Maxwell the Monkey Barber

In this rhyming picture book, Maxwell the monkey opens his jungle barbershop to numerous wild animals with equally wild hair: a baboon with a mass of curls, a lion with a beastly mane, and a ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Stranger

By David Bergen

David Bergen, author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner The Time In Between and a finalist on Canada Reads for The Age of Hope, returns with a new novel that is arguably his best yet. ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bad Girls of Fashion: Style Rebels From Cleopatra to Lady Gaga

By Jennifer Croll; Ada Buchholc (illus.)

There comes a point in every kid’s life when the freedom of wearing clothes that express how they feel in the moment – whether it be sparkly butterfly wings, a cowboy hat, or mismatched socks ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)

By Kamal Al-Solaylee

The first time Kamal Al-Solaylee watched Carol Reed’s film Oliver! on TV, he had the sudden wish that he were white. Even as a boy in Cairo, Al-Solaylee had already absorbed what is an all-too-regular ... Read More »

June 27, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Waste

By Andrew F. Sullivan

If a slaughterhouse had glass walls, what you’d witness through them might resemble the events in Andrew F. Sullivan’s debut novel, which is certainly an early candidate for feel-queasy book of the year. Unfolding in ... Read More »

June 22, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Harshly Purring

By Michael Knox

It’s been 30 years since Blue Velvet peeled the designer veil off of suburbia to reveal the dark impulses scurrying around underneath, and the books and movies that have since picked up that film’s themes ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition

By Chase Joynt; Mike Hoolboom

Two men could not be more different. Two men could not have more in common. Both filmmakers and careful observers of the human condition, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom have written a love letter to ... Read More »

June 20, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Julia Vanishes (Witch’s Child series, Book 1)

By Catherine Egan

Julia isn’t a witch, but she does have a unique ability: she can be unseen at will. The talent doesn’t render her invisible, exactly, so much as give her the power to avoid being perceived. ... Read More »

June 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Kabungo

By Rolli; Milan Pavlovic (illus.)

With some fantasies you’re invited to wade in, discovering the principles, nature, and backstories of the invented world step by step. Others are best approached by diving in at the deep end. Kabungo is the ... Read More »

June 15, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Rich and Poor

By Jacob Wren

Over the few days in March I spent reading Jacob Wren’s new novel, the so-called “one per cent” were in the headlines a lot: billionaire blowhard Donald Trump had all but sewn up the Republican ... Read More »

May 31, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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