Barbara Frum: A Daughter’s Memoir

When Barbara Frum died at age 54 on March 26, 1992, media outlets across Canada noted her passing with an outpouring of grief and praise.As an interviewer for CBC Radio’s “As It Happens” and subsequently ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Carved in Stone: Holocaust Years – a Boy’s Tale

By Manny Drukier

Edgar Bronfman and Manny Drukier were both born into Jewish families, within a year of each other. Bronfman was born in Montreal in 1929; Drukier, in Lvov, Poland, 1928. Bronfman was bar mitzvahed in 1942, ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Making of a Jew

By Edgar M. Bronfman

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ From Protest to Power: Personal Reflections on a Life in Politics

By Bob Rae

This is without question one of the best memoirs by a Canadian politician. It is splendidly written, moving, funny, personal, and eloquent. At times, Bob Rae’s prose can make you laugh out loud or weep. ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Would You Love Me?

By Andrea Wayne von Konigslow

Here is a book of silly rhymes for the preschool set – and who loves silly rhymes more than this age group? Writer and illustrator Andrea Wayne von Königslöw’s earlier books, Toilet Tales and That’s ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

This Dark Embrace

By Paul Stuewe

Los Angeles in the Dirty Thirties, and a dead-end kid from Toronto is trying to break free of the hobo jungle by driving a cab, when who should hop into the back seat with the ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Final Take: A Harriet Hubbley Mystery

By Jackie Manthorne

Classic Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detectives are urban updates of the Old West cowboy: tough guy loners, ropin’ and ridin’ outside the confounded confines of the family, who find females appealing so long as ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels