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Books and Brunch – March 25th, 2012 with Giles Blunt
Giles Blunt hails from North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. His past work includes writing scripts for television programs such as Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat. His novel Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger. A Delicate Storm, was the winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and Blackfly Season, was one of Margaret Cannon’s Best Mysteries of the 2010 Year. Blunt’s By the Time You Read This, was a national bestseller; and No Such Creature, earned a place on the Globe and Mail‘s list of Top Ten Crime Books. “Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon,” says author Jonathan Kellerman.
March 25th, 11:00am at Wyndance Golf Club.
Book Lovers Ball and Benefit for the Uxbridge Public Library
A gala fundraiser, The Book Lover’s Ball and Benefit will be held at Wooden Sticks Golf Course on Saturday, April 14th, 2012. It is an opportunity for the community’s literary-minded citizens to come together and show their support for the Library. Uxbridge Reads (and Canada Reads) winner Terry Fallis will be the guest author.
Terry Fallis has called Toronto home for most of his life. He attended McMaster University where he found himself drawn to politics. First at Queen’s Park, then in Ottawa, he worked for various Cabinet Ministers where he gained his backroom knowledge of the political machine.
His first book, The Best Laid Plans, began as a podcast, then was self-published, won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, was re-published to great reviews by McClelland & Stewart, and was selected the 2011 winner of CBC’s Canada Reads competition. Of the novel The Hon. Allan Rock, former Justice Minister and Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations had this to say “This is a funny book that could only have been written by someone with firsthand knowledge of politics in Canada, including its occasionally absurd side. This is a great read for anyone thinking of running for office, and especially reassuring for those who have decided not to.” His follow-up novel is The High Road which continues the story of Honest Angus McLintock, an amateur politician who dares to do the unthinkable: tell the truth.
This black tie event will be an evening to remember, including hors d’oeuvres, three-course dinner with wine, and dancing with live music performed by Hot Air - a local big band with17 members. Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on fabulous prizes in a silent auction, in support of the Library’s expansion fund.
Contact the Library for tickets and details.
Welcome Julie Daniluk
Launching her new book Meals that Heal. Julie Daniluk will be at Passionate Cook’s Essentials on Sunday, February 12th 1 – 3:30pm. Your $42 ticket includes a copy of the book ($32) and a sampling of some of the delicious recipes.
Julie Daniluk hosts Healthy Gourmet (OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network), a reality cooking show that highlights the ongoing battle between taste and nutrition by using unique groups such as bikers, dragon boat racers and ballroom dancers to challenge their taste buds with nutritious foods. She is a health expert for the Marilyn Dennis Show (CTV) and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including The Dr Oz Show, CTV’s Breakfast TV and Wylde on Health (CP24). Television viewers also recognize Julie from her “busted” segments on The Right Fit (OWNetwork) where she examines the foods people need to stay healthy, acting as a nutrition encyclopedia.
We recommend…The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler
It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high-school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on–and discover themselves on Facebook, 15 years in the future. Everybody wonders what their destiny will be; Josh and Emma are about to find out.
We recommend…A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize and #1 international bestseller, The Sense of an Ending is a masterpiece.
The story of a man coming to terms with the mutable past, Julian Barnes’s new novel is laced with his trademark precision, dexterity and insight. It is the work of one of the world’s most distinguished writers.
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they navigated the girl drought of gawky adolescence together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they swore to stay friends forever. Until Adrian’s life took a turn into tragedy, and all of them, especially Tony, moved on and did their best to forget.
Now Tony is in middle age. He’s had a career and a marriage, a calm divorce. He gets along nicely, he thinks, with his one child, a daughter, and even with his ex-wife. He’s certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer’s letter is about to prove. The unexpected bequest conveyed by that letter leads Tony on a dogged search through a past suddenly turned murky. And how do you carry on, contentedly, when events conspire to upset all your vaunted truths?
Books and Brunch with Crime writer Giles Blunt….
Our guest on March 25th Books and Brunch will be crime author Giles Blunt. The event will take place at Wyndance Golf Club
(**** NOTE – do not use your GPS/Mapquest etc. to guide you. The direction they give take you on your own magical mystery tour through the backroads of Durham Region. )
“As distinctively Canadian as a Tom Thomson painting. . . . Crime Machine is as good as Canadian crime fiction gets.” — Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail
“A marvelously controlled writer, equally confident with characters and narrative.”— Toronto Star “Teeming with questions, possibilities and clever, enticing dialogue.”— The Hamilton Spectator
“With Crime Machine, Blunt delivers another twisting page-turner that will keep readers up late at night, proving yet again that he can deftly toe the line between terror and intrigue.”— CBC Books
“First-rate series. . . .You can hear the crunch of snowshoes through the bush, smell the buckshot mingling with fresh blood.” — NOW
Lynn Crawford – So Good, We Want to do it Again!
On the heels of a very successful event with Lynn Crawford on the weekend, Shelley is now in negotiations with the publicist to nail down a return date. Detail will be posted on the website and will be sent out in a future newsletter. If interested you may want to get your name on a wait list.
Lisa Hutchinson of the Passionate Cook’s Essentials had this to say about the event:
“Another special event co-hosted by Blue Heron Books and The Passionate Cook’s Essentials took place this weekend. We had celebrated chef Lynn Crawford of The Food Network promoting her new cookbook Pitchin’ In. A delicious luncheon pulled from the pages of the new cookbook was prepared by Jeremy Buckingham. A delicious time was had by all thanks to Lynn Crawford’s fabulous sense of humour and animated interviewing style. It was a thoroughly entertaining afternoon. And everyone walked away with a signed copy of her cookbook and a personal glimpse of Lynn herself.”
Another perfect pairing – Meals that Heal with the Healthy Gourmet, Julie Daniluk
Co-hosted by Blue Heron and Passionate Cook’s Essentials
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Julie Daniluk hosts Healthy Gourmet (OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network), a reality cooking show that highlights the ongoing battle between taste and nutrition by using unique groups such as bikers, dragon boat racers and ballroom dancers to challenge their taste buds with nutritious foods. She is a health expert for the Marilyn Dennis Show (CTV) and has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows including The Dr Oz Show, CTV’s Breakfast TV and Wylde on Health (CP24). Television viewers also recognize Julie from her “busted” segments on The Right Fit (OWNetwork) where she examines the foods people need to stay healthy, acting as a nutrition encyclopedia. Her fun and engaging style comes in handy when she creates a recipe that is packed with health tips for www.chatelaine.com
Inflammation is on the rise. Conditions such as allergies, skin disorders, asthma, heart disease, arthritis and any other condition ending in “itis” all have an inflammatory component. In Meals that Heal Inflammation registered holistic nutritionist Julie Daniluk shows how to change our immune response through diet. The first part of the book outlines the six causes of inflammation and gets to the root of the pain we experience. She then shows how to build a healthy kitchen full of foods that will contribute to our well-being. The book’s easy and tempting recipes include quinoa salad, salmon with fennel and even key lime pie. Extensively researched, and full of information about the healing properties of everyday foods, Meals that Heal Inflammation will be a mainstay in any kitchen with a healthy focus.
Details to follow.
We've listened in for years, but this year CBC Books turned the spotlight on Blue Heron Books, naming it the Independent Bookseller for the month of January.
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