May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Jennifer Manuel’s debut novel, The Heaviness of Things That Float, told the story of a white nurse who spends 40 years serving a remote First Nations community in northwestern B.C. That book, which won ... Read More »
The Best Way to Get Your Way by Vancouver author Tanya Lloyd Kyi is a rousing introduction to the art of debate and offers a crash course in critical thinking. Pairs of fictional tween speakers ... Read More »
May 31, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Kids’ Books
A little girl moves from her war-torn home country, location unnamed, to live in a place she’s never been before. After arriving, the girl, her mother, and her sister all adjust to life in a ... Read More »
May 29, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
When Amanda Lewis, a burnt-out book editor, and “completionist,” set out to visit all the Champion trees in British Columbia, she was also tracking something lost during a “difficult” relationship with her goal-and-checklist life. Academic ... Read More »
May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography, Science, Technology & Environment
With her ‘Utsoo (grandmother), ‘Utsiyan (grandfather), and other family members, Mary reminisces about the wonderful times in her early childhood of feeling loved and cherished. This was before she, along with her sister and her ... Read More »
May 24, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
After decades of decline, multi-generational households are on the rise in North America. In part the result of the crazily high cost of living, this trend, in Canada at least, is also due to an ... Read More »
May 17, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books
With her latest YA contemporary novel, The Melancholy of Summer, Louisa Onomé continues her streak of books that should be made immediately into teen movies. The parents of Nigerian Canadian Summer Uzoma, 17, have disappeared, ... Read More »
May 15, 2023 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books
The nature and power of storytelling has been a topic of critical conversation for more than 2,000 years, though the subject was likely active long before Aristotle’s Poetics. Over the course of two millennia, this ... Read More »
May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays, Reviews, Social Sciences
Early on in Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant makes one thing very clear – “there has never been a better time to be a fire.” The latest book from the ... Read More »
May 10, 2023 | Filed under: History, Reviews, Science, Technology & Environment
In this well-crafted picture book, a little Black boy and his sister enjoy a perfect day at the beach with their parents. They splash in the surf, play in the sand, chase after a kite, ... Read More »
May 10, 2023 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books