Sky Lake Summer

The residents of Sky Lake were never quite sure what happened to the inhabitants of a remote house that was devastated by fire in 1930. Almost 70 years later, 13-year-old Jane Covington reopens the mystery ... Read More »

February 10, 2004

Andy Nebula: Interstellar Rock Star

By Edward Willett

The hero of Regina author Edward Willett’s third young adult fantasy novel is Kit, a 15-year-old street-smart musician in Fistfight City on the planet Murdoch IV. He speaks hip, futuristic slang and survives by playing ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser

By Kathy Kacer

This is a reader-friendly, simply told story about a Jewish girl during the Second World War. Presented in 15 chapters, the book draws on the real-life experience of author Kathy Kacer’s mother to tell about ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman’s Guide to Full Financial Security

By Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Gail Vaz-Oxlade’s latest foray into the crowded world of financial planning books is A Woman of Independent Means, a financial guide for the neophyte. According to Vaz-Oxlade, women have specific needs when it comes to ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Reference

Taking Your Kids Online: How and When to Introduce Your Children to the Internet

By Arlette Lefebvre and Brian Hillis

Internet hype sends out the message that any child who isn’t Yahooing is doomed to servitude or social assistance. Taking Your Kids Online doesn’t go that far, but it does argue that “what your daughter ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture

By Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly, eds.

At first glance Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly’s new collection of essays, L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, may seem an odd idea. Montgomery’s most famous creation, Anne Shirley (of Anne of Green Gables fame) may ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Always and After: A Memoir

By Ellen Stafford

“Don’t you have any happy memories?” Ellen Stafford is asked by a psychiatrist with whom she is discussing her marriage. Apparently she doesn’t, for her memoir is an unrelieved chronicle of woes. These include poverty, ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Second Greatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at Niagara Falls

By Karen Dubinsky

After Oscar Wilde visited Niagara Falls in 1882, he declared the waterfall must be the second greatest disappointment in American married life. Like many good jokes, Wilde’s quip worked because he left the best part ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bark, Skin and Cedar: Exploring the Canoe in Canadian Experience

By James Raffan

Too often, self-effacing Canadians are content to define ourselves only by what we are not: namely, American. Our country is so large and sparsely populated that we tend to focus on our differences – such ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood

By Riska Orpa Sari, Linda Spalding, ed.

May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »

February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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