Seasons Before the War

By Bernice Morgan; Brita Granström (ill.)

“Once upon a time, long, long ago, in a world where the First World War was history and the Second World War was unimaginable …” That’s how Bernice Morgan sets the scene for her new ... Read More »

November 26, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

Fox Haunts

By Penn Kemp

Penn Kemp’s Fox Haunts is a collection of poems about an enduring character in fables and folklore: the fox. Kemp is enchanted with her subject matter, and there are many playful moments. The poems are ... Read More »

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Paper Caskets

By Emilia Danielewska

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

The Hardness of Matter and Water

By Pierre Nepveu; Donald Winkler (trans.)

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Power, Prime Ministers and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill

By Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis concludes his enjoyable survey of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in Ottawa by answering a big, complex question in a somewhat obvious and simplistic way. “Does the press gallery still matter?” Lewis asks. His ... Read More »

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Birdman

By François Thisdale (ill.); Troon Harrison

Famous Canadian activist Alexander Milton Ross, known as “Birdman,” was an ornithologist and medical doctor who claimed to have assisted enslaved people escaping from the American South. Award-winning author Troon Harrison and veteran Montreal illustrator ... Read More »

November 22, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Midday at the Super-Kamiokande

By Matthew Tierney

A poet should be a high-powered observer, a master of microscopic attention, and an instrument by which one world can be translated into another, rather like a Hubble telescope for metaphoric transmission. In his fourth ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

The Night Chorus

By Harold Hoefle

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Lost Boy

By Shelley Hrdlitschka

Seventeen-year-old Jon Nielsson has spent his entire life in Unity, a faith-based polygamous sect. He has already started to question the religion he has been brought up in since childhood when he is discovered kissing ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption

By Stephen J. Harper

“I do not want this book to focus too much on Donald Trump,” writes former prime minister Stephen Harper at the outset of his new volume on conservatism in the 21st century and the future ... Read More »

November 19, 2018 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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