★ Gutter Child

The debut novel by Brampton, Ontario, author Jael Richardson – founder of the Festival of Literary Diversity and author of the memoir The Stone Thrower – is an outstanding and fearless story that follows a ... Read More »

February 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Like Home

By Louisa Onomé

A YA novel about gentrification might sound as sexy as a YA novel about urban planning. Yet the political is effectively intertwined with the personal in Louisa Onomé’s debut novel. Chinelo and Kate are best ... Read More »

February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Kill the Mall

By Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla’s third novel opens with a love letter in which the unnamed narrator expresses his undying affection for the “remarkable institution” that is the local mall. He is applying for a residency program at ... Read More »

February 4, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Speed of Mercy

By Christy Ann Conlin

Malmuria Grant-Patel has come to rural Nova Scotia to investigate the mystery of Mercy Lake. A podcaster and short-story writer, Mal believes that if she is able to get to the bottom of what happened ... Read More »

February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Book of Wings

By Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s first novel is a stunning testament to how the grief of heartbreak can bring us back to who we are. At the core of the story, the protagonist Maya yearns for her ... Read More »

February 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

We the North: 25 Years of the Toronto Raptors

By Doug Smith

With a very unusual follow-up season now in the books, there is something even more nostalgic and moving about reliving the Toronto Raptors’ unlikely path to championship glory. In We the North, the Toronto Star’s ... Read More »

January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Reviews, Sports, Health & Self-help

My Best Friend Is Extinct

By Rebecca Wood Barrett and Cornelia Li (ill.)

In the new middle-grade novel My Best Friend Is Extinct, a lonely 10-year-old boy discovers a wounded, bear-like creature living in the snow and must nurse it back to health while facing bullies and sabre-toothed ... Read More »

January 28, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Wild Outside: Around the World with Survivorman

By Les Stroud and Andrew P. Barr (ill.)

A book about surviving on one’s own seems pretty relevant in the middle of a pandemic during which we’re constantly being told to socially distance from one another. Granted the middle-grade nonfiction book Wild Outside: ... Read More »

January 25, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

Bittersweet

By Natasha Ramoutar

Indo-Guyanese Canadian Natasha Ramoutar’s debut collection of poems charts paths through diasporas and ends in a celebratory uplifting of Toronto suburb Scarborough, the final destination on this journey. With an especially skilled use of internal ... Read More »

January 25, 2021 | Filed under: Poetry, Reviews

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built

By Susan Hughes and Marianne Ferrer (ill.)

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built is inspired by author Susan Hughes’s visit to Casa Batlló, a residence architect Antoni Gaudí built in Barcelona, Spain, in the early 1900s. The gist of the story ... Read More »

January 21, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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