Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has a scene where the protagonist tries to use her credit card at a corner store, only to be told that her number is not valid. She discovers she has ... Read More »
February 23, 2004
As the author of many craft books, Judy Ann Sadler has this time focused her attention on using fleece fabric to create simple, attractive garments and toys. Containing great ideas for homemade gifts or group ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Centuries of tradition lie behind the popularity of face-painting today, but this new title makes it easy for beginners to learn basic techniques and patterns. As the lead performer of the Sphere Clown Band, author ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
Practical, proud and passionate, Stacy Wilson’s hockey book for girls is a valuable resource for young girls who play or dream of playing hockey. In four chapters, Wilson discusses positions and play, equipment, skills, and ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news
A Halloween night-time ride on an antique train is a three-lobster (i.e. excellent) attraction; so are creating felt landscapes at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, soaring aloft on Canada’s largest indoor ferris wheel, and feeding ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news
John Degen meanders through the streets of Bucharest to produce a book of tight images in his first collection of poetry, Animal Life in Bucharest. Degen, a playwright, theatre critic, and freelance arts journalist, creates ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
E.D. Blodgett’s newest work uses elemental imagery of stones, moons, roses, flesh, and fire to pursue passionately spiritual meditations on relationships, mortality, and language. The atmosphere of prayerful tenderness in these poems recalls the paintings ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Toronto poet Paul Vermeersch is a raconteur, a guy who writes poems about childhood terrors and screw-ups in love, about girls with metal in their tongues and boys with shotguns in their mouths. A guy ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry
Frank Lenk’s Music Online is a computer manual that foregoes most of the technical jargon frequently used by such books, instead presenting the material in clear, reader-friendly language. That was a relief to me, someone ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment
Not so long ago John Lennon was earnestly urging us to give peace a chance. This book – which covers seven important battles in Canada’s military history – has an equally earnest but opposite message. ... Read More »
February 23, 2004 | Filed under: History
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