The Stone of the Stars

With The Stone of the Stars, young adult author Alison Baird steps into the adult fantasy genre. The first in a trilogy, the novel revolves around a race to find the legendary Stone of the ... Read More »

January 15, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dreamlife of Bridges

By Robert Strandquist

Despite their different trajectories, the main characters of Vancouver poet Robert Strandquist’s new novel quickly come to realize a simple truth: there is always further to fall. For Leo, middle-aged, divorced, and shattered by the ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dime Store Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

This lazily paced yet entertaining novel offers readers a detailed view of the shadowy world of covens and cabals. The book is a departure from Kelley Armstrong’s first two novels, which chronicled the adventures of ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Second Life of Samuel Tyne

By Esi Edugyan

Samuel Tyne is one of the oddest protagonists you will find in a Canadian novel of this or any other publishing season. A native of Africa’s Gold Coast (which we now call Ghana, though he ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Eastern Standard Tribe

By Cory Doctorow

It is 2022 and Art, the tech-head protagonist of Eastern Standard Tribe, is on the sunny rooftop of a Boston sanatorium debating whether to drive a pencil up his nose. A homemade lobotomy seems like ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Horn of a Lamb

By Robert Sedlack

Novelist Robert Sedlack’s poignant second novel, The Horn of a Lamb, takes place a long way from the setting of his acclaimed 2001 debut, The African Safari Papers. This time Sedlack introduces the reader to ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Beginning of Was

By Ania Szado

Toronto writer Ania Szado’s skillful debut novel reminds us that even in the grand democratization of household chores, sewing remains a female discipline. The lives of mothers and daughters, it seems, are still linked one ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Stowaway

By Robert Hough

In 1996 Filipino crew members deserted the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai at port in Halifax after revealing to authorities chilling tales of onboard cruelty and murder. After discovering two Romanian stowaways who had boarded ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Give Maggie a Chance

By Frieda Wishinsky, Dean Griffiths, illus.

Maggie is excited about her first day in a new class. But when she is asked to read, she freezes, and scornful Kimberly makes her want to sink through the floor. The next day is ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ The Sea House

By Deborah Turney Zagwÿn

Illustrated in watercolours, this delightful sea story by B.C. writer and illustrator Deborah Turney Zagwÿn is the last in her seasonal series featuring a girl named Clee. Billowing sails, gusty wind, and knotted ropes decorate ... Read More »

January 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

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