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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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SUMMARY:Launch of debut novel NEVER BEEN BETTER by Leanne Toshiko Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Queen Books will be the bookseller for Leanne Toshiko Simpson’s debut novel NEVER BEEN BETTER at Paradise Theatre on March 5th from 6-8pm. \nLeanne will be hosted by Britta Badour (author of WIRES THAT SPUTTER) in conversation with Uzma Jalaluddin (author of AYESHA AT LAST\, HANA KHAN CARRIES ON\, and MUCH ADO ABOUT NADA).  \nThe launch is a ticketed event that will also double as a fundraiser for local mental health organization Gifts of Light and will be followed by a movie screening.  \n \nMy Best Friend’s Wedding meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this offbeat\, heartfelt comedy about a seaside wedding reunion where no one can stay afloat. \n  \nDee\, Misa\, and Matt were the “three musketeers” of the psych ward. Matt is a teddy bear musician with no discernable coping mechanisms. Wildly efficient Misa is quick to take care of others while neglecting herself. And Dee is a puddle with a heart of gold\, eager to convince everyone that she’s finally turning things around. A year after discharge\, Matt and Misa are tying the knot in Turks and Caicos\, surrounded by guests who have no idea where they met. But the secrecy isn’t sitting well with Dee\, who has been hopelessly in love with Matt since before she got kicked out of the hospital. \nWhen Dee arrives at the swanky resort with her high-voltage sister Tilley\, it’s now or never to confess how she feels about Matt. But disrupting her best friends’ nuptials would jeopardize the entire support system that holds them all together. When it comes to happily ever afters\, how is a girl supposed to choose between love and recovery? Introducing a sparkling new voice in commercial fiction\, Never Been Better revels in the heartache and hilarity of falling in love when you haven’t quite figured out how to live with yourself.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/launch-of-debut-novel-never-been-better-by-leanne-toshiko-simpson/
LOCATION:Paradise Theatre\, 1006c Bloor St W\, Toronto
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SUMMARY:Story Time + Launch for Meena Can't Wait by Farida Zaman
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Meena Can’t Wait by Farida Zaman and a Sunday afternoon story time for kids.  \n \nMeena is excited because today she’s going to Nanu’s house to drink tea and eat treats. \nWhen Meena gets there\, she’s ready to get started…but her nanu tells her it’s not time yet. Today they’re going to have a very special Bengali tea called doodh cha\, and they are going to make it together. \nFirst\, they harvest some ingredients from the garden. Then they head inside to prepare. Meena’s tummy is rumbling as she smells her grandmother’s freshly baked samosas and spice cake\, but she helps crush the cardamom and cloves and learns when to add the milk\, sugar and tea. While they’re waiting for the doodh cha to be done\, Nanu shares memories of her past in Bangladesh as they look at old photos\, paint pictures and set the table. And when the doodh cha is finally ready\, it’s just as delicious as Nanu had promised. Nanu was right: “It always tastes better when we make it together.” \nIncluded in this book inspired by author Farida Zaman’s own visits with her grandmother is Farida’s family doodh cha recipe.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/story-time-launch-for-meena-cant-wait-by-farida-zaman/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Jess Housty debut book Crushed Wild Mint In Conversation with Zoe Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with author\, activist and educator Jess Housty\nJoin us for a spirited reading and discussion with Jess Housty\, a land-based educator\, librarian and author of a brilliant new book of poems\, Crushed Wild Mint (Nightwood Editions). In conversation with writer and film director Zoe Hopkins\, Jess will read from their new book\, a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom\, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural\, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing―held by mountains\, by oceans\, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. \n  \n \n \nCrushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom\, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent\, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural\, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains\, by oceans\, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. \nHousty’s poems are textural—blossoms\, feathers\, stubborn blots of snow—and reading them is a sensory offering that invites the reader’s whole body to be transported in the experience. Their writing converses with mountains\, animals and all our kin beyond the human realm as they sit beside their ancestors’ bones and move throughout the geography of their homeland. Housty’s exploration of history and futurity\, ceremony and sexuality\, grieving and thriving invites us to look both inward and outward to redefine our sense of community… \nThrough these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice\, and placemaking as an essential part of exploring our humanity and relationality. \n  \n 
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/jess-housty-debut-book-crushed-wild-mint-in-conversation-with-zoe-hopkins/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED FOR FALL 2024 - 50 Years of Poetry with Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for fall 2024. Date TBD.  \nQueen Books will be the bookseller for Joy Harjo’s night of Poetry at the Toronto Reference Library on March 20. Harjo will read from her most recent book Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light. \nTo register for tickets visit: Joy Harjo Event \nc \nA magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet. \nOver a long\, influential career in poetry\, Joy Harjo has been praised for her “warm\, oracular voice” (John Freeman\, Boston Globe) that speaks “from a deep and timeless source of compassion for all” (Craig Morgan Teicher\, NPR). Her poems are musical\, intimate\, political\, and wise\, intertwining ancestral memory and tribal histories with resilience and love. \nIn this gemlike volume\, Harjo selects her best poems from across fifty years\, beginning with her early discoveries of her own voice and ending with moving reflections on our contemporary moment. Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo’s inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz\, reckons with home and loss\, and listens to the natural messengers of the earth. As evidenced in this transcendent collection\, Joy Harjo’s “poetry is light and elixir\, the very best prescription for us in wounded times” (Sandra Cisneros\, Millions).
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/50-years-of-poetry-with-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto
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SUMMARY:Session Talk with Sybil Geldart for Alone Time
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Session Talk with Sybil Geldart for debut book Alone Time: Embracing Solitude for Health and Well-being \n \nBeing alone gives you the chance to think about yourself and your needs and goals without undue pressure\, distractions or interference. \n  \nThe importance of personal space in a changing world. In Alone Time\, clinical psychologist and professor of psychology Sybil Geldart\, PhD draws on personal anecdotes\, case studies\, and research to help you live well despite an ever-changing world. Taking time on your own allows you to take a slower\, more deliberate pace and explore inner strengths\, set goals and overcome problems. Practicing solitude is an age-old part of Eastern traditions of health and well-being\, and ensuring some personal space and time alone – when self-initiated – will help you live a more fulfilled life. In Alone Time\, Dr. Geldart shows how solitude allows us time for self-reflection\, to gain self-knowledge\, and to seek a better understanding of others. Perfect for all life stages\, from school-leavers and young professionals on\, Alone Time includes tips\, advice and exercises to help boost mental health and attain that elusive work–life balance. Dr. Geldart also shows how voluntary distancing has numerous benefits in life – from work and study to overcoming stress and anxiety\, and\, most of all\, in being emotionally healthy and inspired to work towards a healthy and happy future \n 
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/session-talk-with-sybil-geldart-for-alone-time/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:One-On-One 30 minutes sessions with Vivek Shraya for BIPOC artists/writers
DESCRIPTION:Are you a BIPOC artist or writer with burning questions about: \n\n\nthe writing process \n\n\nthe publishing process \n\n\ngrant-writing \n\n\nCV-writing \n\n\nsocial media / self-promotion \n\n\norganization / self-motivation \n\n\ntouring \n\n\nperforming \n\n\n  \nAsk Vivek! She’ll be happy to answer all your art / writing questions at \nQueen Books – 914 Queen St. E (Toronto) \nMarch 21\, 2024 – 1-5pm \nIf you’re interested\, please make an appointment on our eventbrite page here \n(There are 8 appointment offerings and each appointment is 30 mins) \n \nVivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music\, literature\, visual art\, theatre\, TV\, film\, and fashion. A Canadian Screen Award winner\, Vivek is the creator and writer of the new CBC Gem Original Series How to Fail as a Popstar. She has collaborated with musical icons Jann Arden\, Peaches\, and Jully Black\, and was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel\,” and she is the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books\, (featured on CBC‘s Canada Reads) which supports emerging BIPOC writers. Vivek has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene\, and she is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/one-on-one-30-minutes-sessions-with-vivek-shraya-for-bipoc-artists-writers/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and In Conversation event\,  Cassidy McFadzean and Barbara Tran
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this in conversation event between poets Cassidy McFadzean and Barbara Tran on March 28th from 6:30-8:30pm. \n \nThere will be readings from Crying Dress by Cassidy McFadzean and Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran as well as cookies and refreshments.  \nThe poems in Crying Dress\, acclaimed poet Cassidy McFadzean’s third collection\, explore the multiplicity of meaning that arises from fragmentation\, rhythm\, competing sounds\, and ellipsis. Rooted in the tradition of lyric poetry\, these strikingly original poems revel in musicality (rhyme\, beat\, and alliteration) while deploying puns\, idiom\, and other forms of linguistic play to create a dissonance that challenges the expected coherence of a poem. From the ghosts and gardens of Brooklyn and Sicily to the clanging of garbage chutes in Uno Prii’s modernist high rises in Toronto\, to quiet moments of intimacy in domestic spaces\, and the early days of sobriety and grief\, Crying Dress explores the intersections between noise and coherence\, the conversational and the associative\, the architectural and the ecological\, while reaffirming the poet’s sonic\, vertiginous lyricism and gift for overlooked detail. \n  \nOpening with an exit\, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow\, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world\, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes\, Asian and avian. Praised as “lively and intelligent” and “lyrically delicious\,” Barbara Tran’s poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk\, “red-tailed gliding / on time.”
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/poetry-reading-and-in-conversation-event-cassidy-mcfadzean-and-barbara-tran/
LOCATION:Ontario
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