Reviews

Risking It All: My Student, My Lover, My Story

Heather Ingram’s memoir about her affair with a 17-year-old student explores one of today’s trickiest topics – the sexual exploitation of minors. In Risking It All Ingram recounts her stark childhood, the emotionally and sexually ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster

By Melissa Fay Greene

On Oct. 23, 1958, the floors hit the ceilings of the Number 2 coal mine in Springhill, Nova Scotia, in three massive “bumps.” Above ground it felt like an earthquake, and registered as such on ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Human Wildlife

By Dr. Robert Buckman

The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells. But only one-tenth of those are human. The rest are bacteria, fungi, parasites, and “miscellaneous riff-raff.” That is one of the astonishing facts in Dr. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Original Minds

By Eleanor Wachtel

Imagine a lively cocktail party filled with fascinating people, like former Goon Show star Jonathan Miller, chimp specialist Jane Goodall, neurologist Oliver Sacks, filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, scholar Harold Bloom, and urban planner Jane Jacobs. Imagine ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Timbit Nation: A Hitchhiker’s View of Canada

By John Stackhouse

The idea behind Timbit Nation was for John Stackhouse, former New Delhi correspondent for The Globe and Mail, to see his own country as a foreigner might see it. After almost eight years of reporting ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

The Green Labyrinth: Exploring the Mysteries of the Amazon

By Sylvia Fraser

The Green Labyrinth is a continuation of Sylvia Fraser’s previous book, The Rope in the Water, in that she is still following her curiosity about non-Western healing and spirituality into remote corners of the world. ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Rogue Diamonds: The Rush for Northern Riches on Dene Land

By Ellen Bielawski

Rogue Diamonds begins right where it should: on the land. Specifically, the land of the Dene Súliné people, near the northeastern part of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. But it soon shifts to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Native Peoples

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By Ken Sparling

From its non-title to its long stretches of white space, Ken Sparling’s novel without a name announces itself as “experimental fiction.” Sparling has long been a student and champion of literary minimalism, and he takes ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Awol: Tales for Travel-inspired Minds

By Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan, eds.

What a good idea: compile brief, true travel narratives from a selection of well-known and up-and-coming Canadian novelists, poets, editors, and journalists. With AWOL, editors Jennifer Barclay and Amy Logan have outdone themselves. Their selections ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Requiem for a Giant: A.v. Roe and the Avro Arrow

By Palmiro Campagna

Numerous books have been written about the rise of A.V. Roe Canada and its development of the Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor plane, raising the question: can another book about the subject add anything significant to ... Read More »

November 26, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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