December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference
In answer to the ongoing success of The Farmer’s Almanac for rural readers comes The Original Canadian City Dweller’s Almanac, a quirky, occasionally amusing potpourri of facts, rants, and anecdotes for theurban global villager. Like ... Read More »
Long deemed by many to be Canada’s worst neighbourhood, and further degenerated by the infusion of cheap crack cocaine, most of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood has resisted all efforts at gentrification and reform. A block ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
In A Day Does Not Go By, Sean Johnston arranges his themes – the fear of betrayal, the fragility of love, the haplessness of old age, the inadequacy of language – into 27 short vignettes.In ... Read More »
December 1, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
When The Body Says No explores the intimate connection between mind, body, and spirit through life stories and intimate interviews with dozens of people who have lived, died, and sometimes overcome chronic illnesses. Vancouver physician ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Liza Potvin’s second book marks a change in genre for the Nanaimo resident; her first book was a memoir of childhood incest titled White Lies. The stories in her first fiction collection, The Traveller’s Hat, ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
Michael Redhill’s literary trajectory from poet to playwright to fiction writer is a common enough pattern in this country, but his level of accomplishment is exceptional. Short-listed for a Governor General’s Award in 2001 for ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short
It’s a common enough story: boy grows up in isolated small town, escapes to big city, never looks back. But author and former Globe and Mail columnist Brian Fawcett can’t quite leave his hometown of ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
The influenza epidemic after the First World War was the deadliest outbreak on record, killing an estimated 20 to 40 million people in one year. Kirsty Duncan, a geographer at the University of Windsor, became ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Snobs would say that any artefact that features the phrase “personal style” probably hasn’t got any, but people who look at subtitles – or who actually read – are probably not the point here. With ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help
Even in the months before the machetes started to fall in 1994, Kigali was not the sort of city that promised long life. The pool referred to in the title of this first novel by ... Read More »
November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels