Sam’s Pet Temper

By Sangeeta Bhadra; Marion Arbona (illus.)

Tired of waiting his turn at the playground, Sam has a meltdown. A dark storm-cloud scribble appears over Sam’s head, then transforms into “a Temper.” The nasty monster runs amok, “shoving and tripping and pinching ... Read More »

October 1, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

Dojo Daycare

By Chris Tougas

Dojo Daycare is a simple tale that imagines all the hilarious chaos that could ensue at a daycare for ninjas. The tiny black-garbed tots bust and break their way through each activity, eventually reducing the ... Read More »

October 1, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times

By Barbara Taylor

In The Last Asylum, Barbara Taylor, a Canadian historian living in England, offers a searing account of her own journey through mental illness – or “madness,” as she frequently calls it. The book combines history ... Read More »

September 29, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Adult Onset

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

Adult Onset is the third novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, who is also a playwright, actor, and broadcaster. The first two books, Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies, involved the sexual abuse ... Read More »

September 25, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Broken Hours

By Jacqueline Baker

Posthumously revered for such short stories as “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Call of Cthulhu,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft eked out a poor existence on a dwindling inheritance, ultimately succumbing to cancer in his ... Read More »

September 22, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

By Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein is angry. The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, and a self-confessed former climate change skeptic, comes out swinging in a book that takes direct aim at corporations, governments, and – ... Read More »

September 17, 2014 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Consumed

By David Cronenberg

Do you think a new esthetic can develop? Cancer beauty? ... Will non-cancerous women be begging their cosmetic surgeons to give them false nodes implants?” Imbued with notions of body modification this unsettling, could Consumed ... Read More »

September 15, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Stone Mattress

By Margaret Atwood

Before opening Margaret Atwood’s new collection, ponder the subtitle. Tales, not stories, are what is on offer. As Atwood explains in the acknowledgements, short stories often work “within the boundaries of social realism” whereas “tale” ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Magician of Auschwitz

By Kathy Kacer; Gillian Newland (illus.)

In The Magician of Auschwitz, readers are introduced to a young Jewish boy named Werner. Separated from his family and sent to a concentration camp, he is totally alone in a world he no longer ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

By Mac Barnett; Jon Klassen (illus.)

Author Mac Barnett and Canadian author/illustrator Jon Klassen, the dream team who last collaborated on the Caldecott Honor–winning Extra Yarn, reunite for a striking story that is sure to delight. As with Barnett and Klassen’s ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

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