Shelter

Maggie and her sister, Jenny, are still mourning their father’s death when their mom drops them off in Williams Lake, B.C., at the home of a not-so-friendly friend of the family. She promises the girls ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You Could Believe in Nothing

By Jamie Fitzpatrick

Hockey, beer, and masturbation figure prominently in the life of 41-year-old Derek, the St. John’s resident who serves as the protagonist of Jamie Fitzpatrick’s funny and melancholy debut novel. While these three activities keep Derek’s ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Believing Cedric

By Mark Lavorato

Montreal-based author Mark Lavorato’s challenging and dark second novel tracks insurance broker Cedric Johnson as he relives key events in his life, his adult consciousness being literally transposed onto versions of his younger self, ranging ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Requiem

By Frances Itani

In her third novel, Frances Itani turns her attention to the Second World War and to themes of marginalization, loneliness, grief, and memory. Requiem tells the story of Bin Okuma, a member of the 21,000 ... Read More »

October 25, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists

By Seth

Canadian comic books have come into their own. Cartoonists such as Chester Brown and Seth are now celebrated at awards ceremonies, funded by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and encouraged by a ... Read More »

October 24, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

★ Hark! A Vagrant

By Kate Beaton

October 24, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

★ The Tiffin

By Mahtab Narsimhan

In the context of children’s literature, the term “other worlds” often connotes places that are purely imaginary and only reachable by an enchanted cabinet or peculiarly numbered train platform. But Toronto-based, Silver Birch Award–winning author ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

Look at That Building: A First Book of Structures

By Scot Ritchie

With winning, classic ingredients for pre-schoolers and early readers (a dog, a cat, a tree house, and even a fire station), Look at That Building! should engage children with a burgeoning interest in structures. The ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

Nowhere Else on Earth: Standing Tall for the Great Bear Rainforest

By Caitlyn Vernon

Concern about our impact on the environment has come to the forefront in recent years. While many people take steps to support conservation, most tend to carry on without taking action. Not so for environmental ... Read More »

October 19, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Stranger at Home

By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton; Liz Amini-Holmes

A Stranger at Home is the second instalment in Margaret Pokiak-Fenton’s poignant memoirs, written with her daughter-in-law, Christy Jordan-Fenton. The first, Fatty Legs, recalled Margaret’s miserable, two-year stay at a residential school in the Northwest ... Read More »

October 19, 2011

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