"The front of the book was silver, except for a dull black circle that resembled a bottomless hole. Ashleigh wondered what it meant – The Tomorrow Tunnel." Strangely enough, Ashleigh never gets very far into the book without falling asleep; but the dreams she has, then, bring the future to...

Breathing Soccer is the realistic account of Lisa who is forbidden to play soccer because of her asthma. At its core the novel reveals the plight of asthmatics who desire the challenge and thrill of sports, but who must weigh that desire against some very real health issues. Dr. Emerson, h...

Sweeping from Nazi Germany in 1939 to the war in Bosnia in the 1990s, Stephen Henighan's A Grave in the Air is a masterful sequence of stories. In these tales, dominated by Central and Eastern European themes, readers are transported across borders and into the lives of characters who have...

Cheating Fate is the charged story of four teens, all best friends, who have grown up together in a small town in the BC interior. Loyal, compassionate, and trusting they accept their friendship bonds with a resoluteness that only another teen could understand. But when they survive a seri...

Ian LeTourneau imagines history and memory as a glacial landscape that is both advancing and inert. The result is a collection where metaphor unfurls on a conveyor belt of precise language constructed to assemble the past we pretend not to remember, the future we try not to imagine and the presen...

The title of gillian harding–russell’s collection proffers the urgent suggestion that something must be told. It is with such insistence that the poems reach out from the page with this narrative energy, but once engaged, cleverly maintain their ironic weight of understatement and emotion...

What keeps Marty Chan's mysteries fresh is his positive sense of humour and his ability to get inside a child's mind. This remains true for the latest offering, The Mystery of the Mad Science Teacher.

The plot once again seems straightforward: When Trina's bicycle is stolen, Marty and R...

Even as generations pass, the pride of being Italian is in the genes of those who were raised in Italian immigrant families. Caruso's Journey Without A Map appropriately begins with pasta cooking instructions, and from that point the aroma of tomatoes, olives and red wine are never far fro...

Wild Talent: a Novel of the Supernatural is the strange tale of Jeannie Guthrie, a sixteen–year–old Scottish farm worker, who possesses a frightening talent. Believing that she has unintentionally killed her ne’er–do–well cousin, her fear of being sentenced as a witch propels her...