Copperhead

Jessup is a high-school senior in upstate New York who has bucked the odds – single mom, no money, trailer-park home – to earn himself a potential Ivy League football scholarship and all that implies. ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Hideaway

By Nicole Lundrigan

Things are not okay in the Janes house. Patriarch Telly has moved out to live with another woman, leaving 13-year-old Rowan and seven-year-old Maisy in the care of their mom. Gloria, the matriarch, is at ... Read More »

July 8, 2019 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Like a Love Story

By Abdi Nazemian

This new novel from Lambda Literary Award winner Abdi Nazemian (The Walk-In Closet) is a fresh and important addition to the queer YA canon. Set in New York City in 1989, at the peak of ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life

By Ian Cutler

“[T]he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Reviews

The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age

By Richard Stursberg with Stephen Armstrong

If asked to come up with a metaphor for the current state of Canada’s media, most people would default to something bleaker than the tangled garden that appears in the title of the latest book ... Read More »

July 4, 2019 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Outside In: A Political Memoir

By Libby Davies

Libby Davies and Sid Ryan are high-profile figures who for decades have been on the front lines, calling out governments on social service cutbacks, environmental outrages, wars, and discrimination. While they share similar life trajectories ... Read More »

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

A Grander Vision: My Life in the Labour Movement

By Sid Ryan

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Politics & Current Affairs, Reviews

Before the Broken Star

By Emily R. King

Emily R. King, the bestselling author of the Hundreth Queen books, returns with a new series featuring another strong and unusual heroine. Everley Donovan’s best friends are sex workers, her one desire is for vengeance, ... Read More »

June 27, 2019 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Café and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants

By Ann Hui

Chop Suey Nation, by Globe and Mail food writer Ann Hui, is an entertaining look at how Chinese food evolved to become quintessentially Canadian. Hui tells her "sweet and sour story" via a cross-country road ... Read More »

June 24, 2019 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography