The Empire of Yearning

In his 2002 novel, The Dark Virgin, Oakland Ross wrote about the 16th-century conquest of Mexico. The Empire of Yearning jumps forward to the political and economic chaos of Mexico in the 1860s. Maximilian, an ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Tale for the Time Being

By Ruth Ozeki

In clever and deeply affecting ways, Ruth Ozeki’s luminous new novel explores notions of duality, causation, honour, and time. The protagonist of A Tale for the Time Being, also named Ruth, is a middle-aged writer ... Read More »

June 18, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Caught

By Lisa Moore

Lisa Moore, whose novel February won this year’s Canada Reads competition, has the ability to perfectly capture an emotional moment. At the outset of her third novel, Caught, David Slaney has escaped the prison that ... Read More »

June 17, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Empty Room

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s fourth novel tells the story of Colleen Kerrigan, a relatively unremarkable middle-aged secretary who is single and childless. Colleen is also a full-blown alcoholic. The novel takes place over a single day. ... Read More »

June 10, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Little Cat

By Tamara Faith Berger

Brought back into the world as a single-volume reprint, Little Cat offers “substantially revised” versions of Tamara Faith Berger’s first two novels: 1999’s Lie with Me and 2001’s The Way of the Whore. For all ... Read More »

June 3, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Fall

By Colleen Nelson

Authors have many good reasons for choosing to set their tales of teen angst in space or the distant past, or in worlds full of vampires, extraterrestrials, or sentient robots. One reason YA writers prefer ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Be a Wilderness Detective

By Peggy Kochanoff

From fireflies to ocean tides, Atlantic Canada’s woods, fields, and coastlines are teeming with natural wonders. In her new non-fiction book, author and illustrator Peggy Kochanoff decodes some of the East Coast’s more intriguing mysteries. ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

It’s a Feudal, Feudal World: A Different Medieval History

By Stephen Shapiro; Ross Kinnaird, illus.

The latest offering from historian and author Stephen Shapiro lives up to its claim to be a “different” history in both its infographic presentation and the scope of material covered. Infographics are a method of ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Beautiful Goodbye

By Nancy Runstedler

In her debut novel, librarian Nancy Runstedler uses two fantastical elements – the occult and time travel – to lure readers into a narrative that informs as it entertains. The story begins shortly after the ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Creeps

By Darren Hynes

Toronto actor Darren Hynes’ new novel centres on two disaffected teens in a small Labrador mining town, one of whom – a snarling, be-muscled thug known as Pete “the meat” – is a bully in ... Read More »

May 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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The Empire of Yearning

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★ Caught

The Empty Room

★ Little Cat

The Fall

Be a Wilderness Detective

It’s a Feudal, Feudal World: A Different Medieval History

Beautiful Goodbye

Creeps

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