The Goal of My Life

If you’re under the age of 45, chances are you’ve heard of the Canada–Soviet Union Summit Series only in the hushed tones reserved for great and important events. Paul Henderson, a hard-working kid from Lucknow, ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography

Coach: The Pat Burns Story

By Rosie DiManno

One thing cops and hockey players have in common is they’re not big on showing emotion. If you’re gonna fight criminals or win the Stanley Cup, you have to be tough. Same goes for hockey ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Toploader

By Ed O’Loughlin

Toploader is an occasionally funny but ultimately flawed satire of American imperialism written very much in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen. What it takes from Hiaasen is the elaborate comic contraption of a plot driven ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Braco

By Lesleyanne Ryan

Covering five days following the fall of Srebrenica in 1995, Lesleyanne Ryan’s debut novel provides a potent – and extremely graphic – look at ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian war. Ryan tells the story via ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sweet Girl

By Annabel Lyon

The opening pages of Annabel Lyon’s second novel feature seven-year-old Pythias, the daughter of Aristotle, dissecting a lamb under her father’s watchful gaze. The young girl, almost preternaturally curious, has been denied the right to ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Tale-Teller

By Susan Glickman

Susan Glickman weaves history, fantasy, and adventure into her second novel, inspired by the true story of Esther Brandeau, a Jewish girl born in France in the early 18th century who disguised herself as a ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Heartless

By Nina Bunjevac

Along with Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly, Conundrum Press, based in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, is responsible for publishing most of the cutting-edge graphica this country has seen in the past several years. Both presses delight ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Graphica

Listen, Honey

By Shelley A. Leedahl

When cracking open a new collection of short fiction, it’s not encouraging to discover the following sentence fewer than 10 pages in: “Playing cards trumped all else in our family.” This kind of affected punning ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

How to Get Along with Women

By Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Many of the characters in Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s debut collection have identity issues and confidence problems, but their author is incredibly self-assured. De Mariaffi focuses on female relationships – both romantic and between friends – ... Read More »

December 10, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen

By Sylvie Simmons

It might not count as the most illuminating anecdote in Sylvie Simmons’ exhaustive new biography of Leonard Cohen, but it surely lingers as one of the more memorable. In the mid 1990s, Cohen, by then ... Read More »

December 3, 2012 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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