The Clothesline Swing

With nearly half a million Syrians dead and an estimated 10 million internally and globally displaced since the start of the country’s civil war in 2011, it’s no wonder that Ahmad Danny Ramadan’s The Clothesline ... Read More »

May 23, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stop Feedin’ da Boids!

By James Sage; Pierre Pratt (ill.)

The opening spread of American author James Sage’s Stop Feedin’ da Boids! paints a lazy pastoral landscape, idyllic green and dotted with free-roaming animals. Bunnies frolic, a lone horse drinks, a clump of cows graze… ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Colette’s Lost Pet (Mile End Stories, Book 1)

By Isabelle Arsenault

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I

By Michael Gates

A historian’s goal should always be to find a story that has not been told, or to find an old story and tell it a new way. Two new books, both about people in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: History, Reviews

★ From the Tundra to the Trenches

By Eddy Weetaltuk; Thibault Martin (ed.)

A historian’s goal should always be to find a story that has not been told, or to find an old story and tell it a new way. Two new books, both about people in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: History, Reviews

Fail Better: Why Baseball Matters

By Mark Kingwell

When Roger Angell started writing baseball essays for The New Yorker in the 1960s, he knew he’d need a fresh angle on the beloved game. He found it right where he was sitting: in the ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game That Saved Me

By Stacey May Fowles

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy

By Julia Cooper

Fusing social commentary and memoir, the latest instalment in Coach House’s Exploded Views series is a critical exploration of grief culture conducted by an author with a vested interest in the topic. Julia Cooper was ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Health & Self-help, Reviews

Life on Mars

By Lori McNulty

None of the stories in Lori McNulty’s debut collection is set on the planet Mars, but nevertheless that destination is invoked in nearly all of them, most often as a way of alluding to feelings ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream

By Dani Tate-Stratton; Nikki Tate

Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream is a book that lives up to its title. Its three chapters explore birthdays on an individual and global level. Salient facts are interwoven with personal anecdotes, making for ... Read More »

May 18, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

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