Children and YA Non-fiction

Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn’t Seem to Care)

Books about ecological catastrophe can be real downers, but a sense of humour and lively writing make William Marsden’s entry into the suddenly popular category of inconvenient truths well worth a look. A journalist with ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Empty Casing: A Soldier’s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege

By Fred Doucette

Literature investigating the experience of soldiers in war zones is a well-explored genre. Whether it be the First or Second World War, Korea, or Vietnam, readers have been fully exposed to the effect this kind ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

★ Terrible Victory: First Canadian Army and the Scheldt Estuary Campaign, September 13 – November 6, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

Best known for his meticulously detailed accounts of Canadian Second World War battles in Normandy and Italy, historian Mark Zuehlke has brought to life a woefully under-recorded chapter in Canadian history in the excellent Terrible ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Toronto: A City Becoming

By David Macfarlane, ed.

After barely surviving a forced amalgamation, a mayor notorious for bone-headed remarks, and the SARS outbreak, Toronto is having a renaissance of sorts. For the last few years, the civic discourse in Toronto has veered ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

The Donut: A Canadian History

By Steve Penfold

The strange thing about University of Toronto historian Steve Penfold’s new book, The Donut: A Canadian History, is that you can get through its 200-odd pages without ever experiencing a craving for a donut. Not ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America

By Erna Paris

Adding to the bumper crop of books documenting recent American misdeeds are two new titles that examine the effects of Bush’s policies. For Erna Paris, The Sun Climbs Slow marks a natural progression from her ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr

By Michelle Shephard

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

After River

By Donna Milner

A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years ago she distanced herself from the religious faith that gives her parents much solace, and ... Read More »

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Valley

By Gayle Friesen

March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Rebel Without Borders: Frontline Missions in Africa and the Gulf

By Marc Vachon with François Bugingo; Charles Phillips, trans.

Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order to survive. In his memoir, Rebel Without Borders, Vachon tells how he transferred those street ... Read More »

March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

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