Seeking to improve the relationships between human beings and the divine, "The Destiny and Signs of God" is a spiritual guidebook that leads by example. An ambitious testimonial with memoir elements, Ionel Rotaru’s spiritual manifesto... Read More

Alternative Schools in British Columbia, 1960–1975 is a comprehensive and cogent history of a movement that prompted progressive changes in Canadian education. Harley Rothstein reviews the birth, decline, and legacy of the alternative... Read More

An adventurer who perseveres even when the task is unpleasant models hard work in the historical novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing". George Chiang’s illustrated novel "The Pioneer Adventures of Chen Sing" is a story of grit... Read More

A misanthrope denies her own pain but is helped by a child who encourages her to pray in the lesson-filled picture book "The Music Thief". In Sophie Armstrong’s optimistic picture book "The Music Thief", a witch tries to rid a city of... Read More

A story of a community’s hardiness, willpower, and perseverance, New Iceland and Beyond extols the successes of a generation of Canadian settlers. Robert C. A. Frederickson’s New Iceland and Beyond is a stirring history of an unsung... Read More

An intrepid, boundary-breaking reporter investigates a terrible maritime collision in the riveting historical novel "The Woman Reporter and the Halifax Explosion". In Michael Dupuis’s historical novel "The Woman Reporter and the... Read More

A plucky mouse proves that one’s size does not determine one’s worth in the adventure-filled alternate history novel "Francisco Mouse". In M. Douglas McDonald’s adventure-filled children’s novel "Francisco Mouse", an intrepid... Read More

In the reassuring epistolary novel "Letters to Annie", a grandmother writes fairy tale–evocative letters to her granddaughter, drawing parallels between the child’s woes and the stories of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Ariel. In Monika... Read More