The Joy of Books
(Type Books, Toronto)

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.

Interview with author Dave Richards on writing The Source of Light.

ISBN: 978-1-897235-78-2
$18.95

One of 5 Best First Fiction picks for 2011 by the
Globe & Mail

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

The first in Marty Chan's Barnabas Bigfoot Series

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.