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Readers concerned about the lack of analysis and independent investigative journalism in the mass media will welcome the third of James Winter’s critiques of the fifth estate. Winter is one angry academic, and his polemical ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Snow Geese: A Story of Home

By William Fiennes

At the age of 26, following a long illness and bout of depression that cut short his postgraduate studies, English journalist William Fiennes thought that life had little left to offer him. Inspired to travel ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Divine Economy of Salvation

By Priscilla Uppal

In the early 1970s an angelic teenage girl named Bella dies mysteriously at St. X. School for Girls. She had been an initiate to “the Sisterhood,” a small group of students who gathered in one ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Saints of Big Harbour

By Lynn Coady

The literary mavens of Canada are keeping a close eye on Lynn Coady because her first two works of fiction (Strange Heaven, a novel, and Play the Monster Blind, a story collection) showed such dazzling ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Crow Lake

By Mary Lawson

Crow Lake begins at a luminous moment for the Morrison family. Luke, the eldest son, has been accepted at teachers’ college, the first of the family to go on to higher education. Matt, two years ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Mile End

By Lise Tremblay, Gail Scott, trans.

The unnamed narrator of Lise Tremblay’s Mile End plays the piano for a living, accompanying aspiring singers and ballet dancers. She could do much better if she tried, but she is confused about what she ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Heart Does Not Bend

By Makeda Silvera

Makeda Silvera is the author of two collections of short stories, but she is probably better known as an editor and co-founder of Sister Vision Press than as a writer. The Heart Does Not Bend, ... Read More »

January 26, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Stickler and Me

By Morley Torgov

It is rare that a book cover truly captures the essence of the book itself. But Morley Torgov’s Stickler and Me pretty much scores perfectly. The cover features a teenage boy and his grandfather, both ... Read More »

January 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction

Canada Invents

By Susan Hughes

Who would have thought that Canada has been home to so many inventors? Susan Hughes, writer of children’s information books, has filled this substantial volume with inventors of all ages, and inventions of all types ... Read More »

January 22, 2004

★ Ornithomimus: Pursuing the Bird-mimic Dinosaur

By Monique Keiran, Melanie Ford Wilson, illus.

Another book on dinosaurs? Aren’t there enough already for even the most fanatical child? Maybe not. Ornithomimus, by Alberta writer Monique Keiran, is the second in the Discoveries in Palaeontology series. Like the first, Albertosaurus: ... Read More »

January 22, 2004

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