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BOOK REVIEWS

After the Fire

By Becky Citra

Prolific B.C.-based author Becky Citra has produced yet another winning novel for young readers that is engaging, interesting, and full of true to life situations. It’s been two years since a house fire left pre-teen ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

★ Mercury

By Hope Larson

North Carolina’s Eisner Award–winning Hope Larson is back with another wonderful graphic novel, this one set in rural Nova Scotia and inspired by the years Larson lived in that province. Split between two time periods ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Queen of Hearts

By Martha Brooks

For her newest novel, Martha Brooks draws on her own experiences growing up in a medical family on the grounds of the Manitoba Sanatorium. Nestled in the heart of rural Manitoba, the fictional Pembina Hills ... Read More »

November 17, 2010

Welcome to Monster Town

By Ryan Heshka

Vancouver illustrator Ryan Heshka clearly has a thing for Halloween. His previous book, ABC Spook Show, was an alphabet primer that employed classic movie monsters – witches, goblins, mad scientists. His newest picture book revels ... Read More »

November 17, 2010 | Filed under: Picture Books

Here Is Where We Disembark

By Clea Roberts

There is something about the bleakness and epic geographical scale of the Canadian North that arrests the collective imagination – something to do with our romanticized notions of survival in inhospitable climes, our respect (though ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

Indexical Elegies

By Jon Paul Fiorentino

In a book of short stories, a novel, and a handful of poetry collections over the past decade or so, Montreal writer, editor, and publisher Jon Paul Fiorentino has embraced and celebrated his anxieties, nervous ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry

That Other Beauty

By Karen Enns

The rural life of a Mennonite community in Southern Ontario forms the backdrop to Karen Enns’ debut collection. At once lush and spare – evidence of mentor Patrick Lane’s influence is very much apparent – ... Read More »

November 16, 2010 | Filed under: Poetry