Author: David Rostenne

Ken Hancock Book Signing on Saturday, July 21 from 11:00am to 1:00pm “Capital Home Cuisine Cookbook”

Come by the bookstore on Saturday, July 21 to meet local author Ken Hancock. He will be here from 11:00am to 1:00pm signing copies of his newest book, a cookbook called “Capital Home Cuisine.” This new cookbook consists of a series of recipes from major world capitals that Ken Hancock has visited throughout his travels. We look forward to seeing you all here on Saturday!

Ken will also have some of his previously published books on hand, including “Sweets Off Coupons” and his humour books “Laughter From the Web” volumes 3 and 4.

Bruce Firestone Signing “Quantum Entity” on Sunday, July 15 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Bruce Firestone will be in the store to sign his new book “Quantum Entity” on Sunday, July 15 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.
The first in a trilogy, “Quantum Entity” is published by Exploriem.org and retails for $19.95.

About the book:
“In the mid-21st Century, amidst a world entrenched in corporate power and greed, brilliant young physicist Damien Bell emerges to create quantum communications and the AI phenomenon of quantum entities – poised to make global scarcity a thing of the past. Here Damien’s journey begins – thrust into the reality of global business influence and national security – to prove that “we are all ONE.”

In this first book of the trilogy, Bruce M. Firestone creates a thrilling new genre that captures the essence of science fiction, adventure, romance and the entrepreneurial spirit.

To learn more about Bruce M. Firestone or “Quantum Entity” visit Bruce’s website at:

Home

Or check out the “Quantum Entity” Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/QuantumEntityTrilogy

You can also follow along on Twitter:
The Novel: https://twitter.com/#!/quantum_entity
The Author: https://twitter.com/#!/ProfBruce
Our Organization: https://twitter.com/#!/Exploriem

We look forward to seeing you all at this exciting event! Snacks and drinks will be provided! See you then!

“Nation Maker, Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times – Volume Two: 1867-1891” by Richard Gwyn

In Richard Gwyn’s second volume on Sir John A. Macdonald he shows how this charming and wily politician gave Canada our country.

Opening with Confederation in l867, when Nova Scotia and New Brunswick joined Quebec and Ontario, he describes Macdonald’s National Policy which stood for government intervention in times of public need. Macdonald believed that in such a fragmented country, Canadians had to look out for each other or they would have no nation at all.

With thorough research and a good journalist’s sense of style, Gwyn tells the story of struggle with the Red River Colony amidst constant pressure from Minnesota annexationists to take this part of Canada; Louis Riel’s two rebellions and controversial death; the battle to build the Canadian Pacific Railway, linking the continent, and the Pacific Scandal that almost sunk the whole project, as well as Macdonald’s government.

Macdonald survived all this even though his home life was not easy (his first wife had died after years of illness and the loss of one son) and his second wife, though devoted, had the handicap of caring for a disabled daughter.

Macdonald had an easy, disarming way of approaching people and they voted him back into office against heavy odds. The book includes many of the talented politicians and others who worked with Macdonald up to the young Laurier, who would be another lion in the leadership of Canada. There are excellent photographs backing the story. Gwyn in fact has done just what he did in the first volume, John A.: The Man Who Made Us. Published in 2007, that book became a bestseller and won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. This one is every bit as good.

Review by Anne McDougall

“Quantum Entity” by Bruce M. Firestone Now Available!!!

Bruce M. Firestone’s new book, the first in a trilogy, is now available for purchase at our store! Published by Exploriem.org, “Quantum Entity” is a paperback that retails for $19.95.

About the book:
“In the mid-21st Century, amidst a world entrenched in corporate power and greed, brilliant young physicist Damien Bell emerges to create quantum communications and the AI phenomenon of quantum entities – poised to make global scarcity a thing of the past. Here Damien’s journey begins – thrust into the reality of global business influence and national security – to prove that “we are all ONE.”

In this first book of the trilogy, Bruce M. Firestone creates a thrilling new genre that captures the essence of science fiction, adventure, romance and the entrepreneurial spirit.

To learn more about Bruce M. Firestone or “Quantum Entity” visit Bruce’s website at:

Home


Or check out the “Quantum Entity” Facebook page at:
http://www.facebook.com/QuantumEntityTrilogy

You can also follow along on Twitter:
The Novel: https://twitter.com/#!/quantum_entity
The Author: https://twitter.com/#!/ProfBruce
Our Organization: https://twitter.com/#!/Exploriem

“How It All Began” by Penelope Lively

The widely-recognized British writer Penelope Lively has done it again in “How it all Began” – a subtle novel full of characters you get to know and believe in from the moment they are introduced.

The only violence comes in the first pages and of course sets the story. Friends as well as strangers rally to help the victim recuperate. We meet an aged Academic, retired, Lord Henry Peters, eager to get on TV or radio or even print with what he considers his invaluable Memoirs. There is the Grannie who helps the attractive East European immigrant with his English, only to have him fall in love with her married daughter. In the interior design business one clever operator meets another, only to have her savings nearly wiped out.

Lively shows the coincidences in life that pull people together – or apart. She is believable and delightful to read, with nineteen novels to her credit, including the most famous “Moon Tiger”, as well as three books of autobiography. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of PEN and the Society of Authors and a recipient of the OBE and CBE.

Review by Anne McDougall

Richard Rathwell Signs “Jump the Devil” on Sunday, June 3 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Ottawa born author Richard Rathwell will be signing copies of his new book “Jump the Devil” in our store on Sunday, June 3 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

About the Book:
With Jump the Devil, Richard Rathwell has masterfully interwoven the plots of five seemingly unrelated storylines to create one coherent narrative that spans the globe and works to blend the seemingly mundane with the profound, deftly providing readers the necessary clues to unlocking the story. Transcending borders, cultures, generations, and social mores, Jump the Devil brings to life the notion of the global village as it exists in the 21st Century.

“There must have been a bad bite. Something had gestated. He wasn’t imagining it. There were wet, frozen pebbles tumbling in his veins. There was a sugary sense of euphoria, a smell of orange blossoms, of piss, of diesel.”

A man in a crawlspace. A woman and her cart. A doctor in an African village. A girl celebrating New Year’s. And an Egyptian Revolutionary in front of a computer screen. These five, seemingly unrelated narratives span the globe, blurring the boundaries between the trivially mundane and the profound. Jump the Devil brings its readers on a cross-cultural voyage which inextricably links the lives of the narrators, asking the reader to decipher the clues tucked away in the pages with a deft subtlety.

Rathwell’s writing is “a fistful of sentences written with the subtlety of a geisha and the terse certainty of stainless steel.” – John Olson, Author

We look forward to seeing you all here for this exciting book signing event! Come meet the author, buy a book, and get it signed!

William P. McElligott Signing His Photography Book “Ottawa, Canada” on Saturday, June 2 from 11:00am to 2:00pm

Local author William P. McElligott will be in the store on Saturday, June 2 from 11:00am to 2:00pm signing copies of his new photography book “Ottawa, Canada.” It’s a beautiful hardcover coffee table book filled with gorgeous photographs of Ottawa taken during each of our four seasons. It would make a wonderful gift for friends and family, or as an exciting treat for yourself!
For more information about William or his book, visit www.wpmcelligott.com.

We look forward to seeing you all here on Saturday!

Book Launch on Friday June 1st: “Vein Storm” by Rick Houle

Local author Rick Houle will be here in the store launching his debut novel, Vein Storm, on Friday, June 1 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.

About the book:

A couple in their late thirties take off for their first summer vacation at a cottage rental. While they expect serenity at their lakeside setting, their experience on cottage turf takes a turn for the worse as they discover a horrible secret about their etiquette-challenged neighbors.
Vein Storm is a psychological thriller set in a remote cottage township in Northern Ontario.

WHAT HAPPENS AT THE COTTAGE STAYS AT THE COTTAGE
For more information about the book, visit www.veinstorm.com

About the author:
Cartoonist, musician, Web developer, graphic designer, digital photographer and videographer
Rick Houle launches his first novel, a psychological thriller titled Vein Storm.
Rick Houle was born in Ottawa and continues to live and work in the Ottawa area wearing multiple hats. He works in the public service as a Web developer and also creates and maintains websites for himself and for private clients. His original cartoons can be found on the website www.rhcomix.com.

Vein Storm is the first novel in a planned trilogy and a science fiction and detective novel are also on the way.

Linda Wiken (a.k.a. Erika Chase) Signing “A Killer Read” on Saturday, May 26 from 11:00am to 1:00pm

Linda Wiken (who writes as Erika Chase) will be in the store on Saturday, May 26 from 11:00am to 1:00pm signing copies of her new mystery novel “A Killer Read” – the first in an exciting new series!
From the jacket:
“Reading specialist and mystery book lover Lizzie Turner was excited for the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society hosted in Molly Matthew’s old Southern mansion. But she didn’t expect the gathering to become the scene of an actual murder. A stranger has been shot – and nobody knows who the victim is, or how Molly’s antique gun came to be used as the murder weapon.
As the plot becomes all too real, the police chief – Lizzie’s former high school crush – steps in to investigate. Then Lizzie begins finding mysterious manuscript chapters in her mailbox, and Molly surfaces as the next name on the killer’s list…”

Come on down to the store on Saturday to meet the author, buy a book, and get it signed! We hope to see you then!