The Maze

Some aspects of The Maze – girl gangs, ostracism, swarmings – recall the horrible fatal attack on 14-year-old Reena Virk five years ago in Victoria. Monica Hughes combines a perceptive grasp of the dynamics of ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

Tribes

By Arthur Slade

Since the death three years earlier of his father, a world-famous anthropologist, 17-year-old Percy Montmount Jr. believes he’s truly able to see the world through his father’s eyes. As a quasi-omniscient observer studying the ritualistic ... Read More »

January 12, 2004

City Signs

By Zoran Milich

Although this book’s photos were taken in cities, preschoolers from communities of all sizes will recognize and relate to the objects and concepts portrayed. Thirty colourful camera shots illustrate the way we use letters, symbols, ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Alphabeasts

By Wallace Edwards

How would an alligator go about sitting in an easy chair? Toronto artist Wallace Edwards props his alligator’s chin on a well-cushioned footstool, while its tail drapes down over the chairback and its front legs ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

On Every Stone

By Rachel Vigier

In her first collection of poetry, On Every Stone, Rachel Vigier explores the meaning of disappearance as she reflects on the life and loss of her sister, Micheline, who disappeared October 9, 1988. But the ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Poetry

Fights of Our Lives: Elections, Leadership, and the Making of Canada

By John Duffy

I must come clean here. Canadian history often puts me to sleep, a fact that may or may not make me the ideal reader for Fights of Our Lives. However, John Duffy’s account of the ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Pelee Project: One Woman’s Escape from Urban Madness

By Jane Christmas

A near-fatal car crash served as a wake-up call for Jane Christmas, then an editor at The National Post, a twice-divorced single mother of three, and a long-distance commuter. Her life had been a crushing ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Finding the Stillpoint: A Spiritual Response to Stress

By Tom Harpur

In Finding the Stillpoint, religious commentator Tom Harpur ostensibly tackles the subject of meditation and stress relief, but Harpur can’t resist mounting his favourite hobby horse: “the great need to make the foundation of faith ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Little White Squaw: A White Woman’s Story of Abuse, Addiction, and Reconciliation

By Eve Mills Nash and Kenneth J. Harvey

Eve Nash is 52. Her story is of an unrelenting existence “in a land of immeasurable blackness and defeat” in and around Haneytown, New Brunswick. Existing in the “limbo between the aboriginal and white cultures,” ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Ardor in the Court! Sex and the Law

By Jeffrey Miller

As Jeffrey Miller, author and popular columnist for The Lawyers Weekly, notes in his introduction, a lifetime of research into sex and the law would cover only the margins of the subject. Playing in those ... Read More »

January 12, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

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