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★ Eye Lake

By Tristan Hughes

“Everyone has always met everyone else in Crooked River. I forget that sometimes.” When Eli O’Callaghan speaks these words in Tristan Hughes’s fourth novel, we understand them to be both a typical sentiment about small ... Read More »

January 4, 2012 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Yesterday’s Dead

By Pat Bourke

At the tail end of the First World War, Canadian soldiers began returning home from overseas. Along with joy over the war’s end, they brought with them a virus that would turn out to be ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

A Tinfoil Sky

By Cyndi Sand-Eveland

B.C. author Cyndi Sand-Eveland channels her experiences working with homeless youth into her second novel, a gritty and moving follow-up to her 2008 debut, Dear Toni. Mel Tulley and her mother, Cecily, are searching for ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

Love You, Hate You

By Charis Marsh

Former dancer Charis Marsh immerses young readers in the world of pliés and jetés in her debut novel. The first book in the Ballet School Confidential series centres on the lives of four aspiring dancers ... Read More »

December 21, 2011

Facing the Mountain

By Wendy Orr

Raven is one unhappy 11-year-old. She’s being forced to move west to live in the shadow of the Rockies with her mother, new stepdad Scott, and older sister Lily, and all she can think about ... Read More »

December 21, 2011