Stay

Poet and short story writer Aislinn Hunter’s first novel is about a young Canadian who makes the pilgrimage to Europe to find herself. The plot may sound old-fashioned, but Stay’s rigorous examination of the relationship ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Featherbed

By John L. Miller

“Objects hold meaning,” Rebecca tells her daughter Anna from her deathbed, “an object might reveal a person’s hopes and dreams.” That object, Anna soon discovers, is her mother’s diary dating back to 1909. The revelations ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Fine Passage

By France Daigle, Robert Majzels, trans.

France Daigle’s latest novel, A Fine Passage, is an elegant puzzle about how lives intersect and the way small acts of kindness can have far-reaching effects. “Can you imagine boundless joy?” a garrulous old man ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hating Gladys

By Leona Gom

It is the summer of 1965, and Gladys Pratt, an embittered, middle-aged woman, is preparing for another swarm of whining tourists to descend upon her isolated Yukon lodge. When one of her sullen staffers tries ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Exile

By Ann Ireland

Carlos Romero Estévez is hastily smuggled out of his country and flown to Vancouver to take up a university appointment as writer-in-exile. It is possible, however, to be a political refugee without being a hero, ... Read More »

January 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Unusual Heroes: Canada’s Prime Ministers and Fathers of Confederation

By Shane Peacock

Unusual Heroes, by Shane Peacock, brings the stories of Canada’s founding fathers and 20 prime ministers to life for a young adult audience, filling a gap in resources on this subject for that age range. ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Pacific Tree Frogs

By Leslie Owen, George Juhasz, illus.

Children’s book editor Leslie Owen has chosen the life cycle of the tiny Pacific tree frog as the subject for her first book. The text begins in a storybook-like way, but after the first couple ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane

By Peter Busby, David Craig, illus.

On Dec. 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their way into history after conducting the first successful controlled powered aircraft flight. Though the initial test flight that day lasted only 12 seconds, the implications ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Summer of Suspense

By Kristin Butcher

What do holograms have to do with some robberies at a local aquarium? Not much, as it turns out, other than to provide an interesting sidebar in Victoria author Kristin Butcher’s mystery novel Summer of ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

Breaking Free: The Story of William Kurelek

By May Ebbitt Cutler, William Kurelek, illus.

The biographer’s job is to blaze a trail through the forest of a life, here following the stream, there climbing the rise, then lingering in the sunny clearing before hacking through a tangled thicket. In ... Read More »

January 7, 2004

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