★ A Circle on the Surface

Eleven years after the end of the Second World War, Enman Greene waits patiently for his 12-year-old daughter’s music lesson to end. It’s her birthday, and he has decided at lunch to finally tell her ... Read More »

August 23, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Inkling

By Kenneth Oppel; Sydney Smith (ill.)

Late one night a blob of ink rises from Mr. Rylance’s sketchbook. The ink leaves the pages completely, leaps off the desk into the comic artist’s studio, and then slips into the bedroom of his ... Read More »

August 20, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

Hockey Fight in Canada: The Big Media Faceoff Over the NHL

By David Shoalts

The formula for producing a Hockey Night in Canada ratings bonanza is relatively simple. In the best-case scenario, all six of Canada’s National Hockey League franchises make the Stanley Cup playoffs, capped by a seven-game ... Read More »

August 20, 2018 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ Women Talking

By Miriam Toews

From 2005 to 2009, a group of men from the Manitoba Colony of Mennonites in Bolivia routinely drugged and raped female (and, some have suggested, male) residents, leaving their victims bloody, bruised, and covered in ... Read More »

August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Kens

By Raziel Reid

High school has never been so high – or so fake, gay, and deadly – as it is for the teens of Willows, Wisconsin, in Raziel Reid’s latest YA novel, Kens. This follow-up to his ... Read More »

August 17, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Confessions of a Teenage Leper

By Ashley Little

Issues around self-image and self-identity have always been a key element in adolescent development, on both individual and social levels. Two new YA books examine these questions through the experiences of high-school seniors. These aren’t ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Story of My Face

By Leanne Baugh

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A West Coast Summer

By Carol Evans (ill.); Caroline Woodward

“To the sea, to the sea, who or what waits here for me?” asks the refrain of this ode to Canada’s left coast. Summer is waiting, as it turns out, and with it all the ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Madame Victoria

By Catherine Leroux; Lazer Lederhendler (trans.)

Montreal-based author Catherine Leroux was shortlisted for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the English translation of her second novel, The Party Wall. Leroux returns with a new novel in translation (once again in collaboration ... Read More »

August 16, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Beirut Hellfire Society

By Rawi Hage

“This is a book of mourning for the many who witnessed senseless wars, and for those who perished in those wars.” So writes Rawi Hage in the acknowledgements to his fourth novel. Death is front ... Read More »

August 13, 2018 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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