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The Lucky Sperm Club

By Rebecca Eckler

Multi-million-dollar inheritances, credit-card-carrying kids, and $10,000 birthday parties for eight-year-olds: welcome to the world of the Lucky Sperm Club. The only way to be admitted to this exclusive group is to be born to insanely ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Benevolence

By Cynthia Holz

Altruism, self-sacrifice, and the self-serving nature of magnanimity lie at the core of Toronto author Cynthia Holz’s fourth novel. The book examines the lives of 53-year-old Ben Wasserman, a psychiatrist who analyzes the mental states ... Read More »

May 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bigfoot

By Pascal Girard

YouTube has the ability to bring fame to average Joes, but in Pascal Girard’s third graphic novel, that’s not necessarily a good thing. Bigfoot is the story of a teenaged boy named Jimmy, whose problems ... Read More »

May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Reunion

By Pascal Girard

YouTube has the ability to bring fame to average Joes, but in Pascal Girard’s third graphic novel, that’s not necessarily a good thing. Bigfoot is the story of a teenaged boy named Jimmy, whose problems ... Read More »

May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Graphica

Methodist Hatchet

By Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock sprinkled a few of the poems collected in Methodist Hatchet in journals across Canada. These poems were alternately baffling and amazing, and many of them contained aphorisms that will be mined – rightly, ... Read More »

May 9, 2011 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Ashes, Ashes

By Jo Treggiari

In Jo Treggiari’s stunning new YA novel, the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper. Rather, the end comes with droughts and floods, plus a smallpox epidemic that wipes out 99 per cent ... Read More »

May 2, 2011 | Filed under: Book news