Krista Johansen will launch her latest book, “The Cassandra Virus”, on Thursday, April 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the Sackville Public Library. Aimed at ages 9-14, this science fiction tale takes place in a University town, much like Sackville.
Come out and meet this remarkable author, as we celebrate the release of her 9th children’s book. All are welcome!
Local poet Jenn Carson will launch her new book “LUNCH- My Favourite Season” on Wednesday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bridge St. Cafe. A selection of 28 of her poems has just been published in a new anthology of poets, inluding Gerald Arthur Moore, Mark Sampson and Mike Wills.
All are welcome!
Tidewater Books proudly presents Krista Johansen, reading from her new book “Torrie and the Firebird” on March 23, 7:00 p.m. at the Sackville Public Library.
Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome. Please come out and meet our exceptional local author.
8th Book from NB Children’s Author-
The latest book by NB children’s author K.V. Johansen, Torrie and the Firebird, has been published by Annick Press. A fantasy novel for children aged 7-13, Torrie and the Firebird continues the story of Anna, a young sea captain, on a quest to recover a stolen gem and prove the innocence of Kokako, a young boy fleeing a mob. She has a secret weapon: Torrie, oldest of the Old Things of the Wild Forest. Through forest and desert, they travel deeper into danger …
Torrie and the Firebird is the latest in Johansen’s series, which started with Torrie and the Dragon and continued with Torrie and the Pirate-Queen.
Johansen is also the author of the Pippin and Mabel picture book series, a young adult fantasy short story collection, The Serpent Bride, an e-book essay collection on children’s fantasy, as well as a history of and guide to children’s fantasy literature, entitled Quests and Kingdoms. Ms. Johansen lives in Sackville, NB, where she is currently working on the next book in the Torrie series. Her website address is: www.pippin.ca
‘Empire, Religion and Democracy’: A Lecture by Tariq Ali
Wu Centre, Mount Allison University, March 17, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Leadership Mount Allison is pleased to present noted author, historian, and political campaigner Tariq Ali, who will deliver a public lecture on Friday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wu Centre, Mount Allison University campus. The lecture is entitled Empire, Religion and Democracy and everyone is welcome.
Tariq Ali was born in Lahore (then in British India) in 1943. He was educated in Pakistan and later at Oxford University. His opposition to the military dictatorship in Pakistan prevented his return to his own country and he became an unwilling exile in Britain. He was a leading figure in Europe during and after 1968.
He has written over a dozen books on history, politics, and biographies, many of which have been translated. These include: Can Pakistan Survive? The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty, StreetfightingYears: An Autobiography of the Sixties. In 1990 he began to write fiction, working concurrently on two different sets of novels: the Fall-of-Communism trilogy and the Islam Quintet. The first includes Redemption and Fear of Mirrors. The second consists of Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, an account of the decline of Muslim civilization in Spain which was awarded the Archbishop San Clemente del Instituto Rosalia de Castro Prize for the Best Foreign Language Fiction published in Spain in 1994. It was followed by The Book of Saladin, The Stone Woman, and A Sultan in Palermo. All of his novels have been translated into several languages.
Tariq Ali has also written screenplays as well as plays for stage and television. He collaborated with Derek Jarman in the film Wittgenstein and has recently produced Big Women, a four-part drama series by Fay Weldon for Channel Four Television in Britain. His television company, Bandung Productions, was well established as a producer of quality documentaries and drama till he closed it down in 1998 because British television had become what he described as ‘a brothel.’ His theatrical interventions have usually been in collaboration with Howard Brenton: Iranian Nights (on the Rushdie Affair), Moscow Gold (an epic on Gorbachev and the fall of Communism), Ugly Rumours (a satire of New Labour), Collateral Damage (The Balkan War) and Snogging Ken (another broadside against New Labour). A rare theatrical solo by Ali was Necklaces, a plea against violence in South Africa.
Clash of Fundamentalisms, his first full-length non-fiction book for 14 years, was published in April 2002 and has already been translated into all the major European languages. Arabic, Korean, Malayalam, and Russian editions are currently in preparation. A companion volume, Bush in Babylon: The Re-colonisation of Iraq, was published in 2003. He is a longstanding editor of the New Left Review. For more information please contact Dr. Nauman Farooqi, Director of Leadership Mount Allison, tel: 364 2281 (nfarooqi@mta.ca) or visit the web site www.tariqali.org.
A selection of his books will be for sale at the event.
Tidewater Books is pleased to host an author event with Dr. David Beatty and Dr. Tom Edgett, co-authors of “The World War 1 Diaries and Letters of Lieut. Louis Stanley Edgett”, on Saturday, January 21st from 1-4 pm. The authors will be in-store to sign and discuss the book. Everyone is welcome.
Lieut. Louis Stanley Edgett grew up in Hillsborough, and attended the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Ultimately he died in the trenches of France during the WW1. He began a diary in 1915 whose events are faithfully reproduced in this book.
Dr. Tom Edgett, a Physician in Moncton, is his nephew. Dr. David Beatty is a retired Professor of History at Mount Allison University.
Mount Allison University and Tidewater Books are delighted to host an author event with Chris Eaton, reading from his new book “The Grammar Architect”. Chris is a novelist and musician from Sackville who currently lives in Toronto.
“The Grammar Architect” is a literary re-working of Thomas Hardy’s “A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873)”. This magical realist version demonstrates Chris’ rich and beautiful writing style.
The reading and signing takes place on Wednesday, January 11 at 4:30 p.m. at Mount Allison University’s Dunn building, Room 108, and is open to everyone.
Friday, December 9, 2005 is Sackville’s 2nd annual midnight madness event! At Tidewater Books, we are offering a 20% discount storewide from 9 am until midnight. Our super special is “Tantramar Vistas” by Chris MacKay and Choleena DiTullio at a 40% discount.
We are also pleased to have Dean Jobb, author of “The Acadians: A people’s Story of Exile and Triumph” on hand to sign books from 4 pm- 6pm.
Midnight Madness is an annual tradition in Sackville. Please join us for our community event’s 18th year- there will be horse-drawn wagon rides, free hot chocolate and apple cider, visits from Santa Clause and much more.
Dr. Shauna McCabe will be reading from her new collection of poetry, “Ancient Motel Landscape”, on Friday, December 2 at 7 pm at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University.
In this collection, Shauna looks at intersections of memory and place, suggesting the deep ephiphanies that are part of everyday experiences and landscapes. An accomplished poet and photographer, she integrates a number of her black and white photographs in the book.
The event is free and everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Tidewater Books and the Sackville Public Library are thrilled to present an evening of mystery with celebrated Canadian authors Mary Jane Maffini and Barbara Fradkin. Coined the “East Coast Crime Wave”, these award winning authors will be reading from their newest thrillers. Come join us for a reading and signing.
Where: Sackville Public Library
When: Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 7 pm
Press Release: Crime Writers to read at Public Library
Two prize-winning Canadian authors, Mary Jane Maffini and Barbara Fradkin, will visit Sackville to read at the Public Library on Thursday evening at 7:00. Both are members of the Ladies Killing Circle, a group of women writers in the Ottawa area who critique each other’s work and edit the Ladies Killing Circle short story anthologies.
Mary Jane Maffini’s 2003 novel, _Lament for a Lounge Lizard_, a comic mystery was short listed for the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis award for best novel. There are four books, and soon to be five, in her popular Camilla MacPhee mystery series, set in Ottawa with a backdrop of Ottawa’s festivals and events. The latest, _The Devil’s in the Details_, takes place during the Gatineau balloon festival.
Maffini picked up an Ellis award for her short story “Sign of the Times” in _Fit to Die_, a Ladies Killing Circle anthology published by RendezVous Press. In 1999 she was a double-nominee: _Speak Ill of the Dead_ was short listed for best first novel and “Kicking the Habit” in _Menopause is Murder_ (General Store) was short listed for best short story. That year her story “But the Corpse Can’t Laugh” made the Top Ten in the Readers’ Choice awards in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Prior to that, Maffini was the 1995 winner of the Arthur Ellis award for best short story. “Cotton Armour” in _The Ladies Killing Circle_ and in 1994 won the Ottawa Citizen’s Short Story Contest for “Death Before Doughnuts”. Her short fiction has appeared in many magazines: from Chatelaine and Storyteller to On-Spec , Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and in Canadian mystery anthologies such as The Ladies Killing Circle, Cottage Country Killers, Menopause is Murder, Cold Blood V , The Best of Cold Blood, Over the Edge, Fit to Die,Iced, an anthology of Canadian noir, and Bone Dance, the fifth Ladies Killing Circle anthology and the Osprey summer mystery series. Her latest story is “Cocktails with the Corpse” in _Death Dines In_, a Berkley
Prime Crime anthology.
Barbara Fradkin’s dark, compelling short stories have appeared in various mystery magazines such as _Storyteller_ and _Blue Murder_, as well as in anthologies such as The Ladies Killing Circle series and the New Canadian Noir series. She is a two-time prizewinner in _Storyteller_’s annual Great Canadian Short Story Contest, as well as a triple nominee for the Crime Writers’ of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, including “Timber Town Justice” in 2003.
Fradkin’s first novel, _Do or Die_, which launched her police procedural series featuring the exasperating, quixotic Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, was published by RendezVous Press in October 2000. The sequel _Once Upon a Time_, released in 2002, was shortlisted for Crime Writers’ of Canada’s 2003 Arthur Ellis award for Best Novel. The third in the series, _Mist Walker_, came out in 2003, and Fifth Son which hit the book shelves in the fall of 2004, has just won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel.
Fradkin draws on both personal and professional experiences in the creation of her works. Her own experience as a hapless graduate student as well as that of her daughter, supplied the rich backdrop and detail for _Do or Die_. Her late husband’s experiences in war crimes prosecutions gave her the impetus, as well a lot of the background and insight for _Once Upon a Time_, while _Mist Walker_ and _Fifth Son_ draw on her own experiences as a psychologist. Fradkin is at work on the fifth novel in the series, scheduled for publication in 2006. Its working title is _Honour Among Men_, and it will deal with the traumatic aftereffects of peacekeeping.
One of the darkest events in Canadian history, Le grand derangement, is replete with the drama of war, politics and untold human suffering. Award-winning author Dean Jobb has written a dramatic and compelling account. The year 2005 marks the 250th anniversary of the expulsion. This book is a bridge across the centuries for the descendants of a founding people of this nation, whose courage and resourcefulness still resonate in modern-day Acadie.
Please join us for a reading and book signing on Wednesday, July 13th at 7:00 p.m. at St. Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, 125 Main St., Sackville.
Our thanks to the Tantramar Heritage Trust for co-sponsoring this event.
Everyone is welcome. Admission is free.
