★ You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition

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

Moguls, Monsters and Madmen: An Uncensored Life in Show Business

By Barry Avrich

Considering that Barry Avrich’s book about his life in marketing and documentary movie-making presents itself as the story of “a kid from Montreal who has nothing extraordinary” yet “could have so many dreams come true,” ... Read More »

May 30, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Thirteen Shells

By Nadia Bozak

A stranger who’s read the nation’s coming-of-age fiction but never stepped foot in Canada could easily be pushed to exclaim, “What the hell happened there?” If bygone Anne of Avonlea’s biggest adolescent mishap involved dyed ... Read More »

May 26, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw

By Joe Friesen

If a ballad begins with the birth of its central figure – think Davey Crockett on a mountaintop in Tennessee – where does that leave this account of Danny Wolfe, born in Regina, three months ... Read More »

May 25, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Worldly Goods

By Alice Petersen

From the first story in Alice Petersen’s sophomore collection, you know you are in the hands of a writer possessed of stellar skills. Worldly Goods is a multi-faceted diamond: its carbon base is the stuff ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Most Heartless Town in Canada

By Elaine McCluskey

Rita Van Loon and Hubert Hansen, former residents of the fictional Nova Scotia town of Myrtle, share the job of narrating Elaine McCluskey’s offbeat second novel, and they have things they would like to get ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight

By Katherine Holstein; Maria Toorpakai

Maria Toorpakai has survived horrors most of her North American readers will never encounter except between the covers of a book: public beatings, confinement, dengue fever, death threats. Born in 1990 in Pakistan’s oppressive northwest ... Read More »

May 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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