★ The Road to Ever After

The world Moira Young creates in The Road to Ever After is a far cry from the desertscape in which she set her highly successful Dustlands trilogy. The small village of Brownvale is also a ... Read More »

October 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Monster Science: Could Monsters Survive (and Thrive!) in the Real World?

By Helaine Becker; Phil McAndrew (ill.)

Like your typical zombie, the concept of Toronto author Helaine Becker’s new book is a no-brainer: take a half-dozen of the most gruesome monsters from movies, myths, and legends, and spell out their scientific plausibility. ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

★ The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century

By Jennifer Welsh

In The Return of History, the 2016 edition of the CBC Massey Lectures, Jennifer Welsh takes umbrage with Francis Fukuyama. In 1992, Fukuyama declared that the end of the Cold War marked the inevitable cessation ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: History, Politics & Current Affairs

At the Edge of the World

By Kari Jones

What are fathers for? This simple question with myriad complex answers lies at the heart of At the Edge of the World, the latest novel by West Coast author Kari Jones. Best friends Maddie and ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Minted

By Will McClelland

With his debut novel, author Will McClelland gleefully embraces a swath of clichés about both CanLit and Canadian identity, and turns them – resoundingly and to tremendous effect – on their heads. The Minted, after ... Read More »

October 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

By Sam Maggs‚ Sophia Foster-Dimino (ill.)

In the battle of the sexes, there is no denying that women have traditionally come out on the losing side. And since history, as the saying goes, is written by the victors, it’s not surprising ... Read More »

October 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

No News Is Bad News: Canada’s Media Collapse – And What Comes Next

By Ian Gill

If you don’t know what’s been happening to the news business these days, you haven’t been following the news. The story is by now familiar. Print is locked in a death spiral, starved for revenue ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Solutions for Cold Feet and Other Little Problems

By Carey Sookocheff

Toronto illustrator Carey Sookocheff isn’t new to picture books – she provided the charming art for Maureen Fergus’s popular Buddy and Earl series – but she is new to authorship, and it’s a good fit. ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada

By Shannon Stettner (ed.)

In 1969, abortion was legalized in Canada, but only when the procedure was performed in a hospital and had been approved by a committee of doctors. In response to these restrictions, activists launched the cross-country ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Mask That Sang

By Susan Currie

A wooden Iroquois healing mask, bearing brilliant eyes and a mass of black hair, sits abandoned in the home 12-year-old Cass Foster and her mother inherit unexpectedly. With its eerie sense of familiarity and a ... Read More »

October 17, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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