Our hours this weekend are:
CLOSED: Friday, March 29 (Good Friday)
Saturday March 30 we are open our regular hours!
CLOSED: Sunday, March 31 (Easter Sunday)
Monday, April 1 we are open our regular hours!
While we are closed, our electronic gizmos are not, so you can still browse, search and order on our online store: store.booksonbeechwood.ca. You can also leave us voice messages and email messages as usual.
Happy Easter!
Be sure to come down to the bookstore on Saturday, March 23 between 11:00am and 1:00pm. Local mystery author Linda Wiken, will be here signing copies of her newest mystery novel Read and Buried. It is the second book in the Ashton Corners Book Club Mystery series which features book lover Lizzie Turner who must solve yet another puzzling mystery at the Aston Corners Book Club.
From the jacket:
“For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members can’t wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but trouble – from his massive ego to his smarmy moves. When he’s found murdered in her living room, it seems someone decided that this womanizing writer would be better off dead than read.
After suspicion falls on Lizzie’s friend, she and her fellow book club members discover that Derek wasn’t who he pretended to be. Cracking this case means going up against Lizzie’s boyfriend, police chief Mark Dreyfus, and unearthing a novel’s worth of nasty secrets. And as they get closer to uncovering Derek’s scandalous final manuscript, someone hiding in plain sight is out to write finis to Lizzie’s sleuthing for good…”
What people are saying:
“Books, cats, and a tenderhearted sleuth, a perfect combination!”
-Krista Davis, national bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries
>We will be reviewing, “The Winter Palace” by Eva Stachniak on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2013 at 7:30 pm. in the Penthouse at The Edinburgh Retirement Residence, 10 Vaughan St.
The Books on Beechwood Book Club is organized by Jill Moll, a long time employee here at the bookstore, and runs from September through to June, with a break in December.
In the month prior to every Book Club meeting, the book in question is always 20% off for Book Club members and store customers. New members to the Book Club are always welcome.
On Sunday the 20th, between 2 and 4pm, Mary Hagey will be in the store to do a book reading. Her latest book, “Castles in the Air”, is a collection of short stories.
This debut short-story collection showcases Mary Hagey’s uncanny ability to capture the essence of being human. These richly satisfying stories, told with wry humour, intelligence, and verve, take us into fictional territory that is at once utterly original and as real as the world around us. These are people we know.
Some of them might have fared better in life if they’d had different parents perhaps, or married someone else, or worked at pleasing themselves instead of others, or if unforeseen circumstances hadn’t tripped them up and held them back. But now they find themselves caught up in salvaging what’s been lost or maintaining what seems to be slipping away. Whether it’s a woman on a timely mission to reunite her dying mother with her estranged twin, or a man in a troubled marriage trying to comprehend his wife’s mysterious grief when Princess Diana dies, or a dropout returning to school far from her Newfoundland home, these characters persevere in ways that illustrate the fundamental courage required of all of us. As they grapple with their situations and try to assert themselves in their lives, they—and the reader—come to regard their circumstances in a new light, and sense a quiet unfolding of truth.
‘morning everyone!
In celebration of the holidays, and the fact that we are in the process of being purchased and will stay open, we’re having a sale today at the bookstore…
25Ùª off every single hardcover book in the store!!! Ok, almost all of them.. the ones already on sale are not going to be discounted twice!
It sounded so simple at first, then we realized that means telling the computer that all of our hardcover fiction, hardcover mystery, history, biography, art & music, science & Nature, economy, politics, Canadian history, travel, cookbooks, kids hardcover, sports, humor, what did I miss? are all on sale today only!!
All the calendars, agendas, planners and diaries are on sale at 25Ùª off!
And last, but not least, all of our Christmas books are 40Ùª off today!
We are open today until 6pm.
Cheers,
All the Staff from Books on Beechwood
Come down to Books on Beechwood to meet author Mony Dojeiji who will be here signing her new children’s book “I Am Happy.” She will be here on Saturday, December 22, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. Be sure not to miss this great Christmas time event!
From the jacket:
“‘Hello, my name is Angela, and I am so happy.’ So begins the tale of Angela, a little girl who sees the world through the eyes of Love. Join her, and allow the magic and wonder that fill her life to fill yours too.”
We hope to see you all on Saturday!
Come down to Books on Beechwood on Monday, December 17 to meet local author Jennifer Cook. She will be here from 6:00pm to 8:00pm signing her new novel Daughters, Mothers and Grandmothers.
From the jacket:
“A story of the courage of two teenage friends and their families in Africa during the AIDS pandemic.”
For more information about Daughters, Mother and Grandmothers, any of Jennifer’s other books, or Jennifer herself, visit her website at www.jennifercook.ca.
Be sure to come down and check out this great event! Refreshments and snacks will be served. See you all then!
Come down to meet great mystery author Vicki Delany on Saturday, December 15 from 11:00am to 2:00pm. She will be here signing her new book More Than Sorrow.
From the jacket:
“Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent. Today, she’s a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, in pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to her sister’s small vegetable farm in Prince Edward County, Ontario, to recover. There she finds comfort in the soft rolling hills and neat fields as well as friendship in the company of Hila Popalzai, an Afghan woman also traumatized by war.
Then Hila disappears. When Hannah cannot account for her time, not even to herself, old enemies begin to circle. Soon past and present merge into a terrifying threat to the only thing Hannah still holds dear – her ten-year-old niece Lily.”
We hope to see you all here at this great event!
Come down to the bookstore to enjoy two great book signing events. Our day kicks off with local author Ken Hancock, who will be here signing his newest book, Capital Home Cookbook, as well as some of his great backlist titles. If you haven’t already go them, come pick up copies of Ken’s novel Sweets Off Coupons or his great humour books Laughter From the Web. He will be here signing on Saturday, December 1 from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
Hot on his heels will be Roy Mayer, a local author who has just written a novel called Galahad Cried. It is based on the true story of Bert Harper, a country boy who became a close friend of then future Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King. Bert is also the man in whose honour the statue of Galahad in from of Parliament Hill was erected. Come down to meet Roy Mayer and hear all about Bert’s fascinating story. Roy will be here signing on Saturday, December 1 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
We look forward to seeing you all on Saturday!!