A Widow for One Year

“My novels aren’t ideas...I begin with the characters, which leads me to the problems that the characters are prone to have, which yields a story – every time.” The speaker here is Ruth Cole, one ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lifetimes

By David L. Rice

This concept book is rooted in the notion that all species, with their biologically programmed time for living and dying, contribute to the richness of the planet. Two dozen elements of nature are highlighted and ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Good, the Bad and the Suicidal

By Beth Goobie

“Ever feel as if the cosmos farted and you were born?” are the opening first words of 16-year-old Dariel in The Good, the Bad and the Suicidal. This girl knows exactly who she is – ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Wise and Foolish Virgins

By Don Hannah

Don Hannah’s first novel The Wise and Foolish Virgins is one of this year’s selections in Knopf Canada’s “New Face of Fiction” series. Knopf’s annual spring campaign to uncover the next CanLit rising star has ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Circle in Time

By Peggy Dymond Leavey

Trenton, Ontario, is now a small sleepy town in eastern Ontario with an air force base. For a short period between 1917 and 1934 it supported a silent film industry, which turned out government films ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

The Faces of Fear

By Monica Hughes

After a car accident leaves 15-year-old Joan Sandow without the use of her legs, Joan’s world looks pretty bleak. So when she and her Internet buddy, Steve (alias Whizkid), get a chance to test a ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

★ Ran Van: Magic Nation

By Diana Wieler

This is the third novel in the RanVan trilogy, and like the first two, it is well researched, fast-paced, and insightful. Rhan, alias RanVan the errant knight and video warrior, is the teenage hero of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

★ Man of Bone

By Alan Cumyn

All prepared for a first diplomatic posting in Beijing, Bill Burridge is sent instead to Santa Irene, a troubled island republic near Vietnam. The republic is fictional, but the scenario of corruption, human rights abuses, ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Garbage Creek and Other Stories

By W.D. Valgardson

Following Sarah and the People of Sand River, and the Mr. Christie Award-winning Thor, this collection of eight short stories cements W.D. Valgardson’s successful expansion from adult fiction into children’s literature. The stories are set in ... Read More »

February 27, 2004

Lucy Lawless and Reneé O’Connor: Warrior Stars of Xena

By Nikki Stafford

Ah, Xena: Warrior Princess. You’ve gotta love this small-screen giantess and the TV show she stars in. The Styrofoam props that perpetually give themselves away, the ravishing New Zealand landscape where it is filmed, the ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

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