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Poetry
Untitled Child by Nancy Jo Cullen
In her third collection of poems, Untitled Child, Nancy Jo Cullen once again turns her questing and multidimensional...
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the weight of dew by Daniela Elza
Buy at Amazon.ca Introduction by Aislinn Hunter “There is a sweet music and the sensuality of careful attention...
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Drawing Back to Take a Running Jump by Lorne Daniel
Drawing Back to Take a Running Jump Selected Poems by Lorne Daniel Weedmark Publishing (2011) The return of one...
Feb 8 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »
One Hundred Butterflies by Peter Levitt
One Hundred Butterflies was originally published by Broken Moon Press in 1992 and immediately became a favourite of...
Nov 10 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »
Fiction
Stray Bullets by Robert Rotenberg
In Stray Bullets, Robert Rotenberg takes the reader to a snowy November evening. Outside a busy downtown doughnut shop, gunshots...
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The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones
The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones Publisher: Knopf Canada Paperback, 272 pages ISBN: 978-0-307-40253-0 (0-307-40253-3) All their preparations had...
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Western Taxidermy by Barb Howard
Western Taxidermy consists of 16 short stories, 10 of which have been previously published, several which have earned...
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Vanished by Liza Marklund
Vanished by Liza Marklund, Translated by Neil Smith Publisher: Vintage Canada Category: Fiction - Mystery & Detective Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages ISBN: 978-0-307-35849-3...
Apr 27 2012 / No Comment / Read More »
Nonfiction
On Toby’s Terms by Charmaine Hammond
On Toby’s Terms, by Charmaine Hammond, chronicles Toby’s journey from incorrigible to incredible. Toby, is a Chesapeake...
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At the World’s Edge-Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998 by Claudia Cornwall
At the World’s Edge-Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998 by Claudia Cornwall Mother Tongue Publishing (October 2011) Foreword by David Beers...
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The Mother of All Pregnancy Books by Ann Douglas
The original pregnancy bible, The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, has been completely revised, expanded, and updated by...
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A New Leaf by Merilyn Simonds
A New Leaf: Growing with My Garden by Merilyn Simonds Random House, 2011 A Note from Merilyn Simonds For...
Jul 5 2011 / 2 Comments / Read More »
Children & Young Adult
Dear Baobab by Cheryl Foggo
In Dear Baobab, when seven-year-old Maiko loses his parents and is transplanted from his small village in Tanzania...
Oct 9 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »
The Quetzal Skull by Margaret Gill
The Quetzal Skull by Margaret Gill. Outskirts Press. January 2011. 258 pages. The Quetzal Skull is the story...
Mar 9 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More »
Indie Books
Dinner with Lisa by Rod Prendergast
Dinner with Lisa is set in the disastrous economic times of the 1930s. Joseph Gaston, a young widower with...
Feb 28 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »
Island in the Clouds by Susan M. Toy
Island in the Clouds is the first book of four to be published in the Bequia Perspectives series....
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Memoir
Falling Backwards by Jann Arden
Falling Backwards by Jann Arden Vintage Canada, 2011 269 pages In Falling Backwards Jann Arden reveals her childhood, her...
Apr 4 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »
Threading Light by Lorri Neilsen Glenn
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry by Lorri Neilsen Glenn Hagios Press (2011), 144 pages Threading Light takes...
Jan 11 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »
Book Reviews
50 Shades of Grey ~ Reviewed by Pearl Luke
Curious about all the hype surrounding 50 Shades of Grey, by E.L. James, I recently bought the book....
May 16 2012 / 4 Comments / Read More »Falling Backwards ~ Reviewed by Brenda Brooks
Falling Backwards by Jann Arden Vintage Canada, 2011 269 pages Reviewed by Brenda Brooks In the introduction to her memoir,...
Apr 4 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »The Ice Balloon ~ Reviewed by Bob Blakey
The Ice Balloon: S.A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration by Alec Wilkinson Alfred A. Knopf,...
Mar 22 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More »The Unsettled: New Poems ~ Reviewed by Tanya Lester
The Unsettled: New Poems by Mona Fertig Mackie Lecture & Reading Series No.7, Vernon, B.C. The Kalamalka Press,...
Mar 22 2012 / No Comment / Read More »Web of Angels ~ Reviewed by Tanya Lester
Web of Angels by Lilian Nattel Alfred A Knopf Canada: Toronto, 2012. 343 pgs. $22.00 Cdn. Reviewed by...
Mar 22 2012 / 2 Comments / Read More »The Paris Wife ~ Reviewed by Annie Vigna
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain Bond Street Books, Double Day Canada (2011) ISBN 9780385669221 $29.95 Also available as...
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