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  WHITTLENODS

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

BOOK PICK OF THE WEEK

 ISBN: 978-1-897235-93-5
$15.95

Teen mystery set at a synchrotron, the world's most powerful microscope

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.

BESTSELLERS


ISBN: 978-1-897235-78-2
$18.95

Also available as an eBook

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


ISBN: 978-1-897235-92-8
$10.95

A Close Shave
The first in Marty Chan's Barnabas Bigfoot Series. 

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.

Watch for the next in the series, A Hairy Tangle, coming fall 2012!

 

News
Congratulations to 2012 Saskatchewan Book Award winners Harold Johnson and Anne McDonald! more...
 Dawn Dumont has been shortlisted for the Edmonton Public Library's Alberta Readers' Choice award. more...
 Dawn Dumont (Nobody Cries At Bingo) has been shortlisted for the 2012 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Award more...
 Darcie Friesen Hossaak's Mennonites Don't Dance has been shortlisted for the OLA Forest of Reading Evergreen Award for Fiction. Evergreen nominees
Congratulations to Thistledown authors nominated for Saskatchewan Book Awards. Devin Krukoff (Flyways) Book of the Year and Fiction
Harold Johnson (The Cast Stone) First People's Writing and Fiction
Britt Holmström (Leaving Berlin) City of Regina and Fiction
Anne McDonald (To the Edge of the Sea) First Book
Dwayne Brenna (Our Kind of Work) Non-Fiction more...
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