| Book Review Tourists on Our Own Land
by Wayne Grady
Either Canadian readers are easily impressed when a foreigner comes here to tell us what we're like, or else Canada is so entirely superficial that its quintessence can be grasped by a not particularly perceptive observer in a few short months.
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|  | By A Lady
226 pages $60
ISBN: 0140169555
| | Our Chiefs & Elders Words & Photographs of Native Leaders
by David Neel,
University of Washington Press
192 pages $39.95 TC
ISBN: 0295972173
| | Charles Pachter
176 pages $90
ISBN: 0771069251
| | | Cougar Ghost of the Rockies
by Karen McCall, Jim Dutcher,
Peter\Smith#Publisher, Incorporated
pages $25.5 TC
ISBN: 0844668753
| | Sabine's Notebook
by Nick Bantock,
48 pages $24.95 CT
ISBN: 0920417108
| | Peregrine Falcons
by Candace Savage, Adrian Forsyth,
160 pages $35 CT
ISBN: 1550540106
| | | The Magdalens Islands of Sand
by George Fischer, Claude Richard,
88 pages $24.95 TC
ISBN: 155109018X
| | Guardians of the Whales The Quest to Study Whales in the Wild
by Bruce Obee, Graeme Ellis,
192 pages $34.95 UN
ISBN: 1551100347
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Book Review Some Things Worth Saying
by Merilyn Mohr
Gift books, usually, are books only in the most general sense of the word. Shiny, big books held up by coffee tables. Books too bulky to take to bed. Gifts of substance for special occasions. Books bought to be admired but, too often, not to be read.
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| | Book Review Let Us Eat Cupcakes
by Pat Barclay
Whatever your taste, somewhere in Canada there's a cookbook writer who's determined to satisfy it. Or so I decided, after salivating through this year's batch of guides to good eating.
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| | Curling to Win
by E. Lukowich, A. Hackner, R. Lang,
160 pages $16.95 MM
ISBN: 0075494426
| | Images of Glory
by James Duplacey,
pages $0 TP
ISBN: 007551351X
| | Golf in Canada A History
by James A. Barclay,
pages $50 TC
ISBN: 077101080X
| |  | Stanley Cup One Hundred Years of Hockey at Its Best
by Darcy Jenish,
pages $16.99 PT
ISBN: 0771044070
| | More All-Time Hockey Lists
by Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler,
DIANE Publishing Company
117 pages $14 TP
ISBN: 0788153900
| | Hockey Scouting Report, 1993-1994
by Sherry Ross,
Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated
480 pages $12.95 TP
ISBN: 1550540947
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Book Review Levels of the Games
by Brian Fawcett
After the Toronto Blue Jays' World Series win it is hard for sports fans to remember that there are sports other than baseball, and that hockey is supposed to be Canada's national sport.
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| | Home Fires
by K. Radu,
pages $14.95 PT
ISBN: 1550650319
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Book Review Lonely in Montreal
by Carole Giangrande
The idea of home has many aspects hearth and shelter, land of birth, human connection, and the native tongue in which our thoughts abide. All of these are part of Kenneth Radu's lengthy and engrossing new novel.
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| | Book Review Bad Seeds
by Heather Robertson
True crime stories are hot, particularly in Hollywood, and Lisa Hobbes Birnie seems to have lucked into a particularly macabre case.
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| | Book Review Sense of Strangeness
by Ann Copeland
Steven Heighton's stories are sophisticated and elegantly told. They explore sometimes with dazzling intricacy, always with imaginative verve -- the ambiguities of flight and the complexity of return.
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| | Book Review Interior Designs
by Michael Darling
Canadian interviewers need not worry, however, unless they take it upon themselves to visit Mordecai Richler, that their interviewees will regard them as intrusive boors.
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| | Book Review The Globe Grows Up
by Sherman Elliott
Some papers have borrowed from television technique short stories, lots of colour, charts and graphs, and emphasis on human interest rather than analysis -- to keep their readers.
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| | Book Review Intensity of Effect
by Joan Thomas
Like the other two pieces in this collection, "Cassie, Cassie" has the vigour of writing that is grounded in a concern with how the world works.
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| | Book Review The Imperial Eye
by Stan Fogel
Arcadia, as anyone who has failed to match a tourist experience with a glossy travel brochure knows, is constructed of such lush, pulpy, cliched prose or is the product of a reverie.
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| | Book Review Brief Lives
by Clint Burnham
Through its Canadian Biography Series, ECW Press is filling a gap in our knowledge of writers, at the same time as it is publishing biographies of well-known Canadians in other fields.
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| | Book Review Maps of Our Knowing
by Charlene Diehl-Jones
The book is an unflinching and delicate exploration of the absolute dangerousness of any world one might inhabit, the knots and losses and confusions and revelations that accompany our attempts to speak and love ourselves to life.
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| | Book Review Quality of Desperation
by Joel Yanofsky
This hasn't been a good decade for white males, not so far anyway. The dead ones -- like Christopher Columbus -- have been reassessed and found wanting, recalled like defective Pintos.
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| | Book Review Long-Term Strategies
by Martin Dowding
Popular wisdom and many standard historical sources have convinced most of us that the raid on Dieppe on August 19, 1942, was a bloody mistake, caused by the gross incompetence of Allied military commanders.
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| | Book Review It Seems to be a Textbook
by Margaret Sweatman
Thsi "sampler" is a peculiar and wonderful product. Rebellious, twisted, and narcissistic. Those are the white guys. The Others are brilliant, too. It's such an odd party, this book. So meta-liberal.
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| | Book Review Success in Private
by Laurel Boone
Montgomery's moving and perceptive account of the formation of the United Church of Canada will make Volume III of 'The Selected Journals' indispensable for social historians.
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| | Interviews The Ascension of Nino
by John Doyle
Nino Ricci talks about 'Lives of Saints' and what he's going to do for an encore.
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| | Letters to Editor Letters to Editor
Letters may be edited for length or to delete potentially libellous statements. Except in extraordinary circumstances, letters of more than 500 words will not he accepted for publication.
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| | Prose/Poetry Looking for Poetry
by J Carpenter
A toast to the prestigious festivals and funky hotels that marked one young pilgrim's literary progress.
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| | Prose/Poetry Pemba Jade
by Fred Ward
A dark blue, wool saucer tam with the knot in the center, supported by an octagon base and grey every-which-a-way hair covered her head.
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| | Profiles Life at Full Tilt
by Ann Diamond
Fred Ward brings a writer's eye and a musician's ear to his mysterious but familiar worlds.
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| | First Novels First Novels - Difficult Loves
by Douglas Hill
SET IN A SOUR future of blasted cities, fundamentalist politics, and vigilante patrols, Sean Stewart's Passion Play (Beach Holme, 231 pages, $6.95 paper) is a stylized cyberpunk thriller with more flash than fire. The narrator, Diane Fletcher, a freelance hitwoman with the powers of an empath (she can read emotional patterns in other people), is hired by the authorities to find the killer of a famous actor; in the process she must risk her own burned-out soul. Stewart writes vividly, if at times
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| | Field Notes Field Notes - The Ondaatje Mystique
by Keith Nickson
It was the night of Yom Kippur, exactly one week before it was announced that Michael Ondaatje had shared this year's Booker Prize.
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| | Field Notes Field Notes - Eden's Idyllic Mills
by Michael Redhill
On a bright, cloudless day this past September, I had my first chance to visit Eden Mills and witness its annual love-in, the Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
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| | George Fetherling Last Words - Literary Illusions
by Alec McEwen
Before the Saskatchewan election last year, rant Devine was reported to have said that the failure of Roy Romanow to state clearly his political beliefs was the NDP leaders "single biggest Achilles' heel."
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Merna Summers
Sandra Birdsell and her jury are to be complimented on their choices. Never mind the ranking. In this competition, the real winner is the reader.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Maggie Helwig
'Food for Thought' is a valuable and eyeopening book for anyone not already aware of the extent of hunger in Canada the Good. Those already informed about the problem, or active on the issue, will want considerably more than Webber offers.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Rhea Tregebov
Rybczynski's reputation as a skilled, readable stylist is indeed well deserved. Furthermore, it is easy to see why readers are seduced by his apparently iconoclastic approach to architecture, which combines social criticism with historical analysis.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Desmond Morton
To help ensure that their findings will be considered scientific as well as informative, the authors adopt a prose style as ingratiating as that of the average computer manual.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Elaine Naves
The book's thrust, as promised in the subtitle, concerns the terrors and absurdities of life in Maos China, but its snapshots of customs and attitudes in pre-revolutionary China are alone worth the price of the book.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by Diane Schoemperlen
Jackson's book is an important contribution to filling that gap. As she says, "Motherhood is like Albania -- you can't trust the brochures, you have to go there."
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by Jeff Walker
Sylvia Fraser seems blissfully unaware of the many devastating critiques to which anyone intrigued by her subject matter would inevitably be drawn.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-Fiction
by George Kaufman
Mowat, one of Canada's ablest self-promoters, has put at least some of himself into all of his many books (and much of himself into some of them). And the Second World War is not a historical event that has gone undocumented.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Non-fiction
by George Kaufman
The crimes committed by young offenders that make it to the pages of our newspapers are so outrageous and sensational that they have created a polarized national debate over the Young Offenders Act itself.
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| | Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Maurice Mierau
With the enormous amount of poetry published in this country one might think -- wrongly -- that there would be a Rabelaisian profusion of voices, styles, and subject matter.
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|  | The Cracks
by Anne Dandurand,
pages $11.95 TP
ISBN: 0920544932
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Brief Reviews Brief Reviews - Fiction
by Valerie Mansour
With appealing humour (her cat, for example, is named Chapter Two), Anne Dandurand takes us with her through a very difficult time, which she refers to as the "minuscule chaos of my own life."
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|  | There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen!
by Sheree Fitch,
32 pages $8.95 TP
ISBN: 0385254709
|  | Emily
by Michael Bedard, Barbara Cooney,
40 pages $16 TC
ISBN: 0385306970
| | Murphy
by Tatiana Tonks, Carlos Freire,
pages $4.95 PT
ISBN: 0590737597
| |  | The Year of Fire
by Teddy Jam, Ian Wallace,
48 pages $20.5 MM
ISBN: 0689505663
| | The Magic Flute
by Linda Rogers,
36 pages $14.95 TP
ISBN: 0889841292
| | The Moon & the Oyster
by Donia B. Clenman, Laszlo Gal,
32 pages $12.95 TC
ISBN: 0920501834
| |  | I Can't Sleep
by Patti Farmer, Ron Lightburn,
24 pages $4.95 TP
ISBN: 0920501842
| | Katherine & the Garbage Dump
by Martha Morris, Yvonne Cathcart,
24 pages $12.95 TC
ISBN: 0929005392
| | Sara Nohair
by Gillian K. Johnson, Gillian K. Johnson,
56 pages $12.95 TC
ISBN: 1550372114
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Children's Books Children's Books - Surprise Packages
by Anne Denoon
The preliterate id in search of ocular and aural gratification heeds neither publishers' blurbs nor educators' endorsements, and is highly intolerant of both condescension and attempts at moral improvement disguised as fun.
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