Book Review: Christmas on Union Street

 by Kathleen Cranidge 292 pages • ISBN 978-1633634086 It’s a week before Christmas in Burlington, Vermont during an epic snowstorm. Ali, criminology student and amateur sleuth, running from a romance, wants to avoid the holidays. Due to low vacancy, she rents the attic bedroom at Gina’s, where she’s plunged into

Book Review: The Weather Inside

 It’s summer in Toronto, and the snow and ice are relentless. Too bad no one but Avery can see it. Avery Gauthier can’t get far enough away from her past: the death of her beloved father, the abuse she suffered as a teen, and the religion that tore her parents

Book Review: The Worthington Wife

 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Page returns to the aristocratic world of lords and ladies in a gripping new novel After the death of her beloved fiancé, the Earl of Worthington, in the Great War, Lady Julia Hazelton is no longer interested in marriage. Instead she is devoting herself

Book Review: Saving Her

 Christian McPherson’s exciting new novel is a portrait of a woman coming unglued after devastating events send her spiraling out of control. Between popping pills and drinking vodka, Julie Cooper tries her best to do what she has always done: carry on. But when the line between what is real

Book Review: Free Fall

 With nearly two million books in print in over seventeen countries, internationally bestselling author Rick Mofina’s specialized thrillers are “scary in all the right places” (James Patterson). Mofina’s novels have received high praise from Penthouse, The Globe and Mail, National Post and other respected international news outlets. His stand-alone debut,

Book Review: Forgotten Victory

 First canadian Army and the cruel Winter of 1944–45 During the winter of 1944–45, the western allies desperately sought a strategy that would lead to Germany’s quick defeat. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers in trenches and dugouts suffered through the bitterest European winter in fifty years. The Allied high command

Book Review: Marion Dewar

   A Life of Action A beloved mayor, Marion Dewar shaped not only the landscape of Canada's capital city, she was a role-model for social activism for the whole country. Her work on behalf of refugees gives her accomplishments special resonance today. August 11, 2016, Toronto–The desperation of refugees looking

Book Review: Time Out

 A teacher's year of reading, fighting, and four-letter words A book that asks the hard question: What has the education system done to help children suffering from mental health issues? What can we do? And how much spit can one person endure? March 2014, Toronto — Twenty-two years ago, Liane

Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards

 Whip Smart: Lola Montez Conquers the Spaniards, the first of the Whip Smart series by Montreal-based Kit Brennan, is an exciting page-turner transporting readers back to the Victorian era of 1842. Loosely based on the real-life adventures of Lola Montez, a notorious bad-girl of the era, Brennan fills in the

Summer Reading

 Be sure to add Ottawa Stories: Trials and Triumphs in Bytown History, by Clifford Scott to your summer reading list. A collection of historical vignettes will take you on a journey through Ottawa as it once was to where it stands now. Read about the devastation of fires and diseases