★ Specimen

It’s no surprise to learn from Irina Koval-yova’s author bio that she is a senior lecturer in Simon Fraser University’s department of molecular biology and biochemistry. Or that she once interned for NASA. Or that ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Mad Miss Mimic

By Sarah Henstra

In her debut novel, Ryerson University English professor Sarah Henstra delivers a plot filled with intrigue, romance, and danger set against the backdrop of Victorian London. Her heroine is Leonora Somerville, a 17-year-old heiress who ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Power Up!: A Visual Exploration of Energy

By Shaker N. Paleja; Glenda Tse (illus.)

In his second book for young readers, Vancouver actor and author Shaker N. Paleja investigates energy: its formation, history, sources, production, and the many ways in which it’s used. The advantages and costs of fossil ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking

By Elin Kelsey; Soyeon Kim (illus.)

Elin Kelsey and Soyeon Kim have done it again. Their first collaboration, 2012’s You Are Stardust, was a breath of fresh air, inventive in its theme and gorgeous diorama-based illustration. Wild Ideas is equally delightful ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ This is Sadie

By Sara O’Leary; Julie Morstad (illus.)

Sadie is precocious. Sadie is adventurous. Sadie travels the world by ship without ever leaving her bedroom. In This is Sadie, Sara O’Leary and Julie Morstad – the writer and illustrator of the award-winning Henry ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Eat, Leo! Eat!

By Caroline Adderson; Josée Bisaillon (illus.)

Every Sunday, young Leo visits his nonna, who serves up a delizioso homemade pasta lunch for her extended family. These meals are clearly a big deal, but Leo wants no part of them. One Sunday, ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

By Rick Salutin

The essay is a very personal form, a fact that provides columnist Rick Salutin his point of entry into this collection of new and previously published pieces. Salutin is a type of intellectual determinist, seeing ... Read More »

May 25, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

By Andrew Hood

Andrew Hood’s new monograph on Jim Guthrie opens with a telling request from its star: “Is there any way that you can write me in as a supporting character in my own biography?” Besides pointing ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Memoir & Biography

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

By Brooke Jeffrey

The latest entry in the swelling ranks of books about the problems with Prime Minister Stephen Harper is Concordia University political science professor Brook Jeffrey’s Dismantling Canada. Like other titles in this category, Jeffrey’s book ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs

My Body Is Yours

By Michael V. Smith

When he says “my body is yours,” Michael V. Smith means it. In his winding, emotional memoir, the author offers his reader every traceable history of his restless body, a body that causes him as ... Read More »

May 21, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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★ Specimen

Mad Miss Mimic

Power Up!: A Visual Exploration of Energy

Wild Ideas: Let Nature Inspire Your Thinking

★ This is Sadie

★ Eat, Leo! Eat!

What Was I Thinking? The Autobiography of an Idea and Other Essays

Jim Guthrie: Who Needs What

Dismantling Canada: Stephen Harper’s New Conservative Agenda

My Body Is Yours

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