Escape from Syria

By Jackie Roche (ill.); Mike Freiheit (ill.); Samya Kullab

In 2014, a phrase was anonymously spray-painted on a wall in Homs, Syria: “When I leave, be sure I tried everything in my power to stay.” This poignant graffiti reverberates throughout Escape from Syria, a ... Read More »

November 27, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Cop House

By Sam Shelstad

Toronto author Sam Shelstad possesses the ability to charm readers with his vivacity, even – perhaps especially – when it comes to characters or situations that might be considered a tad unsavory. The bulk of ... Read More »

November 27, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Munro vs. the Coyote

By Darren Groth

No one expected 16-year-old Munro Maddux to recover overnight from the death of his younger sister, Evie, a special-needs child. But they also didn’t expect the angry outbursts, the mysterious chest pains, and the goading ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Two Roads Home

By Daniel Griffin

Set in 1993, Victoria writer Daniel Griffin’s debut novel follows a group of environmental activists on Vancouver Island who set off an explosion at a supposedly unmanned logging warehouse. The bombing badly injures a worker ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher

By Marilee Peters; Roxanna Bikadoroff (ill.)

In the genre of children’s non-fiction about significant inventors, discoverers, pioneers, and scientists, the current trend lies in correcting the record and broadening the perception of history by highlighting figures who don’t fit the dead-white-male ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Long Ride Yellow

By Martin West

Nonni likes causing her sex partners pain. She’s also off her psych meds. And she’s being controlled by aliens. When her plaything, Daniel, turns up as a strangled corpse, mayhem ensues. In his absorbing debut ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scion of the Fox: The Realms of Ancient, Book 1

By S.M. Beiko

Foxes, rabbits, deer, seals, and owls. These are the ancient, founding “families” of the human-spirit-animal hybrids that populate the rich mythology of S.M. Beiko’s new fantasy saga. Scion of the Fox is the first of ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Uncertain Weights and Measures

By Jocelyn Parr

Fittingly for a novel set in late 1920s Russia, Jocelyn Parr’s Uncertain Weights and Measures is obsessed with dialectics: between the state and the individual; between the head and the heart; and between lovers in ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

By Kenn Harper

On March 15, 1920, Robert Janes was shot and killed on Baffin Island. The man who killed him was Nuqallaq, an Inuk. Neither Nuqallaq nor the witnesses to the killing ever denied these basic facts. ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: History, Native Peoples

Has the World Ended Yet?

By Peter Darbyshire

The short stories that comprise Peter Darbyshire’s seventh book – the fourth under his own name – are obsessed with ghosts and angels, superheroes and gods. They appear as manifestations of discarded, mythological histories that ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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Quill and Quire

Escape from Syria

Cop House

Munro vs. the Coyote

Two Roads Home

The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher

★ Long Ride Yellow

Scion of the Fox: The Realms of Ancient, Book 1

Uncertain Weights and Measures

★ Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

Has the World Ended Yet?

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