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We are incredibly lucky to have so many wonderful authors living right here in our own neighbourhood, so we thought we’d spend this 6th day of Advent celebrating two of them. For today only, Truth Be Told by Beverley McLachlin and Murdered Midas by Charlotte Gray will be 20% off!

The fourth day of Advent is here and that means that all in-store games and puzzles are 20% off! From Match a Track to Ocean Bingo to innumerable jigsaw puzzles, there are lots of goodies on our shelves for kids and adults alike! This promo is on for today only, so be sure to pay us a visit!

Local author Sarah Jennings will be in the store on Saturday, December 14 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm to sign copies of her newly updated book, Art and Politics: The History of the National Arts Centre. Originally published in 2009, the second edition of this beautiful book was put together specially for the 50th anniversary of the NAC – indisputably one of our city’s most iconic and historically important buildings.

About the Book:

“The year 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the National Arts Centre. In this new and revised edition of Art and Politics, Sarah Jennings covers the highs and lows of Canada’s most important national performing arts institution over the course of five decades, bringing the story up to the present. Art and Politics is a riveting tale of Canada’s finest musicians, actors, and dancers and efforts to put their art at the forefront of both the national and the international scene. Through over 150 interviews with artists, top officials, senior politicians, and others who affected the fate of the National Arts Centre, the book recounts the organization’s early years; the impact of government monies first lavished and then withdrawn, which resulted in its near collapse in the late 1990s; and how over the past two decades, its CEO, Peter Herrndorf, a gifted leader, has brought it back from the brink. The most recent transformations revealed by this new edition include the architectural makeover of the organization’s brutalist-style building in Ottawa, responses to the changing cultural milieu in Canada, and the launch of a national Indigenous Theatre Department in the fall of 2019. Told through the voices of those who created the organization, Art and Politics affirms that the National Arts Centre embodies its motto: ‘Canada is our stage.'”

Happy second day of Advent! To borrow a line from Sesame Street, today’s specials are brought to you by the letter “G” – for Gopnik and Gladwell, of course! A Thousand Small Sanities by Adam Gopnik and Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell will both be 20% off today only! Be sure to come down and pick up your copy soon!

It’s December 1st which means it’s time to kick off our First Annual Books on Beechwood Advent Calendar!!
From now until Christmas Eve, we’ll be counting down the days with daily specials.
First up, Coconut Lagoon by Joe Thottungal! This beautiful cookbook will be 25% off today only, so be sure to swing by to get yourself a copy!

Local author Andrew Caddell will be in the store on Saturday, November 30 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm to sign copies of his hockey book, The Goal: Stories About Our National Passion.

About the book:
“Andrew Caddell, Dave Stubbs and Philip Caddell have written for readers of all ages a wonderful collection of short stories about Canada’s passion for hockey. Ranging from the 1935 Stanley Cup to the present day, The Goal is a salute to the fans who pay to watch, the kids who play the game and the players who never made it.”

Ottawa Press and Publishing author, Andrew King will be in the store on Saturday, December 7 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm to sign copies of his brand new local history book Ottawa Rewind: A Book of Curios and Mysteries. In the same vein as the ever-popular Lost Ottawa books, this book would be a perfect stocking stuffer for anyone who loves the quirky, often forgotten tidbits of history.

About the book:
“Andrew King is an artist, cartoonist and detective. The detective part doesn’t get mentioned often, but Andrew is a history sleuth, someone who loves to solve historical mysteries. Where exactly is the first house built in Ottawa? Was there really a nuclear reactor once at Tunney’s Pasture? And what in the world happened to Ottawa’s once famous tiki bar at the Talisman Inn?
Andrew has been seeking answers to questions like these since launching the popular website Ottawa Rewind in 2013. In Ottawa Rewind Andrew has set out to find the location of shipwrecks in the Ottawa River, the playboy bunnies that once worked the Riverside Hotel in Vanier and every last Free Mason or Knight Templar symbol built into Canada’s Parliament Buildings.”