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Jul 3, 2008
Summer Reads by French Canadian Women Writers
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Catherine Owen
Shorter novels or novellas often make the best summer reading. These three French-Canadian women writers will bring tales of love and transformation into your life.
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Jun 18, 2008
Effigy
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Heather Allan
In the novel Effigy, Alissa York cleverly weaves together a montage of plots, each driven by the main seven characters that reside in the Hammer Household.
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May 20, 2008
Brother Frank's Gospel Hour
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Laurie Hodges Humble
W.P Kinsella's short story collection Brother Frank's Gospel Hour and Other Stories was first published in 1994 and is still making readers laugh out loud.
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Apr 27, 2008
In Search of April Raintree
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Linsay Philippe-Auguste
In Winnipeg, Manitoba two Métis sisters experience oppression and hardships at a young age and strive to blossom in a society who has mistreated Native Canadians.
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Apr 8, 2008
Who Has Seen the Wind
In: Classic Canadian Fiction
By: Laurie Hodges Humble
The consummate in Canadian literature. From the perspective of a boy Mitchell shows us what life in small town Saskatchewan in the early 1930's was really like.
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Feb 26, 2008
Poetry and Pop: Leonard Cohen
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Caitlin Ward
Canadian poet and folk singer Leonard Cohen combined poetry and popular song throughout his career, intuitively rejecting distinctions between "high" and "low" art.
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Feb 18, 2008
Alice Munro Biography
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Daniel Reid
Alice Munro - Women caught between moving and standing still....or images like the earthy smell of summer rain or blood soaked grass worn down...
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Feb 7, 2008
Review: Jackfish, The Vanishing Village
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Lisa Rufle
This emotionally rich novel traces the path of one woman's life from Canada to the U.S., in a search for herself and her homeland.
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Feb 4, 2008
Debut Novel: The Outlander
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Laurie Hodges Humble
Hang on to your hat as the widow Mary Boulton runs across the pages of acclaimed short fiction and poetry writer Gil Adamson's debut novel The Outlander.
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Jan 13, 2008
Review: The Milk Chicken Bomb
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Laurie Hodges Humble
In his debut novel The Milk Chicken Bomb Andrew Wedderburn brings a very fresh perspective to the proverb it takes a village to raise a child.
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Aug 24, 2007
Douglas Coupland's The Gum Thief
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Matthew McMain Martin
Review of Douglas Coupland's forthcoming novel "The Gum Thief," with analysis of Coupland's output, including Generation X, Miss Wyoming, and JPod.
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Jul 7, 2007
Review: The Law of Dream
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Sarah Dion-Marquis
The novel describes the odyssey of a young Irish man who leaves his homeland and travels to Dublin, Limerick, and Liverpool before crossing the ocean to reach America.
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Jun 30, 2007
The Girls by Lori Lansens
In: Modern Canadian Fiction
By: Elaine Walker
This book introduces the reader to concepts outside of most people's experience. Is this what it might be like to be a parent of, or to live as, a conjoined twin?
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Jun 8, 2007
Review: The Man From The Creeks
In: Canadian Fiction (general)
By: Julie Burtinshaw
Robert Service fans familiar with his poem, "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," will delight in this novel that explores the characters in Service's original story.
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