Never Let You Go

Patricia Storms is no stranger to penguins. The Toronto author and illustrator had success with her 2009 book, The Pirate and the Penguin, which featured a squat version of the flightless bird as foil to ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Once Upon a Balloon

By Bree Galbraith; Isabelle Malenfant, illus.

In Vancouver graphic designer Bree Galbraith’s debut picture book, young Theo’s tale begins with a common childhood heartbreak: a balloon slipping from his grasp and floating away. After watching the balloon disappear into the distance, ... Read More »

August 21, 2013 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

A Tap on the Window

By Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay’s 13th novel begins with one person dangling another over the river near Niagara Falls. Both are unidentified; who they are, and how they wound up in this situation, are only two of the ... Read More »

August 19, 2013 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Science Fiction

By Joe Ollmann

Joe Ollmann’s graphic novels delineate the absurdities and agonies of modern life. His latest presents us with the slow-motion disintegration of a relationship. Mark is a pragmatic high-school science teacher with an Eeyore-like temperament. His ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Graphica

Whirr & Click

By Micheline Maylor

The title of Calgary resident Micheline Maylor’s new collection is a nod to the visual: the words and accompanying cover image suggest a camera lens. And poems such as “Ammonite” and “Borderlands” speak of the ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Hard Ass

By Sharon McCartney

New Brunswick poet Sharon McCartney’s fifth collection uses weightlifting as its central metaphor to explore both interiority and relationships. McCartney’s poetic voice is direct, confessional, and, at times, philosophical, examining the nuances of family dynamics, ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

By Mark Callanan and James Langer, eds.

Newfoundland is made of poetry. Its hard-luck weather, resilient humanity, and far-flung geography moved the pen of E.J. Pratt, whom the London Times called “by far the most considerable of Canadian writers of [the 20th] ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Poetry

Flight of the Eagle: A Strategic History of the United States

By Conrad Black

At more than 700 pages, Flight of the Eagle, the latest work of history from Conrad Black, is both bloated and seriously blinkered, especially when recounting the events of recent decades. It offers few new ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: History

The Trial of Pope Benedict: Joseph Ratzinger and the Vatican’s Assault on Reason, Compassion, and Human Dignity

By Daniel Gawthrop

In the same spirit of j’accuse journalism as Christopher Hitchens’ The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Daniel Gawthrop takes on the legacy of the recently retired Pope Benedict XVI (né Joseph Ratzinger) in an impassioned broadside ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School

By Bev Sellars

As Canadians slowly begin to acknowledge the atrocities of the government-funded, church-operated Indian residential schools of the 19th and 20th centuries, Bev Sellars, Chief of the Xat’sull First Nation in Williams Lake, B.C., feels she ... Read More »

August 16, 2013 | Filed under: History

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