Shane Neilson’s New Brunswick is an homage to his native province and, more importantly, homeland. It begins in a dramatic and unorthodox manner: a dedication that includes a verse by John Donne and an epigraph ... Read More »
In the opening scene of Jess Keating’s new middle-grade series, Elements of Genius, Nikki Tesla’s pet ferret sets off Nikki’s fully functional death ray. The child prodigy and her ferret survive, but Nikki’s bedroom doesn’t, ... Read More »
July 11, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
Author-illustrator Lori Doody’s new book, Paint the Town Pink, hews to the same lines as her 2017 title, The Puffin Problem, a comical portrayal of the fallout from the sudden inundation of puffins in a ... Read More »
July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
Jessup is a high-school senior in upstate New York who has bucked the odds – single mom, no money, trailer-park home – to earn himself a potential Ivy League football scholarship and all that implies. ... Read More »
July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
Things are not okay in the Janes house. Patriarch Telly has moved out to live with another woman, leaving 13-year-old Rowan and seven-year-old Maisy in the care of their mom. Gloria, the matriarch, is at ... Read More »
July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews
This new novel from Lambda Literary Award winner Abdi Nazemian (The Walk-In Closet) is a fresh and important addition to the queer YA canon. Set in New York City in 1989, at the peak of ... Read More »
July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
“[T]he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn ... Read More »
July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews
If asked to come up with a metaphor for the current state of Canada’s media, most people would default to something bleaker than the tangled garden that appears in the title of the latest book ... Read More »
July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »
June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »
June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews
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