The Strength of Materials

Here is a keen observer, charting day-to-day experience in poems of loss and quiet celebration. A series of elegies, The Strength of Materials reflects Rhea Tregebov’s understanding of the human passage through time. Her resilient ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Hamburger Valley, California

By David McGimpsey

The philosophy behind the by-now-familiar Gen X posture is that the only way to protect yourself from cliché and pretension is to refer frequently to the silliest pop-culture material you can get your mittens on. ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

The Predicament of or

By Shani Mootoo

As the title suggests, Vancouver writer Shani Mootoo’s first collection of poetry catalogues the many “in-betweens” formed by a world of either/or choices and definitions. As in her award-winning novel, Cereus Blooms at Night, Mootoo ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Green Grit: The Story of the Saskatchewan Roughriders

By Graham Kelly

If it’s true that losers’ tales make for the best sports stories, Green Grit, Graham Kelly’s history of the floundering fortunes of the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders, ought to have provided readers with a very dramatic ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Northern Wild: Best Contemporary Canadian Nature Writing

By David R. Boyd, ed.

It is somewhat curious that Canada, a country very much aware of its natural heritage and with an abundance of nature writing (both in periodicals and books), lacks significant, contemporary anthologies of nature writing. Despite ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction

Unsung Courage: 20 Stories of Canadian Valour and Sacrifice

By Arthur Bishop

As we push further into the 21st century, Canada’s Second World War veterans are sliding ever more quickly into extinction. Once they are gone, how will they be remembered? Arthur Bishop’s new book goes a ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

The Franklin Conspiracy: Cover-up, Betrayal, and the Astonishing Secret Behind the Lost Arctic Expedition

By Jeffrey Blair Latta

In The Franklin Conspiracy, popular-science writer and playwright Jeffrey Blair Latta attempts to add John Franklin’s lost 1845 Arctic expedition to the list of conspiracy theories that include the Roswell aliens and the assassination of ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: History

Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia’s Royal Family

By Lee Lamothe and Antonio Nicaso

If Tony Soprano had moved to Canada in the 1970s he would have found a congenial environment for made guys. Certainly he could have graduated from whack jobs to expensive manicures. As Bloodlines makes clear, ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Silent Thief: Bone-Building Exercises and Essential Strategies to Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis

By Karine Bohme with Frances Budden MD

The rash of health information bombarding the public can stymie anyone trying to stay or get healthy. Should we swallow supplements, exercise until we drop, or stick with Canada’s Food Guide? Some of us are ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment