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The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen

Mark Kingwell – political and cultural theorist, professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto – has authored four previous learned books, including Better Living: In Pursuit of Happiness from Plato to Prozac. In The ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Walking Stick

By Maxine Trottier, Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, illus.

Van is a Vietnamese boy who can “see what is beyond the next hill.” When he finds a teak stick in the forest near a holy temple, he recognizes the stick’s spiritual worth. Blessed by ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mister Once-upon-a-time

By Rémy Simard, Pierre Pratt, illus., David Homel, trans.

Once upon a time, Rémy Simard’s latest picture book begins, in a village far, far away, the people had only one thing to do, and that was to tell stories. Then, one afternoon, a tiny ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Sinbad: From the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights

By Ludmila Zeman

The marvellous adventures of Sindbad the Sailor are among the world’s great stories and this new picture book retelling is a welcome addition to the many versions of the tales of A Thousand and One ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ In the Sweet Kitchen: The Definitive Guide to the Baker’s Pantry

By Regan Daley

Never mind that the second 340 pages of Regan Daley’s In the Sweet Kitchen hold enough recipes to encompass most (though not all) baking techniques. A comprehensive treatment of baking and dessert-cookery technique was not, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

★ Coyote Sings to the Moon

By Thomas King, Johnny Wales, illus.

Old Woman sings to the moon every night, and the other animals decide to join her in song. But when Coyote tries to sing along, everyone begs him not to because of his awful singing ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Putting a Roof on Winter: Hockey’s Rise from Sport to Spectacle

By Michael McKinley

It’s in Richard Ford’s luminescent novel The Sportswriter that his unhero, Frank Bascombe, dismisses hockey as “an uninteresting game played by Canadians.” I’ve grown somehow fond of the easy superiority of those six words, the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Wolves Among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah’s Witness Community

By James Kostelniuk

At a recent event in Toronto, author Russell Banks spoke about the deep connection between victims and offenders, particularly in his own fiction. He quoted James Baldwin’s claim that the story of race in America ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Hearts & Minds: A Public School Miracle

By Sandra Dean

Sandra Dean is an extraordinary person. Appointed principal in 1991 of South Simcoe Public School in Oshawa, Ontario, a troubled, inner-city school plagued by vandalism, absenteeism, and underachievement, she set out to improve conditions any ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Typing: A Life in 26 Keys

By Matt Cohen

Matt Cohen’s memoir, Typing, was written over a period of five months from his lung cancer diagnosis to just before his death, in December 1999, at age 58. Elegiac and cranky, Cohen settles scores, bestows ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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The World We Want: Virtue, Vice, and the Good Citizen

The Walking Stick

Mister Once-upon-a-time

★ Sinbad: From the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights

★ In the Sweet Kitchen: The Definitive Guide to the Baker’s Pantry

★ Coyote Sings to the Moon

Putting a Roof on Winter: Hockey’s Rise from Sport to Spectacle

Wolves Among Sheep: The True Story of Murder in a Jehovah’s Witness Community

Hearts & Minds: A Public School Miracle

Typing: A Life in 26 Keys

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