Mars Eclipsed: A Katy Klein Mystery

Mars Eclipsed is the third novel from Ottawa resident and former social worker Karen Irving in her series featuring psychologist-turned-consulting-astrologer and reluctant sleuth Katy Klein. The cumulative effects of her first two adventures have left ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

By Cory Doctorow

Some novels waste no time in announcing their intentions. “I lived long enough to see the cure for death,” begins Julius, the narrator of Cory Doctorow’s amiable sci-fi satire, “to see the rise of the ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Stringer

By Fred F. Langan

Canadian journalist Fred F. Langan's debut novel, The Stringer, takes the reader into the heart of Montreal during the tense months leading up to the imposition of the War Measures Act. Only Montreal could provide ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Alchemist’s Song

By David Wyn Roberts

In this first novel from David Wyn Roberts, The Globe and Mail’ s Manitoba bureau chief, the author draws on his Welsh heritage and his experiences working as a journalist around the world.The Alchemist’s Song ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Sleeping Boy

By Barbara J. Stewart

The strongest presence in The Sleeping Boy is not a character but a town: Barbara Stewart’s Belford is a rusted Midwestern industrial “museum of leftovers,” distinguished by its gray river, struggling populace, and corrupt old-money ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Of Wine and Water: A Novel

By Robert Bell

Robert Bell’s first novel, Of Wine and Water, begins in 1916 and covers some 20 years in the life of Albra and Gabe, two soul mates who grow up in the industrial city of Hamilton ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Each One Special

By Frieda Wishinsky, H. Werner Zimmermann, illus.

Harry the cake decorator makes “marzipan toes on twirling ballerinas…and caramel trains chugging down chocolate tracks,” to the delight of his customers and his after-school friend, Ben. When new owners demand “young bakers, not old,” ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

No Claim to Mercy: A Suburban Mystery

By Derek Finkle

In recent years the wrongful convictions of Donald Marshall, David Milgaard, and Guy Paul Morin have captured newspaper headlines across the country. In No Claim to Mercy, journalist Derek Finkle examines the justice system responsible ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pirate Pearl

By Phoebe Gilman

When Captain Plunk recovers a floating treasure chest from a ship that has just been sunk, he and his rascally crew are astonished and dismayed to find that it contains not precious pearls but Precious ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

Dreams Are More Real than Bathtubs

By Susan Musgrave, Marie-Louise Gay, illus.

Many families treasure the precocious sayings of their very young, later bringing them out on public occasions to the chagrin of the original speaker. Poets’ families no doubt accumulate better bon mots than most; thus ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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