Atlantic Books Today has an article about Bookmark Halifax that everyone should check out!
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
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Join us Wednesday, December 17th as Dave Atkinson, author of Wereduck, is in store signing copies of his book.
Wereduck:
Kate’s family has told her that on her thirteenth birthday she’ll hear the “Whooooo” call of the moon, and howl back, and become a werewolf just like them. But she doesn’t want to be a werewolf. She’s always felt more like a duck. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Kate stands near her family’s cabin in the backwoods of New Brunswick and hears the moon calling-but it sounds like more of a “Whooooo?” as in “Who are you?” and Kate does what she’s always wanted to do-she quacks. Quack, quack, quacks.
Her family tries to understand Kate’s new full-moon form, but they are busy integrating themselves with some new, edgy werewolves in town.
Engaging, hilarious, and utterly believable, Wereduck is a thrilling addition to the were-canon.
When: Wednesday, December 17th, 12:00pm-2:00pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Sunday, December 14th in store as Anne Hotchkis, author of Beach Mysteries, is signing copies of her book!
Beach Mysteries is an interactive book of poetry and marine biology on the shorelines of the Northumberland Strait. It’s a book meant for anyone who has ever beach-combed somewhere. The joy and mysteries of the intertidal creatures and seaweed are woven into wondrous poems from the author’s childhood memories; then it is your turn to answer questions on your adventures. Beach Mysteries is meant to be used as a fun-filled guidebook for the whole family or for students aged nine and up. Interested in what’s on the beach when the tide goes out? Read and work right on the beach with Beach Mysteries. Have an exploration you’ll never forget.
When: Sunday, December 14th at 12:30pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Saturday, December 13th as Katherine Dewar is in store signing copies of her book Those Splendid Girls: The Heroic Service of Prince Edward Island Nurses in the Great War.
Published by Island Studies Press at the University of Prince Edward Island, Those Splendid Girlstells the story of nursing in the First World War, through the eyes of Prince Edward Island nurses who served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps. Their stories of mud, blood and courage reflect the experiences of all Canadian women, from all provinces, who chose to go to war.
When: Saturday, December 13th, 1:o0pm – 3:00pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown
Join us Saturday, December 13th in store as Roger Gordon signs copies of his book, Starting to Frame!
Local retired UPEI professor and past Dean of Science at UPEI, Roger Gordon, has launched his first book—a memoir entitled Starting to Frame.
Starting to Frame speaks to Gordon’s upbringing in post-war Sheffield, UK, and provides insight into many of the stigmas of that era, including marital infidelity, divorce, and mental illness. The darker elements of Gordon’s story are tempered by a nostalgic, informative, and often humorous look into post-WW2 life in a northern England industrial city. A portion of the book’s royalties will go to charitable organizations dealing with mental illnesses in Canada and the U.K.
When: Saturday, December 13th, 11:00am-1:00pm
Where: Bookmark, Charlottetown