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Volume 15, No. 1
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Outside The Box: The Life And Legacy Of Writer Mona Gould. The Grandmother I Thought I Knew
By Anne Lagacé Dowson
Stopping For Strangers
By Joel Yanofsky
The O'briens
By Marianne Ackerman
Winter
By Ian McGillis
fiction
Dirty Feet
Reviewed by Rosel Kim
River City
Reviewed by Rob Sherren
Tell It To The Trees
Reviewed by Elise Moser
The Lamppost Diary
Reviewed by Gina Roitman
The Tattoo
Reviewed by Kim Bourgeois
Wherever Grace Is Needed
Reviewed by Taylor Tower
non-fiction
Fools Rule: Inside The Failed Politics Of Climate Change
Reviewed by Sarah Fletcher
Georges And Pauline Vanier: Portrait Of A Couple
Reviewed by Leila Marshy
Just One Suitcase?!
Reviewed by Dane Lanken
Reading The 21st Century: Books Of The Decade, 2000–2009
Reviewed by Eric Boodman
Rogue In Power: Why Stephen Harper Is Remaking Canada By Stealth
Reviewed by Jean Coléno
non-fiction at a glance
Minority Report: An Alternative History Of English-language Arts In Quebec
Reviewed by Mélanie Grondin
poetry
A Complete Encyclopedia Of Different Types Of People
Reviewed by Bert Almon
All This Could Be Yours
Reviewed by Bert Almon
Hypotheticals
Reviewed by Bert Almon
No End In Strangeness
Reviewed by Bert Almon
Skullduggery
Reviewed by Bert Almon
Some Frames
Reviewed by Bert Almon
The Id Kid
Reviewed by Bert Almon
the mile end café
With A Closed Fist: Growing Up In Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood
Reviewed by Anna Leventhal
young readers
All Good Children
Reviewed by B.A. Markus
Ella May And The Wishing Stone
Reviewed by B.A. Markus
My Name Is Elizabeth
Reviewed by B.A. Markus
Nini
Reviewed by B.A. Markus
The Adventures Of Cosmo The Dodo Bird
Reviewed by B.A. Markus
Winter: Five Windows On The Season
Sometimes You
can
Go Home Again
By Ian McGillis
New Document
Adam Gopnik has been reliably surprising us for so long now that there might be a danger of taking him for granted. Step...
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Outside The Box: The Life And Legacy Of Writer Mona Gould. The Grandmother I Thought I Knew
The Golden Girl
By Anne Lagacé Dowson
New Document
Writer Maria Meindl inherited thirty-eight boxes of papers from her grandmother Mona Gould. Mona was a big name at one t...
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The O'briens
Talking 'bout My Generations
By Marianne Ackerman
New Document
One of the downsides of being a lifelong reader is that one rarely approaches a book innocently, free from the spoiler e...
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Stopping For Strangers
Doing More With Less
By Joel Yanofsky
New Document
As a rule, Daniel Griffin avoids using exclamation points. The economical, unadorned prose that is the distinguishing fe...
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With A Closed Fist: Growing Up In Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood
Back To The Point
By Anna Leventhal
New Document
A current Montreal real estate website describes Point St. Charles as an up-and-coming neighbourhood, a good bet for pot...
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We wish to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage and SODEC for their generous support, without which this publication would not exist.
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