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She’s Gonna Be: Stories, Poems, Life

An anthology of feminist writing, She’s Gonna Be brings together a collection of long-time activists, alumnae of feminist journals like Fireweed, and a few new young voices.It’s a great title and there’s a terrifically rousing ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Learning to Live Indoors

By Alison Acheson

The short stories in Alison Acheson’s Learning to Live Indoors deal with family relationships. Acheson, who lives in British Columbia, has previously published two young adult novels, one of which was short-listed for several awards. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Getting Out of Here Alive: The Ballad of Murray McLauchlan

By Murray McLauchlan

Murray McLauchlan says he wrote this autobiography to pass his stories on to his kids before he got “too old or too dead.” His children are lucky to have such a caring father. Readers are ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Rajah of Renfrew: The Life and Times of John E. Ducey, Edmonton’s Mr. Baseball

By Brent E. Ducey

There’s a Field of Dreams ambience about Brent Ducey’s book about a major Edmonton sports figure, but there, sadly, the resemblance ends.Ducey, a former newspaper reporter, attempts to bring together two parallel histories: a history ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ The Death of Hockey: Or How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense Are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth

By Jeff Z. Klein and Karl-Eric Reif

“What’s wrong with the National Hockey League these days?”That question has likely been asked thousands of times from coast to coast in this country over the last five years – in sports bars, around office ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Death by Television

By Ian Johnston

Television critic for the Halifax Daily News, Ian Johnston styles himself “a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers and couch potatoes.” But given the contents of Johnston’s book, this fraternity isn’t worth its couches. ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Yesterday’s News: Why Canada’s Newspapers Are Failing Us

By John Miller

John Miller is fed up and he’s not going to take it any more. The professor of newspaper journalism at Toronto’s Ryerson Polytechnic University has written an exceptionally researched, lively lament of the current daily ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

By Elizabeth Abbott

Where I live – grassland southwest of quasi-urban Victoria – 4H-ers put it this way: “Owning a horse costs a lot of money, but so does teenage pregnancy.” Tight, logical, no bullshit. In livestock resides ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

By Wendy Shalit

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

By Claire Drainie Taylor

Portrait of a Marriage might be a more apt title for this book, as Claire Drainie Taylor devotes over two-thirds of The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography to her life with the actor and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Quill and Quire

She’s Gonna Be: Stories, Poems, Life

Learning to Live Indoors

Getting Out of Here Alive: The Ballad of Murray McLauchlan

The Rajah of Renfrew: The Life and Times of John E. Ducey, Edmonton’s Mr. Baseball

★ The Death of Hockey: Or How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense Are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth

Death by Television

Yesterday’s News: Why Canada’s Newspapers Are Failing Us

A History of Celibacy: Experiments Through the Ages

A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography

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