Dragons vs. Drones

A sensitive, occasionally painful story about troubled teens, and a cross-dimensional adventure featuring aerial battles between fire-breathing dragons and drones armed with machine guns – at first, there seems to be very little in common ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Artist and Me

By Shane Peacock; Sophie Casson (illus.)

For years there’s been a trend of picture books based on important and/or misunderstood artists: Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, and Virginia Woolf are just a few who’ve gotten the kindergarten-lit treatment. ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Goddess of Fireflies

By Geneviève Pettersen; Neil Smith (trans.)

Threesomes and synthetic dissociative drug binges to the soundtrack of obscure punk albums on repeat could define a particular lifestyle – harkening back to Ian Dury’s 1977 song “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll,” now ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Beckoning War

By Matthew Murphy

Jim McFarlane is an Ottawa teacher stuck in what he calls “an interim life” with “an interim wife.” He wants more. He wants an opportunity “to prove himself,” to show what kind of man he ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Convictions

By Judith Silverthorne

Set in the mid-1800s, the latest novel from veteran Saskatchewan author Judith Silverthorne follows 14-year-old Jennie – found guilty of stealing food from a garbage can – on her voyage aboard one of the few ... Read More »

May 16, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ The Night Gardener

By Eric Fan; Terry Fan

One morning, William awakens to a commotion and dashes outside. There he sees that, as if by magic, a tall tree has been shaped into a topiary owl overnight. The next morning, another tree has ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

★ Beware That Girl

By Teresa Toten

A dark psychological thriller, Beware That Girl marks a departure in style and genre for Teresa Toten, who garnered much acclaim for her 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award–winning YA novel, The Unlikely Hero of Room ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Smoke

By Dan Vyleta

Contemporary novels heralded as “Dickensian” are usually so only superficially: they’re just long books with multiple plots and a sprinkling of grotesque or quirky characters. Only rarely do they capture the other qualities that earned ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Mercy Journals

By Claudia Casper

We have seen the sort of world depicted in Claudia Casper’s new novel before: a near-future dystopia, wracked in the wake of a global war and an environmental cataclysm, with governments driven to extreme measures ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

This Marlowe

By Michelle Butler Hallett

The fourth novel by St. John’s author Michelle Butler Hallett is a fictional account of the months leading up to playwright Christopher Marlowe’s untimely death in 1593. The mysterious circumstances of Marlowe’s demise, historical evidence ... Read More »

May 9, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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