Mi’kma’ki

Name: YA Book Club for Adults
Start: 2020-01-22T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2020-01-22T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Woozles

# 88 Winter 2018, Editions, Features, Fiction, Young Readers December 12, 2018 December 13, 2018

The World Needs Modern Indigenous Stories

by Jon Tattrie

Contemporary Stories Are Honouring Indigenous Cultures

Reviews, Web exclusives, Young Readers Reviews October 30, 2018 October 30, 2018

Anti-Bullying Lessons Valuable to All Ages

by Bobbi Pike

The Purple Frog by Angela Jeffreys, reviewed by Bobbi Pike

# 86 Spring 2018, Editions, Non-fiction, Reviews August 30, 2018 August 30, 2018

Rachel Bryant’s Dedication to Reconciliation

by Patty Musgrave

Patty Musgrave reviews Rachel Bryant’s The Homing Place, from WLU Press

# 86 Spring 2018, Editions, Features, Nonfiction June 27, 2018 August 28, 2018

The Unlikely But Possible Success of Maritime Athletes

by Daniel Reynolds

And the hungry, yet humble, quest of Maritime sports stars

# 86 Spring 2018, Author to Author, Columns, Editions June 26, 2018 June 26, 2018

Showing Children the Mi’kmaw Language

by Deirdre Kessler

Alan Syliboy’s work lifts the spirits of children in Mi’kmaw, in English, and in stunning imagery

# 86 Spring 2018, Author to Author, Columns, Editions May 31, 2018 May 31, 2018

Indomitable Spirit

by Daniel Paul

Elder to Elder: Doug Knockwood, residential school survivor, addictions counsellor and now first-time author at age 88, tells Daniel Paul about his own long, treacherous road to recovery

Features, History, Nonfiction, Web exclusives May 14, 2018 November 11, 2018

Reading Books of War

by Jon Tattrie

War never ends; its impacts haunt the generations and the stories are innumerable, and always worthy of consideration

Upcoming Events

Battle Tales V: Battle Harder!

January 19 @ 11:59 pm - January 27 @ 2:59 am
Night of Adventure: Talks

January 21 @ 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Book Signing with Henry Van Berkel

January 22 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Importance of Indigenous Storytelling

January 22 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
YA Book Club for Adults

January 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

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"I’ve got this weird fascination with the notion of disappearing, of peeling off one identity, whole cloth, and becoming someone new."

Leslie Vryenhoek on her novel We All Will Be Received (@BreakwaterBooks) & emotional landscapes

#alureadtheprovinces

http://alllitup.ca/Blog/2020/Read-the-Provinces-Leslie-Vryenhoek

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"This is Agatha Falling [@pedlarpress] is a consideration of memory [...] how memory itself is an unreliable narrator that only brings us back to how we felt"

#alureadtheprovinces rolls on with #Newfoundland author Heather Nolan

http://alllitup.ca/Blog/2020/Read-the-Provinces-Heather-Nolan

Atlantic Books Today @abtmagazine·

How grassroots efforts help readers discover Atlantic Canadian books

https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/and-one-small-thing-led-to-another/

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All Lit Up @alllitupcanada·

#NewBrunswick author Chris Eaton's book Symphony No 3. (@bookhug ) developed out of a Jack the Ripper conspiracy theory. What it became was a decadent elegy for a french composer's lost love.

Chris joins us for #today's #ALUreadtheprovinces interview:

http://alllitup.ca/Blog/2020/Read-the-Provinces-Chris-Eaton

Atlantic Books Today @abtmagazine·

Award-winning author Michael Crummy's Newfoundland remains consistent with past works: it is simultaneously vast and claustrophobic. #MichaelCrummey #JessicaLeeder #newfoundland
https://atlanticbookstoday.ca/the-limitless-flow-written-from-the-rock/

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Finding his way to the start of a new book has become a familiar route for award-winning Newfoundland author Michael Crummey. First, there is the avoidance, a glorious, elastic period that stretches for months and sometimes years. It involves high productivity activities such as baking molasses buns midday and, really, anything other than book-writing. #MichaelCrummey #JessicaLeeder

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Last night Woozles Childrens Bookstore hosted the Halifax chapter of 100 Kids Who Care, an organization that see's kids pitch and vote for charities of their choice. There were great pitches by some young burgeoning speakers, as well as snacks, hot chocolate, and a little Nova Scotia trivia smackdown, hosted by Halifax's own Sarah Sawler. ...

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My evening treat, December's #1 Best Seller from #newfoundland and #labrador with a side of chai latte 💕 @flanker_press @chaptershfx #readatlantic #supportlocal #ABT #readlocal #atlanticbooks #bookstagrammer #bookstagram #bookmagazine #reading #bestseller #topten #booknerd #booknerdigans ...

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Novel and novella submissions for Engen Books is currently closed, and will be reopened from February 1, 2020 to April 30, 2020. Submissions for short fiction and flash fiction remain open, via the...

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