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Carnival

By Rawi Hage

At about the halfway point in Rawi Hage’s new novel, a taxi driver named Fly offers a ride to a stripper named Sally. After getting into the cab, Sally spots a copy of Jean Genet’s ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Purchase

By Linda Spalding

The past sometimes seems like a beautiful place, but it is a damn good thing we don’t live there anymore. Linda Spalding’s new novel begins in Pennsylvania in 1798, when Daniel Dickinson and his young ... Read More »

September 19, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bright’s Light

By Susan Juby

In her sixth novel for young adults, author Susan Juby turns her trademark humour and quirky wit to the ever-popular dystopian sub-genre that continues to dominate YA bestseller lists. Bright’s Light introduces readers to Grassly, ... Read More »

September 11, 2012

A Long Way from Home

By Alice Walsh

Newfoundland-born author Alice Walsh’s A Long Way from Home focuses on how three children are affected by 9/11. Rabia, Colin, and Leah’s lives become linked when a plane on its way to the U.S. is ... Read More »

September 11, 2012

Live to Tell

By Lisa Harrington

When we meet 16-year-old Libby Thorne in Lisa Harrington’s second YA novel, she’s in a Halifax hospital, having just awoken from a 12-day coma caused by a fiery Halloween car crash. Suffering amnesia, Libby discovers ... Read More »

September 11, 2012

Blood Brothers in Louisbourg

By Philip Roy

Two young men with an undiscovered yet important connection share narrative duties in Philip Roy’s latest historical novel for young readers. Jacques is a dreamy 15-year-old forced by his soldier father to leave France to ... Read More »

September 11, 2012

Rage Within

By Jeyn Roberts

Dark Inside, Vacouver writer Jeyn Roberts’ debut, was an apocalyptic tale in which the beginning of the end of civilization was marked by a series of earthquakes hitting the West Coast of North America. Immediately ... Read More »

September 11, 2012