Simply Bishop’s: Easy Seasonal Recipes

The world, it seems, is chockablock with people terrified to cook. One wonders how they subsist, unable to boil a yam or sear a steak properly, but then a glance in the grocer’s freezer informs ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Llamas in the Laundry

By William New, Vivian Bevis, illus.

As a companion volume to Vanilla Go rilla (1998), Llamas in the Laundry features children’s poetry with plentiful illustrations. The book’s strengths lie in a few nonsensical skipping rhymes with strong rhythms and vivid images ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By Kate Taylor

There’s been plenty of anticipation for Kate Taylor’s Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, though not necessarily the kind a first-time novelist wants. Taylor is The Globe and Mail’s well-known theatre critic, respected by readers, ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

By L. Carl Brown

The subject of Islam and Muslims has been of continuing interest to the West for a long time. Some historians observe that such an interest dates back to the founding of the religion. Indeed, Maxime ... Read More »

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Major Themes of the Quran

By Faziur Rahman

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Islam: A Short History

By Karen Armstrong

March 8, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Close Ups: Best Stories for Teens

By Peter Carver, ed.

Editor Peter Carver observes in his introduction that the short story is a demanding genre. It’s also difficult to anthologize, particularly for the range of ages and interests his collection aims to embrace. By and ... Read More »

March 8, 2004

Leslie’s Journal

By Allan Stratton

Fifteen-year-old Leslie hides her lack of sexual experience behind a provocative facade of micro-miniskirts and fishnet stockings. She talks tough, skips school, and dabbles in drugs, but her journal reveals her vulnerable side. Stinging from ... Read More »

March 8, 2004

Two False Moves

By Ted Staunton, Roger Lafontaine, illus.

Chapter book readers will enjoy the pranks and predicaments friends and families face in Ted Staunton’s new Monkey Mountain Books series. Two False Moves introduces the small community of Hope Springs, Monkey Mountain, and the ... Read More »

March 8, 2004

★ The Boy in the Burning House

By Tim Wynne-Jones

Somebody is trying to blackmail Father Fisher of the Church of the Blessed Transfiguration, and his teenage stepdaughter, Ruth Rose, wants to know why. She’s pretty sure Father was involved in the mysterious disappearance of ... Read More »

March 8, 2004

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Simply Bishop’s: Easy Seasonal Recipes

Llamas in the Laundry

Mme. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

Major Themes of the Quran

Islam: A Short History

Close Ups: Best Stories for Teens

Leslie’s Journal

Two False Moves

★ The Boy in the Burning House

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