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SUMMARY:Book Club - Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be discussing “Really Good\, Actually!\,” a debut novel by Monica Heisey\, a Canadian writer\, comedian\, and screenwriter (ex: Schitt’s Creek). \n \n“Really Good\, Actually” tells the story of Maggie\, a 29-year-old Ph.D. student living in Toronto\, who is going through an unexpected and heartbreaking divorce. \nMaggie embarks on a journey of self-discovery and healing as she turns to online dating and therapy while trying out new hobbies like spinning classes and axe throwing.  \nThrough humorous storytelling\, we follow her as she navigates the challenges of moving on and finding happiness once again. \nWe have multiple copies of the book available at the store. Our online store is closed until the new year\, but you can reserve your copy by emailing us or calling us (As a member of our book club\, you can enjoy a 10% discount on the book. Let the staff know while shopping): https://bookmanager.com/queenbk/?q=h.tviewer&using_sb=status&qsb=keyword&qse=ihViYpG-txXO_RIBZ5xBcQ
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/book-club-monica-heisey-really-good-actually/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Reading + Signing - Shelley Thompson in Conversation - Roar
DESCRIPTION:Shelley Thompson in conversation with Ronnie Ali for her new book Roar published by Nimbus/Vagrant \n…you may recognize Shelley from her role as Barb Lahey on Trailer Park Boys\, and lately from Sullivan’s Crossing…. \n \nRoar tells the story of a young trans woman returning home after a family member’s death. When she shows up\, she shows herself to her family for the first time.  \nThe MacInnes family is grieving. The loss of Miranda has devastated her husband\, John Andrew\, her eldest daughter\, Tammy\, and her youngest child\, Dawn. Not Donnie anymore but Dawn\, like sunrise\, who transitioned while her mother received cancer treatment — without the rest of the family knowing. Now\, when Dawn leaves Halifax for rural Nova Scotia to attend her mother’s funeral\, she knows she’ll be meeting her sister and father for the first time as herself. \n  \nWith Dawn’s revelation\, John Andrew and Tammy find themselves grieving for the son and brother they once knew\, while Tammy’s fiancé\, Byron\, becomes an unexpected ally. Between the complicated reaction from her family\, unwanted attention from local bigots\, and whispers from curious neighbours\, Dawn wonders if she can ever really come home. \n  \nA work of fierce allyship\, of enduring love\, and of gentle hope\, ROAR follows a family through grief and estrangement as they become catalysts for change in their rural community. Told from multiple points of view\, with confidence and tenderness\, actor and screenwriter Shelley Thompson’s debut novel is profoundly authentic\, drawing on her own experience as the mother of a trans child and a fierce activist for the trans community.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-signing-shelley-thompson-in-conversation-roar/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:Readings/ Q&A - Gary Barwin and Steven Mayoff - In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Readings\, Conversation and a Q&A with authors Gary Barwin and Steve Mayoff. \n  \n \nImagining Imagining  \nAward-winning author Gary Barwin has written poems\, novels and books for children. He’s composed music\, created multimedia art and performed around the world. Now he has turned his talented pen to essays. In Imagining Imagining: Essays on Language\, Identity and Infinity Barwin thinks deeply about big ideas: story and identity; art and death; how we communicate and why we dream. From his childhood home in Ireland to his long-time home in Hamilton\, Barwin shares the thoughts that keep him up at night (literally) and the ideas that keep him creating. Filled with witty asides\, wise stories and a generosity of spirit that is unmistakable\, these are essays that readers will turn to again and again. \nThe Island Gospel According to Samson Grief \nSamson Grief\, a reclusive painter in PEI struggling with a creative block\, is confronted by three red-haired figments of his imagination in the form of Judas Iscariot\, Fagin and Shylock. They claim to be messengers of “The Supreme One”\, a genderless deity who has decreed PEI to be the new Promised Land and also wants Samson to build the Island’s first synagogue. Scared\, confused\, and seriously doubting his sanity\, Samson eventually\, though grudgingly\, accepts the challenge amidst increasingly bizarre obstacles.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/readings-qa-gary-barwin-and-steven-mayoff-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Ontario
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Trust the Bluer Skies - In Conversation with The Lost Century
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Paulo da Costa’s Trust the Bluer Skies in conversation with Larissa Lai’s The Lost Century. \nBoth books are about returns to origin\, in different ways. There will be readings and together this should make for an engrossing conversation. \n \n  \nTrust the Bluer Skies \nEvocative and heartwarming\, Trust the Bluer Skies is a literary time capsule—a father’s vivid account of his son’s early years\, a sensory-rich journey through rural Portugal\, and a poignant exploration of masculinities that is positive\, compassionate\, and nurturing. The story tells of da costa’s family spending an extended stay in Portugal\, away from their home in Victoria\, BC. \nDistilling the wide-eyed innocence\, joy\, and curiosity of his four-year-old son as he meets his aging grandparents and explores an unfamiliar country and culture\, da costa crafts a beautiful\, tender\, and poetic portrait of father-son relationships. As da costa writes to his 4-year-old son in the preface — \nI struggled\, as I witnessed culture shock stretching out your psyche. I admired the strength of your four-year-old heart as the old skins of predictability peeled away and you endeavoured to blend into a new cultural landscape so very distinct from the quiet habitat of our Victoria home… In the vivid\, memory-rich setting of my childhood valley\, grandfather\, father\, and son explore our family history and digest the changes in the Portuguese and global masculine culture during the last nine decades. \nBorn in Angola and raised in Portugal\, paulo da costa is a writer\, editor\, and translator living in the Rocky Mountains. \n  \nThe Lost Century \nLambda Literary Award winner Larissa Lai (The Tiger Flu) returns with a sprawling historical novel about war\, colonialism\, love\, and loyalty during Japan’s occupation of Hong Kong in World War II. \nOn the eve of the return of the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to China in 1997\, young Ophelia asks her peculiar great-aunt Violet about the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II\, the disappearance of her uncle Raymond\, and whether her grandmother\, Emily\, was a murderer. \nEmily’s marriage – three times – to her father’s mortal enemy causes a stir among three very different Hong Kong Chinese families\, as well as among the young cricketers at the Hong Kong Cricket Club\, who’ve just witnessed King Edward VIII’s abdication to marry Wallis Simpson. But the bickering around the scandal of Emily’s marriage is violently disrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army’s invasion of Hong Kong on Christmas Day\, 1941\, which plunges the colony into a landscape of violence none of its inhabitants escape from unscathed\, least of all Emily. When her sister’s situation becomes dire\, Violet\, along with a crew of unlikely cosmopolitans\, hatches a plan to rescue Emily from the wrath of the person she thought loved her the most – her husband\, Tak-Wing. In the middle of it all\, a strange match of timeless Test cricket unfolds in which the ball has an agency all its own. \nWith great heart\, The Lost Century explores the intersections of Asian relations\, queer Asian history\, underground resistance\, the violence of war\, and the rise of modern China – a sprawling novel of betrayal\, epic violence\, and intimate passions. \n  \n 
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-trust-the-bluer-skies-in-conversation-with-the-lost-century/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Nita Prose - The Mystery Guest
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose discusses her new novel “The Mystery Guest” at the North York Central Library Concourse \nQueen Books will be selling copies of Nita’s The Mystery Guest and The Maid. \n \n#1 New York Times bestselling author Nita Prose discusses book two of her “Molly the Maid” series at the North York Central Library Concourse\, TPL’s new premiere event space for cultural and heritage programming. \nIn The Mystery Guest\, it’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth when a new mess and mystery come to the Regency Grand Hotel. Molly Gray is not like anyone else. With her flair for cleaning and proper etiquette\, she has risen through the ranks of the glorious five-star Regency Grand Hotel to become the esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches a pinnacle state of perfection\, her world is turned upside down when J.D. Grimthorpe\, the world-renowned mystery author\, drops dead—very dead—on the hotel’s tea room floor. \nWhen Detective Stark\, Molly’s old foe\, investigates the author’s unexpected demise\, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound\, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J.D. Grimthorpe? \nAs the case threatens the hotel’s pristine reputation\, Molly knows that she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer’s identity. With Molly and her colleagues under investigation\, she knows she must solve the mystery post-haste. And if there’s one thing she knows for sure\, it’s that dirty secrets don’t stay buried forever… \nNita Prose speaks with author and journalist Elizabeth Renzetti about The Mystery Guest\, the highly anticipated follow-up to her hit debut The Maid. \nQ&A and book signing to follow. Books available for purchase. \nTicket registration for this event is required: Free tickets for this event will be available to book via Eventbrite beginning on January 30 \n 
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/nita-prose-the-mystery-guest/
LOCATION:North York Central Library\, 5120 Yonge Street North York\, ON M2N 5N9
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH - Bury the Lead - at Verity
DESCRIPTION:Queen Books will be selling copies of Kathe Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti’s books for the launch of their latest novel Bury the Lead: A Quill and Packet Mystery published with House of Anansi \nThe event will take place at Verity 111d Queen St E\, Toronto from 5:30-7:30pm March 1 \n \n  \nA big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. \nCat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood\, famous for its butter tarts\, theatre\, and a century-old feud. \nOne of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser\, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined\, the ex-wife he betrayed\, the women he abused\, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis\, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect\, and the murderer wants to kill the story-and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance?
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-bury-the-lead-at-verity/
LOCATION:Verity\, 111d Queen St E.\, Toronto
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