The Old World and Other Stories

“I found this photograph / underneath the broken picture glass.” So begins “Photograph,” a 1993 song written and performed by R.E.M. and Natalie Merchant that describes the sensation of coming across an old portrait and ... Read More »

April 6, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery

By Melanie J. Fishbane

For those of us who grew up enthralled with Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables, details about Montgomery herself always seemed superfluous. Wasn’t Anne enough? A character vivid and realized, her life story so ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Vimy: The Battle and the Legend

By Tim Cook

For the past century, politicians, soldiers, authors, and journalists have argued that that country of Canada was not truly born at Confederation in 1867, but during the First World War, at Vimy Ridge. That April ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: History

Kings of the Court

By Alison Hughes

Edmonton author Alison Hughes’s latest book for young readers (her back catalogue includes picture books and other middle-grade and YA titles) tells the story of the Gladiators, a junior-high basketball team whose bully of a ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World

By Michael Harris

There seems to be no end to the impact of the digital revolution on our lives or its ongoing transformation of the way we work, relax, socialize, express ourselves, and even think. Naturally, this has ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

★ Bertolt

By Jacques Goldstyn

During a 30-year career as a geologist, Jacques Goldstyn whiled away his spare time drawing comics for children’s science magazines. Since then he has written and illustrated numerous books in his native French, including the ... Read More »

April 3, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition

By Paul Watson

There is no dearth of books about Sir John Franklin and the 1845 tragedy that befell him and the 129 crew with whom he sailed on the ships HMS Erebus and Terror in pursuit of ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: History

Hannah and the Magic Eye

By Tyler Enfield

With his fast-paced new novel, Edmonton writer and photographer Tyler Enfield introduces young readers to the harrowing world of archaeological treasure hunts, Dan Brown–style, but with a thought-provoking and humanist twist. When 12-year-old Hannah Dubuisson ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Speakeasy

By Alisa Smith

Set in the Pacific Northwest and spanning the years of the Second World War, Speakeasy focuses on Lena Stillman’s connection to Bill Bagley, a notorious criminal. In his heyday, Bill’s risky bank robberies and elaborate ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Liam Takes a Stand

By Josh Holinaty (ill.); Troy Wilson

Lister and Lester, identical twins and determined competitors, open up rival lemonade stands. The twins’ younger brother, Liam, just wants to hang out and have fun with them, but his offers of free labour are ... Read More »

March 27, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

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