Category: Our Events

Helen McCuaig Signing

Local author Helen McCuaig will be in our store on Saturday, June 18 from 12:00-2:00pm to sign copies of her new book, Global Highlights: External Affairs 1954-1965.

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Mark Curfoot-Mollington Launch

unnamedJoin us on Saturday, June 11 for the launch of Albert and Ettore by New Edinburgh’s own Mark Curfoot-Mollington. He will be in our store from 11:00am to 1:00pm to sign and read from his brand new novel.

From the jacket:

“Albert Stafford is a University of Bologna lecturer who has written a journal at his home in the Valtiberina, a region of Italy shared by Tuscans and Umbrians. The theft of his mobile telephone, an unfortunate accident and a chance encounter with the circus performer Ettore sends his life of respectability and predictability into free fall. Life becomes ‘all too Fellini: dwarfs, hysterical spinsters, buxom red-headed women, theft and intrigue, cemetery flower-peddlers, fat ladies, mutes.’

Meanwhile, unusual happenings that have occurred in the nearby towns of Arezzo, Sansepolcro, Città di Castello, and Caprese Michaelangelo come together in Albert’s garden and the “deceits and abandonments” of Albert’s life start to unfold.

Albert and Ettore is a family chronicle of ‘deceit and abandonment,’ a story that unravels the nefarious deeds of a dark and sinister world, leading toward a harrowing conclusion.”

Light refreshments and snacks will be served.

Dan Conlin Signing

warthroughlensDan Conlin will be in our store on Saturday, June 4 from 12:00-1:00pm to sign copies of his new book War Through the Lens.

About the book:

“War through the Lens tells the story of the most daring filmmakers in the history of Canada’s motion picture industry, the fifty cameramen who filmed Canadians in battle during World War Two. They belonged to the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit and often scooped their British and American allies with the first, and in many cases, the most memorable footage of the war’s crucial battles in Europe.

This book explores their experience with unique first person accounts combined with rare and dramatic images of Canada at war.”

Elie Nasrallah Signing “Hostage to History”

hostagehistoryLocal author Elie Nasrallah will be here on Saturday, May 21 from 12:00-3:00pm to sign copies of his new book Hostage to History.

About the book:

“People, like you, all over the world are asking a serious question, demanding a credible answer: what happened to Arab culture and its peoples? (…) Like a social science surgeon, he takes the reader into the dark alleys of contemporary Arab cultural conditions and political collapse. In fact, he shows how the lack of freedom, women’s oppression, sexual repression, illiteracy, political tyranny, out-dated educational system, the mixing of religion and politics, and the curse of oil have all led to present-day catastrophic upheaval and Arab state-system disintegration, destruction and decay in most Arab lands. He provides readers with a 12-point prescription for salvaging a civilization that has lost its way and needs to re-join modernity and history.”