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The Friends of Meager Fortune

Though the last 25 years have seen enough social, economic, technological, and even ecological change to keep a small army of novelists busy, historical fiction has become almost a default setting for Canada’s best writers, ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Fearsome Particles

By Trevor Cole

Do you know what liquid bandage is? You know – the gel formula that “fills in and protects skin cracks to reduce minor pain instantly”? You might need some familiarity with it in the early ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Hitch

By Matthew Holmes

Ask any old sailor worth his salt: the purpose of a hitch is to tie the best possible line – to wrap around an object and cinch down tight. Therein lies the aim of New ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

★ Vermeer’s Light: Poems 1996–2006

By George Bowering

George Bowering’s newest collection covers a decade of the Vancouver poet’s life and work. It was a tumultuous 10 years that saw the painful, lingering death of his wife of 37 years, Angela, his service ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit

By Morningstar Mercredi

The horrors of a life immersed in alcoholism, childhood sexual abuse, and racism are sadly the reality faced by many native people in Canada. The courageous journey to overcome such barriers and trauma forms the ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

By Guy Delisle

Guy Delisle appropriately quotes Baudelaire in his new graphic non-fiction title, Shenzhen: “Bitter the knowledge we get from travelling!/ The world, monotonous and mean today,/ yesterday, tomorrow, always, let us see our own image/ an ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Graphica

Causeway: A Passage from Innocence

By Linden MacIntyre

Though he is one of Canada’s best-known broadcast journalists for his award-winning investigative work on CBC’s the fifth estate, Linden MacIntyre has plenty of the Irish storyteller in him.Causeway is MacIntyre’s abbreviated autobiography, focusing mostly ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe 1944–1945

By Terry Copp

First Canadian Army, known as the Cinderella Army, was the smallest of the Allied armies that fought the final nine months of the Second World War in Northwest Europe. The moniker derives from its role ... Read More »

October 3, 2006 | Filed under: History

★ The Birdman

By Veronika Martenova Charles; Annouchka Gravel Galouchko & Stéphan Daigle

The first thing that must be said about The Birdman is that the illustrations, by Montrealers Annouchka Gravel Galouchko and her partner, Stéphan Daigle, are gorgeous. With intricate Gustav Klimt-style patterns filling every brilliantly coloured ... Read More »

October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass

By Natalie MacLean

Though Natalie MacLean has a fondness for tippling and doesn’t always spit out the many samples she encounters as an award-winning wine writer and accredited sommelier, she makes it clear in Red, White, and Drunk ... Read More »

October 2, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

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