April 19, 2012 at 10:06am | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction
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The most recent offering from West Coast YA powerhouse Carrie Mac relates the experiences of 15-year-old Juniper (“Junie”) as her…Read More »
No disrespect is intended in saying that this book, announced as the first in a new series featuring rugged handyman…Read More »
February 7, 2012 at 01:56pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Grandpa’s Girls follows a group of four cheerful Interior Salish cousins let loose on their grandfather’s sprawling B.C. farm. The…Read More »
October 19, 2011 at 02:12pm | Filed under: Picture Books
In 2008, Vancouver photographer Rafal Gerszak travelled to Afghanistan to be embedded with an American military unit. He ended up…Read More »
July 27, 2011 at 02:54pm | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction
An enigmatic woman named Molly is the subject of prolific Nova Scotia writer Lesley Choyce’s newest novel. Raising Orion describes…Read More »
April 6, 2011 at 02:53pm | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
There are few relationships quite as fraught as the one between teenage daughters and their fathers. Even if Dad can’t…Read More »
November 17, 2010 at 09:45pm | Filed under:
There are several ways to pen a story concerning young girls and criminal acts. One method: treat it lightly, à…Read More »
June 9, 2010 at 10:32am | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
According to Robert Paehlke, professor emeritus of environmental and resource studies and political science at Trent University, Canada’s record on…Read More »
September 29, 2008 at 12:16pm | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs
Gerbil Mother asks readers to overcome an impossible premise: that a fetus, age zero, can be a conscious, thinking, seeing…Read More »
March 28, 2008 at 10:59am | Filed under: Fiction: Novels
Comparing a Canadian-history writer with Pierre Berton is not something that should be done lightly; Berton’s ability to make history…Read More »
December 20, 2007 at 12:59pm | Filed under: History