The County of Birches

Judith Kalman’s The County of Birches is a collection of 14 linked stories that attempts to transform history into fiction, to make biography into art.The names are different, but the characters are those found in ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Man from the Creeks

By Robert Kroetsch

Gold makes men dizzy, it stirs crazy dreams, and then come the hasty books explaining why it never was and how everybody should have seen through it from the start. That, anyway, is the Bre-X ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Wild Garden: Art, Education, and the Culture of Resistance

By Dian Marino, Ferne Cristall, et al., illus.

In the contemporary art world Dian Marino is not a name that stands out. In the world of art education, however, she is a maverick for turning passivity into resistance and building verbal expression into ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Recipes of Champions

By Martin Glynn et al.

Scandalous politics and cheating aside, at its very purest, the modern Olympic spirit reaches lofty heights of idealism. As track coach Andy Higgins writes in his introduction to The Recipes of Champions, “every single one ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Food & Drink

Electric Language

By Eric McLuhan

In Electric Language Eric McLuhan takes as a starting point his father’s premise that the monopoly print has held as the main mode of communication since the 15th century is fading and, in its place, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Runaways

By Kristin Butcher

This is a nice story about running away and homelessness – that’s right – nice. Everyone we meet in Kristin Butcher’s entertaining first novel is nice. Our 12-year-old hero, Nick, is personable and sweet. His ... Read More »

March 2, 2004

Canadian Nuclear Weapons: The Untold Story of Canada’s Cold War Arsenal

By John Clearwater

John Clearwater, a military-strategic analyst with the Department of National Defence, creates “an operational-technical history” in Canadian Nuclear Weapons, reconstructing the story of those weapons in Canada between 1963 and 1984.Nuclear weapons on Canadian soil ... Read More »

March 2, 2004 | Filed under: History

★ One Thing That’s True

By Cheryl Foggo

For 13-year-old Roxanne, life is getting pretty complicated. There have been a few nasty incidents involving some high school bullies; her older brother, Joel, runs away after learning he was adopted; her best friend, Laura, ... Read More »

March 2, 2004

★ The Minstrel Boy

By Sharon Stewart

Haunted by a lifelong dream in which he’s searching through a devastating fire for something precious, David Baird has grown into a troubled teen. To separate his son from undesirable companions, David’s father takes him ... Read More »

March 2, 2004

★ Wish Me Luck

By James Heneghan

Writing from the point-of-view of a young boy evacuated from England during the Second World War, James Heneghan tells an exciting, suspenseful story of danger, survival, and friendship. Heneghan’s characters are fictional, but the novel ... Read More »

March 2, 2004

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