Flesh and Blood

Poet Michael Crummey’s first collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, is a mixture of the magical and the mundane, the extraordinary and the everyday. Crummey casts his storytelling net into the depths of small-town ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

The Worlds Within Her

By Neil Bissoondath

In The Worlds Within Her Neil Bissoondath picks up where he left off in his previous fiction – chronicling the small, crucial emotional turning points in ordinary lives. When we first meet Bissoondath’s protagonist Yasmin, ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Splitting up: Divorce, Culture, and the Search for a Real Life

By Larry Frolick

In a world of perpetual change the traditional concept of marriage – constancy, fidelity, familiarity – is an institution completely at odds with the times we live in.While we still crave the intimacy of stable ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Raffi: The Life of a Children’s Troubadour

By Raffi Cavoukian

While Raffi Cavoukian tells a success story – a 1960s dropout achieves wealth, international fame, and favourite-son status in Canada – it is not to be confused with the usual self-promoting celebrity autobiography.It is also ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Céline: The Authorized Biography of Céline Dion

By Georges-Herbert Germain,David Homel and Fred Reed, trans.

This biography – a huge, fact-crammed, flagrantly sentimental and sweet tale of triumph – does one thing very well: it knows its audience. Céline Dion fans are, as the book repeatedly stresses, average people who ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Light on the Water: Early Photography of Coastal British Columbia

By Keith McLaren

Keith McLaren is a captain for the B.C. Ferry Corporation and has spent most of his working life at sea on the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Light on the Water is his visual tribute to ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture

By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature

By Alberto Manguel, ed.

Alberto Manguel has a way of making one stop and think. His internationally acclaimed anthology on reading (The History of Reading) made us reflect on how and what we read. Now, with By the Light ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus

By Charles Wilkins

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

★ Running Away to Sea: Around the World on a Tramp Freighter

By Douglas Fetherling

The only notion I ever had of running away from home was when (somewhere around the age of seven) I soberly considered fleeing home for the bakery at the end of my street. It’s an ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Reference

Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong’s Pagoda and Other Ugly Tales of the Workplace

By Carellin Brooks, ed.

Bad Jobs is not another sojourn into the minds of disenfranchised Gen Xers. Quite the opposite. It is a collection of short stories gathered by Carellin Brooks, who sent out a call-for-submissions for stories by ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Anthologies

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