The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems, 1965-2001

In a country rich in, and appreciative of, its poets and poetry, Victoria writer Stephen Scobie has never quite received the attention that he is due. A noted academic, and winner of the 1980 Governor ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America

By Robert MacNeil

This slim memoir focuses on the career of American newsman Robert MacNeil, most notably the former co-anchor of PBS’s MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Born on the east coast of Canada, MacNeil has spent much of his life ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shoshanna’s Story

By Elaine Kalman Naves

Elaine Kalman Naves brings a crisp, beguiling voice to her contemplation of her complicated childhood in Hungary, England, and Montreal. Born to Holocaust-survivors Shoshanna and Gusti, Ilushka (as she was then called) grows up against ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Myth of Ability: Nurturing Mathematical Talent in Every Child

By John Mighton

John Mighton is the founder of JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Mathematical Prodigies), an expanding educational charity that has grown to provide free math tutoring to 12 inner-city Toronto schools. The Myth of Ability is the story ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

All Stirred up: Over 150 of the Best Recipes from the Women’s Culinary Network

By Laura Buckley and Madeleine Greey, eds.

The Women’s Culinary Network is an international group of women food professionals (most based in Toronto) who have aligned themselves, according to their chairwoman, Nettie Cronish, “to share professional experience, knowledge and information that could ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Burning Vision

By Marie Clements

In the late 1880s, a Dene medicine man prophesized a “burning vision” that will “come a long time in the future. It will come burning inside.” His people may have regarded him as a sapient ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Blade of Grass

By Lewis DeSoto

A Blade of Grass, the first novel from Toronto writer and painter Lewis DeSoto, is an impressive, if flawed, debut, a compelling examination of race and place, the personal and the political, in South Africa. ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Island Walkers

By John Bemrose

There was a novel published a few years ago called Under the Skin. Written by Michel Faber, it has perhaps the most original premise of any piece of fiction in the last five, six, maybe ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Innocent in Newfoundland: Even More Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters

By David McFadden

Fans of the Toronto poet, non-fiction writer, and all-round wit David McFadden have become familiar with his trademark travel-narrative style through his previous books An Innocent in Scotland and An Innocent in Ireland. McFadden now ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

★ Imagine a Night

By Sarah L. Thomson, Rob Gonsalves, illus.

In a stunning debut picture book called Imagine a Night, Ontario artist Rob Gonsalves opens our eyes to his creative and highly original visions of the night. Rendered in acrylic, these exquisite paintings capture night ... Read More »

November 20, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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