by LaurenEBC | Mar 26, 2021
No Fixed Address Susin NielsenPublisher: Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers Book Description Felix Knuttson, twelve, is an endearing kid with an incredible brain for trivia. His mom Astrid is loving but unreliable; she can’t hold onto a job, or a home. When...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 26, 2021
Breaching the Peace The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro Sarah CoxPublisher: On Point Press, UBC Press Book Description Breaching the Peace tells the story of the ordinary citizens who are standing up to the most expensive megaproject in BC history...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 26, 2021
Our Familiar Hunger Laisha RosnauPublisher: Nightwood Editions Book Description Our Familiar Hunger is a book about the strength, will, struggle and fortitude of generations of women and how those relationships and knowledges interact, inform, transform and burden....
by LaurenEBC | Mar 23, 2021
The Woo Woo How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family Lindsay WongPublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Book Description Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo” —...
by LaurenEBC | Mar 23, 2021
Trickster Drift Eden RobinsonPublisher: Knopf Canada Book Description In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he’s being stalked by David, his mom’s ex–a preppy, khaki-wearing...
