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Dealing with the Customer from Hell: A Survival Guide

I used to joke, when I was working full-time on the sales floor, that I had the phrase “the customer is always right” tattooed on the inside of my eyelids so I would be reminded ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

First Crossing: Alexander Mackenzie, His Expedition Across North America, and the Opening of the Continent

By Derek Hayes

Derek Hayes is a geographer with a profound love of maps, as demonstrated in his last book, the gorgeously illustrated Historical Atlas of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest. In First Crossing, a history of ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: History

Vis À Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness

By Don McKay

Don McKay recognizes early on in this collection of essays and poems that calling oneself a nature poet labels you more a fool than a thoughtful translator of that “grain of experience” available in the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

The Girl Without Anyone

By Kelli Deeth

In this fresh, unflinching look at some familiar themes – cleft and reconstituted families, the daughter-as-mother figure, suburban angst – Kelli Deeth introduces readers to Leah, “the girl without anyone.” Leah is alternately bound by ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The I.v. Lounge Reader

By Paul Vermeersch, ed.

The I.V. Lounge Reader is just about as far from the genteel literary sensibilites of much Canadian writing as Vancouver is from St. John’s. Ivy League it isn’t. Consisting of works chosen from the writers ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Anthologies

Privileged Access

By Jean-Marc Carisse

Jean-Marc Carisse, who’s served as official photographer for three Liberal prime ministers – Trudeau, Turner, and Chrétien – has raided his portfolio for Privileged Access, which also includes text by Mark Bell. But while the ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Canada: A People’s History Volume Two

By Don Gillmor,Achille Michaud, and Pierre Turgeon

Some historians have complained bitterly that the grand sweep, the great events, of Canadian history are being forgotten or deliberately ignored. What a surprise it was then that millions of 21st-century Canadians sat in front ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Into the Early Hours

By Aislinn Hunter

Given the critical recognition awarded her first book of stories published earlier this year, it comes as no surprise that B.C. writer Aislinn Hunter is an accomplished storyteller. Crossing genres with her second book, Hunter ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Becky Chan

By Jared Mitchell

In its own mindful, dignified manner, Becky Chan goes all the way. Jared Mitchell’s fictional account of Hong Kong in the 1960s – a desperate few acres, gnawed at like a colonial bone – is ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Quicksilver

By Nadine McInnis

The 14 stories in Nadine McInnis’s Quicksilver are linked by a spectrum of characters somehow experiencing revelations in the midst of suspended lives. Mercury, the rare metal also known as “quicksilver,” is a recurrent image, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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