The Earth’s Blanket: Traditional Teaching for Sustainable Living

While the fate of the environment appears bleaker with each new report about global warming or water pollution, there are still those working on the front lines who refuse to subscribe to the notion that ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Terry

By Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland admits that “the definitive work” on Terry Fox is Leslie Scrivener’s 1981 biography, Terry Fox: His Story. Coupland’s book, in contrast, is more of a tribute in pictures and words, and a reminder ... Read More »

March 22, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Sugarmilk Falls

By Ilona van Mil

Ilona van Mil’s debut crime novel is being touted by her publisher as the new Crow Lake or Snow Falling on Cedars, but it isn’t quite that kind or calibre of novel. A complex mystery ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ An Irish History of Civilization: Volume One

By Don Akenson

One can be forgiven for misreading the title. This new book (actually a whopping two-volume, 1,500-page set) from writer and Queen’s professor Don Akenson (whose previous titles include such impressive pieces of scholarship and surprise ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ An Irish History of Civilization: Volume Two

By Don Akenson

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: History

★ A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan

By Nelofer Pazira

Nelofer Pazira, the Afghani-Canadian star of the film Kandahar, became something of a celebrity after the film was released in the wake of Sept. 11. A Bed of Red Flowers is a memoir of Pazira’s ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Watch You Don’t Fall

By Bettina von Kampen

Bettina von Kampen’s Blue Becomes You was a finalist for the 2003 Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. In her new novel, she moves from small-town life to the margins of Winnipeg, setting Watch You ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Believe Me

By Patricia Pearson

When he’s not begging for KFC and inquiring whether spitting on a plant can make it grow, five-year-old Lester has started to ask his mother some troubling questions: “How do people get to Heaven, do ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Gotta Find Me an Angel

By Brenda Brooks

Readers might presume that a story told from the point of view of a lesbian about her dead lesbian lover, her crazy lesbian friend, and the beautiful lesbian painter she is falling for will primarily ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ticknor

By Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti’s first book, the strong, surrealistic The Middle Stories, got a big promotional push from its publisher, Anansi. This was in part because a few of Heti’s stories had appeared in a trendy American ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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