Outliers: The Story of Success

Outliers seems, initially, to be an inadvisable pairing of author and subject. Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for that august cultural magazine, The New Yorker, and author of two exemplary pop-science bestsellers, The Tipping Point and ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Lit Report

By Sarah N. Harvey

Victoria, B.C.-based writer Sarah N. Harvey is not afraid of courting controversy, it seems, as she gamely delves into such touchy subjects as teen sex and pregnancy, body image, religion, and post-partum depression in her ... Read More »

November 5, 2008

Distantly Related to Freud

By Ann Charney

Ann Charney’s third novel begins in Montreal in 1952. Eight-year-old Ellen gazes through her bedroom window, awaiting the arrival of the refugees who will inhabit the empty rooms of her mother’s grandiose Mount Royal home. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Atmospheric Disturbances

By Rivka Galchen

Toronto-born, New York-raised author Rivka Galchen’s first novel is a clever, stylish debut that wears its postmodern conventions on its sleeve. The narrator is Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a psychiatrist suffering from his own paranoid delusion. ... Read More »

November 4, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Numbers

By David A. Poulsen

Set in a fictional prairie town (in what could be Canada or the U.S.), Alberta author David A. Poulsen’s Numbers finds Andy “Alamo” Crockett trying to figure out whether his Grade 10 Social Studies teacher, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

Ballplayers and Bonesetters: One Hundred Ancient Aztec and Maya Jobs You Might Have Adored or Abhorred

By Laurie Coulter; Martha Newbigging, illus.

Ballplayers and Bonesetters is the third book in a series that examines the history of specific eras from an unusual angle. Like Archers and Alchemists (the medieval era) and Cowboys and Coffin Makers (the 19th ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

X Doesn’t Mark the Spot: Tales of Pirate Gold, Buried Treasure, and Lost Riches

By Ed Butts

Given the onscreen exploits of Johnny Depp and his Caribbean cronies in recent years, there’s a high degree of pirate literacy on school playgrounds all over Canada – backed by a huge interest in all ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed As Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure

By Susan Hughes; Willow Dawson, illus.

Seven brave women are profiled in No Girls Allowed, a slim graphic novel written by Susan Hughes and illustrated by Willow Dawson (both of whom are based in Toronto), including the Egyptian pharaoh, Hatshepsut; Alfhild, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

Cton’s Super A-Maze-Ing Year of Crazy Comics

By Clayton Hammer

Cton is an orange, vaguely humanoid cartoon creature with pointy ears and a monobrow. His jelly-loving best friend Blob is, well, a big, green blob who leaves a trail of slime wherever he goes. Both ... Read More »

November 3, 2008

Polar Worlds: Life at the Ends of the Earth

By Robert Bateman, with Nancy Kovacs

The nearly 80-year-old artist Robert Bateman’s wildlife paintings are both photo-realistic and strikingly animated – imbuing their subjects with life, even when they are depicted doing nothing more than sunning themselves. The paintings are, therefore, ... Read More »

November 3, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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