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The Birth House

By Ami McKay

Although she is Knopf’s New Face of Fiction for 2006, Ami McKay springs from a venerable tradition of Maritime storytelling. Her engaging first novel, set in rural Nova Scotia around the time of the First ... Read More »

February 27, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Born to Rock

By Gordon Korman

With great marks and a full scholarship to Harvard, Leo Caraway – an atypical teen who’s president of his school’s Young Republican club – seems to be on the fast track to success. But when ... Read More »

February 20, 2006

Three Songs for Courage

By Maxine Trottier

Boys will be boys, whatever the era, and in the 1950s, Maxine Trottier reminds us, they were even more so: trawling the main drag for action, farting, belching, lusting after girls in pointy brassieres, and ... Read More »

February 16, 2006

Vandal Love

By D.Y. Béchard

The haunting story of the Hervé family – cursed by a genetic fluke that causes them to become either giants or “runts” – provides the impetus for a compelling first novel by Montréal author D.Y. ... Read More »

February 13, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sympathy

By Dede Crane

The dancer is like a wounded swan, her graceful neck bowed in the catatonic state that followed the gruesome deaths of her son and husband in a car accident. She is admitted to the Rosewood ... Read More »

February 6, 2006 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Me Funny

By Drew Hayden Taylor, ed.

It is a paradoxical truth that explaining why something is funny is intrinsically unfunny. It is perhaps for this reason that Drew Hayden Taylor, the editor and compiler of Me Funny, a motley collection of ... Read More »

January 30, 2006 | Filed under: Anthologies