Boxing Week Specials- Our biggest sale of the Year!

Dec 27-31

20% off paperback books

20% off puzzles and games

30% off hardcover books

40% off calendars and Christmas cards

please note: special orders and consignment books are exempt

We have extended our hours for Christmas shopping convenience:

Monday – Friday  9am-8pm

Saturday  10am-5pm

Sunday  1pm-5pm

Mount Allison University and Tidewater Books are proud to host an afternoon author event with Marilyn Walker, author of “Identifying, Harvesting and Using Wild Plants of Eastern Canada”, published by Nimbus Publishing.  The event will take place on Friday, Sept. 19th at 5:00 pm at the President’s Cottage, Mount Allison University.  Everyone is welcome.

Marilyn Walker is an associate professor of anthropology, specializing in mediacal anthropology and ethnobotany at Mount Allison University.

Festival by the Marsh and Tidewater Books present Writer’s Fest Day, Saturday, July 12.  All events are free admission!

9:30 AM Sackville Band Stand- Young people read from their works  with MC Sheree Fitch

10:  AM Sackville Band Stand- Authors K.V. Johansen and Sheree Fitch read from their books for young people.

1:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Gerard Beirne and Harry Thurston with Thaddeus Holownia read from their newest works.

3:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Gerard Beirne novel workshop.  Limited enrollment.

5:30 PM The Olive Branch- “Dining with Writers” supper.  $25 per person.

8:00 PM Owens Art Gallery- Bernice Morgan, Sheree Fitch and Mark Blagrave read from their works.

9:30 PM Struts Gallery- Open Mike Poetry and Performance by Tanya Davis

A book launch for Painted Poems is scheduled for Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. at Owen’s Art Gallery, Mount Allison University Campus, 61 York St., Sackville, NB. There will also be an exhibit of some of the twenty paintings in the book. Sackville artist, Angelica De Benedetti and Moncton poet, Margaret Patricia Eaton, have combined their talents to produce a book entitled Painted Poems: inspired by the natural beauty and history of south-east New Brunswick. This publication is supported by the ‘08 Cultural Capitals of Canada Project, Town of Sackville and the Westmorland Historical Society. Both the artist and poet are passionate about the beauty of the area as well as the intriguing history. When they realised that their work complimented each other’s in the portrayal of the Chignecto region, the idea of a book was born.  While De Benedetti and Eaton have been actively engaged in producing the book since January 2007, it really represents a lifetime of work. One of the twenty paintings reproduced was actually completed in 1977, while the earliest poem was written in 1985. There are also paintings and poems completed as recently as 2007. Also included are detailed historical/geographical notes and a map drawn by artist Peter Manchester of Sackville.  

Cormorant Books and the Mount Allison Department of English invite you to the launch of “Silver Salts” by Mark Blagrave on Wednesday, May 14th at 4:30 pm at the Owens Art Gallery.  Refreshments will be served, and everyone is welcome.

 ”Silver Salts” tells the story of the early Hollywood film industry through the life of Lillie Dempster, an aspiring actress who gets involved in a production in Saint John, N.B. in the early 1920′s.   Mixing fact and fiction, Mark Blagrave deftly creates an historical novel that brings the burgeoning years of twentieth-century Saint John to life.  “Silver Salts” is about image and identity, history and imagination.

Mark Blagrave is a Professor of English at Mount Allison University.  “Silver Salts” is his first novel.

Mark your calendars for the Frye Festival, taking place in Moncton from April 23-27.  Tidewater Books will host the festival bookstore in the mezzanine of the Delta Beausejour Hotel.  For a full list of authors and festival events, go to www.frye.ca

Sackville native Marilyn Lerch will launch her 2nd collection of poetry, entitled “Witness & Resist” on Sunday, April 13th at the Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, at 4 pm.  There is no admission, and everyone is welcome.

 This collection solidifies her rightful place in the contemporary literary landscape.  Passionately personal and deftly political, her keen observation of the nature of humankind beckons and invites us to a view from within.  It is there that we may bear witness to and resist whatever threatens the human spirit.

 Please join us as we celebrate the publication of this exceptional collection.

 The Sackville United Church and Tidewater Books invite you to a reading and signing on Wednesday, March 26 at 7 pm at the Sackville United Church.

Gretta Vosper, founder of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and a minister in Toronto, believes that the church, as we have built it and known it, has outlived its viability. What she proposes in the provocative With or Without God is a radical change that lies at the heart of faith. The new church she envisions will play a viable and transformative role in the shaping of a future society. What will save the church from certain demise, Vosper argues, is a new emphasis on just and compassionate living. Without this reform, the church as we know it faces extinction.  In a thoughtful and passionate discourse that speaks to a wide audience, Vosper tackles the issue that concerns so many of us today: how to find spiritual fulfillment, comfort and connection in the here and now. In the vein of Tom Harpur’s The Pagan Christ, this is a book that dares to discard old doctrines but does so with respect and dignity. Vosper imagines a new church that leads in ethics—fostering relationships, meaning and values that are solidly rooted in our own best selves.

Book Reading at Owens Art Gallery – March 26, 2008 at 7 PM  SACKVILLE, NB – On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 7 PM, Mary Connelly will conduct readings from the recently published book Reclaiming Vitality and Presence:  Sensory Awareness as a Practice for Life, at the Owens Art Gallery on the Mount Allison Campus, Sackville, NB.  This is a book on the teachings of Charlotte Selver who brought Sensory Awareness to the United States and shared it with thousands of students around the world for over 75 years. Sensory Awareness is a mindfulness practise that cultivates responsiveness and presence, and can revitalize our capacity to meet whatever is happening in our lives.  As a catalyst in the Human Potential Movement, Selver drew leading visionaries to study and work with her, including Erich Fromm, Alan Watts, Fritz Perls and Shunryu Suzuki Roshi.  In Sensory Awareness classes, students explore what happens in the simplest of activities such as breathing, sitting, standing and walking as a way to discover where we carry tension or resistance.  The way we meet what arises in these simple activities reveals the way we meet what arises in all parts of our lives.  Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, Zen Master and author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, described Selver’s work as “the inner experience of entire being, the pure flow of sensory awareness when the mind through calmness ceases to work – deeper than mind-made awareness”. Mary Connelly is one of Selver’s early students.  She attended her second long term study group at the Zen farm in Green Gulch, California, and became the first Canadian Leader in Sensory Awareness in 1976.  She has been practising and giving presentations, workshops and classes in the work in both the U.S. and Canada for over 30 years.  She continues to conduct weekly classes in Sackville, NB.  As well as doing readings from the publication, Mary will give demonstrations of the work.  Please wear loose, comfortable clothing. Tidewater Books will have copies of the book available at the presentation. For more information, please contact Mary Connelly at (506)536-0757.