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The Amazing Absorbing Boy

Here we go: another Canadian novel about the immigrant experience – set in present-day Toronto, but with Toronto meant to stand for Canada as a whole. In the hands of Rabindranath Maharaj, we are led ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

From This Distance

By Karen McLaughlin

Karen McLaughlin’s second novel incorporates similar themes to those of her first, 1995’s Choral. From This Distance examines women’s relationships with each other and the damage those relationships can do. This is frequently travelled fictional ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We’re Made Of

By Ryan Turner

As its title suggests, this debut collection of linked short stories by Halifax native Ryan Turner investigates the core components of its characters’ lives. Told in stripped-down prose, the book’s overarching narrative traces the coming ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Waterproof Bible

By Andrew Kaufman

Those who enjoyed All My Friends Are Superheroes, Andrew Kaufman’s 2003 cult-hit debut, should be similarly taken with his sophomore effort, The Waterproof Bible, which retains the romance, humour, and inventive allegory of the earlier ... Read More »

February 25, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

By Clem Martini and Olivier Martini

In Bitter Medicine, award-winning playwright Clem Martini chronicles his family’s 30-year struggle with schizophrenia, and in so doing reveals a deeply flawed Canadian health care system. Clem’s perspective on the suffering that has plagued those ... Read More »

February 22, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

By M.G. Vassanji

How often does a reader have the chance to glimpse a writer’s mind at work? M.G. Vassanji allows just that and more in A Place Within, an intensely personal meditation on history and identity that ... Read More »

February 16, 2010 | Filed under: History

Cool Water

By Dianne Warren

The publicity bumpf for Dianne Warren’s first novel compares it to the work of Carol Shields and Miriam Toews, but Thornton Wilder’s Our Town is its true kindred spirit. Set in the fictional prairie hamlet ... Read More »

February 16, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Think Again

By JonArno Lawson; Julie Morstad, illus.

Parents often look at their teenagers and wonder: “What the heck is going on in that head?” The moping, the slouching, the copious amounts of black clothing – all can be attributed, for the most ... Read More »

February 8, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude

By Emily White

In recent years, the memoir has shifted from the tell-all to the personal essay, and from there it has branched out into various forms of creative non-fiction: often beautiful me-centered takes on some aspect of ... Read More »

February 1, 2010 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever

By Helaine Becker; Steve Attoe, illus.

Boredom Blasters and The Insecto-Files author Helaine Becker delves into the history of technology in What’s the Big Idea? Split into four chronological sections spanning 4,000 years, the book examines groundbreaking innovations and highlights a ... Read More »

January 27, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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Quill and Quire

The Amazing Absorbing Boy

From This Distance

What We’re Made Of

The Waterproof Bible

Bitter Medicine: A Graphic Memoir of Mental Illness

A Place Within: Rediscovering India

Cool Water

★ Think Again

Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude

What’s the Big Idea? Inventions that Changed Life on Earth Forever

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