★ The White Cat and the Monk

By Jo Ellen Bogart; Sydney Smith (illus.)

If ever there was a book that could calm a child and draw her into meditative contemplation (perhaps right before bed?), The White Cat and the Monk is it. Guelph, Ontario–based author Jo Ellen Bogart ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Finding Hope

By Colleen Nelson

Cerebral, straight-laced 15-year-old Hope Randall is eager to leave her small town of Lumsville and escape her apathetic parents and 18-year-old meth-addicted brother, Eric. Once the town’s star hockey player and bound for the NHL, ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Movers

By Meaghan McIsaac

Toronto author Meaghan McIsaac sets her novel in a near-future dystopia in which the world is dying as a result of pollution and overpopulation. The story centres around a boy named Pat. A “Mover,” Pat ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Crooked Heart of Mercy

By Billie Livingston

We’ll survive. That’s what we do.” Such is the central sentiment of Billie Livingston’s fourth novel, a sombre yet striking story of a small group of damaged characters connected by their efforts to endure, through ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Bad Things Happen

By Kris Bertin

An armchair profiler challenge based on the acknowledgments page in the debut story collection by Kris Bertin, a Haligonian bartender: We are presented with the fact that the stories were written when Bertin was between ... Read More »

February 8, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Skeleton Tree

By Iain Lawrence

Iain Lawrence knows a thing or two about adventure in the wilderness: he’s been a logger, a firefighter, and a fish farmer, among other things. The author brings the full force of this experience to ... Read More »

February 5, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Exit, Pursued by a Bear

By E.K. Johnston

At a party celebrating the end of cheerleading camp, Hermione Winters – likable, great student, loyal friend, and captain of her school’s cheer squad – is drugged and raped. Remembering nothing of the attack, she ... Read More »

February 2, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Human Rights in Canada: A History

By Dominique Clément

If Canadian history were a rug, it would be marred by large lumps from the many less-than-wholesome subjects that have been swept underneath. Unafraid to peer under the rug at those unmentionable topics is Dominique ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: History

By Chance Alone

By Max Eisen

For the better part of 30 years, Holocaust survivor Max Eisen has been on a mission to educate people through volunteer speaking engagements. Sharing his first-hand experiences of the year he was incarcerated in Nazi ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Measure of Darkness

By Liam Durcan

There comes a time when everyone must undertake an accounting of all they’ve accomplished, for good or ill, in their personal and professional lives. Usually this happens around middle age, when we can no longer ... Read More »

February 1, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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