Bookmark Bookstore » Uncategorized http://bookmarkinc.ca Atlantic Canada's Finest Independently Owned Bookstore Sat, 11 Jul 2015 18:50:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.6 Bookmark Halifax Celebrates 25th Anniversary! http://bookmarkinc.ca/bookmark-halifax-celebrates-25th-anniversary-2/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/bookmark-halifax-celebrates-25th-anniversary-2/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2014 20:21:34 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6789 bookmark nov27REV-page-001

Drop in and celebrate with us! The store is packed with new and exciting titles, lots of puzzles and beautiful calendars. Take advantage of our anniversary savings and fill out a ballot for one the week’s prize gift certificates.

A huge thank you to Halifax and visitors from all over who have made our store shine!

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Bookmark Halifax Celebrates 25th Anniversary! http://bookmarkinc.ca/bookmark-halifax-celebrates-25th-anniversary/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/bookmark-halifax-celebrates-25th-anniversary/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2014 23:28:07 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6783 bookmark nov27REV-page-001

Drop in and celebrate with us! The store is packed with new and exciting titles, lots of puzzles and beautiful calendars. Take advantage of our anniversary savings and fill out a ballot for one the week’s prize gift certificates.

A huge thank you to Halifax and visitors from all over who have made our store shine!

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Scotiabank Giller Prize 2014: Longlist Announced http://bookmarkinc.ca/scotiabank-giller-prize-2014-longlist-announced/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/scotiabank-giller-prize-2014-longlist-announced/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:51:10 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6514 Bxq_yKHIAAA-8yS

There’s been so much excitement in the literary world lately! And it just keeps on coming with the announcement of the Longlist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Here’s the list for this year’s contenders:

Arjun Basu - Waiting for the Man published by ECW Press

David Bezmogis - The Betrayers published by HarperCollins Canada

Rivka Galchen - American Innovations published by HarperCollins Canada

Frances Itani - Tell published by HarperCollins Canada

Jennifer LoveGrove - Watch How We Walk published by ECW Press

Sean Michaels - Us Conductors published by Random House Canada

Shani Mootoo - Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab published by Doubleday Canada

Heather O’Neill - The Girl Who Was Saturday Night published by HarperCollins Canada

Kathy Page - Paradise and Elsewhere published by John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis

Claire Holden Rothman - My October published by Penguin Canada

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows published by Knopf Canada

Padma Viswanathan - The Ever After of Ashwin Rao published by Random House Canada
And it gets even better with some very exciting news for the Longlisters:  the prize purse has been doubled to $140,000, with $100,00 going to the winner and $10,000to each finalist. That makes the Scotiabank Giller Prize the richest fiction prize in Canada!

Best of luck to all the authors!

 

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The Man Booker 2014: Shortlist Announced! http://bookmarkinc.ca/the-man-booker-2014-shortlist-announced/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/the-man-booker-2014-shortlist-announced/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:21:00 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6463  

September 9th has come and it is now upon us, the Man Booker Shortlist! It won’t be long until we have our finalist now.

The judges praised the ‘depth and range’ of the list, which includes writers from Britain, the United States and Australia.

Here is the Shortlist:

ToRise
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Joshua Ferris (Viking)

NarrowRoad
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)

WeAreAll
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

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,   Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

LivesofOthers
The Lives of Others
,  Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)

HowtobeBoth
How to be Both
Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

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It’s that time of the year again! It’s now tme for the 2014 Man Booker Prize! The longlist has been announced, and here are the candidates:

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)

The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)

J,   Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)

The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)

The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre)

The Lives of Others,  Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)

UsDavid Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)

The Dog, Joseph O’Neill (Fourth Estate)

Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)

How to be BothAli Smith (Hamish Hamilton)

History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)

The Man Booker – which is awarded to the best novel of the year in the opinion of the judges – is worth £50,000 to the winner. Previous winners of The Man Booker inclue: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall, and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, Schindler’s Ark by THomas Keneally and Life of Pi by Yann Martel.

The judges will meet again to decide upon a shortlist of six titles – which will be announced on Tuesday 9th of September. The winning novel will be revealed on October 14th. The judges for this year’s prize are Sarah Churchwell, Daniel Glaser, Jonathan Bate, Alastair Niven and Erica Wagner under the chairmanship of Anthony Grayling.

You can obtain more information about The Man Booker Prize here.

Best of luck to all the nominees, it looks like a real fantastic line up!

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A Book Makes a Perfect Gift! http://bookmarkinc.ca/a-book-makes-a-perfect-gift/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/a-book-makes-a-perfect-gift/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:31:23 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6225

“A Book is a Present You Can Open Again and Again…”
(They also make a great companion if you’re flying solo!)

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TIBS Guide to Desserts – The Perfect Holiday Treat http://bookmarkinc.ca/6051/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/6051/#comments Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:37:08 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=6051  

 

 

 

As mentioned in the holiday gift guide edition of The Coast, we are honoured to carry The TIBS Guide to Desserts by Tara MacDonald. The result of some good Two If By Sea Café cheer and a lot of good baking, the cookbook is a runaway bestseller and we couldn’t be more indie-pleased!

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The Written Word: Bird by Bird http://bookmarkinc.ca/the-written-word-bird-by-bird-2/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/the-written-word-bird-by-bird-2/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:00:27 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=4999 birdbybird“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was  ten years old at the time, was trying to get a  report on birds written that he’d had three months to  write. It was due the next day. We were out at our  family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen  table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper  and pencils and unopened books on birds,  immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my  father sat down beside him, put his arm around my  brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy.  Just take it bird by bird.’”

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Healthy Living: Food Rules http://bookmarkinc.ca/healthy-living-food-rules/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/healthy-living-food-rules/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2013 09:00:29 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=4977 Food Rules#1 New York Times Bestseller

A definitive compendium of food wisdom

Eating doesn’t have to be so complicated. In this age of ever-more elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with clarity, concision, and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan’s trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely, one per page, accompanied by a concise explanation. It’s an easy-to-use guide that draws from a variety of traditions, suggesting how different cultures through the ages have arrived at the same enduring wisdom about food. Whether at the supermarket or an all-you-can-eat buffet, this is the perfect guide for anyone who ever wondered, “What should I eat?”

Coming from The Penguin Press in 2013, Michael Pollan’s newest book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation–the story of our most trusted food expert’s culinary education

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Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Awards Shortlist http://bookmarkinc.ca/writers-federation-of-nova-scotia-literary-awards-shortlist/ http://bookmarkinc.ca/writers-federation-of-nova-scotia-literary-awards-shortlist/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:59:53 +0000 http://bookmarkinc.ca/?p=4674 WFNSThe WFNS Literary Awards shortlist announcement will take place on June 8th at 4:30 pm at The Company House.

The shortlist for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Non-Fiction Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize will be announced at this event.

Fighting Words! The Fed’s Literary Trivia Challenge will start immediately after the announcement.

Bookmark will be at the event selling the nominated books. Come see who is in the running for some of the biggest literary awards in Atlantic Canada! Past WFNS award winners include David Adams Richards, Shandi Mitchell, and Sue Goyette.

Time: Saturday, June 8th @ 4:30 pm
Location: The Company House
Admission: Free, but it is a venue that sells liquor.

 

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