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Join us Monday, January 19th at Chapel of the Mount as author Linden MacIntyre reads from his new book, Punishment. This event is part of the UPEI Winter’s Tales reading series.
In Punishment, his first novel since completing his Long Stretch trilogy, Scotiabank Giller-winner Linden MacIntyre brings us a powerful exploration of justice and vengeance, and the peril that ensues when passion replaces reason, in a small town shaken by a tragic death.
When: Monday, January 19th, 7:30pm
Where: Chapel of the Mount, Mt. Edward Road, Charlottetown
Join us Monday, January 12th at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery as author Kathleen Winter reads from her new book, Boundless. This event is part of the UPEI Winter’s Tales reading series.
In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the storied Northwest Passage, among marine scientists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, and curious passengers. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along the passage, Winter bears witness to the new math of the melting North — where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species; where the earth is on the cusp of yielding so much buried treasure that five nations stand poised to claim sovereignty of the land; and where the local Inuit population struggles to navigate the tension between taking part in the new global economy and defending their traditional way of life.
Boundless is a haunting and powerful story, and a homage to the ever-evolving and magnetic power of the North.
When: Monday, January 12th, 7:30pm
Where: Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown
Kathleen Winter’s novel Annabel was chosen for the Thomas Head Raddall Award and for CBC’s Canada Reads competition. In 2014 she published a book of short stories The Freedom in American Songs, and a nonfiction book Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage
Join us January 13, Tuesday, as we kick off the New Year with the first of the Saint Mary’s Reading Series in 2015. Our first reading of this year is with Canadian author Kathleen Winter. The reading will take place in the Atrium, Room 101 at 7pm.
Kathleen will be giving readings from her latest publication, The Freedom in American Songs, fantastic collection of short stories:
Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni mechanic turned funeral porteur, Madame Poirer’s lapdog (and its chastity belt), a congregation of hard-singing, sex-obsessed Pentecostals, and more. With The Freedom in American Songs, Kathleen Winter brings her unusual sensuality, lyrically rendered settings, and subversive humour to bear on a new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teens, catastrophic love, and the holiness of ordinary life.
We hope to see you there!
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http://atlanticbookstoday.ca/25-years-marks-the-spot/
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We are excited to have Wade MacLauchlan coming to Bookmark to sign copies of his book, Alex B. Campbell: The Prince Edward Island Premier Who Rocked The Cradle. Join us in store Firday December 19th, from 2:00pm-3:30pm.
Alex B. Campbell: The Prince Edward Island Premier Who Rocked The Cradle tells the story of Alex B. Campbell, Prince Edward Island’s longest-serving premier (1966-78) and the youngest person elected first minister in Canada in the 20th century. He led his province through a period of transformative change and stepped down in 1978 without ever having suffered electoral defeat. This is a come-the-moment, come-the-leader story with few parallels in Canadian history.
Now available in a variety of new formats!
When: Friday, December 19th, 2:00-3:30pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Saturday, December 20th as author Chris McGarry is in store signing copies of his book, Summer of Fear.
Summer of Fear tells the gritty story of a wily fanatic who believes he is taking commands from God and targeting abortion doctors. Det. Antonio Guardini, a 20-year veteran of the NYPD, committed family man, devout Catholic and pro-life activist, finds himself in a moral dilemma when he is assigned to a task force whose job is to investigate the murders and find the killer.
When: Saturday, December 20th, 11:00am-1:00pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Friday, December 19th as Peggy Hogan, author of For A Song, is in store signing copies of her book!
For A Song:
Blat (an unfortunate name for a singer) is a young farmer boy recruited by the Minstrels’ Guild. Fourteen years later, he has completed his studies and been a Touring Minstrel ever since. Blat needs material for a new song and follows clues in an ancient text. While travelling near Whitecap Island’s glacier, silent assailants herd him into a cavern within a mountain. He stares at the colossal cylinder of rock occupying one end. Their leader, Quirindi, explains that her people maintain the machines which invigorate the cylinder. The cylinder in turn gives them long life, mind-to-mind speech, and brings light to Station One, the name of their home. But they are failing at their task and her people are dying.
He recruits Crag Bithoone, a brilliant but unstable scientist. In their search for answers, Blat is captured by the Brothers of the Watch, a sinister cult that uses telepathic power to control and punish. His mind is brutally tortured forcing his consciousness to flee into a tiny part of his brain where he cocoons himself within layers of music. When he revives, a woman encased in stone ensorcels him into destroying the cylinders which hold her captive. Blat struggles to resist – the cylinders are what the Stationers need to survive – but she is too strong. While the Station crumbles around them, she touches a map of Whitecap Island and disappears. Blat puts his finger on the same place… and is transported to a desert. He is once again taken by the Brothers and forced through an invisible barrier concealing a vast stronghold and joins hundreds of prisoners compelled to polish cylinders. On a gallery at one end of the underground cavern stands the stone woman, Mir.
Blat believes that music can block the Brothers’ mind control and composes a simple song to teach his fellow captives. If the song does not work, the Brothers’ plan to subjugate Whitecap Island will be unleashed at the dark of the moon. And where was Crag?
When: Friday, December 19th, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Thursday, December 8th from 12-2pm as Linda Duncan is in store signing Mussels!
Authored by Linda Duncan and chef, Alain Bossé, Mussels includes 77 recipes for using mussels in every type of dish, from where you would expect them—in appetizers, salads and mains—to where they are a delightful, whimsical surprise—in pickles, pies and cocktails. Mussel Strudel, anyone?
Mussels is for anyone who is passionate about mussels and looking for new ways to cook and eat them. This mighty mollusk has long been a staple on restaurant menus but many people still hesitate to cook mussels at home. This book shows how easy it is to choose, store and cook this healthy and tasty seafood. Everyone who wants to can now cook mussels with confidence.
When: Thursday, December 8th, 12pm-2pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Wednesday, December 17th as author Mark Sampson is at the Confederation Centre Public Library launching his new novel, Sad Peninsula.
With Sad Peninsula, two separate lives become connected in South Korea: traumatized former Korean “comfort woman” Eun-young, who struggles with her past of rape and violence; and Michael, a troubled young Canadian arriving in Korea to teach ESL, whose principles and humanity are tested by Seoul’s seedy expatriate underbelly. A world away and two generations apart, their lives collide through the fiery Jin, who challenges stereotypes of her race and gender as well as Michael’s morality.
When: Wednesday, December 17th, 7:00pm
Where: Confederation Centre Public Library, Charlottetown