Love in the Time of Cholesterol: A Memoir with Recipes

There is a jarring honesty to this memoir of a couple’s struggle with heart disease. Laid bare are the details of quadruple bypass surgery: pumps and fluids, depression and blood pressure. Cecily Ross – an ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Food & Drink

The Book of Revenge: A Blues for Yugoslavia

By Dragan Todorovic

Though it has never really gone away, the once-fusty memoir has recently enjoyed both a revival and a refreshing in the shape of poignant dispatches from troubled lands and poppy chronicles of Western life by ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison

By William Sampson

In an age of tell-all memoirs that often tell very little, William Sampson provides instead a challenging memoir that spares no details in his account of surviving three years of torture, detention in solitary confinement, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ With Every Mistake

By Gwynne Dyer

A collection of newspaper columns is supposed to act as a gap-filler for a publisher and a quick ego-stroke for its author. A column, after all, is the reactionary, unreflective bastard child of the essay, ... Read More »

March 30, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ Airstream Land Yacht

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock’s third collection might disappoint those hoping for another clutch of tough-luck chronicles along the lines of Mean and its follow-up, Days into Flatspin. While those first two books seemed rooted in the same ... Read More »

March 27, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Inside

By Kenneth J. Harvey

Kenneth J. Harvey writes in short, staccato sentences. Every word a jab. A knife. A fist. Verbal cuts. Makes Hemingway seem like a blabbermouth. The Newfoundland author’s latest novel follows 2003’s The Town That Forgot ... Read More »

March 20, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Earth Magic

By Dionne Brand; Eugenie Fernandes, illus.

People who are contented and stable don’t tend to feel the need for poetry. It’s at the hinge stages of our lives – the language acquisiton heyday of early childhood, the minefield of adolescence, and ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The Book of Lists: The Canadian Edition

By David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen, and Jane Farrow

AAs kids, my sister and I pored over the original The Book of Lists, first published in 1977. Full of obscure, sometimes obscene, information, these lists never failed to fascinate, even if we didn’t always ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Snow and Ice: Canadian Winter Weather

By Nicole Mortillaro

Having covered summer weather in Sun and Storms, Nicole Mortillaro has now turned her attention to winter for the second book in Scholastic’s Canada Close Up series. This colourful little book is divided into six ... Read More »

March 16, 2006 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Sidney Crosby: A Hockey Story

By Paul Arsenault

There isn’t a superlative around that has not been used to describe his game,” writes Paul Arseneault about Sidney Crosby. He would know, as he uses quite a few superlatives himself. In the course of ... Read More »

March 16, 2006

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