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Wayne Tefs’ eighth novel starts out in a bar at the Winnipeg airport on the afternoon of Good Friday. Clinton Dokic is waiting for a flight home to Thompson, Manitoba, where his wife is about ... Read More »

December 21, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Industrial Magic

By Kelley Armstrong

Casting spells is quaint, but for material boys and girls, conjuring up private jets, SUVs, and luxury hotels is even more enchanting. Why not use magic to make something other than mere coins appear out ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off

By John Lavery

If John Lavery’s stories weren’t so thrillingly careening as to resist description by a single word, “frenetic” might be a good choice. But it’s not. You, Kwaznievski, You Piss Me Off is quick in pacing ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

What We All Long For

By Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand opens her latest novel with a wide shot of Toronto. A city at once mythic and ordinary, virtual yet earthily corporeal, it hovers above the 43rd parallel. Flight paths and Internet signals cross ... Read More »

December 17, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Spirituality of Wine

By Tom Harpur

Admirers of Toronto Star religion editor and columnist Tom Harpur, particularly those drawn by the massively popular The Pagan Christ, are apt to be somewhat disappointed by his new book. Oenophiles with a spiritual bent ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Jacob’s Wound: A Search for the Spirit of Wildness

By Trevor Herriot

At the risk of mixing Biblical metaphors, Jacob’s Wound, the new book from prize-winning Saskatchewan writer Trevor Herriot (author of River in a Dry Land), is something of a coat of many colours. Composed of ... Read More »

December 14, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Under the Spell of the Moon: Art for Children from the World’s Great Illustrators

By Patricia Aldana

Celebrating the art of children’s book illustration, with brief texts and pictures from illustrators all over the world, this appealing book honours the work of the International Board on Books for Young People by donating ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Orphans in the Sky

By Jeanne Bushey

Author Jeanne Bushey and illustrator Vladyana Krykorka, who together created The Polar Bear’s Gift, collaborate again in this retelling of an Inuit legend about the origin of thunder and lightning. Bushey, who lived for years ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Leon’s Song

By Stephanie Simpson McLellan, Dianna Bonder, illus.

Two fine books from Fitzhenry & Whiteside both star frogs. The title character of Gummy Toes, a grey tree frog, is watching some children play when he sees them exclaiming over a robin, then a ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

The A to Z of Everyday Things

By Janice Weaver, Francis Blake, illus.

Though it looks like a kids’ book, Janice Weaver’s The A to Z of Everyday Things reads more like an anthology of those adult pop histories that purport to reveal the significance of familiar items ... Read More »

December 13, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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