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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, a concept book and author Stephen Marche’s second title (after the 2005 novel Raymond and Hannah), is an anthology of Sanjanian writing, Sanjania being an imaginary island and ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder’s Life

By Richard Cannings; Donald Gunn, illus.

Richard Cannings is one of those rare birds – a down-to-earth expert. Birders both experienced and novice are in good company with this inveterate and humorous naturalist, who shares his experiences and knowledge engagingly.The book’s ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

By Mark MacKinnon

The dissolution of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 was followed not by a sudden flowering of democracy, but by the seizure of political and economic power by former Communist apparatchiks. Opposition to the new regimes by ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

★ October

By Richard B. Wright

A critic once reacted to the comprehensiveness of the title of Alan Sillitoe’s 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by asking, “Why write the book?” At the opposite end of the scale, the ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Great Questions of Canada (Revised Edition)

By Rudyard Griffiths, ed.

New books by well-known journalists and authors Roy MacGregor and Andrew Cohen, as well as a revised anthology from the Dominion Institute, all attempt to examine the current Canadian zeitgeist. It may be an impossibly ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Life on the Refrigerator Door

By Alice Kuipers

The form of Life on the Refrigerator Door, Alice Kuipers’ first novel, is not exactly a standard one: the entire book consists of notes that appear on a fridge over the course of nine months.The ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People

By Roy MacGregor

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Out of Cleveland

By Lolette Kuby

With Out of Cleveland, poet and academic Lolette Kuby has produced a promising and occasionally brilliant first collection of short stories.The book’s first tale, “Ninety East,” weaves back and forth between the minds of two ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

By Andrew Cohen

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Girls Who Saw Everything

By Sean Dixon

In fiction, homage is a tricky undertaking. Should an author indulge readers of the original, or satisfy those as yet unfamiliar? In The Girls Who Saw Everything, a re-setting of The Epic of Gilgamesh in ... Read More »

July 27, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

An Enchantment of Birds: Memories from a Birder’s Life

The New Cold War: Revolutions, Rigged Elections and Pipeline Politics in the Former Soviet Union

★ October

Great Questions of Canada (Revised Edition)

Life on the Refrigerator Door

Canadians: A Portrait of a Country and Its People

Out of Cleveland

The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are

The Girls Who Saw Everything

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