Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid: Daughter of the Diva

Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid, a comic chick-lit-style teen novel, is the third book written collaboratively by Toronto authors Yvonne Collins and Sandy Rideout. Living with her father in Seattle, 15-year-old Leigh is sent kicking and ... Read More »

July 8, 2005

★ Far Traveler

By Rebecca Tingle

At 16, Ælfwyn is the sheltered, educated, only daughter of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. When her mother dies suddenly, her uncle, King Edward, needs to be sure of Mercia’s loyalty. But can his niece ... Read More »

July 8, 2005

The Girls They Left Behind

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Bernice Thurman Hunter, who died in May 2002, was Toronto’s L.M. Montgomery. More than any other children’s author who used Toronto as a setting, Thurman Hunter sang the city into vivid life on the page. ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

Carmen

By Carole Frechette; Susan Ouriou, trans.

Fourteen-year-old Carmen feels sure she’s never going to live up to her namesake, the heroine of Bizet’s famous opera. She’s not popular; the new boy at school looks right through her as if she were ... Read More »

July 7, 2005

Me and My Sister

By Ruth Ohi

Now writing as well as illustrating, the prolific and award-winning Ruth Ohi presents a new picture book exploring the relationship between two young sisters. Inspired by Ohi’s own daughters, the two girls (who appear to ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Sandcastle Contest

By Robert Munsch; Michael Martchenko, illus.

A new story by Robert Munsch, illustrated by Michael Martchenko – knowing that, what more do you need? However: in The Sandcastle Contest, a happy-looking family stacks their trailer high with boats and barbecues and ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Picture Books

Aces, Warriors and Wingmen: Firsthand Accounts of Canada’s Fighter Pilots in the Second World War

By Wayne Ralph

Most of the surviving veterans of the Second World War are now in their eighties, making Aces, Warriors and Wingmen a timely and fitting tribute to one group of Canadians who sacrificed so much in ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: History

Substance Over Spectacle: Contemporary Canadian Architecture

By Andrew Gruft, ed.

Contemporary architecture is more in the public eye today than it has been in a generation. Still, between the media’s star obsession and the design field’s global enthusiasms, most Canadians would be hard pressed to ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

Greed, Inc.: Why Corporations Rule Our World and How We Let It Happen

By Wade Rowland

Facing the brutal reality of a mean-spirited corporate downsizing after a long and successful media career, Wade Rowland didn’t just get mad, he got philosophical. What results is a happy conclusion, in that he’s produced ... Read More »

July 7, 2005 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Miss Elva

By Stephens Gerard Malone

Born with a limp arm and the gnarled hands of a crone, Elva slinks away her childhood in the rickety Nova Scotia town of Demerett Bridge, captive in the shadow of her beautiful half-sister, Jane. ... Read More »

July 4, 2005 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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