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The Last Amigo: Karlheinz Schreiber and the Anatomy of a Scandal

Writing a book about a political scandal comes with its own challenges, including the aggressive research involved and the process of rearranging those facts into a compelling narrative. Writing a book about a Canadian political ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

★ The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead

By Heather Pringle

While trying to satisfy a magazine editor’s request for a story on mummies, science writer Heather Pringle ended up at the gloriously eccentric World Congress of Mummy Studies on the edge of a desolate Chilean ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Waltzing the Tango: Confessions of an Out-of-step Boomer

By Gabrielle Bauer

One effect of the success of the Bridget Jones books, besides too many copy-cat efforts, is that author Helen Fielding raised the bar for portrayals of baffled, self-absorbed, youngish women. Bridget, lucky for her, had ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Falling Hard: A Rookie’s Year in Boxing

By Chris Jones

One thing about the Sweet Science upon which all initiates are in agreement is that it used to be better.” When the great A.J. Liebling wrote that in1955 it was as a rebuke to all ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

The All-in-one Guide to Add and Hyperactivity

By Dr. Elvis Ali; et al

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common and often debilitating condition. The disorder’s causes are not fully understood, and opinions differ – often radically – regarding optimal treatment. The editors of The All-in-One Guide ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Fabulous Girl’s Guide to Decorum

By Kim Izzo and Ceri Marsh

Decorum is something you don’t hear much about anymore – it’s the kind of word that’s associated with white gloves and stodgy rules of etiquette. However, as Ceri Marsh and Kim Izzo reveal, modern decorum ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Abel’s Outback

By Allen Abel

I remember coming across the work of Allen Abel soon after the Globe and Mail posted him to China in 1983. His informative dispatches were written with quirky humour and a sideways way of seeing, ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex, and the Single Guy

By Ryan Bigge

Not having been a single guy for over a dozen years, I read Ryan Bigge’s A Very Lonely Planet with considerable interest. By the time I was finished, I was almost overcome with a desire ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Reference

Breakfast with the Devil

By L. Wayne Carlson

Breakfast with the Devil is a ballad of conundrums. On one level it’s an unsentimental account of the career of the most-escaped prisoner in modern North American history, the story of a hardscrabble Canadian farm ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Simple Recipes

By Madeleine Thien

In the title story in this collection a father cooks for his family with meticulous love, weighing out the rice in his fingers, frying the fish that only a short time before was still swimming. ... Read More »

October 30, 2003 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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