outdoors

Alien Invasion: How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario

The Cyberspace Lexicon: An Illustrated Dictionary of Terms from Multimedia to Virtual Reality

The Book of War Letters: 100 Years of Private Canadian Correspondence

In the Name of Salomé

Bonnie Stern’s Essentials of Home Cooking

2015: After the Boom

Flowers on My Grave: How an Ojibwa Boy’s Death Helped Break the Silence on Child Abuse

Krekshuns

Our Lady of the Lost and Found

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