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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s not what you do, but why you do it. That nugget of pop psychology is at the heart of Quebec novelist T.F. Rigelhof’s latest book, Badass on a Softail. Protagonist David Hoffer finds himself at ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
The Newsroom, for those who spent the last TV season reading books or in solitary confinement, was a CBC series almost revolutionary in execution. Besides being both cynical and urbane, historically a no-no at the ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
The Butterflies of Canada is a valuable collaboration by knowledgeable authors. Ross A. Layberry provided a database of over 90,000 records on butterfly distribution; Peter W. Hall and J. Donald Lafontaine are both scientists with ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Mutual funds have become the last, best hope for getting rich. With more than 1,000 mutual funds for sale in Canada, the investor’s problem is finding the tiny minority of funds that combine strong, dependable ... Read More »
February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference
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