The Man Who Beat the Man

The Man Who Beat the Man is the first collection of short stories from restaurateur and erstwhile gold miner F.B. André, although at times it feels more like a selection of third chapters from several ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Hogtown Bonbons

By Greg Kramer

Writer Greg Kramer has been entertaining readers of Toronto’s bi-weekly lesbian and gay newspaper, Xtra! since the spring of 1998 with a series of loosely linked short stories that have now been brought together in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Drought & Other Stories

By Jan Thornhill

Drought & Other Stories, the first book of adult fiction from children’s author Jan Thornhill, offers sad, poignant, and quirky short stories recounting the domestic tragedies of women’s lives. The women in these tales love ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

How Did You Sleep?

By Paul Glennon

A collection of short stories can act as a haunted house (seemingly unlinked episodes building to a larger effect or vision), a flea market (a random assembling of used items and leftovers), or, as in ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Two Much Alike

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Some novels captivate us with a gripping premise and rocket-powered plot. Others charm us more quietly – though no less pleasurably – with a small, domestic, character-driven story that relies not on external pyrotechnics but ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Events

Vanilla and Other Stories

By Candas Jane Dorsey

When Candas Jane Dorsey says “vanilla” she’s not talking about ice cream. She’s referring to sex, of the plain and straightforward variety, and she’s pushing her readers to think about other, less predictable ways of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

Topher

By Anita Horrocks

In Topher, seven-year-old Stacie and her 13-year-old brother, Chris, go on holiday with their father at Christopher Lake, in northern Saskatchewan, a spot their father hasn’t visited since his brother drowned there 30 years ago. ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Native Crafts

By Maxine Trottier, Esperança Melo, illus

A generation back, when we kids dressed up as hunter-gatherers and prowled our backyards with bows and arrows, a book like this would have permitted great technological advances on fringed brown-paper jerkins. Following Trottier’s simple ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Book of Gardening

By Karyn Morris, Jane Kurisu, illus.

With these two books, Kids Can launches a new jumbo information book series that’s right on target. Rather than presenting cooking as a social experience designed for rainy days, the cookbook takes a more comprehensive ... Read More »

February 23, 2004