Reviews

An Appropriate Place

By Lise Bissonnette,Sheila Fischman, trans.

Lise Bissonnette’s An Appropriate Place is the sad tale of a Baby Boomer who becomes disenchanted with everything she’s achieved through feminism and Quebec nationalism. The novel opens with Gabrielle Perron, a bus driver’s daughter ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mercy

By Alissa York

In her debut novel, Alissa York drops her readers into small-town Mercy, Manitoba, in the summer of 1948. Like her award-winning short fiction, Mercy is told in a series of spare vignettes that are rattled ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs

By Andrew Podnieks, ed.

Just in time for the Christmas rush comes A Day in the Life of the Maple Leafs, a beautifully bound, elegant picture book chronicling one game day on Planet Maple Leaf. In this case, it’s ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Where Fire Speaks: A Visit with the Himba

By Sandra Shields, David Campion, photog.

In 1995, the Himba people of northwest Namibia were under threat from a proposed hydroelectric dam project. With the help of a grant from the International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development, photographer David ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War

By Jacques R. Pauwels

Few truisms are as inviolable as the notion that the Second World War was a battle of good versus evil. Yet a recent stream of works documenting corporate collusion between Nazi Germany and General Motors, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver

By Karen Love, ed.

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city by photographing its inhabitants? That is the underlying goal of Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver ($29.95 paper 1-55152-127-X, 160 pp., 8 x 10, Arsenal Pulp ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction

Three Pagodas Pass: A Roundabout Journey to Burma

By George Fetherling

Getting to Burma on the cheap is a formidable task. And who but a weathered adventurer could, as author George Fetherling tells it, “hitch a ride” for a few thousand nautical miles aboard a rotting ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

True Tales of the Paranormal: Hauntings, Poltergeists, Near Death Experiences, and Other Mysterious Events

By Kimberly Molto

This intriguing examination of such paranormal phenomena as ghosts, poltergeists, premonitions, and doppelgangers is unusual because it is written by an unlikely suspect: a research scientist in cognitive neurobiology. One might expect someone with such ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Kings of Convergence

By Gordon Pitts

Very few people can go through their daily routine without coming into contact with the media, be it radio, television, film, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, or even outdoor billboards. Moreover, media play a key role ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

Beyond Fate

By Margaret Visser

Margaret Visser writes playful books about serious subjects. Whether it’s table manners (Much Depends on Dinner) or our behaviour in church (The Geometry of Love), she unearths the hidden motivations that underlie our most common ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

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