February 2010
In her entrancing first novel, Somewhere in Blue, Gillian Cummings addresses the topic of teen suicide with ...
November 2009
When a young girl is distraught after being taunted by the school bully, a strange but sympathetic student takes ...
November 2009
The Hipless Boy is a charming and humorous collection of semi-autobiographical tales about Sully, an ...
November 2009
Wendy Datham's earlier memoir, Bauxite, Sugar and Mud, describes her childhood in British Guyana. Forty ...
November 2009
If you want ghost stories, you could be disappointed in Ghost Tracks. If you love trains, you'll love this ...
November 2009
In Quebec in 1910 women gave birth at home. They rarely had access to prenatal or postnatal care, relying instead ...
November 2009
It's fall. For weeks, the stalls at farmers' markets have spilled over with sensual abundance: zucchini (and more ...
November 2009
These ten disparate essays by as many authors first appeared as papers at a scholarly conference entitled, ...
November 2009
With the release of Frank Mackey's Done with Slavery, Black historians may be buoyed by a credible addition ...
November 2009
Want to buy a thick black book replete with salaciousness and skullduggery?
In The Black Book of Canadian ...
November 2009
Did you know that the word potato comes from the Taino word batata? Or that the word chipmunk comes from ...
November 2009
This slim volume chronicling a DYI disaster of epic proportions would be a great gift for a procrastinating ...