Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies and Predators Online

"The Web was designed as an instrument to prevent misunderstandings." So says Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Quoted early on in Paula Todd's new book, Lee's comment elicits about ... Read More »

June 23, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Night Canada Stood Still: How the 1995 Quebec Referendum Nearly Cost Us Our Country

By Robert Wright

In the pantheon of history-altering near-misses, few political events have left as large and lasting a “What if?” as the 1995 Quebec referendum. On Oct. 30 of that year, Quebec’s citizens voted by the thinnest ... Read More »

June 19, 2014 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

★ Polyamorous Love Song

By Jacob Wren

In a letter to a friend, Franz Kafka once wrote, “I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a ... Read More »

June 16, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Unspeakable

By Caroline Pignat

In the early hours of May 29, 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland, bound from Quebec City to Liverpool, U.K., was struck midship by the Norwegian coal freighter Storstad in heavy fog. It took ... Read More »

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

Based on a True Story

By Elizabeth Renzetti

Based on a True Story is Globe and Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti’s debut novel, the premise of which promises a fun romp through the harsh light of celebrity, crumbling newspaper journalism, the salve of intoxicants, ... Read More »

June 9, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery

By Karyn L. Freedman

The life-altering effects of sexual violence on a body and mind, and the complex processes of recovery that survivors of trauma face, are at the heart of philosopher Karyn L. Freedman’s powerful memoir. Deeply personal ... Read More »

June 5, 2014 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Planet Lolita

By Charles Foran

As befits the allusion in its title, Charles Foran’s fourth novel is anything but prosaic. Planet Lolita examines the ethical grey area of language and meaning online, and the complexity of personal relationships in a ... Read More »

June 2, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ All Saints

By K.D. Miller

K.D. Miller has published three previous collections of short stories, as well as a novel and a book of essays about the connection between spirituality and creativity. Her fiction has been included in the Journey ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Cloudwalker

By Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd; Roy Henry Vickers (Illus.)

Illustrated by the much-honoured and beloved artist Roy Henry Vickers, Cloudwalker is a visually glorious book. Vickers and oral historian Robert Budd joined forces on last year’s lauded Raven Brings the Light, and with this ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Kids’ Books, Picture Books

★ Rabbit Ears

By Maggie de Vries

Something is terribly wrong with 13-year-old Kaya. Her older sister, Beth, is both terrified and frustrated by Kaya’s acting out – running off, shoplifting, skipping school, and, eventually, getting into drugs. What at first appears ... Read More »

May 28, 2014 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Kids’ Books

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