24 Hours in Cyberspace: Paintings on the Walls of the Digital Cave

Some 10 years ago, Rick Smolan’s name appeared on coffee tables everywhere when he launched the Day in the Life series of photography books. Smolan’s latest installment, 24 Hours in Cyberspace, is as ambitious an ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in the Lives of Canadian Women

By Sylvia Fraser

Chatelaine’s herstoryTo celebrate Chatelaine’s 70th anniversary, Sylvia Fraser has compiled excerpts from past issues of the magazine as a time capsule of how Canadian women have and haven’t changed. A Woman’s Place: Seventy Years in ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Lament of Charlie Longsong

By Roch Carrier, Sheila Fischman -trans.

“America is a novel,” says one of the characters in Roch Carrier’s new novel The Lament of Charlie Longsong. But Robert Martin, Carrier’s stodgy protagonist, disagrees. He insists, instead, on setting the historical record straight. ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Game to Play on the Tracks

By Lorna Jackson

Twice in this vivid, pyrotechnic novel, women walk into knitting shops that are heaped and hung like Aladdin’s cave with skeins – brightly dyed, flecked, handspun, synthetic. Proprietresses pull patterns from drawers, dispense yarns and ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Haunted Hillbilly

By Derek McCormack

At 124 generously spaced pages, The Haunted Hillbilly – Derek McCormack’s first novel – demonstrates with style and sardonic wit that it’s not about the length, it’s all in how you use it. McCormack, the ... Read More »

October 29, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents: The Story of Canada Beneath Your Feet

By John Wilson

If you’re wondering what dancing elephants are, they’re huge machines that send powerful shock waves tens of kilometres through the Earth’s crust. Normally used by oil, gas, and mineral exploration companies, these machines have been ... Read More »

October 16, 2003 | Filed under: Awards

Working Like a Dog: The Story of Working Dogs Through History

By Gena K. Gorrell

Toronto author Gena K. Gorrell won the Norma Fleck Award for her biography of someone who devoted her life to helping others (Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale). In Working Like a Dog, ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know

By Shari Graydon, Warren Clark, illus.

Growing up in North America it’s possible for children to be exposed to nearly 16,000 advertising messages a day, says Shari Graydon. Yet kids aren’t taught enough media awareness to defend themselves against the onslaught. ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

My Name Is Mitch

By Shelagh Lynn Supeene

Waterloo author Shelagh Lynne Supeene’s debut children’s novel My Name Is Mitch takes an affably humorous, discerning look at some of the problems of growing up: classroom bullies, learning difficulties, and family conflict. Her novel ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

Raging River

By Pam Withers

Jake Evans is a teen with the deck stacked against him: his dad took off without an explanation, Jake struggles in school, and the only way he can afford the expense of kayaking – his ... Read More »

October 16, 2003

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