Holiday Gift Guide: My First NHL Goal by Mike Brophy

Though sports journalist Mike Brophy’s My First NHL Goal (McLelland & Stewart) is ostensibly about the goal that marked the beginning of 50 hockey player’s professional career, it’s actually about so much more. Most of this it due to Brophy who knows the game about as well as anyone can and who has, through his career, had access to the top players in the land. Well, in any land, and that’s

SF/F: The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge

Fans who have been waiting for a follow-up to Vernor Vinge’s stellar A Fire Upon the Deep have been waiting a long time. A long, long time. Certainly longer than any marketing savvy publicist would tell an author to make readers wait because, let’s face it: no matter the universe, 20 years is a long time.But, actually, it is only in our universe that 20 years have passed. There is only a single

Holiday Gift Guide: The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson and Richard DiLallo

If you love sappy Christmas stories and/or later life romances, you probably don’t even need us to tell you about The Christmas Wedding (Little, Brown) by fiction factory James Patterson. You’re probably already there.Widowed Gabby wants her family together for Christmas, so plans a wedding for herself and her bridegroom. The hitch to their getting hitched? She’s keeping his identity a secret in