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The Pump

In their debut short-story collection, Grimsby, Ontario-born writer Sydney Warner Brooman takes us on a twisted journey into a small town where malaise will eat you alive. The swampy landscape of The Pump is true ... Read More »

September 15, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Short, Reviews

Dee and Apostrofee

By Judith Henderson; Ohara Hale (ill.)

As everyone knows, Aug. 15 is International Apostrophe Day, an occasion the internet celebrates by shaming the apostrophe’s most egregious abusers. Small businesses tend to be easy targets, often for misplaced or redundant possessives (“Open ... Read More »

September 14, 2021 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Everything Turns Away

By Michelle Berry

Now that we have enough distance from the early days of the pandemic, it feels instructive to view this global event – and how it has affected us – through the lens of history. The ... Read More »

September 13, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

Red X

By David Demchuk

Author and playwright David Demchuk was deeply affected by the murders committed by Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur; he knew one of the victims personally. But what if the disappearances of gay and bisexual men ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

★ Em

By Kim Thúy; Sheila Fischman; trans.

In Kim Thúy’s fiction, Vietnam largely resides in the memories and gestures of those who fled the country during the war. More than a geographic backdrop, the nation occupies the psychic terrain of heroines who ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

The Listeners

By Jordan Tannahill

At the start of the pandemic, as my life shifted to sitting in my apartment all day, I noticed a noise, like two glasses rubbing together. For weeks, I walked around my place with an ... Read More »

September 8, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

A Terrible Tide

By Suzanne Meade

On November 19, 1929, Celia’s celebrating her 13th birthday with her family when their house on Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula begins to shake. Alarmed, everyone runs outside. Was it an explosion? Nobody knows. Since there is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

Meet David Suzuki

By Elizabeth MacLeod; Mike Deas (ill.)

The newest picture book in the Scholastic Canada Biography series written by Elizabeth MacLeod and illustrated by Mike Deas offers an engaging look at environmentalist David Suzuki’s life thus far. The narrative, which begins and ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ A Kid Is a Kid Is a Kid

By Sara O’Leary‚ Qin Leng (ill.)

The dynamic duo behind the bestselling picture book A Family Is a Family Is a Family – Sara O’Leary and Qin Leng – returns with the utterly delightful companion, A Kid Is a Kid Is ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books

★ Undersong

By Kathleen Winter

She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love, and thought, and joy. So wrote William Wordsworth of his sister, Dorothy, ... Read More »

September 1, 2021 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels, Reviews

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The Pump

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