Blue Heron Books

 Tickets are going fast for the swanky event of the season. Mark April 14th, 2012 at Wooden Sticks on your calendar.

The Book Lover’s Ball  will be an evening to remember. Your ticket includes hors d’oeuvres, a three-course dinner with wine, and dancing with live music performed by Hot Air – a local big band with 17 members. Authors to be in attendance include: Terry Fallis and Douglas Gibson. Guests will also have the opportunity to bid on fabulous prizes in a silent auction, in support of the Library’s expansion fund.

This month’s book club will be meeting at a participant’s home on Wednesday, March 21st.  If you are planning on attending, please contact the store for more details

A gala fundraiser, The Book Lover’s Ball and Benefit will be held at Wooden Sticks Golf Course on Saturday, April 14^th, 2012.  It is an opportunity for the community’s literary-minded citizens to come together and show their support for the Library. Douglas Gibson, editor, publisher, author and performer will be there with Uxbridge Reads (and Canada Reads) winner Terry Fallis.

Spotlighting an extraordinary career, Gibson’s autobiography reviews the author’s accomplishments working—and playing—alongside some of Canada’s greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s own reluctant hands—which ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.

“Gibson’s forty years at the epicentre of Canadian publishing inform his rollicking first book, Stories About Storytellers. . . . Gibson is a gossip of the first order, the kind who tells all, or at least enough, about his subjects’ foibles, but always in a way that delights in their eccentricities. He writes with charming exuberance about his role as midwife to the memoirs of several prime ministers. . . . Likewise, Gibson’s stories profile not just storytellers, but also the country that produced them.” — Sasha Chapman, The Walrus

“Mostly made up of biographical vignettes, this book is a chronicle of Gibson’s working association with authors as diverse as Mavis Gallant and Brian Mulroney. But it’s also part memoir, a portrait of a man who has burned few bridges and made even fewer enemies. . . . an unfailingly affable fellow with a keen eye for literary talent.”–  Joel Yanofsky, Montreal Gazette

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.

A gala fundraiser, The Book Lover’s Ball and Benefit will be held at Wooden Sticks Golf Course on Saturday, April 14^th, 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.

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.