Category: Our Events

Local author Helene Viel will be in the store on Saturday, April 12 to sign copies of her new book My Canada: Every Step of the Way from 11:00am to 1:00pm.

From the jacket:

“A story of endurance and dreams fulfilled. After a decade of planning and dreaming, Helene Viel from Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec, and her husband Ole Olson from Broadview, Saskatchewan, marked their retirement by walking across Canada, from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific to the Atlantic.

Maintaining a pace of 40 to 50 kilometres a day through Canada’s four seasons, the walkers passed through two territories and ten provinces, completing the longest recorded walk across Canada: from sea to sea to sea. Ole did it all: 10,081 kilometres. Helene, 66, achieved a fantastic 8,107 kilometres. This is her story.”

We hope to see you all on Saturday!

Local author Harry MacKay will be in the store on Saturday, April 5 from 12:00 to 2:00 to sign copies of his newest book Church Rebel With A Cause.

From the jacket:

“This raw and riveting fictionalized memoir lays bare the state of Christianity in the turbulent 1960s, when society re-evaluates its beliefs about morality, love, sex, and spirituality. Scott Lively, a United Church of Canada minister in Toronto North, preaches The New Morality (love, then do as you like). Soon he is labeled “The Sex Cleric” and is called to account by his congregation.

This book will appeal to spiritual seekers who may be disinterested or uncomfortable with the institutional church. Activists interested in social justice will also be attracted to the narrative.”

We hope to see you all here!

Local author Qais Ghanem will be here on Thursday, April 3 from 5:00-7:00pm to launch his new novel Forbidden Love in the Land of Sheba – a story of conflict, crime and corruption.

From the jacket:

“Fifteen-year-old Hana has a crush on twenty-year-old cousin, Farook. But he leaves Yemen to study medicine in Scotland. Her parents force her to marry another cousin, twice her age, a selfish, abusive criminal involved in arms’ sales and gang rapes. Ten years later, Hana’s life changes dramatically when Farook opens a clinic next door.”

Qais will also be available to sign copies of his previous novels – Final Flight from Sanaa and Two Boys from Aden College – as well as his non-fiction works – From Left to Right and My Arab Spring, My Canada.

We hope to see you all here on Thursday!

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

Local mystery author Rick Houle will be in the store on Saturday, March 29 to sign copies of his new novel, Affable Scavengers. The signing will run from 1:00pm to 3:00pm and Rick will also be available to sign copies of his first mystery novel, Vein Storm.

 

New Mystery Thriller from Rick Houle – Affable Scavengers

“Hard to play detective when they see you coming a mile away.
A young mom searches for her best friend who’s been missing for two weeks.
Her mission becomes a horrifying experience. A twist on Canada’s tragic
Highway of Tears, Affable Scavengers is a tense, terrifying page turner.”

Available at Books on Beechwood. It will soon be available online.
Come to the book signing on Saturday, March 29. Two dollars from every book
sold will be given to the Ottawa Food Bank.

Local author Nikita Kiriloff will be in the store on Thursday, March 20 from 5:00-7:00pm to sign copies of his new book Voice of Translator? But No, Interpretor.

Nikita Kiriloff is one of Canada’s most successful and long-standing Russian/French/English interpreters. His career spans from Trudeau to Harper and from Gorbachev to Putin. His book includes a forward by the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien.

Coffee and snacks will be available.

We hope to see you all here on Thursday!

Local author Willow-Marie Power will be here on Saturday, February 22 from 12:00 to 2:00pm to sign copies of her new book Real: Coming of Age – Keeping Your Soul. She will also be reading from her book at 1:00pm.

From the jacket:

“‘Real is a beautifully written introspection that took me on a journey from Willow-Marie Power’s reflections to my own and back again. This book will stay with me. Willow’s prose and poems remind us that life is absolutely beautiful, but only when we dare to actively drive into it – vulnerable, naked and free of any illusion. This requires extraordinary amounts of self-awareness, humility and love. You’ll find all three on every page.’ – Anais Navarre, writer and translator.”

About the author:

“Willow-Marie Power is a writer, counselor and consultant. All her work explores women’s experiences of spirituality and coming of age. Drawn from her Celtic background and love of myth and ballet, it has been featured in poetry journals as well as in recital and dance at conferences and festivals since 1994.”

Visit her on-line home: http://willowmariewrites.com

We look forward to seeing you all here on Saturday!

Robert Lalonde, along with his translator Jean-Paul Murray, and Patrick White will be here to sign their newest books, The Last Indian Summer and RedShift, respectively, on Sunday, February 16 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.

From the jacket of The Last Indian Summer:

“Michel’s village is a prison where life is to be feared and betrayed, where duty and hypocrisy are the fashion. His Native friend Kanak will help him escape, introducing him to nature, freedom and forbidden games, teaching him to balance spiritual needs and natural desires. But Michel’s relationship with Kanak shocks the village because it involves an Indian. For his crime, the clan forbids Michel from seeing Kanak again and sentences him to confinement and solitude.

A post-colonial novel of protest, The Last Indian Summer is a bewitching and beautiful summer night’s dream, a hymn to passion, nature and freedom that condemns hypocrisy and intolerance.”

From the jacket of RedShift:

Patrick White is the former poet laureate of Ottawa. He has published eight books of poetry and his work has been translated into five languages and appears in hundreds of national and international periodicals and anthologies, including Poetry (Chicago), Dalhousie Review, Texas Quaterly, The Fiddlehead, and Georgia Review. Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Canadian Literature Award, Benny Nicholas Award for Creative Writing, he was also runner-up for the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award.

Local author Beth McKenty will be here on Saturday, February 15 from 12:00 to 2:00pm to sign copies of her new novel Pages from a Prairie Saga.

Excerpt from Pages from a Prairie Saga:

“It’s the last day of July, a bright, perfect day for harvesting a crop. The flat, sometimes rolling land in southern Manitoba, chosen in 1880 by an underage, hopeful settler from Ontario, later home for almost the first six years of my life, refuses to be forgotten.

Only now, seven decades later, is the focus real, the debt accepted, my heart acknowledging it to be immeasurable. Time lines are blurring, exact details no longer important, just the urgent longing to say across the years, ‘I would not change a day of the journey! God be with you, ’til we meet again!'”

About the author:

Beth is a retired teacher who has lived and taught all over the world. She is a recent winner of the Governor General’s “Caring Canadian” Award.

We hope to see you at this great event!

Local author Bob Abell will be in the store on Sunday, February 9 to launch his newest novel Trails. He will be here from 1:00pm to 3:00pm and will also be available to sign copies of his two previous books: a novel called The Corporation and a business book called Salvaging Capitalism Saving Democracy.

From the jacket of Trails:

“When Shelley, a 25-year old Ph.D. ecology student, is caught in a sudden rainstorm while hiking in the canyons of an Arizona mountain range, her life takes an unexpected turn – throwing her highly organized and disciplined personal life into turmoil.

It also exposes an international intrigue involving criminal activity – and posing great danger to Shelley and all those around her, as well as to the environment.”

We hope to see you on Sunday!

Snacks and refreshments will be served.

 

Local author Margaret Singleton will be here on Saturday, February 8 from 12:00 to 2:00pm to sign copies of her memoir The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am.

From the jacket:

“This powerful and unusual story contrasts the Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple near Brockville, Ontario, who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents.

Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new home.

The memoir is a story of loss and recovery but it is also a story of love, strength and redemption.”

We look forward to seeing you all here for this great event!