Angels Turn Their Backs

Margaret Buffie plunges us deep into her heroine’s first full-fledged crippling panic attack. Fifteen-year-old Addy Jarrick has just moved to Winnipeg with her mom and is suddenly incapable of returning to school. She absolutely cannot ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

Janey’s Choice

By Bernice Thurman Hunter

Janey’s Choice continues the story of the Phair family begun in Amy’s Promise, which recently won the B.C. library association’s Red Cedar Award. In this new book, the point of view shifts to Janey Phair, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

Behaving Bradley

By Perry Nodelman

Winnipeg author Perry Nodelman’s third comic young adult novel is a satire dealing with the absurdities of modern high-school life.Brad Gold is an average Grade 11 kid, desperately trying not to attract attention to himself ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

This Land: A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers

By Kit Pearson, ed.

In This Land, award-winning children’s writer Kit Pearson entices young readers to explore the varied worlds of Canada through short fiction and novel excerpts. The selections are arranged west to east by province, ending with ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

★ Janey’s Girl

By Gayle Friesen

“This is a bad idea,” says Jane Harrison as she arrives in British Columbia to visit her mother. Janey had left the family farm in anger 16 years earlier, at 18, after becoming pregnant with ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

★ Drive

By Diana Wieler

Eighteen-year-old Jens Friesen has plenty of drive. A football star and fundraising dynamo, he’s taken his prowess to work at a car lot where he plans to make a fortune and send it home to ... Read More »

February 20, 2004

★ A Child’s Treasury of Nursery Rhymes

By Kady MacDonald Denton

Dramas in miniature, scripts for soothing a cranky baby, subversive vehicles of protest, found poems, challenges, invitations to dance and song – nursery rhymes are one of the great gifts of the language. In this ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Prerogatives: Contemporary Plays by Women

By Marie Clements, Vivienne Laxdal, Kelley Jo Burke, Kate Miles

Blood, semen, urine, and bruised bodies feature prominently in this collection of plays written between 1992 and 1995 by five women playwrights actively involved in the Canadian theatre scene. Although there is no mention of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Man Who Ate Toronto: Memoirs of a Restaurant Lover

By James Chatto

James Chatto, Toronto Life’s gourmand-about-town for the past decade, has seen – and tasted – it all. His book is at once memoir and narrative history of the rise and rise of Toronto’s restaurant scene. ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Creating Wealth in the Era of E-Business

By Don Tapscott, Alex Lowy & David Ticoll, eds.

This anthology of 20 articles on the emergence of electronic commerce by 26 distinguished scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs extends an earlier work, The Digital Economy, and examines the meaning of doing business in the electronic ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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