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China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry

Canadians have long been familiar with the Chinese hand laundries and restaurants of the hinterland, owned and operated by a few isolated Chinese families, connected to urban Chinatowns only by kinship ties and supply lines. ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Leaving Earth

By Helen Humphreys

The suspect beginning of Leaving Earth gives the impression the author is going to attempt a mytho-poetic version of Toronto in the 1930s – shades of Michael Ondaatje, except noticeably lacking his magical command of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Visible Worlds

By Marilyn Bowering

History needs time before it talks. In Visible Worlds, Winnipeg-born writer Marilyn Bowering has written of the experiences of an immigrant Canadian family during the Second World War. It’s a distinctly Prairie story. The coming ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Any Known Blood

By Lawrence Hill

Lawrence Hill’s outstanding second novel, Any Known Blood, is narrated by Langston Cane V – son of a white mother and black father, in his late 30s, recently divorced, and working in Toronto as speech ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dr. Kalbfleisch & the Chicken Restaurant

By Cordelia Strube

It’s one of those dog days of summer. Sitting and sweating on the back porch, through the thirsty leaves of the overgrown cherry tree we watch the man from across the back alley – the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Comfort Food Cookbook

By Joanna Burkhard

What food isn’t comforting – at least to someone? Montreal Gazette food columnist Johanna Burkhard ignores just this question in The Comfort Food Cookbook. Her introduction states: “We all have fond memories of cherished recipes ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

By Tony Aspler

Ford Madox Ford began drinking wine seriously when he was eight; Colette when she was 11. Tony Aspler, Canada’s best known wine writer and educator, was bribed by his foster mother with grapes at age ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

By Andrew Sarlos with Patricia Best

Andrew Sarlos, financier, friend of tycoons, and benefactor of his native Hungary, died in March this year, his final testament a book of gloomy prophecy. In it, he forecasts that the roaring stock markets of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Masters of Change: Profiles of Canadian Businesses Thriving in Turbulent Times

By Daniel Stoffman,ed.

This book might more aptly be called “Risk-takers” or, less grandly, “How Business Copes in the 1990s,” for, while it’s certain that each of the 15 companies and executives profiled are depending on ingenuity to ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Sex, Power, and the Violent Schoolgirl

By Sybille Artz

B-film purists will be pleased to note that a literary equivalent of Chained Heat (the women- in-prison series) is being featured in bookstores everywhere. The refrain of these filmic mayhem queens – so young, so ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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Quill and Quire

China Dog and Other Tales from a Chinese Laundry

Leaving Earth

Visible Worlds

Any Known Blood

Dr. Kalbfleisch & the Chicken Restaurant

The Comfort Food Cookbook

My Travels with a Corkscrew: Memoirs of a Wine Lover

Fear, Greed and the End of the Rainbow: Guarding Your Assets in the Coming Bear Market

Masters of Change: Profiles of Canadian Businesses Thriving in Turbulent Times

Sex, Power, and the Violent Schoolgirl

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