Fans of Harlan Coben and James Patterson will enjoy this book. Val Bosanquet, a former New Orleans detective, is offered a job as Chief of a campus PD. A Haitian child killer he helped convict for the murder of her mother has just been enrolled at the university. His estranged wife, now living with Val’s brother, [...]
At the World’s Edge-Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998 by Claudia Cornwall Mother Tongue Publishing (October 2011) Foreword by David Beers Introduction by Greg Lang At the World’s Edge tells the story of a man and a city. Curt Lang was a legend in Vancouver. An intellectual and a catalyst, Lang’s interests spanned many worlds. As a teenager, [...]
Bats or Swallows is Teri Vlassopoulos’s debut collection of short fiction. The stories are sharp, accurate, at times dark, but told with balance and skill. The innocence and clarity of her narrative voice reveals new and unexpected layers. Vlassopoulos brings readers into her characters’ worlds; making their desires intelligible, showing how they frame their [...]
Beauty Muse is a visually rich and thoughtfully written book on creativity and nature. With over 100 easy-to-try activities, readers are invited to experience a nature-centered practice of artful connection to ourselves, each other and the world. Beauty Muse will appeal to anyone longing for a creative practice to call their own, in addition to educators, [...]
Believing Cedric gives us Cedric Johnson, a middle-aged insurance broker with an unusual problem: he seems to be physically flashing back to pivotal moments from his past. As Cedric journeys through time, he is brought face to face with forgotten memories, heartbreaking loss, the possibilities of love, and the agony of a life of [...]
For Jamaican-born Bliss Sinclair, life in New York has worn thin. The boyfriend, the city, even her job all fail to satisfy her. Into this life steps a blazing hot seductress who puts her in touch with her passions in a way she’d never felt before. But the seduction is just that. When Sinclair thinks she might [...]
Blue Saltwater by Dan Green. Published with CreateSpace. 2010. Available at Amazon. Blue Saltwater is a novel aptly named, as the title signifies not only the protagonists love of the ocean and the west coast, but also all the tears shed on account of Canada’s embarrassing Residential School system. This book will be of special [...]
Borderlands, by Derek Lundy shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize! “The periphery of a place can tell us a great deal about its heartland. along the edge of a nation’s territory, its real prejudices, fears and obsessions – but also its virtues – irrepressibly bubble up as its people confront the ‘other’ whom they [...]
Breakfast at the Exit Cafe, by Wayne Grady & Merilyn Simonds, is part travelogue, part exploration—a road trip into the reality behind the cultural myth that is America. ~ 2010 Globe 100 Boook ~ Apple Canada Best of 2010 iBook ~ januarymagazine Best Book of 2010 Breakfast at the Exit Cafe begins as a personal story—told [...]
Burning Ground is the winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Prize for best first novel, Canada/Caribbean region. It was short-listed for the Georges Bugnet award, and the Canadian Booksellers’ Libris award, and was a Globe & Mail notable book of the year. In 1999, before the novel was published, it was one of five finalists for the [...]
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