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SUMMARY:Reading & Signing with Janet Calcaterra for The Burden of Memories
DESCRIPTION:Janet Calcaterra presents The Burden of Memories. Join us for a reading and signing of a powerful family drama about fractured lives\, secrets\, addiction and ultimate reinvention.  \n \nIn 1995\, sisters Adrienne and Cass unravel the mystery behind their father\, Dr. Alexander Muir\, a doctor during World War 11’s Italian Campaign and later a psychiatrist. As children they barely recall the sudden death of their father\, but\, through a series of family letters\, they learn\, despite their mother’s best efforts\, that their father suffered from PTSD due to war time experiences and died by his own hand. While their mother is ashamed of her late husband’s downfall\, the sisters find learning about their father cathartic\, inspiring them to move forward with their lives. \nBook Signing – The Burden of Memories (1)
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/reading-signing-with-janet-calcaterra-for-the-burden-of-memories/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Surviving the Survivor
DESCRIPTION:Join author Joel Waldman as he discusses his new book “Surviving the Survivor” with his mother and podcast co-host\, Karmela. Refreshments will be provided by Petit Thuet Bakery. \nAbout “Surviving the Survivor”: \nHolocaust survivor and licensed therapist Karmela Waldman shares brutally honest advice about life and death—often deploying brutally sharp wit—with her son and podcast co-host\, Joel Waldman. \nKarmela Waldman is an eighty-something psychotherapist and Holocaust survivor. Her son\, Joel Waldman\, is a successful broadcast journalist. After a discontented Joel chooses to leave his network-news job\, he gets a crazy idea for the next step in his career: What if he and his elderly mom did a podcast together? \nThe two embark on creating a show together and name it Surviving the Survivor. Things get off to a bumpy start as the lovingly dysfunctional mother-son duo struggle to figure out the art of podcasting on the fly—sometimes feuding\, sometimes laughing\, and finally mastering the format and watching Surviving the Survivor break out as a wildly popular true-crime hit. \nAlong the way\, the two discover things about each other that they never knew. Joel is stunned to learn that Karmela survived World War II by hiding in a boys’ Catholic school. Karmela also sheds light on the emotional struggles she endured when Joel’s older brother\, Rami\, died of an incurable illness. She’s also struggling with the inevitable loss of her husband of sixty-three years\, which she describes as the most difficult experience of her life. \nMastering podcasting is one thing; figuring out the meaning of life is a challenge of an entirely different order. In real time and “on air\,” mother and son engage frankly and movingly with each other for the first time as adults\, discussing child-rearing\, aging\, illness\, death\, and the secrets to enjoying life no matter how complicated it gets.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/surviving-the-survivor/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch — LAND OF NO REGRETS — Sadi Muktadir
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch of Sadi Muktadir’s Land of No Regrets published by HarperCollins. There will be food\, a reading and conversation. \n  \nSadi Muktadir was a finalist for the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence\, a finalist for the Malahat Review’s Open Season Awards\, a third-place winner of the Humber Literary Review’s Emerging Writer Story Contest\, and a winner of Toronto’s What’s Your Story competition. His writing has appeared in Joyland\, the Humber Literary Review\, Ricepaper Magazine\, and other literary journals. Land of No Regrets is his first novel. \n  \n“The intimacy\, humour\, and pain Sadi Muktadir elicits in Land of No Regrets – the specificity\, strangeness and aching familiarity of Nabil’s exploration of the traps that litter both faith and secularism – mark this as the debut of a unique\, powerful writer. A wonderful novel.”—Naben Ruthnum\, author of Helpmeet and A Hero of Our Time \n  \n \nIn Land of No Regrets\, Muktadir takes the classic tropes of a boarding school novel and sets them in the world of an intensely religious\, conservative Madrasa. Strikingly original\, and as poignant as it is humorous\, the novel is a vibrant and compassionate exploration of faith\, friendship\, identity\, and the true value of freedom. Perfect for fans of Dead Poets Society\, A Place for Us\, and Prep. \nNabil\, freshly\, plucked from middle school in Scarborough\, is struggling to find his place at Al Haque Islamic Academy. Between the intense religious studies and the new rules\, he still longs for his past life of baseball\, video games\, comic books\, and girls. But when he stumbles upon two students doing something they shouldn’t be doing\, he quickly falls into their company and joines them in their misdeeds. Together with the new transfer student and the unruly class clow\, the group executes their rebellion. \nOne day\, while exploring the madrasa at night\, the boys discover the diary of a student who lived on the grounds when it was an all-girls’ Catholic school. Cynthia Lewis’s words connect them to a bygone era and inspire them to hatch a plot to escape. They form a pact\, and together\, their ultimate decision sends them hurtling down a path that changes their lives forever. \nThis launch event is part of the Toronto Lit Up programme\, which is designed to spotlight new works and empower Toronto’s writers. Toronto Lit Up is funded by the Toronto Arts Council and spearheaded by the Toronto International Festival of Authors. You can learn more about the programme and upcoming events at FestivalOfAuthors.ca/torontolitup.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/book-launch-land-of-no-regrets-sadi-muktadir/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:When Isaac Hears the Rain Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the launch of When Isaac Hears the Rain by Julie Thompson and illustrated by Leah Giles with a special reading from Julie Thompson. All welcome! \nCelebrate the unexpected joy of a rainy day with this quietly exuberant book about a young boy who delights in the rejuvenating power of rain. \nWhen the rain starts to fall\, others may dash\, yelp\, and dodge\, as their smiles turn into frowns. But not Isaac. Isaac embraces the rain with curiosity and wonder\, grateful for its renewing power and grounded in the world around him. Written with equal parts heart and whimsy\, and with a nod to Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day\, this environmentally conscious narrative makes a fantastic read-aloud for readers\, young and old. \n​Author Julie Thompson wrote this sweet celebration of Black Boy Joy as an ode to her two sons. And the lyrical text will encourage readers everywhere to cherish those unexpected moments of joy that provide a welcome respite from the challenges of life.
URL:http://queenbooks.ca/event/when-isaac-hears-the-rain-book-launch/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
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