June 9, 2010 at 10:32am | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
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There are several ways to pen a story concerning young girls and criminal acts. One method: treat it lightly, à…Read More »
Thomas Homer-Dixon proclaims the end is nigh. That’s not an altogether bad thing, though. In The Upside of Down, the…Read More »
December 11, 2006 at 11:03am | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Casper Hutt is a barely literate Alberta ranch hand and former professional bull rider whose life is changed by a…Read More »
May 30, 2006 at 12:13pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
An engineer by training, author Bruce Kirkby has turned his aversion to the nine-to-five rat race and a desk job…Read More »
October 24, 2005 at 04:19pm | Filed under: Reference
Nostalgia has a bad reputation in this uber-ironic era of ours. And no wonder: some Internet sleuthing quickly shows that…Read More »
October 14, 2005 at 02:56pm | Filed under: Picture Books
It’s supposed to be a romantic evening. You buy wine. You light a few candles. You even shave your legs.…Read More »
March 11, 2005 at 06:13pm | Filed under: Reference
Ben Larsson, the teenage protagonist of Gillian Chan’s latest YA novel, is confronted by eerie supernatural phenomena while reluctantly accompanying…Read More »
January 21, 2005 at 12:15pm | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
Over the course of a late-night supper in a little restaurant in Toronto’s Yorkville district, Peter Lindley finds himself recounting…Read More »
November 22, 2004 at 12:45pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
A collection of short stories can act as a haunted house (seemingly unlinked episodes building to a larger effect or…Read More »
February 23, 2004 at 02:51pm | Filed under: Fiction: Short
Rose Rolyoke, the protagonist of Richard Scrimger’s new novel Mystical Rose, stands in the heady company of Margaret Laurence’s Hagar…Read More »
February 19, 2004 at 03:37pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels