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When it works, the time-travel novel breathes life into history and successfully weaves two narrative strands, one present and one past, into a balanced whole. Sometimes, though, the otherworld of the past is more interesting ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

A Winnipeg Album: Glimpses of the Way We Were

By John David Hamilton and Bonnie Dickie

Winnipeg was once thought to be Canada’s version of Chicago, a nexus of train lines where freight and people would be transferred for passage between east and west. Victim today of some of the highest ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

1999 Canadian Internet Handbook: Tips, Tools, and Techniques to Enhance Your Internet Activities

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

Remember the pioneering days of the Internet? Before long we were all going to be shopping online, downloading movies, and getting all our information from the World Wide Web.Well, the initial hype hasn’t quite materialized, ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Health & Self-help

1999 Canadian Internet New User’s Handbook

By Jim Carroll and Rick Broadhead

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Friendly Dictatorship

By Jeffrey Simpson

Jeffrey Simpson, the national affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, is an oddity amongst Canadian journalists. The author of several books on national politics, he also closely studies the latest academic literature. The Friendly ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs

A Story of Courage: Laura Secord

By Janet Lunn, Maxwell Newhouse, illus.

With the bicentenary of the War of 1812 approaching, we’ve got a frenzy of picture books about Laura Secord.Last year saw Laura Secord’s Brave Walk (Second Story Press) and Laura: A Childhood Tale of Laura ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

The Man Who Walked the Earth

By Ian Wallace

Well-known author and illustrator Ian Wallace has crafted another fine new book, a contemporary folk tale set on the Prairies in the 1930s. The story’s narrator, André, has been setting an extra plate at supper ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Picture Books

If It Rains Again Tomorrow, Can We Go Home?

By Frank O’Keefe

Sheila Conrad is almost convinced that a summer spent in her uncle’s old log house in the boondocks of Alberta could lead to death by boredom. Indoor plumbing, electricity, heating, and other hallmarks of ordinary ... Read More »

April 20, 2004

Run

By Eric Walters

Fourteen-year-old Winston MacDonald is in a heap of trouble. A four-time runaway, he’s been suspended for drinking on school property. His divorced mother is at the end of her rope and hopes his dad, a ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Wright Brothers: A Flying Start

By Elizabeth MacLeod, Barbara Spurll, illus.

Author Elizabeth MacLeod lifted the Snapshots: Images of People and Places in History series off the ground with books about Alexander Graham Bell and Lucy Maud Montgomery. Now she turns her well-seasoned pen to the ... Read More »

April 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

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