Water Confidential by Susan Blacklin
Water is a basic human right. In 2024, in Canada, there are First Nations Communities that have been living under Boil Water Advisories for up to 28 years.
non-fiction
Go: A Memoir of Movement by Jesse O’Reilly-Conlin
Go: A Memoir of Movement. Immediately, I love the engagement. As though joining something already in progress.
Signs of Life by Sarah Cox Spirits Us to Extinction’s Front Lines
An unswerving look at issues related to biodiversity in Canada.
The Human Scale: Murder, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems by Michael Lista
Be honest, the subtitle intrigues, right? Murder! Mischief! Mayhem! The adrenaline flows. O Canada! Turn the page. What’s next?! The base of humanity revealed.
The Roosting Box: Rebuilding the Body After the First World War by Kristen den Hartog
A trickle that began in 1915
turned to a flood of soldiers returning to Canada needing care for their often-devastating injuries:
missing limbs, ravaged lungs, faces and minds destroyed. Many of them ended up at Toronto’s
newly opened Christie Street hospital, also known as the Dominion Orthopedic Hospital (DOH).
The Lucky and the Lost: A Complete History of Titanic’s Children by John Boileau with Patricia Boileau Theriault
As its name suggests, The Lucky and the Lost: A Complete History of Titanic’s Children, takes on the tireless effort of tracing the lives of Titanic’s children.
Children’s Book Week 2024: Pickles The Osprey, written by Connie Dennis, pictures taken by Don Dennis, and illustrated by Greg David
Connie Dennis wrote her debut book Pickles the Osprey to educate young people on Nova Scotia’s provincial bird.
Throwback: Hard, Clear Sunlight: The Rise of a Distinctly Canadian School of Art Out of the Devastation of WWI — Jackson’s Wars: A. Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War by Douglas Hunter
The impacts of lived experiences in the totality of misery and death along the Western Front were enduring and consequently reflected in their art. Douglas Hunter’s biography Jackson’s Wars: A. Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group of Seven, and the Great War explores the impacts of World War I on A. Y. Jackson and the Group of Seven in shaping their vision of a distinctly Canadian School of painting.
Throwback: Higher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton
Higher Teaching: A Handbook for New Post-secondary Faculty by John Oughton is a reference book distilled from the author’s years of experience teaching at the post-secondary level.
Invisible Lines by Maxim Samson: The Lines That Divide
“Humans assign meaning to specific locations, converting abstract, loosely defined ‘space’ into distinguishable, consequential ‘place.'”
The Viking Trail: Stories of the Great Northern Peninsula by Adrian Payne
This is not a book about Vikings. Not really. It’s a memoir plus a medieval story, penned by a native of Newfoundland with a knowledge and passion for his birthplace.
Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath
Why We Remember teaches the principles behind memory storage and retrieval and explains how our memories are always changing.
Best Books of 2023: Non-Fiction (Part Two)
Here are the titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Non-Fiction Books” of 2023.
Best Books of 2023: Non-Fiction (Part One)
Here are the titles that our team of reviewers judged the “Best Non-Fiction Books” of 2023.
Taking A Chance: The First 25 Years of Fishers’ Loft Inn by John & Peggy Fisher and Roger Pickavance
More than a quarter century after their move to Port Rexton, the Fishers have produced a love letter to rural Newfoundland, sharing their firm belief in the wonderful things that can happen when you take a chance.
