Gifts to Last: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

The broadcast industry has perfected the rerun, so we shouldn’t be surprised book publishers are following suit. They’ve put their own spin on the strategy, but the basic idea is the same: if something sells ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

The Pig and the Python: How to Prosper from the Aging Baby Boom

By David Cork with Susan Lightstone

The Pig and the Python is a fictionalized guide to investment advice that aims to emulate the folksy down-home style of The Wealthy Barber. Taking the effects of the baby-boomer bulge on consumer trends as ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

★ Cereus Blooms at Night

By Shani Mootoo

Mala Ramchandin, an old woman living on the island of Lantanacamara, is brought to the Paradise Alms House one night under restraints. Her gay nurse, Tyler, relates the old woman’s scandalous history. Having just returned ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies…

By Persimmon Blackbridge

Until Sunnybrook, visual artist Persimmon Blackbridge wrote as part of a team, often exploring mental health and anti-censorship issues. Her co-authored books include Still Sane, the postcard book Drawing the Line: Lesbian Sexual Politics on ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ The Garden of Earthly Intimacies

By Meeka Walsh

On the back cover blurb of The Garden of Earthly Intimacies, Leon Rooke writes: “If you demand that your writer write like no one else then Meeka Walsh is your kind of writer.” Strange praise ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Corporate Abuse: How Lean and Mean Robs People and Profits

By Lesley Wright and Martin Smythe

Management fashion has held downsizing, alias rightsizing, in high regard since IBM rescued itself and returned to financial respectability by firing a couple of Skydomes worth of employees. Lesley Wright, a former advertising executive, and Martin ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Prosody at the Cafe Du Coin

By Jeff Bien

“The poet must know style,” writes Jeff Bien in Prosody at the Cafe du Coin “or he will simply be a complainer.” This eastern Ontario poet has style: entire oceans, trans-continental highways, and sprawling metropoli ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

America & Other Poems

By Jeff Bien

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Tongues of the Children: The Upper Canada Chronicles

By John B. Lee

In 1995, prolific Brantford poet John B. Lee won the CBC Tilden Award for “Kicheraboo, We Are Dying,” an ethnographically valuable series of poems about slavery and the history of blacks in Upper Canada. The ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Arguments with Gravity

By Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey’s first book of poems, Arguments with Gravity is broken into five sections, each introduced by a contemporary epigram that encapsulates the poet’s concerns and acknowledges his influences. Unfortunately, everyone else is alive in ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

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