whittle: to cut small bits or pare shavings from something large in order to shape it
nod: to let the head fall forward in drowsiness or agreement

Whittlenods occur when those who engage in talk and thought about cultural flotsam and jetsam discover the flaws in their habitual thinking
This Month's Whittle Nod
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The Joy of Books
(Type Books, Toronto)
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ISBN: 978-1-897235-93-5
$15.95
Teen mystery set at a synchrotron, the world's most powerful microscope
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Two seventeen-year-olds, Badger and Mike, put on their detective mind sets and physical disguises to seek answers to serious questions such as Mike’s mother’s infidelity and Mike’s father’s involvement in industrial espionage. Obsessed with sleuthing and science, these grade-twelve geeks begin a transformation that will change the lives of everyone they know. Setting the mystery against the background of a synchrotron, a football field-sized facility that uses light millions of times brighter than the sun to peer inside matter, the teen detectives soon begin to connect the world’s most powerful microscope to nefarious black market schemes and the powerful men who spawn them.
Interview with author Dave Richards on writing The Source of Light.
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ISBN: 978-1-897235-78-2
$18.95
One of 5 Best First Fiction picks for 2011 by the
Globe & Mail
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Mennonites Don't Dance
"There’s an unfussy purity of expression here, and of narrative control, that sometimes recalls the short fiction of Alistair MacLeod. Images come cleanly to the mind’s eye while the prose itself recedes. The other MacLeodian element is Hossack’s stealthy way with emotion. She never tells you how to feel. When you do find your heart opening to these characters, it rises from their authenticity, and a sure authorial hand with the interplay of surprise and inevitability." — Jim Bartley, Globe & Mail
Shortlisted for the 2011 Danuta Gleed Award and the 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region
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ISBN: 978-1-897235-92-8
$10.95
The first in Marty Chan's Barnabas Bigfoot Series
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A Close Shave
The first book in the Barnabas Bigfoot Series introduces us to Barnabas, adolescent sasquatch, and his family and tribe who live in the woods of BC. The story is told in the first person by Barnabas, who is a wonderfully engaging and genuine character, immediately relatable to preteens. He is experiencing the normal pangs of growing up: physical changes, pesky girls, embarrassing parents. On top of all that he experiences what for sasquatches is a dire handicap: small feet. He is determined to keep this terrible flaw a secret.
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Two Thistledown books are on the Alberta Readers Choice Awards longlist!

Congratulations to Dawn Dumont (Nobody Cries at Bingo) and Anne Sorbie (Memoir Of a Good Death)
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Mennonites Don't Dance by Darcie Friesen Hossack has been chosen as one of the five best first fiction titles by the Globe & Mail more...
Arthur John Stewart's OddBall shortlisted for the 2011 Bolen Book's Children's Book Prize, Victoria Book Prizes more...
Regina reader nominates To the Edge of the Sea by Anne McDonald for Giller Readers' Choice Award and wins grand prize more...
 Marty Chan's The Mystery of the Cyber Bully was a finalist for the 2011 John Spray Mystery Award more...
 Darcie Friesen Hossack is shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award more...
 Nova Scotia author Lesley Choyce was shortlisted for the 2011 Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction for Raising Orion. more...
Richard Scarsbrook has WON the 2011 OLA White Pine Award for The Monkeyface Chronicles

Philip Skyler learned early in his life that his face would get him into trouble and there was nothing he could do about it.
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