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

The Lit Report

By Sarah N. Harvey

Victoria, B.C.-based writer Sarah N. Harvey is not afraid of courting controversy, it seems, as she gamely delves into such touchy subjects as teen sex and pregnancy, body image, religion, and post-partum depression in her ... Read More »

November 5, 2008

Distantly Related to Freud

By Ann Charney

Ann Charney’s third novel begins in Montreal in 1952. Eight-year-old Ellen gazes through her bedroom window, awaiting the arrival of the refugees who will inhabit the empty rooms of her mother’s grandiose Mount Royal home. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Atmospheric Disturbances

By Rivka Galchen

Toronto-born, New York-raised author Rivka Galchen’s first novel is a clever, stylish debut that wears its postmodern conventions on its sleeve. The narrator is Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a psychiatrist suffering from his own paranoid delusion. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Numbers

By David A. Poulsen

Set in a fictional prairie town (in what could be Canada or the U.S.), Alberta author David A. Poulsen’s Numbers finds Andy “Alamo” Crockett trying to figure out whether his Grade 10 Social Studies teacher, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

Ballplayers and Bonesetters: One Hundred Ancient Aztec and Maya Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred

By Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.

Ballplayers and Bonesetters is the third book in a series that examines the history of specific eras from an unusual angle. Like Archers and Alchemists (the medieval era) and Cowboys and Coffin Makers (the 19th ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

X Doesn’t Mark the Spot: Tales of Pirate Gold, Buried Treasure, and Lost Riches

By Ed Butts

Given the onscreen exploits of Johnny Depp and his Caribbean cronies in recent years, there’s a high degree of pirate literacy on school playgrounds all over Canada – backed by a huge interest in all ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

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