Somewhere in Blue

Complex mother-daughter relationships drive Gillian Cummings’ first novel, a story of family secrets and the struggle to rise above grief. Sixteen-year-old Sandy Rawlins’ world is falling apart. She is coping with the recent loss of ... Read More »

April 5, 2010

The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves

By Andrew Potter

In The Authenticity Hoax, Andrew Potter, Maclean’s columnist and co-author (with Joseph Heath) of The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t Be Jammed, rehashes all of the same resistance-is-futile thinking from that earlier book in ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Reference

Acquired Tastes: On the Trail of the World’s Most Sought-After Delicacies

By Massimo Marcone

Not many Canadians get compared to Indiana Jones, but then again, few would travel the jungles of the Amazon in search of an indigenous drink known for its unique process of fermentation, in which the ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Food & Drink

A History of Marriage

By Elizabeth Abbott

What are the core values of marriage? How does money, or the lack of it, affect the roles of spouses? What became of the double standard that permitted “a husband to take legal action against ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Pilgrim in the Palace of Words: A Journey Through the 6,000 Languages of Earth

By Glenn Dixon

Calgary journalist and linguist Glenn Dixon is in love not only with languages but with travel, too. Pilgrim in the Palace of Words pays homage to both. Dixon employs a chatty, informal tone to recount ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

BlackBerry: The Inside Story of Research In Motion

By Rod McQueen

Rod McQueen’s new book features a foreword by tech giants Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, co-CEOs of the Waterloo, Ontario-based Research In Motion. Typically, this would mean that the main figures in the book have, ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag

By Alan Bradley

Last year, Alan Bradley made a splash in the mystery world with The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, which introduced 11-year-old Flavia de Luce, one of the most original and charming sleuths to ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Thin Bruised Line: The Imminent Threat to Police and Public Safety

By Doug Clark

The notion that police work in Canada is becoming harder is nothing new; Thin Bruised Line, a thoroughly researched volume by veteran investigative journalist Doug Clark, examines the reasons why this notion is especially true ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

A Hunter’s Confession

By David Carpenter

The title of Warren Cariou’s foreword to Welcome to Canada, a volume of David Carpenter’s new and selected stories, is “You Are Now Entering Carpenter Country.” Carpenter’s fictional landscape – located mainly in the outposts ... Read More »

March 31, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Short