Cute little animals are depicted on pages of red, blue green and other colors. Each page has the color word printed on it.

The Brambleberrys Animal Book of Colors

Mayer, Marianna

McDermott, Gerald

Riverbank Press

The mystery artist

DeSpain, Pleasant

In Fifteen Legs: When all that stands between death and freedom is a ride... Silva recounts her travels as an uninvited and sometimes suspiciously eye-balled guest aboard an Internet enabled escort service for last-chance animals. Smitten by an inner urge to tell the public at large about the largely undiscovered world she stumbled upon, Silva writes, This notion of volunteers connecting in cyberspace on behalf of desperate, unwanted animals had stolen my heart. The thought of perfect strangers coming together and working as a team to shuttle society's non-human cast-offs out of harms way was too wonderful a story to pass up. I had to tell it. Along the way she encounters the heroines and heroes of the animal rescue and transport world, people like Yahoo groups list owner Brandy Holleran, bunny transport boss Jennifer Barbieri, volunteer pilot Kevin Boyle, hurricane search and rescue leader Jane Garrison, and esteemed transport coordinator Terri Epp, who performs cyber-miracles at home from her computer in Canada. But who ARE these people, and why, after working regular jobs all week, do they willingly give up their weekends to do what they do? As Silva asks, Is this some kind of a clandestine club comprised of people I would never want to take to lunch? Or are they individuals like you and me who, feeling helpless when it comes to big picture problems, will leap at the chance to give an out-of- time animal a lift? Through a whirlwind of voices speaking on behalf of angels wrapped in fur, Fifteen Legs shows us what can happen when a synchronized squad of strangers fuels up and hits the road. With stubborn optimism and a deep compassion for animals, Silva leaves room for everyone who wants to come along for the ride. No prior experience with shelters, pounds, or animal-people required. Facts: Approximately 6 to 8 million healthy dogs, cats and other pets are killed in animal shelters every year. But very often a loving, adoptive home, or a temporary foster home can be found for many of these pets. Sometimes, though, that home is several hundred or even thousands of miles away. That is where the volunteer animal transporters come in - moving animals one leg at a time, usually on a weekend. The planning is done on the Internet, and the transport is done on the Interstate! A transport coordinator (generally working along a specific Interstate corridor) plans the route and schedule for the furry passengers, and then notifies members of that transport group via e-mails. Group members can then volunteer to drive a leg of the route that is convenient for them. Some transports are only several legs long, some are ten to fifteen legs, and occasionally a transport consists of over 30 legs, moving animals all the way from Florida to New Hampshire, or Louisiana to Oregon. Volunteer animal transport is something anyone with a car, a few hours on a weekend, and a desire to make a difference in an animal's life can do. And, as one transporter put it, I do a transport almost every weekend because it is just so good for my soul!

Fifteen Legs: When all that stands between death and freedom is a ride

Bonnie Silva

Crosstown

Richard Scrimger

The Mice Will Play

Edward O. Phillips

During their bi-weekly morale-boosting dinners at the local Hungarian restaurant, screenwriter/office temp/gay porn writer Mitchell Draper and his best friends, painter/coffeehouse manager Ingrid and actor/heath-food-store clerk Ramir, obsess over their professional aspirations, their sex lives and the illusive allure of celebrity. Their fortunes begin to change when Mitchell gets commissioned to script a film by Carmen   Denver, a cash-laden but somewhat dubious film producer who promises the film -- a bad Mafia Princess rip-off -- will "shake up a lot of people."    The plot thickens when Mitchell begins to suspect there may be more fact than fiction to Carmen's story: he finds himself receiving threatening phone calls and being stalked by a mysterious Antonio Banderas clone. In the meantime, Ingrid's art career takes off when she is courted by a dashing art gallery owner who looks like a young Sidney Poitier as Ramir juggles plans for a one-man-show and his tumultuous love life.  Equal parts quirky comedy, whodunit mystery, and good old-fashioned romance, SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE is a knowing meditation on fame and a wildly entertaining urban fairy tale.

Soon to be a major motion picture: A novel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dunford, Warren

Mystery

Shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. In a desperate attempt to save his foundering charity ― and to exorcise a few personal demons ― Canadian philanthropist Junior Beamish creates a lottery in which the winner gets to publicly torch an original van Gogh. A grand comedy about art, commerce and untidy family relationships, The Phoenix Lottery sweeps from Mafia hits in post-war Italy to post-millennial Vatican intrigue by way of revolutionary Cuba, Bay Street backstabs, a seance on Baffin Island, and a Port Elgin S&amp;M bed and breakfast.

The Phoenix Lottery

Literature & Fiction

Stratton, Allan

Humor & Satire

Nominated for the Quebec Writers' Federation's 2005 McAuslan First Book Prize, Cities of Weather is a collection of eleven short stories that place readers alongside quirky, loveable &rdquo; and often hilarious &rdquo; characters as they make their way through their lives. Each story builds in scope and significance until a final crescendo where the characters must confront the fortunes they have prepared. An obsessive sculptress finds herself alone after lying to everyone she knows; a gay telemarketer who fantasises about flying lands at the romantic mercy of a beautiful rock star; two roommates compete to write better eulogies after a tragic car accident kills their friends. Although the style of each story reflects the different mentalities of its characters, the collection itself is unified through the overarching metaphor of weather and by characters that reveal their fates by re-surfacing in subsequent stories. Lushly described, the settings of these stores are as diverse as the characters that inhabit them: Montreal just after its beautiful and dangerous ice storm, Manhattan trapped in an autumn drought. Cities of Weather is both funny and human, showing that there is beauty and significance at every turn.

Cities of weather

Fox, Matthew

Literary

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