★ The Madman of Piney Woods

.What makes Christopher Paul Curtis’s writing so funny? Reading the sequel to his Newberry Honor award-winning 2007 novel, Elijah of Buxton, I think I figured it out. Funny happens when the reader is thrown off ... Read More »

September 11, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

★ You’re Not Dead until You’re Forgotten

By John Dunning with Bill Brownstein

The best filmmaker memoirs are the ones that feel like movies themselves, whether it’s the epic, melodramatic sweep of Roman by Polanski or the wry, anti-establishment farce of Luis Buñuel’s My Last Sigh. To these ... Read More »

September 8, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Scarborough

By Michael Lista

Right from the devastating cover image, Michael Lista’s second collection is rife with craft and cultural implication. A VCR tape masks a grinning skull with a sickly smile that evokes Shakespeare’s Mercutio: “Ask for me ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Poetry

Paddlenorth: Adventure, Resilience, and Renewal in the Arctic Wild

By Jennifer Kingsely

Jennifer Kingsley is a wilderness guide, naturalist, and conservationist. She has a degree in biology and has published articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers. Paddlenorth, Kingsley’s first book, chronicles her 54-day canoeing expedition on the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Changing the Game: A History of the NHL Expansion

By Stephen Laroche

Long before the Florida Panthers and the Anaheim Ducks, there were the Montreal Maroons and the Detroit Cougars. The original expansion era of the National Hockey League began in the 1920s, when today’s bedrock teams ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Greatest Victory: Canada’s One Hundred Days, 1918

By J.L. Granatstein

J.L. Granatstein, one of Canada’s most celebrated historians, wants you to know more about Canada’s role in the last hundred days of the First World War. Not only does he describe it as “the greatest ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: History

Between Gods

By Alison Pick

Toronto writer Alison Pick follows up her Man Booker Prize–longlisted novel Far to Go with an unflinching, courageous memoir that delves deep into her own recently uncovered Jewish heritage. Raised in a Christian family by ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Love Enough

By Dionne Brand

In 1990, Dionne Brand released No Language is Neutral, a poetry collection preoccupied, as much of Brand’s writing is, with the limitations of language to verbalize the experience of the oppressed, and with history’s inability ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wallflowers

By Eliza Robertson

The debut short-fiction collection by B.C. author Eliza Robertson is carefully composed – perhaps too much so. The collection’s 17 stories – including “My Sister Sang,” which was shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust of Canada/McClelland ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

★ The Freedom in American Songs

By Kathleen Winter

With her new collection of short stories, Montreal-based writer Kathleen Winter (whose 2010 debut novel, Annabel, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Orange Prize, and a Governor General’s Literary Award) returns to the ... Read More »

September 5, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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