Mom, Dad, Our Books, and Me

By Danielle Marcotte; Josée Bisaillon (illus.); Karen Li (trans.)

Budding bibliophiles will find much to enjoy in two new picture books that celebrate the joys of reading. These love songs to literacy each have their own stylish flair, from a bubbly let’s-get-this-party-started jig to ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

A Big Surprise for Little Card

By Charise Mericle Harper; Anna Raff (illus.)

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Picture Books

Glory Over Everything

By Kathleen Grissom

Glory Over Everything, the second novel by Saskatchewan-raised, Virginia-based Kathleen Grissom, is the sequel to the New York Times bestseller and book-club favourite The Kitchen House. Drawing its title from the words of abolitionist Harriet ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Double Dutch

By Laura Trunkey

Double Dutch is a confident debut collection containing nine stories that mostly offer varying perspectives on a single theme. That theme – the body/soul duality – is an old one, though the way Trunkey employs ... Read More »

February 29, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

From Up River and for One Night Only

By Brett Josef Grubisic

In our attention-span-devoid, smartphone-optimized era, it seems rare – nostalgic even – for an author to prioritize meticulous craft over an action-packed storyline. Though University of British Columbia lecturer in English (and Q&Q reviewer) Brett ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Vanished: True Tales of Mysterious Disappearances

By Elizabeth MacLeod

In her latest book for middle-graders, prolific non-fiction author Elizabeth MacLeod presents six stories about mysterious disappearances in chronological order, starting with the 17th-century North Carolina settlement of Roanoke Island, and ending with a 1990 ... Read More »

February 25, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel

By Katherine Govier

Having spent the past decade writing about Japan, Katherine Govier turns her gaze homeward in her latest novel – not to Toronto, where the author has lived for many years, but to her birthplace of ... Read More »

February 24, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stopgap

By Liam Card

Luke Stevenson dies in a car accident on his birthday, rushing to a dinner party he doesn’t want to attend, filled with people he doesn’t really like, and thrown by his wife, Alice, whom he ... Read More »

February 23, 2016 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pride: Celebrating Diversity and Community

By Robin Stevenson

In her first work of non-fiction, YA novelist Robin Stevenson uses the gay pride parade as a focus to present middle-grade readers with some background to the huge shift in Canadian social dynamics over the ... Read More »

February 22, 2016 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications

By Diane Schoemperlen

I once managed a local museum where, occasionally, individuals charged with misdemeanours would work off their community service hours. One of them, call her “Wanda,” was an intelligent and capable single mother. She and I ... Read More »

February 17, 2016 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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