Swastika

Swastika, Michael Slade’s new novel, opens at the beginning of the end of the Third Reich. Hitler is losing his mind, fantasizing that the Nazis can still snatch victory from the already victorious Allied troops. ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Quarrel with the Foe

By Mel Bradshaw

Mel Bradshaw received excellent reviews for his first novel, Death in the Age of Steam, which was set in Toronto a decade before Confederation. He delves into the past once more in his new novel, ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Eagle

By Jack Whyte

With The Eagle, B.C. writer Jack Whyte celebrates the completion of one of the most ambitious writing projects in Canadian fiction. The sequel to Clothar the Frank, The Eagle is the final volume in Whyte’s ... Read More »

January 11, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

By Jonathan Vance

If it is true, as Mackenzie King once said, that while some countries have too much history Canada has too much geography, then this book from University of Western Ontario history professor Jonathan Vance is ... Read More »

January 9, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

13 Women: Parables from Prison

By Karlene Faith and Anne Near, eds.

This anthology chronicles the stories of a diverse cross-section of women caught up in the prison system in both Canada and the U.S. The heart-wrenching, often humorous, and coldly realistic tales, compiled through interviews conducted ... Read More »

January 3, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Smoke Show

By Clint Burnham

Writers as disparate as Shakespeare, Dickens, Hemingway, Joyce, Céline, V.S. Naipaul, and Flannery O’Connor used colloquial lower-middle- and working-class speech as an animating force in their work, reveling in its loose-limbed flexibility and vivid metaphoricity, ... Read More »

December 19, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If I Had a Million Onions

By Sheree Fitch; Yayo, illus.

"More of same” could be the short review of former Nova Scotia resident Sheree Fitch’s latest collection of nonsense verse, illustrated by Montrealer Yayo. In 25 rhyming verses, Fitch demonstrates the bouncy rhythms of internal ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

Emily’s Piano

By Charlotte Gingras; Stéphane Jorisch, illus.

Before Emily’s family began to fall apart, their grand piano was a source of joy – “happiness in a box.” Even after Emily’s much older sisters moved out and her mother stopped playing the piano, ... Read More »

November 28, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Birdfeeders

By Renée Schwarz

Previous Review Publication: Quill & Quire Review Category: Children's & Young Adult Non-Fiction Byline Michele LandsbergRights Cleared YesIssue Date: 2005 12 Word Count 992KeywordsContent:Stillness is a blessing too often absent from the lives of today’s children. After a moment of stillness ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

Mighty Robots: Mechanical Marvels That Fascinate and Frighten

By David Jones

Robots in fiction tend to be far more fascinating and frightening than robots in fact – R2D2 and the Terminator are much cooler than a small disk that can bump around your living room floor ... Read More »

November 28, 2005

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Swastika

Quarrel with the Foe

★ The Eagle

Building Canada: People and Projects That Shaped the Nation

13 Women: Parables from Prison

Smoke Show

If I Had a Million Onions

Emily’s Piano

Birdfeeders

Mighty Robots: Mechanical Marvels That Fascinate and Frighten

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