★ Dreamstones

Inukshuks – those strange human-like figures of piled rocks that are such a distinctive emblem of the Canadian Arctic – provide a centre for Maxine Trottier’s haunting story of a young boy lost in the ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction, Picture Books

The Saning

By Linda Rogers

Linda Rogers’ latest collection of poems is a delicate masterwork of brutality, a rich evocation of the tragedy and magic of human existence. Little prepares the reader for the intensity and deep pleasure The Saning ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Hundred Block Rock

By Bud Osborn

Bud Osborn is one of those rare poets with something important to say. And we should listen. In fact, Hundred Block Rock should be required reading for every CEO in North America … not to ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Poetry

Add Kids, Stir Briskly, or How I Learned to Love My Life

By Jo Owens

Anthropologist Jean Liedloff, in her 1975 book The Continuum Concept, bemoans the fact that Western parents are so out of touch with their natural instincts about parenting that they have to consult books written by ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Parenting with Wit and Wisdom in Times of Chaos and Loss

By Barbara Coloroso

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

The Only Secure Job: Changing from Employee to Entrepreneur

By Richard Worzel

Futurist Richard Worzel’s take on becoming an entrepreneur is that it’s as much a matter of inner preparation as an ability to seize on a market or a product. Accordingly, his book is a compendium ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

Sanity Savers: The Canadian Woman’s Guide to “Almost” Having It All

By Ann Douglas

Ever since Shirley Conran wrote Superwoman in the early 1980s, the marketplace has been flooded with books targetting career women and the dilemma of balancing career, family, and private time. In our frenetic world of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Health & Self-help

The Mavericks: Lessons from the West’s Winning Entrepreneurs

By Paul Grescoe

Paul Grescoe is talented as a writer and connected as a businessman. The two qualities result in a well-crafted book of profiles of merchants and manufacturers in his part of the world. A continuation of ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Bringing Your Soul to Work: An Everyday Practice

By Cheryl Peppers and Alan Briskin

As any serious seeker of self-improvement knows, being half-spiritual is like being half-pregnant. You either are spiritual – or are trying to be – or you are not. Half-way measures, such as leaving your soul ... Read More »

February 6, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help