The wonder of frogs
Author and illustrator, Scot Ritchie’s new kidlit picture book Lilliana and the Frogs (Harbour $22.95) is about a young frog-lover… FULL STORY
AUTHORS & BOOKS
Hot and cold lullabies
“Let me begin with a warning” heads one of Janet Vickers’ new poems in Sleep With Me: Lullaby for an… FULL STORY
Down on the farm
Linda Thompson grew up on a cattle and potato farm in the Pemberton Valley. As an adult, she has lived… FULL STORY
Nature’s wisdom
Award-winning storyteller Nicola I. Campbell takes young readers on a journey of discovery through the wilderness in Stand Like a… FULL STORY
Hiking a peak a week
When Angie Abdou challenged her daughter, Katie to hike a peak a week with her over the summer holidays one… FULL STORY
Gothic Canadian vet stories
In Night Watch: The Vet Suite (Invisible Publishing $19.95), due out in February 2021, Prince George-based Gillian Wigmore explores the… FULL STORY
The ‘burbs
Taryn Hubbard’s first collection of poems, Desire Path (Talonbooks $16.95) speaks to the urge to explore home in the suburbs;… FULL STORY
Fox the potter
One of B.C.’s senior potters, Mary Fox has written: My Life as a Potter: Stories and Techniques (Harbour $44.95), part… FULL STORY
Able to lead
Victoria-based Benjamin Isitt has co-authored with Ravi Malhotra Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley… FULL STORY
Odyssey across Canada
Magda’s Odyssey (Gracesprings Collective $21.95), Deanna Kawatski’s eighth book, is a YA novel about a 14-year-old girl who sets off across… FULL STORY
Barely functional adult
Meichi Ng is the creator of Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense, a comic she started in 2015 that attracts… FULL STORY
Holocaust recovery poems
As a child survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto during WW II, Lillian Boraks-Nemetz has lived with the memories of the… FULL STORY
Rock band stowaway
Vancouver author and TV producer, Andrea Fehsenfeld has published A Rainbow Like You (Free Form $15.99) about a fictional touring… FULL STORY
Life with autism
Teresa Hedley’s debut book, What’s Not Allowed? A Family Journey with Autism (Wintertickle Press $25.95) is about her autistic son,… FULL STORY
Mines translates Yiddish stories
Retired Langara College instructor, Rachel Mines has published a translation from the Yiddish of nineteen stories by Jonah Rosenfeld (1881… FULL STORY
Celebrity traps
Failed musician, Tony Vicar saves a car accident victim and is suddenly rocketed from complete unknown to a legend in… FULL STORY
Repressed memories
Recovering from a near-fatal accident on her 27th birthday, up and coming artist, Eve Gold is desperate to return to… FULL STORY
Women’s voices, 1914 – 1960
SFU prof, Carole Gerson has co-authored with Peggy Lynn Kelly, Hearing More Voices: English-Canadian Women in Print and on the… FULL STORY
Rich little poor girl
Juan Cenon has published his debut YA novel in two volumes, Juanita Freedom Seeker, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (Friesen… FULL STORY
Dismantling white supremacy
Trained attorney, racial justice educator and writer Rachel Ricketts offers advice in Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from… FULL STORY
