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Hot Air: Meeting Canada’s Climate Change Challenge

By Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, and Nick Rivers

Globe and Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson and Simon Fraser University profs Marc Jaccard and Nic Rivers go to town with this look at Canada’s abysmal record on climate change. They’re mostly preaching to the eco-choir ... Read More »

November 15, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture

By Tim Bowling

Readers picking up this book should be forewarned by its title: this is nostalgia with an edge. Novelist and award-winning poet Tim Bowling grew up in the 1960s in Ladner, on the banks of the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Old Canadian Cemeteries: Places of Memory

By Jane Irwin; John de Visser, photog.

It’s hard to imagine anyone racking up more travel points than photographer John de Visser, who travelled extensively around Canada to shoot material for two collections: Peter and Douglas Richardson’s Canadian Churches and Jane Irwin’s ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power

By Tom Flanagan

Harper’s Team is a lively and intriguing firsthand account of Stephen Harper’s rise to power, as well as a valuable historical document that does not pretend to be unbiased. With an infectious excitement about the ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide

By Jonathan Garfinkel

Ambivalence is poet and playwright Jonathan Garfinkel’s memoir of his exploration of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and his attempts to come to terms with his own Jewish faith. Garfinkel had a sheltered ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Therefore Repent!

By Jim Munroe; Salgood Sam, illus.

With his new graphic novel project, writer and DIY publishing pioneer Jim Munroe builds on the events of the Book of Revelation to create a bold and imaginative new world. This is by no means ... Read More »

November 12, 2007 | Filed under: Graphica

Dangerous Crossings!

By Antonia Banyard

Antonia Banyard’s Dangerous Crossings!, the final installment in Annick Press’s True Stories from the Edge series, is about 10 land, air, and sea voyages that will likely leave readers young and old shaking their heads ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Mirror with a Memory: A Nation’s Story in Photographs

By Janice Weaver

Janice Weaver notes that both photography and the nation of Canada were invented in the mid-1800s, an observation that makes a compelling argument for telling our national story through photographs. Weaver, an accomplished non-fiction writer ... Read More »

November 7, 2007

Rebel’s Tag

By K.L. Denman

This is B.C.-based author K.L. Denman’s second title in Orca Currents, a novel series aimed at pre-teens reading below grade level. Although it’s not as original and quirky as Mirror Image, Denman’s first offering, Rebel’s ... Read More »

November 7, 2007 | Filed under: Book news

Shen and the Treasure Fleet

By Ray Conlogue

Ray Conlogue’s Shen and the Treasure Fleet is a big, sprawling old-fashioned boy’s adventure story. The imperial city of Nanjing is under attack as the Prince of Yan prepares to depose the Emperor, and 13-year-old ... Read More »