Cover of One in Six Million by Amy Fish. Cover is blue, with a small black and white photo in the upper right hand corner of a family. THe baby in the picture is circled and yellow and an arrow is drawn to the subtitle.

One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity by Amy Fish

The first half of Fish’s book is a faithful narration of Stanley’s journey as a genealogist leading to the work he facilitated in reuniting missing family members – including Maria.  The following section is Maria’s story and details her life and long search for her biological family.

What’s The Point? An Irreverent Guide to Point Pleasant Park by Steven Laffoley

As he wanders, “with thoughts of a hot Tim Hortons coffee…dancing in his head,” he reflects on everything from the seasons to the birds, from Hurricane Juan to Shakespeare By The Sea, from the battlements and the long-horned beetle to “the most common mammal in the park…the Canis lupus familiaris, the domesticated dog”.

Cover of 40 Days and 40 Hikes: Loving the Bruce Trail One Loop at a Time by Nicola Ross. Shows a coastline in Ontario, with a blue sky

40 Days and 40 Hikes: Loving the Bruce Trail One Loop at a Time by Nicola Ross

This book gives hikers concise one-page summaries of each loop, including maps, technical information about trail requirements, entrances and exits, interesting plants and animals to look for along the way. The accompanying text offers a well-researched recounting of the history, present circumstances and possible futures of the snake spine of land that rises through South-Central Ontario and is the Niagara Escarpment and of the Bruce Trail that follows it.

A beige image with thin diagonal lines, mimicking a curved lines piece of paper. The bottom of the image is black like the page has been burned. The title and author's name are in large letters in the center of the image.

On Book Banning by Ira Wells

Canada’s annual Freedom to Read Week takes place during the last week of February. With this year marking the 40th anniversary of this important observance, it seems most appropriate that this book, part of Biblioasis’ “Field Notes” series, should be published midway through the week when we pay closer attention to the banning of books.

G by Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi

In G, Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kes” Mohammadi look at a single sound that connects two parts of the world that we rarely imagine in proximity, Iran and South Africa. They do so by exploring the voiceless uvular fricative and its close cousin, the voiced velar fricative, which are presented phonetically by the Greek letters chi (x) and gamma (ɣ) and are generally transposed into a roman alphabet as ch (e.g., loch) or kh (e.g., Khalil).

Because Somebody Asked Me To: Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene by Guy Vanderhaeghe

The personas writers invent (often subconsciously) for their non-fiction usually attempt or pretend to show more or less of the private self. In Because Somebody Asked Me To, bemedaled and oft-rewarded Guy Vanderhaeghe favours a straight speaking tone, whether reviewing Richard Ford or talking to historians.