March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Politics & Current Affairs
Adding to the bumper crop of books documenting recent American misdeeds are two new titles that examine the effects of Bush’s policies. For Erna Paris, The Sun Climbs Slow marks a natural progression from her ... Read More »
A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years ago she distanced herself from the religious faith that gives her parents much solace, and ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
A woman on difficult terms with her family comes home reluctantly to the B.C. farm where she grew up. Years ago she distanced herself from the religious faith that gives her parents much solace, and ... Read More »
March 28, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
Shunted from one hellish foster home to another, young Montrealer Marc Vachon learned to play fast and dirty in order to survive. In his memoir, Rebel Without Borders, Vachon tells how he transferred those street ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
The alchemists sought a formula for turning lead into gold. In her memoir, The Alchemy of Loss, Abigail Carter uses the analogy to illustrate her own experience of the transformative power of tragedy. Carter’s story ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
No Further Messages assembles 20 of Brett Alexander Savory’s stories – most of which were published over the last nine years, three of them original to this collection. Two of those original stories – the ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Short
The latest installment in 331/3, the book series that celebrates significant pop records, is unlike any of its predecessors in that its subject, the titular 1997 Céline Dion album, is abhorred by its author. Carl ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Art, Music & Pop Culture, Children and YA Non-fiction
The tagline for B.C. author Wendy Roberts’ newest novel, The Remains of the Dead, dubs it “A Ghost Dusters Mystery.” In it, Sadie Novak operates Scene-2-Clean, a crime-scene cleanup company that pretty much corners the ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels
In Angel of Vengeance, Queen’s University history professor Ana Siljak tells the story of Russian radicalism, taking as her hook the life of would-be assassin and revolutionary doyenne Vera Zasulich. Of Zasulich herself, there isn’t ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, History
While the traditional handwritten love letter may have lost its preeminence in the electronic age, editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have attempted to resurrect the art of literary lovemaking with this anthology. Each of ... Read More »
March 27, 2008 | Filed under: Anthologies, Children and YA Non-fiction