Two Roads Home

Set in 1993, Victoria writer Daniel Griffin’s debut novel follows a group of environmental activists on Vancouver Island who set off an explosion at a supposedly unmanned logging warehouse. The bombing badly injures a worker ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Knew Everything: The Strange Life of Athanasius Kircher

By Marilee Peters; Roxanna Bikadoroff (ill.)

In the genre of children’s non-fiction about significant inventors, discoverers, pioneers, and scientists, the current trend lies in correcting the record and broadening the perception of history by highlighting figures who don’t fit the dead-white-male ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ Long Ride Yellow

By Martin West

Nonni likes causing her sex partners pain. She’s also off her psych meds. And she’s being controlled by aliens. When her plaything, Daniel, turns up as a strangled corpse, mayhem ensues. In his absorbing debut ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Scion of the Fox: The Realms of Ancient, Book 1

By S.M. Beiko

Foxes, rabbits, deer, seals, and owls. These are the ancient, founding “families” of the human-spirit-animal hybrids that populate the rich mythology of S.M. Beiko’s new fantasy saga. Scion of the Fox is the first of ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Uncertain Weights and Measures

By Jocelyn Parr

Fittingly for a novel set in late 1920s Russia, Jocelyn Parr’s Uncertain Weights and Measures is obsessed with dialectics: between the state and the individual; between the head and the heart; and between lovers in ... Read More »

November 20, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Thou Shalt Do No Murder: Inuit, Injustice, and the Canadian Arctic

By Kenn Harper

On March 15, 1920, Robert Janes was shot and killed on Baffin Island. The man who killed him was Nuqallaq, an Inuk. Neither Nuqallaq nor the witnesses to the killing ever denied these basic facts. ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: History, Native Peoples

Has the World Ended Yet?

By Peter Darbyshire

The short stories that comprise Peter Darbyshire’s seventh book – the fourth under his own name – are obsessed with ghosts and angels, superheroes and gods. They appear as manifestations of discarded, mythological histories that ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Kat and Meg Conquer the World

By Anna Priemaza

Anna Priemaza makes her YA debut with a thoroughly readable story involving mental illness that’s neither preachy nor despairing. Kat’s anxiety makes it painfully difficult to connect with new people, while Meg’s ADHD has alienated ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Waltz of the Snowflakes

By Elly MacKay

Visual storytelling takes centre stage in Waltz of the Snowflakes, a wordless picture book about what it’s like to see the Nutcracker ballet for the first time. The story begins with gloomy shades of grey ... Read More »

November 15, 2017 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories

By Norman Levine

Norman Levine (1923–2005) was raised by Orthodox Jews in Ottawa and received his education in Montreal. But he was born in Poland and spent much of his life in England, where he married, started a ... Read More »

November 14, 2017 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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