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Welcome to Dan Davidson's Bookends. A teacher in Beaver Creek, Faro and Dawson City from 1976 to 2008, Dan has written his Bookends and Uffish Thoughts columns for the Whitehorse Star since January 21, 1977.

In Bookends, Dan reviews a broad variety of books, and we are now pleased to carry a collection of his columns here on Yukonbooks.com

Date Title Author
August 28, 2008 Amulet: The Stonekeeper Kazu Kibuishi
August 28, 2008 Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home story by Joss Whedon / art by Georges Jeanty, Andy Owens & Dave Stewart
August 20, 2008 Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers
August 20, 2008 The Rabbit and the Turtle Eric Carle
August 12, 2008 The First King of Shannara Terry Brooks
August 5, 2008 A Time in the Arctic Bern Will Brown
August 5, 2008 The Fish Who Cried Wolf story by Julia Donaldson / art by Axel Scheffler
July 31, 2008 By the Time You Read This Giles Blunt
July 23, 2008 Sin & Grace: A Historical Novel of the Skagway, Alaska, Sin & Grace: A Historical Novel of the Skagway, Alaska, Sporting Years Catherine Holder Spude
July 17, 2008 Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell Charlotte Gray
July 3, 2008 The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. Sandra Gulland / narrated by Louise Pitre
June 25, 2008 Late Nights on Air Elizabeth Hay
June 18, 2008 The Calder Game Blue Balliett
June 11, 2008 Cell Stephen King
May 29, 2008 A is for Alibi Sue Grafton / read by Judy Kaye
May 29, 2008 Mikissuk’s Secret written by Isabelle Lafonta / illustrated by Barroux
May 27, 2008 Taliesin Stephen R Lawhead
May 21, 2008 Race Against Time Stephen Lewis
May 14, 2008 The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame / Adapted by Michael Plessix
May 7, 2008 Lives of Girls and Women Alive Munro / narrated by Judy Mahbey
April 29, 2008 Stanley Park Timothy Taylor
April 22, 2008 How I Spent my Summer Holidays written and read by W.O. Mitchell
April 22, 2008 An Evening with W.O. Mitchell written and performed by W.O. Mitchell
April 16, 2008 The Secret of Saying Thanks Douglas Wood / art by Greg Shed
April 16, 2008 Zen Ties Jon J. Muth
April 16, 2008 Tundra: 100% Naturally Flavored Comics Chad Carpenter
April 7, 2008 The Time in Between David Bergen / narrated by Michael Hogan and Tricia Collins
April 1, 2008 Heart of the Hill Andrea Spalding
April 1, 2008 Behind the Sorcerer’s Cloak Andrea Spalding
March 26, 2008 Interlude in Death J. D. Robb
March 26, 2008 Working for the Devil Lilith Saintcrow
March 26, 2008 Dead Man Rising Lilith Saintcrow
March 26, 2008 Dresden Files: Blood Rites Jim Butcher
March 18, 2008 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
March 9, 2008 The Englishman’s Boy a reading by Ken Kramer of the novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe
March 5, 2008 This is My Country What’s Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada Noah Richler
February 26, 2008 A Very Odd set of Stories: A Dean Koontz Review
February 20, 2008 The Well of Lost Plots Jasper FForde
February 20, 2008 A Magpie Life: Growing a Writer George Bowering
February 13, 2008 The Contract with God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue Will Eisner
February 5, 2008 Death of a Sunday Writer Eric Wright
February 5, 2008 Cold is the Grave Peter Robinson
January 30, 2008 The Tipping Point; How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Malcolm Gladwell
January 30, 2008 Very Bad Deaths Spider Robinson
January 22, 2008 The Hunt Club John Lescroart
January 22, 2008 The Books of Magic #7: Death after Death written by John Ney Rieber / art by Peter Gross, Jill Thompson, Temujin and Richard Case
January 17, 2008 A Wilderness Called Home Charles Wilkins
January 9, 2008 Skybreaker Kenneth Oppel
January 9, 2008 Rex Zero and the End of the World Tim Wynne-Jones
January 1, 2008 The Haunted Air F. Paul Wilson
January 1, 2008 The Myth Hunters Christopher Golden
December 27, 2007 The Best Journey In the World Jim Lotz
December 27, 2007 Revisiting the World of Harry Potter
December 12, 2007 Angel's Flight Michael Connelly
December 12, 2007 Stone Cold Robert B. Parker
December 5, 2007 The Top 100 Canadian Albums Bob Mersereau
November 28, 2007 The Templar Legacy Steve Berry
November 28, 2007 Just a Snowy Day Mercer Mayer
November 18, 2007 The Gravesavers Sheree Fitch
November 18, 2007 The Sandman: Endless Nights Neil Gaiman / illustrations by Glenn Fabry, Milo Manara, Miguelanxo Prado, Frank Quitely, P. Craig Russell, Bill Seinkiewicz and Barron Storey
November 13, 2007 The Keys to the Kingdom: Drowned Wednesday Garth Nix
November 13, 2007 My Father’s Son: Memories of War and Peace Farley Mowat
November 7, 2007 Dead Wrong J.A. Jance / read by Debra Monk
November 7, 2007 I Am Legend Richard Matheson
November 1, 2007 Quantico Greg Bear
October 24, 2007 A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River Dan O’Neill
October 24, 2007 The Composition Antonio Skarmeta / illustrations by Alfonso Ruano
October 14, 2007 Code to Zero Ken Follett
October 14, 2007 Dick Whittington and His Cat retold by Margaret Hodges / illustrated by MŽlisande Potter
October 9, 2007 Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs / read by Dorothy Berryman
October 2, 2007 A Boy of Good Breeding Miriam Toews / narrated by Ruth McIntosh
October 2, 2007 Go Back to Bed Ginger Foglesong Guy / illustrations by James Bernardin
September 24, 2007 Mystery at Shildii Rock Robert Feagan
September 24, 2007 The Remarkable Farkle McBride poem by John Lithgow / illustrated by C.F. Payne
September 19, 2007 Scenic Adventures in the Yukon Territory Chris Caldwell
September 13, 2007 It’s Superman! Tom DeHaven
September 4, 2007 Bone Jeff Smith
August 30, 2007 Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures Vincent Lam / read by Michael Scholar, Jr. & William Johnston
August 30, 2007 Running in the Family written and narrated by Michael Ondaatje
August 22, 2007 The Mysterious Affair At Styles Agatha Christie
August 15, 2007 Norman Bray in the Performance of his Life a reading by David LeReaney / of the novel by Trevor Cole
August 3, 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows J.K. Rowling
July 29, 2007 Larry’s Party Carol Shields / read by R.H. Thompson
July 25, 2007 The Rule of Four Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
July 8, 2007 Mammoth John Varley
July 6, 2007 Spirits in the Wires Charles de Lint
July 1, 2007 Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with a Caribou Herd Karsten Heuer
July 1, 2007 Mars Needs Moms! Berkley Breathed
June 25, 2007 Rollback Robert J. Sawyer
June 18, 2007 Memory Book: a reading from the novel Howard Engel
June 10, 2007 One Heart, One Way - Alden Nowlan: A Writer’s Life Gregory M. Cook
June 10, 2007 Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems edited and with an introduction by Patrick Lane and Lorna Crozier
June 6, 2007 Invaders from the North - How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe John Bell
May 30, 2007 The New Frontier: Volumes 1 and 2 written and illustrated by Darwyn Cooke / coloured by Dave Stewart
May 23, 2007 The Messiah Code Michael Cordy
May 17, 2007 Private Wars Greg Rucka
May 17, 2007 The Oxford Book of Spy Stories edited by Michael Cox
May 10, 2007 Tundra: The comic strip mother nature warned you about Chad Carpenter
May 10, 2007 Dresden Files #4: Summer Knight Jim Butcher
April 30, 2007 Still Life With Crows Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
April 30, 2007 Top 10: The Forty-Niners story by Alan Moore / art by Gene Ha
April 24, 2007 Future: Tense Gwynne Dyer
April 24, 2007 With Every Mistake Gwynne Dyer
April 18, 2007 Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reeves and John Pelan
April 18, 2007 Get Fuzzy: Scrum Bums Darby Conley
April 11, 2007 The Last Cato Matilde Asensi
April 1, 2007 Men of Tomorrow:Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book Gerard Jones
March 21, 2007 Exploring the Frozen North Pierre Berton
March 12, 2007 The End of the World: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Film & Television John W. Martens
March 8, 2007 The Ambler Warning Robert Ludlumª
February 27, 2007 Smoke & Mirrors - Short Fictions and Illusions Neil Gaiman
February 27, 2007 The Camelot Caper Elizabeth Peters
February 21, 2007 The Fiend in Human John MacLachlan Gray
February 14, 2007 Grave Peril Jim Butcher
February 6, 2007 Beyond the Northern Lights Lynn Blaikie
February 6, 2007 The Woman in White Wilkie Collins / Dramatized by Beverly Cooper
January 31, 2007 The Stone Diaries Carol Shields / narrated by Sarah Botsford
January 31, 2007 Jennifer Jones Won’t Leave Me Alone poem by Frieda Wishinsky / illustrations by Neal Layton
January 24, 2007 Coyote and Coyote Rising Alan Steele
January 16, 2007 Poirot’s Early Cases Agatha Christie / read by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser
January 16, 2007 I Wished for a Unicorn Robert Heidbreder / illustrated by Kady MacDonald Denton
January 3, 2007 Guns, Germs and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond
December 27, 2006 Lost in a Good Book Jasper Fforde
December 19, 2006 The Maple Leaf Forever: A Celebration of Canadian Symbols Donna and Nigel Hutchins with photography by Matthew Beverly
December 13, 2006 Another Stereotype Bites the Dust: a Candorville collection Darrin Bell
December 13, 2006 Brevity - a collection of comics Guy & Rodd
December 6, 2006 The Pelican Brief - a reading of the novel John Grisham / performed by Anthony Heald
November 29, 2006 Crow Lake Mary Lawson
November 21, 2006 The Beatles - a Biography Bob Spitz
November 15, 2006 A Necessary End Peter Robinson
November 10, 2006 The Elfstones of Shannara Terry Brooks
October 31, 2006 Afterlands Stephen Heighton
October 23, 2006 Gunman’s Rhapsody & Shrink Rap Robert B. Parker
October 16, 2006 Teacher Man Frank McCourt
October 11, 2006 The Girl Who Sang Flowers D. R. Feltis / illustrations by Chris Caldwell
October 11, 2006 Marvel 1602 Neil Gaiman / illustrations by Andy Kubert
October 4, 2006 The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative Thomas King
September 26, 2006 Fire East / The Sword of Shannara Terry Brooks
September 20, 2006 The Cabinet of Curiosities Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
September 12, 2006 The Counterfeit Heinlein Laurence M. Janifer
September 12, 2006 Black Cherry Blues James Lee Burke / read by Will Patton
September 6, 2006 Without Fail Lee Child
August 26, 2006 The Dark Tower, book VII Stephen King
August 23, 2006 The Historian Elizabeth Kostova
August 15, 2006 The Dark Tower VI : Song of Susannah by Stephen King / with illustrations by Darrel Anderson
August 6, 2006 DreadfulWater Shows Up Thomas King
August 2, 2006 Airborn Kenneth Oppel
July 25, 2006 A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
July 21, 2006 Trunk Music Michael Connelly
July 21, 2006 Astro City: Local Heroes Kurt Busiek / art by Brent Anderson / covers by Alex Ross
July 14, 2006 Kiss of the Fur Queen Thomson Highway
July 3, 2006 Blood Memory Greg Iles
June 26, 2006 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon
June 22, 2006 Night Watch Terry Pratchett
June 22, 2006 Once Upon a Time, the End - (asleep in 60 seconds) Geoffrey Kloske / art by Barry Blitt
June 14, 2006 The Simple Truth David Baldacci
June 8, 2006 The Dark Tower V : Wolves of the Calla Stephen King / Illustrations by Bernie Wrightson
May 31, 2006 Marvel Comics Graphic Novels Series Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
May 23, 2006 Whiteout Ken Follett
May 14, 2006 Serenity: Those Left Behind story by Joss Whedon / script by Brett Matthews / art by Will Conrad
May 14, 2006 Serenity a novel by R.A. DeCandido / based on the script by Joss Whedon
May 11, 2006 The Cooperman Variations Howard Engel
May 11, 2006 The Blind Assassin - a dramatization of the novel Margaret Atwood
May 1, 2006 V For Vendetta story & script by Alan Moore / art by David Lloyd
April 26, 2006 Fat Ollie's Book Ed McBain read by Ron McLarty
April 15, 2006 Dance of the Stones Andrea Spalding
April 15, 2006 Death of an Addict M.C. Beaton
April 9, 2006 Alaska Agonistes: The Age of Petroleum - How Big Oil Bought Alaska Joe E. LaRocca
April 2, 2006 The Big Bad Wolf James Patterson
April 2, 2006 Transit to Scorpio: Dray Prescot #1 Alan Burt Akers (Kenneth Bulmer)
March 27, 2006 A Thief in the House of Memory Tim Wynne-Jones
March 27, 2006 When the Library Lights Go Out Megan McDonald and Katherine Tillotson
March 21, 2006 The Crazy Years: Reflections of a Science Fiction Original
March 21, 2006 The Free Lunch Spider Robinson
March 12, 2006 Fables, Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers Bill Willingham - art by Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha and P. Craig Russell
March 12, 2006 The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde
March 7, 2006 Dime Store Magic Kelly Armstrong
March 7, 2006 Storm Front Jim Butcher
March 1, 2006 Polaris Jack McDevitt
February 22, 2006 The Seeker Margaret Buffie
February 16, 2006 A Short History of Progress: The 2004 Massey Lectures Ronald Wright
February 9, 2006 Tartan Magic a trilogy by Jane Yolen
January 30, 2006 The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester
January 23, 2006 New Tales of Sherlock Holmes ed by Martin H. Greenberg, Jon L. Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower
January 23, 2006 Mister X Peter Straub
January 15, 2006 Bad Business Robert B. Parker
January 15, 2006 The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass Stephen King
January 8, 2006 The Enemy Lee Child
January 8, 2006 Silly Dilly Christmas Songs: Where Did They Hide my Presents Alan Katz & David Catrow
January 4, 2006 The Lovely Bones Alice Seabold
December 28, 2005 The Golden Globe John Varley
December 28, 2005 Chasing Shakespeares Sarah Smith
December 17, 2005 Sleds, Sleighs and Snow: A Canadian Christmas Carol edited by Anne Tempelman-Kluit
December 17, 2005 The Quilt of Belonging: The Invitation Project compiled by Esther Bryan & Friends
December 17, 2005 Mutt Comics: Who Let the Cat Out? Patrick McDonnell
December 13, 2005 Peanuts Holiday Treasury Charles M. Schulz
December 13, 2005 Jesus Demi
December 13, 2005 The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands Stephen King
December 4, 2005 Single & Single John le Carre
December 4, 2005 Wizard’s First Rule Terry Goodkind
November 30, 2005 The Wildfire Season Andrew Pyper
November 22, 2005 Grand Landscapes of Canada J. A. Kraulis
November 22, 2005 The Sandcastle Contest Robert Munsch / art by Michael Martchenko
November 22, 2005 The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three Stephen King
November 14, 2005 Mouse’s First Snow Lauren Thompson / illustrated by Buket Erdogan
November 14, 2005 Rose is Rose: Running on Alter Ego Pat Brady
November 14, 2005 The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Stephen King
November 7, 2005 The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman
October 31, 2005 Klondike Gold Alice Provensen
October 31, 2005 The Rough Guide to the Da Vinci Code: History, Legends, Locations Michael Haag and Veronica Haag
October 19, 2005 A Dedicated Man: An Inspector Banks mystery Peter Robinson
October 19, 2005 Fantastic Four: a novelization of the screenplay Peter David
October 12, 2005 Pattern Recognition William Gibson
October 2, 2005 The First Barsoom Omnibus Edgar Rice Burroughs
September 24, 2005 Spin Robert Charles Wilson
September 20, 2005 Old Turtle and the Broken Truth Douglas Wood / watercolours by Jon J. Muth
September 20, 2005 The Killing Dance Laurell K. Hamilton
September 14, 2005 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer
September 14, 2005 Animachines Debora Pearson / illustrated by Nora Hilb
September 6, 2005 Persuader Lee Child
September 6, 2005 Muhammad Demi
August 29, 2005 Breaking Trail Joanne Bell
August 29, 2005 Caribou and the Barren Lands George Calef
August 23, 2005 The Mob - Book One of Feather and Bone: The Crow Chronicles Clem Martini
August 23, 2005 Agnes: I Have Tampered With the Divine Plan Tony Cochran
August 16, 2005 The Big Caribou Herd - Life in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge written and illustrated by Bruce Hiscock
August 16, 2005 Dot to Dot in the Sky - Stories of the Planets Joan Marie Galat / illustrations by Lorna Bennett
August 16, 2005 Ice Age Cave Bear - The Giant Beast that Terrified Ancient Humans Barbara Hehner / illustrations by Mark Hallett
August 8, 2005 The Klondike Quest - A Photographic Essay written and edited by Pierre Berton
August 8, 2005 Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents - The Story of Canada Beneath Your Feet John Wilson
August 3, 2005 The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
July 27, 2005 Those Who Walk in Darkness John Ridley
July 19, 2005 Back Story Robert B. Parker
July 19, 2005 Bloody Bones Laurell K. Hamilton
July 13, 2005 Media Madness: An Insider's Guide to Media Dominic Ali / illustrated by Michael Cho
July 13, 2005 Brown Paper Teddy Bear Catherine Allison / illustrated by Neil Reed
July 13, 2005 Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything: a Foxtrot collection Bill Amend
July 5, 2005 The Onion Girl Charles de Lint
June 29, 2005 Mindscan Robert J. Sawyer
June 20, 2005 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Mordecai Richler / narrated by Paul Hecht
June 20, 2005 The Magic Paintbrush Robin Muller
June 13, 2005 A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews / narrated by Cara Pifko
June 13, 2005 The Balloon Sailors text by Diane Swanson / illustrations by Krystyna Lipka-Sztarballo
June 7, 2005 Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Susanna Clarke
June 1, 2005 Carry Tiger to Mountain Mark Zuehlke
May 25, 2005 Inkheart Cornelia Funke
May 18, 2005 Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 Margaret Atwood
May 11, 2005 Eye of the Beholder Julie E. Czerneda
May 4, 2005 A Cold Heart Jonathan Kellerman / read by John Rubinstein
April 26, 2005 The Serpent's Egg J. Fitzgerald McCurdy
April 13, 2005 Terry Douglas Coupland
April 3, 2005 The Kill Artist Daniel Silva
March 29, 2005 Coyote’s New Suit story by Thomas King / illustrated by Johnny Wales
March 29, 2005 Cappuccina Goes to Town story by Mary Anne Smith and Katie Smith Milgray / illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
March 21, 2005 Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda Margaret Atwood / illustrated by Dusan Petricic
March 21, 2005 Blood Debt Tanya Huff
March 16, 2005 The Angels Will Not Care John Straley
March 16, 2005 Backstage Vancouver A Century of Entertainment Legends Greg Potter and Red Robinson
March 9, 2005 What Went Wrong The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis
February 23, 2005 Orwell: Wintery Conscience of a Nation Jeffrey Meyers
February 17, 2005 The Protector David Morrell
February 9, 2005 Buried in Stone Eric Wright
February 9, 2005 Sally Dog Little: Undercover Agent Bill Richardson / illustrations by Celine Malepart
January 31, 2005 Superman: Secret Indentity Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen
January 31, 2005 Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz edited and designed by Chip Kidd
January 26, 2005 Critical Space Greg Rucka
January 19, 2005 The Iraq War John Keegan
January 13, 2005 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
January 7, 2005 The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past A. B. McKillop
December 31, 2004 The Merlin Conspiracy Diana Wynne-Jones
December 24, 2004 Adventures in the Ice Age Linda Bailey / illustrated by Bill Slavin
December 24, 2004 It Could Be Worse Vlasta Van Kampen
December 17, 2004 The Penguin and the Pea Janet Perlman
December 17, 2004 An Elf for Christmas Michael Garland
December 17, 2004 Fables: Legends in Exile Bill Willingham / art by Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha and Craig Hamilton
December 10, 2004 Drumheller Dinosaur Dance Robert Heidbreder / illustrated by Bill Slavin and Esperanta Melo
December 10, 2004 Sandman Mystery Theatre: The Tarantula Matt Wagner / art by Guy Davis
December 3, 2004 Perdido Street Station China Mieville
November 26, 2004 The Temple and the Stone Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
November 26, 2004 Monkey Business Wallace Edwards
November 19, 2004 The Lost Slayer Christopher Golden
November 19, 2004 The Lunatic Cafe Laurell K. Hamilton
November 12, 2004 Village of the Small Houses a Memoir of Sorts Ian Ferguson
November 5, 2004 Family Honor Robert B. Parker
October 29, 2004 The Footprints of God Greg Iles
October 29, 2004 Matchbox Labels Jane Smith / captions by Natasha Lomas
October 22, 2004 Grave Secrets Kathy Reichs / a reading by Katherine Borowitz
October 22, 2004 For the Love of Knitting edited by Kari Cornell
October 15, 2004 Prisoners of the North Pierre Berton
October 8, 2004 Chelsea Morning Joni Mitchell / illustrated by Brian Froud
October 8, 2004 The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Jess Borgeson, Adam Long and Daniel Singer
October 8, 2004 Bucky Katt's Big Book of Fun Darby Conley
October 1, 2004 Clara Callan Richard B. Wright
October 1, 2004 Clara Callan Richard B. Wright / narrated by Cynthia and Jennifer Dale
September 24, 2004 Hybrids