When Morning Comes

Forty years after the June 16, 1976, Soweto Student Uprising drew global attention to apartheid’s brutal system of repression, Arushi Raina’s debut novel, set in the weeks leading up to that fateful day, introduces readers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Dependent: A Memoir of Marriage and the Military

By Danielle Daniel

In The Dependent, Danielle Daniel shares the interconnected stories of her troubled marriage to a military man, her struggles with depression, and the accident that left her husband a paraplegic. Recently, several strong women writers ... Read More »

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The “Red” Kelly Story

By David M. Dupuis; L. Waxy Gregoire; Leonard “Red” Kelly

As far as most hockey fans are concerned, there’s only one No. 4. But throughout the 1950s and most of the ’60s – that is, before Bobby Orr ever laced up his skates – No. ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Making it Right: Building Peace, Settling Conflict

By Marilee Peters

In her latest book, Vancouver author Marilee Peters looks closely at the concept of restorative justice. She provides convincing examples of why and how society can move away from the narrative of punishment as the ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Path of Most Resistance

By Russell Wangersky

With The Path of Most Resistance, his first new collection since the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted Whirl Away in 2012, Russell Wangersky affirms his position as one of the finest short-story writers currently working in this ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ Girl Mans Up

By M-E Girard

Respect is the dominant theme that runs through Girl Mans Up, the latest novel from pediatric nurse and two-time Lambda Literary Fellow M-E Girard. The author explores the idea of respect for oneself, family, and ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

By David Sax

At one point in The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, David Sax tells the story of a marketing rep’s attempt to steer him away from writing another conventional book. She suggests ... Read More »

August 22, 2016 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Pandas on the Eastside

By Gabrielle Prendergast

Never underestimate the power of goodness to overcome that which others consider weaknesses: youth, poverty, lack of education, dysfunctional families. Ten-year-old Journey Song doesn’t. She looks beyond these things and the slummy side of her ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Fatalists

By Patrick Blennerhassett

Most everyone has experienced the aggravation of temporarily losing cellphone or Internet services. But what would happen if all these forms of communication suddenly disappeared – simultaneously, and perhaps forever? How intense would the aggravation ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Boy Named Queen

By Sara Cassidy

Ten-year-old Evelyn’s life has always had a sameness about it: she lives in a brown, two-bedroom house among a row of brown, two-bedroom houses; her mother buys her stiff leather loafers at Frederick’s Footwear once ... Read More »

August 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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