★ Pumpkin People

By Sandra Lightburn; Ron Lightburn, illus.

This comically eerie picture book celebrates a folk tradition of the authors’ adopted hometown of Kentville, Nova Scotia. “Pumpkin people” (a term that Kentville, recognizing the tourism potential of folk traditions, has registered as a ... Read More »

December 1, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Crabwise to the Hounds

By Jeramy Dodds

Despite my abiding conviction that a moratorium should be placed on poems about Glenn Gould (whose frequent appearance in Canadian poetry has made him into something of a verse cliché), I feel bound to admit ... Read More »

November 24, 2008 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Vlad: The Last Confession

By C.C. Humphreys

Somewhere between history and fiction lies truth. In Vlad: The Last Confession, author and actor C.C. Humphreys seeks to tell us one possible truth about Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who has inspired legends and ... Read More »

November 17, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hope & Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband, Maher Arar

By Monia Mazigh; Patricia Claxton and Fred A. Reed, trans.

On Sept. 26, 2002, Monia Mazigh’s life changed forever. Her husband, Maher Arar, had cut short his vacation with his family in Tunis to return to Ottawa for work, flying home via Zürich and New ... Read More »

November 10, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Dispersing the Fog: Inside the Secret World of Ottawa and the RCMP

By Paul Palango

Paul Palango has a lot of material to work with in his new book about the ineptitude, incompetence, and, in some cases, outright corruption of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Having drifted far from the ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Milton’s Secret

By Eckhart Tolle and Robert S. Friedman; Frank Riccio; illus.

The big problem with kids, apparently, is that they spend too much time obsessing over the Then and the When and not living in the moment. If only they were able to let go of ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Picture Books

Fear of Fighting

By Stacey May Fowles; Marlena Zuber, illus.

Fear of Fighting, Stacey May Fowles’ second novel, is as gut-wrenching as it is delightful. Fowles navigates the devastating terrain of a broken heart with grace, humour, and wit. The novel’s protagonist, a diffident Torontonian ... Read More »

November 7, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Rotten Apple

By Rebecca Eckler

Sometimes, a girl gets so blue and bummed, she just can’t bring herself to chat with the guard of her gated community or buy any more designer clothes. These are trying times for Apple, the ... Read More »

November 7, 2008

Hell or High Water: My Life In and Out of Politics

By Paul Martin

Considering the appeal of easy access to a pulpit, one of the biggest perks of political office, it is not surprising that firing off one last ideological salvo in the form of a memoir has ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers seems, initially, to be an inadvisable pairing of author and subject. Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for that august cultural magazine, The New Yorker, and author of two exemplary pop-science bestsellers, The Tipping Point and ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

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