Our Charlottetown location has just been recently renovated and upgraded. We now have more space and a beautiful new look to our store, and we’re just a few doors up from our original location on Queen St.
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In Holly Luhning’s debut novel Quiver, Danica, a young Canadian forensic psychologist working in England, is ensnared in a terrifying web spun from the legend of a 16th-century Hungarian countess: Elizabeth Báthory, a female Dracula who tortured and killed over six hundred servant girls to bathe in their blood, believing this would preserve her youth and beauty. Danica finds herself in a dangerous zone where scholarly research and forensic psychology encounter the shifting borders between appealing and harmless fantasy, prurient reality, and treacherous sexuality and violence.
Luhning, also an accomplished poet who was raised on a Saskatchewan farm and earned an M.A. in Creative Writing and English from the University of New Brunswick, will read from her fiction and poetry with a reception and book signing to follow. Her poetry draws on her Prairie roots, east coast experience, and world travels, while Quiver benefits from her research in Gothic literature, madness, and theories of the body. She now lives in Toronto.
- From BUZZon.com
Time: Tuesday, January 17th @ 7:30p
Location: UPEI Faculty Lounge
Admission: Free
Chris Benjamin, author of Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada, will be in Charlottetown for the PEI launch of his novel Drive-By Saviours, a 2011 Canada Reads choice that was long-listed for the 2011 ReLit Awards.
Joining Benjamin will be Hugh MacDonald, PEI’s Poet Laureate, David Helwig, whose latest book is called Killing McGee, Jeff Bursey, author of the satirical Verbatim: A Novel (The Review of Contemporary Fiction calls it “a tour de force”), and PEI poet Yvette Doucette.
Drive-By Saviours is set in Indonesia and Canada, and brings together two characters and two cultures. Bumi is fleeing persecution from Indonesia, ruled over, at the time of the novel, by the dictator Suharto. Mark is a social worker and grant-writer in Toronto who is slowly burning out, and wondering what to do to make his life worthwhile. Over the course of their growing friendship Mark helps Bumi understand the OCD that has helped drive him from his family, his friends, and his country, while Bumi’s condition re-awakens the desire in Mark to reach out to his estranged sister.
Time: Wednesday, January 11th @ 7p
Location: UPEI Faculty Lounge
Admission: Free
Deirdre Kessler teaches creative writing and children’s literature at the University of Prince Edward Island. She is the author of five children’s novels, including the Canadian Children’s Book Centre Award-winning Brupp Rides Again, and six other picture books, including perennial favourites Lobster in My Pocket and Lena and the Whale.
Christina Patterson has won numerous awards and competitions for her artwork including receiving the People’s Choice Award for Open Air III in London, Ontario. From her home studio she illustrates, sculpts personalized clay portraits and designs for a living. Her art has been featured on the Regis and Kelly Live Show, Gizmodo, Le Journal du Geek, Blizzard Entertainment, CBC, CTV Live at 5 and several new articles in newspapers across Canada. Christina lives in Charlottetown with her husband.
Time: Saturday, December 17th @ 12p
Location: Bookmark, 172 Queen St. Charlottetown, PEI
Admission: Free
Chef Michael Smith, Canada’s most popular chef, is back with a brand-new cookbook for all his fans!
Chef Michael Smith’s Kitchen is a fabulous new collection of Michael’s all-time favourite recipes that he regularly cooks at home. Simple, easy to make and packed with tips, all you have to do is follow the instructions and you will be making the best version of the recipe that Chef Michael Smith creates consistently in his own kitchen.
Chef Michael Smith’s Kitchen includes 100 recipes—from Oatmeal Crusted French Toast or Buttermilk Waffles, to Coconut Crusted Chicken or Honey Mustard Barbecue Baked Baby Back Ribs, or a great fish dish like Grilled Tuna Steak or Pan Seared Scallops. Also included are lots of recipes for delicious vegetables, grains, and side dishes like Nutmeg Roast Sweet Potatoes or Sausage Sage Bread Pudding—and, of course, Michael’s favourite desserts including his Iron Chef Strawberry Shortcake!
Time: Saturday, December 10th @ 2p
Location: Bookmark, 172 Queen St. Charlottetown, PEI
Admission: Free
This collection of stories profiles some of Atlantic Canada’s most innovative and forward-thinking leaders in sustainability. These entrepreneurs and educators, activists and agitators, farmers and fishers have all made measurable contributions both in their respective fields of interest and in motivating others to make change. Halifax journalist Chris Benjamin shares the stories of how they were inspired to begin and what has kept them at it year after year.
We meet Maggy burns, a lifelong environmentalist who has made a successful business out of her personal commitment to voluntary simplicity, with ReCover Journals. Then there’s Edwin Theriault, who bought a bale of clothing back in 1971 and launched Frenchy’s, a chain of used-clothing stores that has become an East Coast institution. Edwin doesn’t consider himself an environmentalist at all, but over the years his business has kept countless tonnes of material out of landfills. Also profiled are Speerville Flour Mill and Olivier Soaps in New Brunswick, Sean Gallagher of Local Source in Halifax, David and Edith Ling of Fair Acre Farm on PEI, and Jim Meaney of Cansolair solar heat air exchangers in Newfoundland, among many others.
Examining matters like reducing consumption, greening the home, sustainable eating, transportation, and vacationing, the book is an important look into the lives of Atlantic Canadians committed to creating viable green options in our region. Benjamin’s profiles get to the heart of his subjects’ relationship with the concept of sustainability, and the personal philosophies that in turn sustain their efforts.
-From the book
Time: Monday, December 5th @ 7pm
Admission: UPEI Faculty Lounge
