Busted Flush

Dock Bass is a straight-talking man’s man from upstate New York who likes carpentry and cold beer, but does not suffer fools. He gets himself fired from his job as a realtor. He abandons his ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Radiant City

By Lauren B. Davis

Lauren B. Davis’s much-praised first novel, A Stubborn Season, took place in Depression-era Toronto, in hard times made harder by alcoholism and mental illness. Her superb new novel is set in present-day Paris, where the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Man in a Distant Field

By Theresa Kishkan

Declan O’Malley is a man on the run. O’Malley, the protagonist of Theresa Kishkan’s new novel, A Man in a Distant Field, is an Irish schoolmaster who flees his small ancestral family farm after the ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ghost Horse of Meadow Green

By Anne Louise MacDonald

Poor Kim, who’s crazy about horses, has little going for her. At school, her classmates tease her about her haunted house and the crazy man – possibly her own great-grandfather – who killed himself there ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Turning

By Gillian Chan

Ben Larsson, the teenage protagonist of Gillian Chan’s latest YA novel, is confronted by eerie supernatural phenomena while reluctantly accompanying his professor father on his sabbatical in England. Ben finds himself scared and unsettled by ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Walking with the Dead

By L.M. Falcone

Walking with the Dead is a page-turning thriller for readers who like their stories to unfold at lightning speed, unencumbered by character development. Both Alex and his dad have financial troubles. Alex is being shaken ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Flower

By Irene N. Watts

Displaced by a hip stepmother who has a new baby on the way, 13-year-old Kaitlin Carr feels like she doesn’t fit into her family anymore. She’s bitterly disappointed that she’s being sent off to Halifax ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Tales of Don Quixote

By retold by Barbara Nichol

At the beginning of the second part of Don Quixote, published 10 years after the first part, Cervantes, not shy about self-promotion, embeds a character who comments on the great popularity of part one. “Children ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Underground Reporters

By Kathy Kacer

In August 1940, a group of Jewish youth in the Czech village of Budejovice, barred by the Nazis from almost all everyday activities, came together to start a community newspaper. Called Klepy, the newspaper began ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Fearless Fashion

By Alison Bell, Jerome Mireault, illus.

Ever wonder how Goths get their look, or how to make your style a little more punky? Aimed at budding preteen fashionistas, Alison Bell’s Fearless Fashion aims to be the “thinking girl’s guide to style.” ... Read More »

January 21, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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