The Luck of the Karluk: Shipwrecked in the Arctic by L.D. Cross ★★★½ | GoodReads | Chapters | IndieBound | Wordery Icemen: A History of the Arctic and Its Explorers by Mick Conefrey + Tim Jordan ★★★★ | GoodReads | No longer in print – check your library! Icemen: A History of the Arctic and its Explorers is a great introduction to the topic of Arctic exploration. Originally published as a companion […]
Music of the Ghosts by Vaddey Ratner Format/Source: eBook/Netgalley Published: 11 April 2017 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Length: 336 pages Genre: Fiction/historical Rating: ★★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man […]
Author: David A. Alexander Robertson Illustrator: GMB Chomichuk Title: Will I See? Format/Source: Paperback/Purchased Published: March 2017 Publisher: Highwater Press Genre: Graphic novel Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery May, a young teenage girl, traverses the city streets, finding keepsakes in different places along her journey. When May and her kookum make these keepsakes into a necklace, it opens a world of danger and fantasy. While May fights against a terrible reality, she learns that there […]
Gutenberg’s Fingerprint by Merilyn Simonds Format/Source: Hardcover/Publisher Published: 11 April 2017 Publisher: ECW Press Length: 380 pages Genre: Non-fiction/memoir Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. Four seismic shifts have rocked human communication: the invention of writing, the alphabet, mechanical type and the printing press, and digitization. Poised over this fourth transition, e-reader in one hand, perfect-bound book in the […]
Author: Terri Favro Title: Sputnik’s Children Format/Source: Paperback/Publisher Published: 11 April 2017 Publisher: ECW Press Length: 348 pages Genre: Science fiction in literary clothes Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | IndieBound | Wordery I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review. Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era–inspired superhero series, Sputnik Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 […]