Garbage Creek and Other Stories

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

Badass on a Softail

By T.F. Rigelhof

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

By Ken Finkleman

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

By Ross A. Layberry, Peter W. Hall & J. Donald Lafontaine

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

Southam Canadian Mutual Fund Guide 1998

By S. Kelly Rodgers, ed.

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

Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell: A Victorian Mystery

By Howard Engel

Get out your pipe and magnifying glass, because veteran writer Howard Engel’s Mr. Doyle & Dr. Bell provides mystery buffs with more to ponder than your average whodunit. This carefully constructed mystery surrounds the case of ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seeing Tomorrow: Weighing Financial Risk in Everyday Life

By Ron S. Dembo and Andrew Freeman

This is a rare work of serious statistics made accessible to general readers who want to know the interrelationship of risk (quantifiable chance or outcomes), and uncertainty (what is unknown and unquantifiable). Authors Dembo, a ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Forgetting Room

By Nick Bantock

Summoned to Ronda, Spain, after inheriting his grandfather’s house, Armon Hurt is drawn into a surreal and mysterious treasure hunt, carefully laid out by his grandfather. In a room where forgetting is remembering, the real ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Barney’s Version

By Mordecai Richler

The Barney of Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler’s 10th novel, learned to tap dance as a boy, a talent that comes in handy when he decides to write his memoirs and finds himself tap dancing – ... Read More »

February 27, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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