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1. Empowered Readers

   Roberta Seelinger Trites (Author)

   Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels. University of Iowa Press

   Kit Pearson (Author)

   Awake and Dreaming. Puffin

   Tim Wynne-Jones (Author)

   The Maestro. Douglas & McIntyre

   Reviewed by Adrienne Kertzer

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2. Rites of Passage

   William Bell (Author)

   Crabbe. Fitzhenry & Whiteside

   Julie Johnston (Author)

   A Very Fine Line. Tundra Books

   Reviewed by Gisèle M. Baxter

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3. Apocalyptic Consumption

   Sinclair Dumontais (Author), Patricia Claxton (Translator)

   The Parachute. Key Porter Books

   Katrina Onstad (Author)

   How Happy to Be. McClelland & Stewart Ltd.

   Barry Webster (Author)

   The Sound of All Flesh. Porcupine's Quill

   Reviewed by Beverley Haun

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4. Slavery’s Painful Story

   Lawrence Hill (Author)

   The Book of Negroes. HarperCollins

   Reviewed by Afra Kavanagh

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5. A Search for April Raintree

   Beatrice Culleton Mosionier (Author)

   In Search of April Raintree. Critical Edition.. Portage & Main

   Reviewed by Renée Hulan

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6. Anatomy of Imagination

   Northrop Frye (Author), Germaine Warkentin (Editor)

   The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963. University of Toronto Press

   Northrop Frye (Author), Robert D. Denham (Editor)

   Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. University of Toronto Press

   Reviewed by Graham Nicol Forst

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7. Anatomy of Imagination

   Northrop Frye (Author), Germaine Warkentin (Editor)

   The Educated Imagination and Other Writings on Critical Theory 1933-1963. University of Toronto Press

   Northrop Frye (Author), Robert D. Denham (Editor)

   Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays. University of Toronto Press

   Reviewed by Graham Nicol Forst

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8. Novels for the Masses...

   Carol Beran (Author)

   Living Over the Abyss: Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. ECW Press

   Donna Palmateer Pennee (Author)

   Praying for Rain: Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage. ECW Press

   Lorna Marie Irvine (Author)

   Collecting Clues: Margaret Atwood's Bodily Harm. ECW Press

   Arnold E. Davidson (Author)

   Writing Against the Silence: Joy Kogawa's Obasan. ECW Press

   Reviewed by Patricia Merivale

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9. (Un)Settling Secrets

   Julie Johnston (Author)

   As If by Accident. Key Porter Books

   Mary Lawson (Author)

   The Other Side of the Bridge. Knopf Canada

   Reviewed by Andrea Wasylow

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10. Other Stories

    Gerald Lynch (Author)

    The One and the Many: English-Canadian Short Story Cycles. University of Toronto Press

    George Bowering (Author)

    And Other Stories. Talon Books

    Reviewed by Gernot Wieland

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