Books On Beechwood

It’s Favourite Fiction Day here at the store for this 12th Day of Advent. As such, Terry Fallis‘ new novel Albatross, and The Dutch House by Ann Patchett will be 20% off from dawn ’til dusk! Okay, just from 9:30am to 7:00pm, but that doesn’t sound nearly as exciting. Come down early to get your copies of these great new novels!

It’s the 11th Day of Advent and we’re celebrating by having another Double Points Day! All members of our Frequent Buyer Points Program who make purchases today will receive double the number of points they normally would. Even same-day sign-ups will benefit from this one-day Advent promo, so if you’re not a member of our Frequent Buyer Points Program yet, be sure to swing by and sign up today!

So many gifts, so little time! It’s the 10th Day of Advent here and all our in-stock gift items are 25% off, today only! From journals to mugs, sticky notes to magnets, there’s a little bit of something for everyone on your Christmas shopping list!

It’s the 9th Day of Advent and that means that it’s time for another cookbook special! For today only, Essential Ottolenghi, the new boxed set of Yotam Ottolenghi‘s Plenty More and Ottolenghi Simple (in paperback for the first time), will be 25% off! If you still have a certain Chef de Cuisine on your Christmas shopping list, this might be just the gift you’ve been searching for!

We’re one week closer to the big day and we’ve saved one of our favourite types of books for this second Sunday of Advent – books filled with photographs of books! Just for Sunday, December, 8, copies of Libraries by Candia Hofer and Umberto Eco and Bibliostyle by Nina Freudenberger will be 20% off!

There’s nothing quite as magical as watching a child’s eyes light up when they’re given a new storybook to read – especially at Christmas.

So, in honour of that beautiful image, we wanted to spend this 7th day of Adventcelebrating children’s picture books! For today only, all in-stock hardcover children’s picture books will be 25% off!

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.'”