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Isabelle Arsenault takes the standby concept of an abecedarian and turns it on its head via whimsy, droll humour, and a unique twist. The stars here are the illustrations, which use the NATO phonetic alphabet ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Mae and the Moon

By Jami Gigot

Vancouver author-illustrator and visual-effects animator Jami Gigot’s debut picture book celebrates children’s fascination with the moon. Conveyed in minimal and lucid text, the story tells of a young girl’s affinity for the celestial body. The ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Kamik’s First Sled

By Matilda Sulurayok; Qin Leng (illus.)

Taking over from Donald Uluadluak, who wrote the first Kamik story, Inuit Elder Matilda Sulurayok draws on her memories of traditional dog rearing in this wonderful companion volume featuring young Inuit boy Jake and his ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Young Man with Camera

By David Wyman (photo.); Emil Sher

The narrator of Young Man with Camera is T—, a 13-year-old street photographer who chooses to leave his full name out of the narrative because “I know someone will come along and twist a normal ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Madly (Potion series, book 1)

By Amy Alward

Ah, love. It changes us. Not only did it prompt U.K.-born, Canadian-raised author Amy Alward to take her new husband’s name, it also seems to have influenced her writing. As Amy McCulloch, Alward published two ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Starring Shapes!

By Tania Howells

Tania Howells adds author to her illustrator cred with this bright, colourful introduction to triangles, rectangles, and their other-angled (and non-angled) brethren. Using a school play to frame her tale, Howells gives each shape a ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Picture Books

Between the Cracks She Fell

By Lisa de Nikolits

Lisa de Nikolits announces her ambition on the first page of her fifth novel, name-checking Gibreel Farishta, one of the main characters in Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Following the loss of her “house to ... Read More »

November 11, 2015 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper

By Jody Mitic

In 2007, at the age of 30, former soldier Jody Mitic lost both his feet after stepping on a Taliban land mine in Afghanistan. He gave his body – and very nearly his life – ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Back to the Well: Rethinking the Future of Water

By Marq de Villiers

Nova Scotia resident Marq de Villiers won a Governor General’s Literary Award for his 1999 book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, a look at the political, environmental, and cultural uses and misuses ... Read More »

November 10, 2015 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

November’s Radio

By Steve Noyes

November’s Radio begins in the aftermath of a breakup. Wendy has gone to China, leaving her partner, Gary, in Victoria. Their separation established, the novel then proceeds to run on dual tracks, alternating between storylines ... Read More »

November 10, 2015

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