Oliver and his family are having a hard time in Fort William. His father brought them to the head of Lake Superior from Liverpool in the 1870s, imagining he could make his living as a ... Read More »
March 16, 2004
After reading the first line of Awake and Dreaming, an “Ahhh...” escapes. Relax; if you’re nine or 90 you’re in superb hands. We’re introduced to Cecily Stone, a former children’s writer, and a glorious ghost ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
When her grandmother dies at the age of 96, 12-year-old Emily faces a double loss – no adult in the family wants the Saskatchewan farm where her grandmother spent her life, and it seems it ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
There Will Be Wolves, young-adult author Karleen Bradford’s award-winning 1992 novel, revolves around the People’s Crusade of 1096 – an ill-fated mission to return Jerusalem to Christian rule. The sequel, Shadows on a Sword, picks ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
When the Inuit arrived in the Canadian Arctic 1,000 years ago, they found the Tunit, a race of strong, peaceful giants who were easily driven from the best hunting grounds and soon disappeared, marking the ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples
In his new book, Rupert Ross, who spent 14 years working as a member of the Canadian mainstream legal system in northwestern Ontario, describes the ongoing struggle in native communities to develop a system of ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples
To call romantic fiction pap is to miss the point business historian and journalist Paul Grescoe makes – that turning mush into millions is a great story on its own. From the birth of Harlequin ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
In Lord High Executioner, Toronto mystery-writer Howard Engel makes his first foray into non-fiction by providing an historical overview of judicially endorsed agents of death. Though candidly admitting he believes capital punishment ought to be ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Sandra Hutchison is a Canadian English professor who spent time in eastern central China teaching English language and literature at a university in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province. She was evacuated in June, 1989 ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays
This book is grotesquely mistitled. It is not – except for its last chapter – about the search for a new Left, or even about Canadian politics in the neoconservative era. Instead, In Search of ... Read More »
March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
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