Shadow of Doubt: The Trial of Dennis Oland

Dennis Oland was perceived as a mild-mannered family man of good character. Then, on Dec. 19, 2015, he was convicted of butchering his father, Richard Oland, a millionaire businessman and part of the family that ... Read More »

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Secrets We Keep

By Deb Loughead

Clem knows something about her friend Kit, an autistic boy who died at a high school field party. No one who was there that night is telling the truth about what happened, and Kit’s grieving ... Read More »

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Brothers

By David Clerson; Katia Grubisic (trans.)

Variations of the word “innovate” appear 10 times in the Wikipedia entry for Steve Jobs, which also includes an Innovations section with nine subsections. As Walter Isaacson, who authored the definitive biography of Jobs and ... Read More »

November 28, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hungary-Hollywood Express

By Éric Plamondon; Dimitri Nasrallah (trans.)

November 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

I Am Josephine (And I Am a Living Thing)

By Jacqui Lee (ill.); Jan Thornhill

Two fun new fall non-fiction titles provide answers to some common (and not-so-common) questions kids may have about the world around them and beyond. I Am Josephine (And I Am a Living Thing) helps kids ... Read More »

November 24, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Keys of My Prison

By Frances Shelley Wees

The term “Canadian noir” sounds almost oxymoronic – as a concept, it runs contrary to both our complacently benign self-image and our international reputation as wholesome, apologetic, and frostbitten. The strange difficulty of convincing ourselves ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

My Demon’s Name is Ed

By Danah Khalil

There is a tendency to dismiss eating disorders, particularly anorexia, as a rite of passage for young women from wealthy or middle-class backgrounds. My Demon’s Name is Ed demonstrates the danger of such assumptions. In ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Two Man Tent

By Robert Chafe

As an accomplished theatre director and prolific playwright (his stage adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams plays the National Arts Centre in 2017), Newfoundland’s Robert Chafe has always had a penchant for ... Read More »

November 21, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Burt’s Way Home

By John Martz

Burt is an “intergalactic trans-dimensional time traveller” from the Planet Mod. Or so he says. While the validity of his sci-fi claim is up for debate, he indisputably feels like an alien. An orphaned little ... Read More »

November 17, 2016

How to Draw a Rhinoceros

By Kate Sutherland

Kate Sutherland’s How to Draw a Rhinoceros is a curious little book, presenting a series of poems about rhinoceroses with a focus on their commodification as spectacle over the course of western colonial history. The ... Read More »

November 17, 2016 | Filed under: Poetry

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