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How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

Popular YA author Lesley Livingston makes her first foray into middle-grade territory with How to Curse in Hieroglyphics, the first book in the Wiggins Weird series. The supernatural tale, co-authored by Toronto actor and former ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Home Ice Advantage

By Tom Earle

Shame, embarrassment, and fear often keep us from exposing our psychological baggage to the masses, and the main characters in Tom Earle’s newest middle-grade novel are especially keen to keep their traumas under wraps. Twelve-year-old ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Baygirl

By Heather Smith

Heather Smith, a Newfoundlander who now makes her home in Waterloo, Ontario, sets her debut novel against the backdrop of the 1992 cod fishing moratoriums that resulted in the loss of approximately 30,000 jobs in ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Camel in the Sun

By Griffin Ondaatje; Linda Wolfsgruber, illus.

Documentary filmmaker Griffin Ondaatje (son of Michael) enters the picture-book world with a quiet, spiritual story that introduces the concept of empathy to young readers. In this thoughtful take on a traditional tale that the ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Time for Flowers, Time for Snow

By Glen Huser; Philippe Béha, illus.

Combining striking illustrations, a dramatic story based on ancient myth, song lyrics, and a companion CD featuring a children’s operetta, Time for Flowers, Time for Snow is a fabulous multi-sensory thrill to be enjoyed by ... Read More »

October 29, 2013 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia, ed.

Here’s the inherent problem with zombies, from a literary perspective: they’re boring. Mindless, shambling husks devoid of language or reason, they exist as creatures of pure instinct, with only one driving force: chomping on the ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The n-Body Problem

By Tony Burgess

The title of Tony Burgess’s new novel refers to a question in classical mechanics: is it possible to predict the individual movements of a group of celestial objects that interact with one another gravitationally? Isaac ... Read More »

October 28, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

By Giles Slade

The past decade’s catastrophic climate change events, from Superstorm Sandy to the return of 1930s-style dust storms across the American Midwest, are catalogued in this new book, which argues that a huge migration of environmental ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

By L. Waxy Gregoire and David M. Dupuis with Pierre Pilote

Bobby Hull has often joked that he loved wearing the Chicago Blackhawks jersey because its distinctive crest looked a lot like Pierre Pilote’s face. Pilote, who played from 1955 to ’69, became one of the ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

By Jane Christmas

Jane Christmas has always felt drawn to religious life. The quiet, simple existence of cloistered nuns holds great appeal, and after two failed marriages, she decides to enter a convent to find out if she ... Read More »

October 22, 2013 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

Home Ice Advantage

★ Baygirl

The Camel in the Sun

★ Time for Flowers, Time for Snow

Dead North: The Exile Book of Canadian Zombie Fiction

The n-Body Problem

American Exodus: Climate Change and the Coming Flight for Survival

Heart of the Blackhawks: The Pierre Pilote Story

And Then There Were Nuns: Adventures in a Cloistered Life

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