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400 Kilometres

With 400 Kilometres, the final installment of Drew Hayden Taylor’s Someday trilogy, the story of Janice Wirth comes full circle. The trilogy began with Janice, then a baby named Grace Wabung, being plucked from her ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Over the Roofs of the World

By Olive Senior

Over The Roofs of the World is perhaps the perfect title for the third book of poetry from writer and journalist Olive Senior, who divides her time between Toronto and her native Jamaica. Evoking as ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel

By Jennifer LoveGrove

Toronto poet Jennifer LoveGrove’s second collection is an example of what seems to be a growing subgenre of Canadian poetry: the contemporary dystopia. The first and last poems of this book feature hurricanes, and an ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Miraculous Hours

By Matt Rader

B.C. writer Matt Rader’s debut poetry collection is steeped in violence and death. In the space of the first six poems, a bird hits a window, a truck hits a lamppost, a woman hits a ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Fury’s Hour: A (Sort-of) Punk Manifesto

By Warren Kinsella

The upside of music is its unique power to frame essential moments of a life. The downside, of course, is that these moments – unlike the capsulated eternities of music itself – cannot survive well ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004: Volume One

By Barry Callaghan; $, pp.,

One can only assume that if Barry Callaghan had had any choice in the matter, the occupation of writer wouldn’t have been high on his career wish list. Before Atwood, before Munro, before Ondaatje, there ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally

By Harrison Wright; George Walker, illus.

Having grown up on a 450-acre apple farm outside Pereaux, Nova Scotia, Harrison Wright is a young man still close, in time and place, to his subject. Wright is 26 years old and works at ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary

By Mary-Louise Engels, $

The latest installment of the Women’s Press Women Who Rock series focuses on the pioneering anti-nuclear crusader Rosalie Bertell, one of the 20th century’s leading researchers of and advocates against the perils of the nuclear ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Cool: The Story of Ice Cream

By Marilyn Powell

Most people just eat ice cream. They buy it in a cone one muggy day, consuming the majority before its chocolatey contents melt messily onto their beach towels. Within moments, it’s as if the crème ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

By Mark Zuehlke

With the release of his historical triptych on Canada’s Second World War battles in Italy, and last year’s Juno Beach about Canada’s D-Day battle, Mark Zuehlke has emerged as Canada’s pre-eminent writer of popular military ... Read More »

September 15, 2005 | Filed under: History

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400 Kilometres

Over the Roofs of the World

I Should Never Have Fired the Sentinel

Miraculous Hours

Fury’s Hour: A (Sort-of) Punk Manifesto

★ Raise You Five: Essays and Encounters 1964-2004: Volume One

Probing Minds, Salamander Girls and a Dog Named Sally

Rosalie Bertell: Scientist, Eco-Feminist, Visionary

Cool: The Story of Ice Cream

Holding Juno: Canada’s Heroic Defence of the D-Day Beaches: June 7-12, 1944

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