The Blue Girl

With The Blue Girl, Ottawa fantasy writer Charles de Lint has written his first young adult novel since 1991’s The Dreaming Place. Imogene is the new girl at Redding High School, having moved to Newford, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004

The Sorrowing House

By Genevieve Lehr

In her debut collection of poetry, Genevieve Lehr shows a penchant for lyrical rhythm and beautiful imagery. Yet most of the poems are not innovative enough to warrant a second glance, despite their range of ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

The Flags of War

By John Wilson

The Flags of War, by prolific B.C. writer John Wilson, takes a hard look at war and its consequences through the eyes of young protagonists. Set during the U.S. Civil War, the novel tells the ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Adventures of a Sea Hunter: In Search of Famous Shipwrecks

By James P. Delgado

James P. Delgado is a marine archeologist, diver, and writer most widely known as the co-host of the Sea Hunter television series about diving on shipwrecks. In his new book, Adventures of a Sea Hunter, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Heart So Hungry: The Extraordinary Expedition of Mina Hubbard into the Labrador Wilderness

By Randall Silvis

In Heart So Hungry, Pennsylvania author Randall Silvis takes Norman Mailer’s injunction that all writing is fiction to heart. The result, as Silvis admits, is a “hybrid of fact and fiction” based on a true ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: History

A Secret Trial: Brian Mulroney, Stevie Cameron and the Public Trust

By William Kaplan

If the Airbus mess seems like a story that won’t ever go away, it’s partly because underneath the litany of deception, professional misconduct, kickback allegations, axes to grind, and other assorted muck, there remain key ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Last Voyage of the Loch Ryan

By Andrew Struthers

Compared wth author Andrew Struthers, Henry David Thoreau was a bit of a wimp. After all, Thoreau managed to eke only out two years at Walden Pond, while Struthers spent 10 years living “off the ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Our Story: Aboriginal Voices on Canada’s Past

By Rudyard Griffiths, ed.

In his preface to Our Story, Rudyard Griffiths comments that “each of the Aboriginal authors has chosen an historical event and through the act of storytelling, turned it into a work of fiction,” in hopes ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Rushing to Armageddon: The Shocking Truth About Canada, Missile Defence, and Star Wars

By Mel Hurtig

To say the Bush administration has shrewdly and cynically used the events of Sept. 11 to launch the most aggressive military build-up and unilateral foreign policy since the Cold War probably qualifies as understatement. Bush’s ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

West Wind, North Chatter

By Deanna Kent-McDonald

It seems Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw’s not the only one typing away her modern malaise. In Deanna Kent-McDonald’s first novel, West Wind, North Chatter, the entire town of Grand Prairie, Alberta, is busy ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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