Inside Out

Vancouver writer Evelyn Lau has never been reticent when it comes to self-revelation. Inside Out, her second volume of memoirs (the first, the best-selling Runaway, was published when Lau was just 18) continues to document ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Just Another Indian: A Serial Killer and Canada’s Indifference

By Warren Goulding

In 1996, John Martin Crawford was convicted of one count of first- and two counts of second-degree murder in the 1992 deaths of Shelley Napope, Calinda Waterhen, and Eva Taysup. The remains of the women, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Native Peoples

★ Fatal Passage: The Untold Story of John Rae, the Arctic Adventurer Who Discovered the Fate of Franklin

By Ken McGoogan

Journalist and novel writer Ken McGoogan originally envisioned the material for Fatal Passage as a novel, but his research turned up such a fascinating story that he felt it would be better told as non-fiction. ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: History

Born with a Tooth

By Joseph Boyden

The stories in Joseph Boyden’s first collection, Born with a Tooth, chart the resources, rituals, misgivings, and misfortunes of a cast of characters on a Northern Ontario native reserve. As a series of windows into ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

Flying in Silence

By Gerry Turcotte

Like so many novels of childhood, Flying in Silence is structured like a contemporary Odyssey – only in reverse. Where Ulysses confronts miracles and monsters on a voyage to his elusive homeland, today’s hero is ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Make Believe Love

By Lee Gowan

“Quirky” is one of those overused words, right up there with “dot-com” and “extreme.” But Lee Gowan’s first novel, Make Believe Love, really does deserve the epithet. You’ve got Joan, the wiseass, sexy librarian; Jason, ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Kind of Fiction

By P.K. Page; P.K. Page

In “Unless the Eye Catch Fire,” the last and best story of P.K. Page’s A Kind of Fiction, an avid gardener and sometime journal writer is possessed by a strangely calm end-of-world vision that enables ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short

The Doctor and You

By Diane Swanson

While this is a book for parents to read with their children, pediatricians would do well to stock it in their waiting rooms. Based on the premise that young children may be anxious or fearful ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

The Kids Can Press Jumbo Book of Easy Crafts

By Judy Ann Sadler, Caroline Price, illus.

Craft author Judy Ann Sadler’s newest book is the answer for anyone seeking to entertain and inspire preschoolers. It contains 175 simple projects that utilize items commonly found about the house – everything from buttons ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Burp! the Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Eating

By Diane Swanson, Rose Cowles, illus.

Burp! inaugurates a new series that explains the functions of human body parts using a combination of facts, anecdotes, and child-oriented experiments. Author Diane Swanson and illustrator Rose Cowles both bring to the project a ... Read More »

February 12, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

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