PreviewsIssue 85, Fall/Winter 2024-25
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Hanging Art
Noah Carey Mysteries 1
Jim Handy
Noah Carey is not a typical detective – a retired historian, he gets around on bicycle and hates guns. But he is keen, and when the parents of a promising young artist who was found dead hanging in his loft ask Noah to investigate, he’s not afraid to head into the shadowy world of high-end art and to put his life on the line.
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Healing Disquiet
An Integrative Model for Relational Therapy
Sam Berg
This book presents the foundational ideas useful for anyone who is starting out as a counsellor, for anyone who engages in helping through conversation, and for anyone curious about what counselling entails.
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Hidden Politics in the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Adam Sneyd
Sneyd’s analysis of the politics of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are generally believed to contribute to a more inclusive, sustainable, and peaceful world, counters this utopian view, revealing how the SDGs are infused with a political orientation that advances capitalist interests.
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Hiroshima Bomb Money
Terry Watada
Through the lives of three siblings during the years 1930 to 1945, this rich historical novel looks at the Second World War from a Japanese perspective. The youngest sister immigrates to Canada to experience a brutal immigration process, a troubled marriage, and internment; the brother joins the military to fight in China; and the oldest sister is in Hiroshima when the atom bomb hit, and she loses her twin babies.
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Homing
A Quest to Care for Myself and the Earth
Alice Irene Whittaker
In this thoughtful and lyrical memoir, Whittaker tells of how she escapes a life of perfectionism and productivity by moving with her young family to a cabin in the woods, where she begins to repair her relationship with both herself and the natural world, and find the “balance between the sorrow of wildfires and the beauty of wildflowers.”
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Hot Mess
Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency
Sarah Marie Wiebe
The experience of mothering in a year of extreme heat, fires, and floods shaped Wiebe’s politics of parenting, and revealed the layers, textures, and nuances of the disastrous emergencies we encounter in a world dominated by extractive capitalism.
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How to Know a Crow
The Biography of a Brainy Bird
Candace Savage, Rachel Hudson (Illustrator)
This brilliantly illustrated book tells the engaging story of the crow Oki’s life from the moment she emerges from her egg, showing how she moves through the seasons of life and how she sees and senses the world. A wealth of crow-related facts – on their evolution, nests, food, and much more – is also provided in attractively designed sidebars and inserts.
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I Feel That Way Too
jaz papadopoulos
This extraordinary debut collection lyrically and intellectually examines the #MeToo movement and the impacts of the media and patriarchal power structures, drawing together the Jian Ghomeshi trial, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, psychology experiments, Barbie dolls, meditation practices, and childhood memory to respond deeply with nuance and care, always looking for the truth beyond the real.
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I Hate Parties
Jes Battis
Filled with plenty of cats and pop culture references, and including forms such as the sestina, the villanelle, and the pantoum, these poems explore growing up queer and autistic and awkward in small-town British Columbia, and adjusting to an adult life of academic politics and pandemic relationships in Saskatchewan.
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I Think We’ve Been Here Before
Suzy Krause
Nineteen-year-old Nora is getting over her broken heart by starting over in Berlin. Meanwhile, at home in Saskatchewan, her father, Marlen, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and, before the family can process that, a double gamma ray burst means the world will end in a couple of months. Nora needs to get home, where her family members are each dealing with their mortality in their own ways. For all of them, everything seems eerily familiar.
