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It’s the 18th Day of Advent here at the store and we’re looking ahead to the new year by putting our 2020 calendars on sale!

For today only, all in-stock agendas, planners, and calendars will be 30% off! If there’s one you’ve been eyeing, be sure to pop in early to pick it up – once our calendars are gone, they’re gone!

We’re celebrating books about books today for the fifth day of Advent with two of our favourite novels of the season! Both Steven Price‘s Lampedusa and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern will be 20% off today only!

On Thursday, September 20 @ 6:00 PM
at Books on Beechwood

Join us for the launch of award-winning author Paul Carlucci’s critically acclaimed new story collection, The High Rise in Fort Fierce. Featuring special guest (writer, editor, reviewer, critic, publisher) rob mclennan!

Come meet the author of the collection Quill & Quire calls “Darkly majestic but notably grim … The nine linked pieces in this latest collection command attention.”

ABOUT PAUL CARLUCCI 
Paul Carlucci’s first collection of short fiction, The Secret Life of Fission, won the 2013 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His second collection, A Plea for Constant Motion, was published to critical acclaim in 2017. His stories have also been published in numerous magazines and journals, including the Malahat Review, subTerrain, the Fiddlehead, and the New Quarterly. He lives in Ottawa.

Learn more about The High-Rise in Fort Fierce here.

ABOUT ROB MCLENNAN
Ottawa’s rob mclennan is a Canadian writer, critic, and publisher. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour, is the recipient of two Senior Canada Council grants, and his literary archives are held at the University of Calgary. Find him online at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com 

Books will be available for purchase.

Thursday, September 20 @ 6:00 PM
Books on Beechwood
35 Beechwood Avenue, Ottawa, ON

FREE | All are welcome to attend!

For more information, visit the event page on Facebook.

Hilary was on CBC’s Ottawa Morning show over the March break..

Tips for a bookish March Break. We ask a local librarian and bookstore manager for their surefire slamdunk reads for kids.

Have a listen on the CBC website. There was also an accompanying article with all the details from the radio piece.

A local copy of the article and audio are also available if the originals above go missing.

We will be CLOSED on Saturday, July 1 for Canada Day. Regular store hours will resume on Sunday, July 2.

Happy Canada Day!

We will be CLOSED on Friday, November 11 until 1:00pm for Remembrance Day. We will be open in the afternoon from 1:00-7:00pm.

With a second Trudeau in the Prime Minister’s office, it is a good time to read Trudeaumania by Robert Wright.

Wright is Professor of History at Trent University in Oshawa and winner of prizes for books on Canadian History, including one on the love affair between Pierre and Margaret Trudeau and another on the Iran hostage crisis, which was made into a documentary film. In this new book, he concentrates on Pierre Trudeau’s political life and his rise to fame; from being a provocative writer of the magazine Cite Libre and a charismatic professor himself at the University of Montreal, to achieving political success in Ottawa, where he spearheaded reform of Canadian laws respecting divorce, abortion and homosexuality.

Trudeau rode the wave of national excitement that swept Canada after Expo 67. Although he was a Quebecer, he was against Quebec nationalism and advised against confusing the rights of French Canadians with provincial powers. He believed in a national homeland including French Canadians as well as English Canadians and advised that making this work would require political vision and determined effort. This book gives good examples of what he meant.

Reviewed by Anne McDougall

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We will be CLOSED on Monday, October 10 for Thanksgiving. Regular store hours will resume on Tuesday, October 11.

Happy Thanksgiving!