★ The Love of Two Stars: A Korean Legend

Janie Jaehyun Park’s first book, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon, won the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Picture Book Award and was shortlisted for a Governor General’s Award in 2002. Her second, The Love of Two Stars, ... Read More »

July 11, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Three Views of Crystal Water

By Katherine Govier

Katherine Govier’s new novel is a sprawling, richly researched historical novel, a chronicle of love and obsession in the 19th-century tradition of the grand pursuit. As the backdrop to this luminous, multilayered tale, the sea ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Tattycoram

By Audrey Thomas

When Wayne Johnston released The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a few commentators took him to task for creating a fictional inner life for the very real Joey Smallwood and (in the opinion of some of ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Cul-de-sac

By Daniel MacIvor

In his latest play, Cul-de-sac, playwright and performer Daniel MacIvor hits the ground running in the shape of a character named Leonard. Leonard lives in one of the six houses neatly tucked away in a ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences

By Jan Zwicky

On the heels of a double Governor General’s Award nomination in 2004 (for non-fiction and poetry), Jan Zwicky gives us her sixth collection of poems. The title might lead one to expect in this book ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

The Sutler

By Michael Kenyon

B.C. writer Michael Kenyon is the author of three books of fiction. The Sutler is his second collection of poems, but his first work in verse, A Rack of Lamb is a book of prose ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

Were the Bees

By Andy Weaver

From traditional formal poetry to free verse, from the lyrical pieces to clever turns of phrase, from experimental verse to plainspoken frankness, there is something to satisfy all tastes in Were the Bees, the debut ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Poetry

What Canadians Think About Almost Everything

By Darrell Bricker and John Wright

Someone famous – Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Benjamin Disraeli have all have received credit – once said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. That’s the nagging thought many ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Days of Victory: Canadians Remember, 1939-1945

By Ted Barris

In contrast to the flood of titles released in 2004 to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day, in this year of the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the flood has ... Read More »

July 8, 2005 | Filed under: History

Wacky Canada

By Jeff Sinclair

Just in time for summer come several inexpensive non-fiction books about Canada to accompany families on cross-country journeys or to help while away rainy afternoons, all aimed at seven- to 12-year-olds. Where once there was ... Read More »

July 8, 2005

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