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★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

It’s one of the central paradoxes of Internet culture. In the medium’s earliest, pre- e-commerce days, the vast majority of activity on the Net was social and community oriented. The new medium was supposed to ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Whispering in Shadows

By Jeannette Armstrong

Best known for the novel Slash and the poetry collection Breath Tracks, Okanagan writer Jeannette Armstrong combines genres in her new novel to bring readers into the world of Penny Jackson, a painter, activist, and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Just for Comfort

By Ralph Osborne

Just for Comfort is a Canadian counter-culture road movie set to the page: Goin’ Down the Road meets Thelma and Louise. First-time novelist Ralph Osborne has written a gentle, comic tale of addiction and violence ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Fall of Gravity

By Leon Rooke

Don’t suspend disbelief. Don’t arrest it, curtail it, or unfrock it. Disbelief is in the fine print scratched at the bottom of Leon Rooke’s literary contract. What the meta-narrator of The Fall of Gravity calls ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Purple for Sky

By Carol Bruneau

Imagine that you’re Lindy Hammond, a 63-year-old single woman in a depressed rural hamlet, looking after a wandering, 90-year-old aunt and running a seedy convenience store: what are your chances of finally finding love and ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Robbiestime

By Don Dickinson

Robbiestime has some of the same characters who appeared in Don Dickinson’s first book, the short-story collection Fighting the Upstream. It also has some of that book’s old-fashioned Canadian qualities, such as a preoccupation with ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Make-a-saurus, My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs

By Brian Cooley and Mary Ann Wilson

Here’s a dinosaur book with a twist. It’s written by two artists, one of whom, Brian Cooley, builds life-size dinosaur models for museum exhibits. Writing in the first person, Cooley uses the first half of ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Opinion

Mummies

By Sylvia Funston, Joe Weissman, illus.

I had a hard time getting into Mummies, the latest in the Strange Science series from Owl Books. But that’s not because the book was dull – far from it. My difficulty lay in trying ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

What’s the Difference? 10 Animal Look-alikes

By Judy Diehl and David Plumb, Vlasta van Kampen, illus.

This husband-and-wife team’s first book (created in conjunction with the Canadian Museum of Nature) compares 10 pairs of similar-looking animals and helps young readers tell the difference between them. Many of the creatures chosen for ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

By Maria Coffey with Debora Pearson, Dag Goering, photog.

Veteran adventure travel writer Maria Coffey has teamed up with her photographer husband, Dag Goering, and co-author Debora Pearson to produce this third book in Annick’s Adventure Travel series.The Solomon Islands (just off the northwest ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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★ All Together Now: Connected Communities: How They Will Revolutionize the Way You Live, Work, and Play

Whispering in Shadows

Just for Comfort

The Fall of Gravity

Purple for Sky

Robbiestime

Make-a-saurus, My Life with Raptors and Other Dinosaurs

Mummies

What’s the Difference? 10 Animal Look-alikes

Jungle Islands: My South Sea Adventure

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