Mystical Rose

Rose Rolyoke, the protagonist of Richard Scrimger’s new novel Mystical Rose, stands in the heady company of Margaret Laurence’s Hagar Shipley and Carol Shields’ Daisy Goodwill. They’re all aging Canadian women looking back at the ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Garden of Eden

By Sharon Butala

Saskatchewan writer Sharon Butala, best known for her critically acclaimed work of creative non-fiction, The Perfection of the Morning, returns to fiction with her latest book. The Garden of Eden furthers her exploration of prairie ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Luminosity

By Frank & Gillian

This first novel by the duo Frank and Gillian, who have previously collaborated on a number of books and plays for young people, has a promising, ingenious plot. Richard and Breetz have been best friends ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Breaking News

By Robert MacNeil

Meet Grant Munro, veteran anchor of New York’s The Evening News. Fifty-something, lean and tanned, Munro is a venerable success, loyal to his wife Winona, both dashing and earnest on the screen, but a little ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The White Bone

By Barbara Gowdy

In two of her previous novels, Falling Angels and Mr. Sandman, Barbara Gowdy made hay with the post-war suburban family. She took on the wonky intricacies of that familiar planet with the parsing zeal of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Choke Hold

By Todd Babiak

We love our bad boys. We love their jaunty imprudence. We love their freedom, even as we recognize that a world dominated by those freedoms would be quite unlivable. We love Jeremy Little, the hero ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture

By Wayne Grady

North American English is made up of a great diversity of words, expressions, and usages, some of which can be found north of the 49th parallel. In recent years it has become fashionable to bundle ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Child and the Machine: Why Computers Put Children’s Education at Risk

By Alison Armstrong & Charles Casement

The title of this book defines the argument: computer-based education is deleterious to the learning process, stifling creative thinking and cannibalizing scarce resources while separating the child from the teacher and limiting sensory/emotional learning processes. ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Fever: The Dark Mystery of the Bre-X Gold Rush

By Jennifer Wells

How much more remains to be said about Bre-X? Like the Titanic, it’s all over now – except perhaps the lawsuits. In the rush to publish first, early books about Bre-X, the greatest mining scam ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Barmaid’s Brain: And Other Strange Tales from Science

By Jay Ingram

Why do moths fly to lights? Were Saint Joan’s extraordinary claims that she was instructed by the voices and visions of saints a function of her brain cells? Is the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis – whereby ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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