Five Roses

Readers familiar with Miriam Toews’s earnest rendering of suicide’s complexities and heartbreak in All My Puny Sorrows will appreciate Alice Zorn’s admirable second novel for its equally sober depiction of the lasting impact the act ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Clara Humble and the Not-So-Super Powers

By Anna Humphrey; Lisa Cinar (ill.)

Naughtiness is the lifeblood of the comic middle-grade novel, but it presents the writer with a problem in this age of didacticism: how can a kid get into energetic and imaginative trouble when adults are ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

By Ross King

In the spring of 1914, Georges Clemenceau – journalist, republican, once and future prime minster of France – paid a visit to his close friend Claude Monet. The artist had been depressed since the death ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

When Morning Comes

By Arushi Raina

Forty years after the June 16, 1976, Soweto Student Uprising drew global attention to apartheid’s brutal system of repression, Arushi Raina’s debut novel, set in the weeks leading up to that fateful day, introduces readers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

By Danielle Daniel

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of her troubled marriage to a military man, her struggles with depression, and the accident that left her husband a paraplegic. Recently, several strong women writers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The “Red” Kelly Story

By David M. Dupuis; L. Waxy Gregoire; Leonard “Red” Kelly

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Making it Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict

By Marilee Peters

In her latest book, Vancouver author Marilee Peters looks closely at the concept of restorative justice. She provides convincing examples of why and how society can move away from the narrative of punishment as the ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Path of Most Resistance

By Russell Wangersky

With The Path of Most Resistance, his first new collection since the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away in 2012, Russell Wangersky affirms his position as one of the finest short-story writers currently working in this ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Girl Mans Up

By M-E Girard

Respect is the dominant theme that runs through Girl Mans Up, the latest novel from pediatric nurse and two-time Lambda Literary Fellow M-E Girard. The author explores the idea of respect for oneself, family, and ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

By David Sax

At one point in The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, David Sax tells the story of a marketing rep’s attempt to steer him away from writing another conventional book. She suggests ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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