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The Candidate: Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Noah Richler’s latest book is meant to be the story of one unlikely politician’s doomed campaign as a candidate for the federal New Democratic Party. But this enjoyable, albeit uneven, memoir also provides some insight ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

Margo Thinks Twice

By Monica Arnaldo

One Saturday morning, Margo wakes up with the undeniable urge to create. As she’s about to begin assembling her masterpiece, Margo’s mother, not wanting the little girl to stick to everything, cautions her to be ... Read More »

November 7, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Woods: A Year on Protection Island

By Amber McMillan

Amber McMillan’s memoir tells the story of the author’s escape from Toronto to B.C. Tired of city living, McMillan and her husband set their sights on Protection Island, in Nanaimo Harbour. The couple is drawn ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Icarus Down

By James Bow

The world of James Bow’s Icarus Down is stunning and terrifying in concept. After decades of wandering the galaxy aboard the spaceship Icarus, the last remaining survivors of a destroyed Earth settle on a new ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Advocate

By Darren Greer

During the first few years of the AIDS crisis, the darkness and confusion surrounding the disease were so complete that reason, no matter how firm its foundation, often lost out to fear and hysteria. Gay ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

All the Dirt: A History of Getting Clean

By Capucine Mazille (ill.); Katherine Ashenburg

For her debut children’s title, Toronto author and journalist Katherine Ashenburg returns to the subject of cleanliness, which she first explored in her 2007 adult non-fiction title, The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. All ... Read More »

November 1, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

News of the World

By Paulette Jiles

With the omnipresence of 24-hour TV news channels, online news aggregators, and Twitter, it is difficult to imagine a time when global news wasn’t available instantaneously; when, if you wanted any sense of world events, ... Read More »

October 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Road to Ever After

By Moira Young

The world Moira Young creates in The Road to Ever After is a far cry from the desertscape in which she set her highly successful Dustlands trilogy. The small village of Brownvale is also a ... Read More »

October 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive!) in the Real World?

By Helaine Becker; Phil McAndrew (ill.)

Like your typical zombie, the concept of Toronto author Helaine Becker’s new book is a no-brainer: take a half-dozen of the most gruesome monsters from movies, myths, and legends, and spell out their scientific plausibility. ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

In The Return of History, the 2016 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh takes umbrage with Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, Fukuyama declared that the end of the Cold War marked the inevitable cessation ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

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