The Wife’s Tale

In their introduction to The Oprah Affect, a collection of essays that analyze the impact of Oprah’s Book Club on popular and literary culture, editors Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr argue there’s nothing new ... Read More »

July 6, 2009 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

God of Missed Connections

By Elizabeth Bachinsky

In the press material that accompanies Elizabeth Bachinsky’s third poetry collection, Bachinsky expresses her desire to “capture the sense of what it feels like to not know where you’re from, to be looking for connections, ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Poetry

Blue Thunder: The Truth About Conservatives from Macdonald to Harper

By Bob Plamondon

Conservative Party insider Bob Plamondon’s new book, Blue Thunder, promises to tell “the truth” about all the leaders throughout the Tories’ various incarnations. The truth, according to Plamondon, is that party leaders who managed to ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia

By Jasmin Hristov

During a controversial July 2007 trip to Colombia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper bluntly stated that human rights concerns could not get in the way of trade relations with that country. Since last year’s Canada-Colombia Free ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far)

By Richard LaBonté and Lawrence Schimel, eds.

The introduction of Second Person Queer, the companion to the Lambda Award-winning First Person Queer, informs readers that the new volume is meant to be “a mirror of who you are, or perhaps the person ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

What the Thunder Said: Reflections of a Canadian Officer in Kandahar

By Lt.-Col. John Conrad

What the Thunder Said, Lt.-Col. John Conrad’s account of his six-month tour in Kandahar, introduces us to new perspectives on the Canadian experience in Afghanistan, and contains the foundations of a better understanding of that ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller

By Jeff Rubin

For more than 20 years, Jeff Rubin has been known as one of Canada’s top economists, and a major voice for the energy sector. In Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

One-Pot French: More than 100 Easy, Authentic Recipes

By Jean-Pierre Challet

Like her Food Network cooking show, French Food at Home, Laura Calder’s second cookbook, French Taste, is, in essence, a primer on basic Gallic cooking aimed at people who are intimidated by the kitchen. Detractors ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Food & Drink

French Taste: Elegant Everyday Eating

By Laura Calder

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: Food & Drink

True Patriot Love: Four Generations in Search of Canada

By Michael Ignatieff

In the author’s note that introduces True Patriot Love, writer, public intellectual, and current Leader of the Official Opposition Michael Ignatieff claims that the man who began writing this book in 2000 is essentially the ... Read More »

July 3, 2009 | Filed under: History

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