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Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede

Slick City in Rockfall Mountain is a quirky community of ogres, trolls, goblins, and other monsters. Named for the goop dredged from the bottom of Fang Harbor, Slick City is a hub of technological and ... Read More »

March 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Between Shadows

By Kathleen Cook Waldron

When his grandfather dies, 12-year-old Ari inherits a rustic, rainbow-painted cabin in B.C., along with a lucrative piece of land. The catch? His father and aunt, both strapped for cash, have the power to sell ... Read More »

March 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Clover’s Luck: The Magical Animal Adoption Agency (Book 1)

By Kallie George; Alexandra Bolger (illus.)

Clover believes wholeheartedly in luck, but she feels that hers is all bad. First, her best friend, Emma, gets a last-minute spot at summer-long pony camp, but not Clover. Then, while Clover plays with her ... Read More »

March 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Colossal Canada: 100 Epic Facts and Feats

By Elizabeth MacLeod; Frieda Wishinsky

Our home and native land has the world’s tallest teepee, grandest beaver dam, longest electric-vehicle-ready highway, biggest caribou herd, and largest dark-sky preserve (an area free of light pollution). All of these facts and more ... Read More »

March 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

10 Rivers That Shaped the World

By Merilee Peters; Kim Rosen (illus.)

In her second non-fiction title in less than two years, Vancouver author Marilee Peters examines remarkable waterways and their influence on great moments in history. Peters’ talent is her ability to marry information and story. ... Read More »

March 3, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Under the Visible Life

By Kim Echlin

Feel more. Simple words, but a challenging credo for literary authors to live by. Thankfully, we have Kim Echlin to show us how it’s done. In Under the Visible Life, Echlin (who was shortlisted for ... Read More »

March 2, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Shadow Scale

By Rachel Hartman

Rachel Hartman’s debut novel, Seraphina, introduced readers to the complex landscape of Goredd, with its political nuances, social hierarchy, religion, and some of the most interesting shape-shifting dragons young-adult literature has seen. By the novel’s ... Read More »

February 27, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

All-Day Breakfast

By Adam Lewis Schroeder

With his new novel, Penticton, B.C., writer and teacher Adam Lewis Schroeder breaks with his literary past – which includes novels like In the Fabled East, a finalist for the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize – ... Read More »

February 26, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

By Timothy Caulfield

Like Holden Caulfield, Timothy Caulfield has a hate-on for phonies. The difference between the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye and the writer of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? is that the latter ... Read More »

February 23, 2015 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Burqa of Skin

By Nelly Arcan; Melissa Bull (trans.)

Writers cannot control how their work is read, and this becomes infinitely more complicated after writers take their own lives. Especially pretty, young iconoclasts who write about sex work. Quebec author Nelly Arcan, whose debut ... Read More »

February 19, 2015 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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Quill and Quire

Tank & Fizz: The Case of the Slime Stampede

Between Shadows

Clover’s Luck: The Magical Animal Adoption Agency (Book 1)

Colossal Canada: 100 Epic Facts and Feats

10 Rivers That Shaped the World

★ Under the Visible Life

★ Shadow Scale

All-Day Breakfast

Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?: When Celebrity Culture and Science Clash

Burqa of Skin

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