Zest for Life: Classic Dishes for Family and Friends from the Fifties to the Nineties

Ostensibly, Zest for Life is a cookbook hybridized with the autobiography of Vancouver chef, restaurateur, and former Canadian Olympian Diane Clement. But like most tools designed for two jobs, it does neither particularly well, and ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Boy in the Attic

By Paul Yee, Gu Xiong, illus.

In this latest book by Paul Yee, who chronicles the Chinese Canadian experience so well, Kai-ming, a seven-year-old newly immigrated from a Chinese village, befriends the ghost of seven-year-old Benjamin, who died in the same ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Swissair Down: Investigating the Crash of Flight 111

By Don Ledger

By now, most people have absorbed the popular wisdom that when a butterfly flaps its wings on the other side of the world, such minuscule turbulence can initiate a chain of unforeseen effects, resulting in ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

Pat Lowther’s Continent: Her Life and Work

By Toby Brooks

This relatively short biography – the first to appear since Pat Lowther died 25 years ago – is the result of Toby Brooks’ longstanding devotion to the poet and her work. Brooks, who counselled battered ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

There It Is: A Canadian in the Vietnam War

By Les D. Brown

No one knows for sure how many Canadians fought within the American forces in the Vietnam conflict; estimates range from 5,000 to 40,000. Some, of course, travelled south to volunteer. But one Canadian, Les Brown, ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Farfarers: Before the Norse

By Farley Mowat

Christopher Columbus, as any Grade 6 social-studies pupil will tell you, was not the first European to set foot in the Americas. Nope, a good 500 years before anyone started using the word “Indian” that ... Read More »

February 19, 2004

Hoot to Kill

By Karen Dudley

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels