Reviews

Complain, Complain, Complain: The Canadian Consumer’s Guide to Getting Action

Do you have a complaint, any complaint? In this book, Ottawa writer Karen Molson attempts to address the most common consumer problems, spur the reader to action, and provide a “handy reference guide.” However, Complain, ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Everyone’s Guide to the Law: A Handbook for Canadians

By Linda Silver Dranoff

Linda Silver Dranoff’s Everyone’s Guide to the Law is a single-volume “attempt to demystify the law for the average person.” In other words, it undertakes to summarize our tangled legal landscape in just over 400 ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

What Your Travel Agent Knows That You Don’t: A Guide for Women Who Want to Do It Themselves

By Harlequin Ultimate Guides

What Your Travel Agent Knows That You Don’t is a mini-guide targetted to women travellers, both experienced and inexperienced. But the information here is very basic, and the veteran world traveller won’t find much of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill: How to Be a Christian in Canada Today

By Brian C. Stiller

Central to the theme of Ontario-based theologian Brian C. Stiller’s fifth book are two well-known biblical events: Babel and Pentecost. In From the Tower of Babel to Parliament Hill: How to Be a Christian in ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ The Reichmanns: Family, Faith, Fortune, and the Empire of Olympia & York

By Anthony Bianco

Business Week senior writer Anthony Bianco assumed a mammoth task in deciding to write a biography of the Reichmanns, once one of the world’s most powerful and secretive families. His subjects, the force behind Olympia ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ At the Border Called Hope: Where Refugees Are Neighbours

By Mary Jo Leddy

For more than five years, prominent social activist Mary Jo Leddy has lived and worked at Romero House, a Toronto refugee shelter. The first part of At the Border Called Hope, a remarkable and important ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Only Wounded: Ulster Stories

By Patrick Taylor

Two young women are going on a pre-wedding shopping spree when their outing is cut short. A young boy wants to surprise his big brother with a newly polished gun, with unexpected consequences. Two professional ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Inappropriate Behaviour

By Irene Mock

The title of this short story collection – Inappropriate Behaviour – is brilliant. Few of Irene Mock’s characters can evade the charge – certainly not, for example, the woman writing a novel (about her husband’s ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-canadian Literature

By George Elliott Clarke, ed.

How do you create literature in a way that is obviously “African-Canadian”? You simply can’t. African-Canadian writers such as Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand have produced some of the most poignant literature tackling themes of ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

Dust to Dust: Stories

By Timothy Findley

The Canadian Booksellers Association deemed Timothy Findley Author of the Year in 1996, a sensible choice. Findley does not insult the intelligence of Canadian readers, nor overestimate media-addled attention spans. He publishes often, and each ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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