The New Retirement: Financial Strategies for Life after Work

Two timely books focus on essential questions for everyone who expects to live to collect on his or her pension: What will be left after taxes and what will it buy? The issue – who ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers

By Terry Gould

If the word “swinger” conjures up ugly images of the open-shirted, creepy-looking guy, you’re not alone. As Terry Gould relates in the introduction to The Lifestyle (to be released, aptly, on Valentine’s Day), he initially ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Destination Gold!

By Julie Lawson

Award-winning author Julie Lawson’s 20th book documents the emotional growth of three young people against the dramatic backdrop of the Klondike gold rush. Sixteen-year-old Ned Turner’s adventure begins in Victoria in 1897, when he boards ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Life on the Line: One Woman’s Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival

By Solange De Santis

Why would anyone give up a high-paying stimulating career in search of downward mobility? Solange De Santis, former writer for Reuters, Associated Press, and The Globe and Mail, did. In an unconventional career move, disenchanted ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Remember Me

By Irene N. Watts

On Dec. 2, 1938, 11-year-old Marianne Kohn arrived in London, among the first of thousands of Jewish children rescued from Hitler’s Germany by the Kindertransport in the months before war began on Sept. 3, 1939.Marianne’s ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Shadow Child: An Apprenticeship in Love and Loss

By Beth Powning

The shadow child in the title refers to the stillborn baby Powning delivered when she was in her mid-20s, after an otherwise healthy full-term pregnancy. Never given a chance to hold her first child or ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Grave

By James Heneghan

At 13, Tom Mullen has been bandied from one brutal foster home to the next ever since he was left as a baby in Lewis’s department store in downtown Liverpool. The discovery of a mass ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

★ Out of the Everywhere: Tales for a New World

By Jan Andrews, Simon Ng, illus.

In the foreword to this folk tale collection, Ontario-based author and storyteller Jan Andrews recounts her early inquiries into her origins. In reply to the question “Where did I come from?” her mother would say, ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Record Breakers: True Stories of This Century’s Amazing Kids

By Leslie Garrett

In her new book, Leslie Garrett, former editor of Kids Toronto and author of Super Kids:Young Heroes in Action, looks at super-achieving children who have broken records.Record Breakers profiles 11 young people ranging in age ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Storm at Batoche

By Maxine Trottier, John Mantha, illus.

Who was Louis Riel?” asked my daughter’s American boyfriend. “A famous Canadian explorer!” she replied cheerfully. I groaned. How could she not have known Riel was a Metis resistance leader hanged for treason after the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Picture Books

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