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Like its 1995 predecessor, Microserfs, Douglas Coupland’s latest foray into the annals of extreme contemporaneousness delves into the world of a group of young programmers, this time substituting a Vancouver-based video-game design company for Microsoft. ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Widdershins

By Charles de Lint

With Widdershins, Ottawa writer Charles de Lint returns to the fictional city of Newford for what may be a world-altering showdown between the ancient North American immortals and spirits – based on First Nations tradition ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Uninvited Guest

By John Degen

When his old pal Stan dies, Tony inherits his summer job of escorting hockey’s greatest trophy on its worldwide engagements, never letting the Stanley Cup out of his sight. One such assignment takes him to ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Over Prairie Trails

By Frederick Philip Grove

If, as Northrop Frye has suggested, the Canadian character has largely been shaped by the vast distances that separate us and by our almost stubborn efforts to stay together across those distances, then Frederick Philip ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Song of Kahunsha

By Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani’s second novel, The Song of Kahunsha, is the heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful story of a young orphan living on the streets of Bombay. The book is set amidst the racial rioting of 1993, ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vices of My Blood

By Maureen Jennings

Maureen Jennings’ new novel, Vices of My Blood, picks up where her previous William Murdoch mystery left off. Only two months have passed since the end of Night’s Child, when Murdoch’s lover, Enid Jones, left ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea

By Pan Bouyoucas

"The bridge between the world of the dead and the world of the living is the sleeper’s mind," Pan Bouyoucas writes at the beginning of his novel The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Inside Out: Straight Talk from a Gay Jock

By Mark Tewksbury

For years, swimmer Mark Tewksbury was a magician in the pool. Among his many aquatic achievements, the muscle-bound kid from Calgary won a gold medal for Canada at the 1992 Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona.But ... Read More »

June 5, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Gallop to the Sea (Saddle Island Series #1)

By Sharon Siamon

When 13-year-old Kelsie moves with her family to the small town of Dark Cove, Nova Scotia, she is not looking forward to living with her Aunt Maggie while her father travels up north to work ... Read More »

June 2, 2006 | Filed under: Book news

How to Be a Hero on Earth 5

By Rob Payne

The conclusion of How to Be a Hero on Earth 5 is set on the Isle of Skye, beneath a remote, ruined castle that overlooks the place I spent the first four years of my ... Read More »

June 2, 2006

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