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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
Books and Brunch with Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of Secret Daughter!
International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront presents…
On Saturday October 22nd the our Books and Brunch guest author will be Shilpi Somaya Gowda, author of Secret Daughter. Gowda will be interviewed by TVO/CTV television personality Paula Todd, author of A Quiet Courage.
In a tiny hut in rural India, Kavita gives birth to Asha. Unable to afford the ′luxury′ of raising a daughter, her husband forces Kavita to give the baby up–a decision that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives. Halfway around the globe, Somer, an American doctor, decides to adopt a child after making the wrenching discovery that she will never have one of her own. When her husband Krishnan shows her a photo of baby Asha sent to him from a Mumbai orphanage, she falls instantly in love. As she waited for adoption to be finalized, she knew her life would change. But she was convinced that the love she already felt would overcome all obstacles. In a braided narrative that unites the stories of Kavita, Somer and Asha, Secret Daughter, the debut novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss and belonging. As the story moves between the two families, one struggling to eke out an existence in Mumbai, the other grappling with the challenge of raising a brownskinned child from another culture, Gowda poignantly parses issues of culture, identity and familial loyalty
#1 Bestselling Book of 2010 in Canada
New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
IndieBound National Bestseller
Amazon Customer Favorite (#2) & Editor’s Choice (Top 100) of 2010
American Booksellers’ Association (IndieNEXT Great Read, April 2010)
Apple (Top 80 Books of 2010)
ChaptersIndigo (Heather’s Pick)
Elle Magazine (Top 3 Book Picks, May 2010)
Good Housekeeping (Top Book Pick, June 2010)
GoodReads Choice Award 2010 Nominee (Best Debut, Best Fiction)
Target Club Pick (April 2011)
Vancouver Sun (Top 10 Canadian Books of 2010)
Oct 22, 2011
11:00am
$25 (includes full brunch)
Get your tickets early, because this one is going to sell fast….
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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