February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
The first five titles in the Eye on Canada series are an effective reminder of just how much information a well-planned and carefully organized 32-page book can present. Harry Beckett, the series’ author, is a ... Read More »
The stories and novella in Aislinn Hunter’s What’s Left Us concern themselves with young women muddling their way through love affairs and family entanglements both mundane and dramatic. Hunter’s storytelling voice is savvy and contemporary, ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
With All the Seas of the World, award-winning short-story writer Gayla Reid makes a confident and compelling, affecting and strong-minded entry into long fiction. And she does it like a champion hurdler, breezing over a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
You really want to like Philippa, the heroine of Sarah Dearing’s new novel,Courage My Love. Feeling like “such a wife,” she slips away from her pastel condo and her yuppie weasel husband, and immerses herself ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
The African Safari Papers, documentary filmmaker Robert Sedlack’s first novel, is the fictional record of 19-year-old Richard Clark’s journey through Kenya with his alcoholic father and psychologically precarious mother. Young Richard intends to write a ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
With the threat of death comes fear. And whether that fear is a product of religion or a fear of the unknown, or even of simple loneliness at the prospect of leaving behind all those ... Read More »
February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
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