Annabel

A universal concern – the importance of self-determination – takes a highly specific form in Kathleen Winter’s first novel, the story of an intersex child born in a remote coastal Labrador village in 1968. Intersex ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Animal Snoops: The Wondrous World of Wildlife Spies

By Peter Christie; Cat MacInnes; illus.

In Animal Snoops, Peter Christie offers a colourfully illustrated account of sneaky animal behaviour, with loads of examples of wild animals eavesdropping, deceiving, and, yes, snooping their way to the best meals and mates. For ... Read More »

August 30, 2010

Year of the Golden Dragon

By B.L. Sauder

A long time ago, the mystical and powerful Black Dragon presented the Chinese emperor with the gift of an ancient ball of jade. Two thousand years later, when a promise is broken and lives are ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

The Global Forest

By Diana Beresford-Kroeger

In the introduction to her new book, Canadian botanist, researcher, and lecturer Diana Beresford-Kroeger recalls the way Irish storytellers, the “living memory bank of [their] race,” treated their subjects. The rhythm and style of Beresford-Kroeger’s ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Country Roads: Memoirs from Rural Canada

By Pam Chamberlain, ed.

Work. That’s the inescapable focus of Country Roads, a collection of 34 memoirs by Canadians with a farm past – and a few who still live on farms. However, this kind of labour is seen ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: History

★ The Truth Shows Up: A Reporter’s Fifteen-year Odyssey Tracking Down the Truth About Mulroney, Schreiber, and the Airbus Scandal

By Harvey Cashore

Earlier this year, New York University’s journalism school released a list of the top 10 works of journalism produced in the U.S. since 2000, as voted on by a panel of journalists and educators. If ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Real Gone

By Jim Christy

Real Gone is a meandering novella about a draft dodger in the 1960s who moves to Canada. Written by one-time American Jim Christy, who relocated to Canada in 1968, the book reads like a memoir. ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Find

By Kathy Page

Kathy Page’s latest novel opens with the discovery of an enormous prehistoric fossil in remote B.C. Anna Silowski, a renowned palaeontologist and consummate heartbreaker, is prospecting in the native community of Big Crow when, after ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Gardener on the Moon

By Carole Giangrande

Novellas are notoriously difficult to sell and therefore avoided by most publishers. Often tucked into collections of stories, they are too slender for the buying public to see their value as individual units. Quattro Books, ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Free Form Jazz

By Lee Lamothe

Loyalty – personal, professional, and, more often than not, criminal – is the abiding theme in Lee Lamothe’s novels, whether it’s an old-school Russian mobster determined to uphold the strict code of honour known as ... Read More »

August 30, 2010 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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