Local mystery author Linda Wiken will be in the store on Saturday, September 24 from 1:00-3:00pm to sign copies of her new book Toasting Up Trouble.
Toasting Up Trouble is the first book in her brand new Dinner Club Mystery series. Her previous series, The Ashton Corners Book Club series, was published under her pseudonym, Erika Chase.
We hope to see you here!
Join us for a Titles@Table40 evening of fun and laughter with the host of CBC’s The Debaters, Steve Patterson!
When: Wednesday, October 26 at 5:30pm
Where: Table 40, 7 Springfield Road
The evening starts at 5:30pm with dinner, followed by the author presentation and book signing. Attendees must reserve their spot at the bookstore with a non-refundable deposit of $20.00 which will go towards the cost of the meal (a set menu with a vegetarian option). The total cost of the meal is $40.00, which includes a three course meal (family-style). No substitutions will be allowed.
Tax, 18% gratuity, and refreshments are not included.
Tickets are are going fast, so call or visit us to reserve your spot today!
August Bestsellers
1. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J K Rowling
2. The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
3. Barkskins by Annie Proulx
4. Albert and Ettore by Mark Curfoot-Mollington
5. Black Widow by Daniel Silva
6. Dead Ground in Between by Maureen Jennings
7. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
8. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
9. Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner
10. History’s People by Margaret MacMillan
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Robert Moor is an American, who happens to live in Half Moon Bay, British Columbia, and is well-known for his writing on the environment.
In this book he looks at trails, in all shapes and sizes, from the earliest fossil trails to the great Appalachian Trail running from Georgia to Maine. Moor has walked many of these trails himself. He looks at the beginning of animal life and what made it first move – from tiny ant trails to massive elephant migrations. And then human beings — why they chose certain paths and not others.
There are a number of interviews with famous scientists and environmentalists. They show how pathways for humans act as an essential guiding force on the planet. Like many others, the Appalachian Trail goes hundreds of years back to the days of the Cherokee Indians and Moor gives excellent descriptions of their development. One branch grew when the trail continued north through eastern Canada all the way up to Newfoundland. It eventually hopped the Atlantic Ocean and took root in Europe.
Moor shows how without trails, mankind would be lost and this runs all the way from the origins of our road networks up to today’s internet. He has written for many American publications and also won the Middlebury Fellowship in Environmental Journalism.
Reviewed by Anne McDougall
We will be CLOSED today (September 8) from 10:30am to 1:00pm for a staff event. Regular hours will resume this afternoon at 1:00pm
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Join us for our first Table 40 event of the fall as we welcome local restaurant reviewer Anne DesBrisay! Her new cookbook, Ottawa Cooks, features recipes and stories from some of our Nation’s Capital’s most famous chefs.
When: Sunday, September 18 @ 5:30pm
Where: Table 40, 7 Springfield Road
The evening starts at 5:30pm with dinner, followed by the author presentation and book signing. Attendees must reserve their spot at the bookstore with a non-refundable deposit of $20.00 which will go towards the cost of the meal (a set menu with a vegetarian option). The total cost of the meal is $40.00, which includes a three course meal (family-style). No substitutions will be allowed.
Tax, 18% gratuity, and refreshments are not included.
Tickets are now available through the bookstore! Call or visit us to reserve your spot today!
The Taming of the Shrew has always been one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays. In Vinegar Girl, the best-selling novelist Anne Tyler tackles the same subject and gives her own version of the famous story.
She describes the life of a modern, working girl, Kate Battista, who is stuck at home looking after her old father, a retired scientist, and her younger, spoiled sister. The father has been working for years and is on the verge of a breakthrough in his research, a project that could help millions. The problem is that his young lab assistant has reached the end of his stay in Canada and is about to be deported to his home country, Russia.
Dr. Battista has an outrageous idea that would enable his assistant to stay in Canada. Needless to say it involves the strong-minded Kate. This book tells how everyone becomes slowly accustomed to the idea of a wedding. By the end, the vinegar girl has become quite tamed – not unlike the shrew before her.
Reviewed by Anne McDougall
It is the spring of 1941 and although the British raids over Germany had intensified, there was general concern that the British were losing the war.
Some of the aircraft were badly damaged on the way home and came down in the Occupied Zone of France. Here they were hidden by small groups of French men and women who helped the pilots get home to England, where they were badly needed to fly again. This was the beginning of what came to be known as the French Resistance and this new book by the renowned spy novelist, Alan Furst, gives a thrilling account of what this Resistance was able to do.
The hero goes by the name of Mathieu. He works out of Paris which is occupied by the Nazis, and heavily shuttered by night with the streetlamps painted blue and windows shuttered in a heavy blackout. Mathieu and his network also work from neighbouring farmhouses, barns and churches.
The story is thrilling and the relationships very real and touching, heightened by the constant fear of discovery. A Hero of France joins the list of Alan Furst’s legendary thrillers, many of which, such as Midnight in Europe and Mission to Paris, were bestsellers. Furst was born in New York, lived for many years in Paris and now lives on Long Island.
Reviewed by Anne McDougall
This is a book on Vincent Van Gogh, with a new look at the troubled artist.
Bernadette Murphy is an English writer who went to live with an older brother in Provence, France, thirty years ago. She had already researched her own family tree and while in France became interested in the story of Vincent Van Gogh. She gets to know the ancient city of Arles where he lived from February, 1888 to May, 1889.
Van Gogh was born in Holland, in 1853, to the Reverend Theodorus Van Gogh and his wife Anna Cornelia, one of seven children. As a youngster his contemporaries describe him as peevish, intense, and quick to anger. The mental problems continued, and were not treated in those days. He tried church work, following his father, and had great care and kindness toward those in difficulty, something he kept all his life. He was not accepted by the church, however, and started painting, encouraged by his brother Theo who was an art dealer and devoted to his brother all his life, as we know from his letters.
Vincent moved to Arles and set himself up in what would become famous as The Yellow House, and set out to paint full time. At one point the painter Paul Gauguin came to live with him. He was lonely, however, and one day in deep distress, cut off his ear and gave it to a prostitute who lived in a nearby brothel. Murphy does a thorough job of investigating this whole incident, from reports by the police officer to documents from Gauguin, Theo, and others. We are left with the marvelous illustrations in this book and the record of a mentally disturbed artist who didn’t sell a single painting in his lifetime but left so much beauty to the rest of us.
Reviewed by Anne McDougall
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