★ Better Than Weird

Anna Kerz’s first novel, The Mealworm Diaries, focused on the trials of Jeremy, a boy from Nova Scotia, as he adapted to a new life in Toronto after his father’s death. In Better Than Weird, ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Better Together

By Sheryl Shapiro and Simon Shapiro; Dusan Petricic, illus.

In this amusing concept book, Toronto husband-and-wife team Sheryl and Simon Shapiro explore the idea of mixtures, both edible (like oil and vinegar for salad dressing) and otherwise (like blue and yellow paints to make ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

★ Today, Maybe

By Dominique Demers; Gabrielle Grimard, illus.; Sheila Fischman, trans.

As evocative and mysterious as a traditional fairy tale, Today, Maybe is an unusual picture book with strong emotional impact. Sheila Fischman’s able translation of Dominque Demers and Gabrielle Grimard’s Aujourd’hui, peut-être… leaves subtle echoes ... Read More »

March 30, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Right Balance: Canada’s Conservative Tradition

By Hugh Segal

The new book by Hugh Segal, Conservative senator and longtime party operative (including a stint as Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s chief of staff), is among the most engaging of the books attempting to situate and ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Small Saul

By Ashley Spires

From the creator of Binky the Spacecat comes Small Saul, another story about a charming lightweight who craves adventure. Saul longs for a life at sea, but Pirate College turns out to be anything but ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Free World

By David Bezmozgis

After Henry Roth, after Isaac Bashevis Singer, after Saul Bellow, after Philip Roth, after Grace Paley, after Mordecai Richler, after Cynthia Ozick, after countless other writers secular and religious, socialist and conservative, Zionist and assimilationist, ... Read More »

March 28, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Dead Time/Shelter

By Christy Ann Conlin/Jen Sookfong Lee

The series book: always hospitable, always familiar. There are rarely surprises or shocks to be found, but then, for less experienced readers, things like innovation and originality can act as roadblocks. Readers who are lucky ... Read More »

March 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Five Thousand Years of Slavery

By Marjorie Gann and Janet Willen

As its title suggests, Five Thousand Years of Slavery traces the epic history of slavery across major world cultures. It has an expository, academic tone and includes an abundance of quotations from actual slaves. While ... Read More »

March 25, 2011

Shipwrecks, Monsters, and Mysteries of the Great Lakes

By Ed Butts

Ships have been sailing the Great Lakes for the past three centuries. In that time, more than 6,000 have met untimely ends. In his new book, Ed Butts tells the true and tragic tales of ... Read More »

March 25, 2011

Kootenay Silver

By Ann Chandler

Twelve-year-old Addy McLeod’s abusive stepfather has died and her little brother has disappeared, so she leaves home in a panic, camping out in the B.C. woods and eventually landing a job at a hotel in ... Read More »

March 25, 2011

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