Books By the Bay 2012 (postponed)
The Books By the Bay Festival will be postponed for 2012. Please check back for a 2013 event!
If you would like to become a member of our committee (or for any other enquiries) please contact Suzanne Brooks at Gulliver’s 705-474-7335 or mail@gulliversbookstore.com or you can contact the Callander Public Library 705-752-2544.
Thank you to all past participants, committee members, sponsors, volunteers (and readers!) for all your support. Without you the festival (7 years running) would not have been such a great success!
Books By the Bay merchandise is still available for purchase. We have umbrellas and t-shirts!
LOCAVORE: May 10, 2012
If buying local is important to you, attend the public information evening hosted by Callander’s Sustainable Community Committee featuring author Sarah Elton. LOCAVORE is the national bestselling book about Canada’s local food revolution. The book won Gold at the Culinary Book Awards and was also a David Suzuki Book Club Pick. There will also be displays by local area food suppliers.
The event will be held at the Callander Community Centre on Swale Street Thursday, May 10, 2012. Doors open at 6:00 pm, presentation at 7:00pm. The book will be available for purchase at the event or before hand at Gulliver’s.
Book Signing: Deborah Ellis, March 19, 2012
We really enjoyed having Deborah at Gulliver’s. Copies of her books are available in-store!
Deborah Ellis is the internationally acclaimed author of a number of award-winning titles for children, including the Breadwinner trilogy, A Company of Fools, The Heaven Shop, and Our Stories, Our Songs. A peace activist and humanitarian field worker, Deborah has traveled the world to meet with and hear stories of children marginalized by poverty, war, and illness.
She is the recipient of the Governor General’s Award, the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, the Vicky Metcalf Award for a body of work, an ALA Notable, and the Children’s Africana Book Award Honor Book for Older Readers.
In 2006 Deborah was named to the Order of Ontario.
Book Launch: Terrence Rundle West, Nov. 30
Not In My Father’s Footsteps examines the social, religious, economic, cultural and linguistic forces that drive two young, Montrealers—one Jewish from the Main, the other French Canadian of upper-
Meet Terrence Rundle West Wednesday, Nov. 30, 7:30-9pm.
Book Signing: Lynn Johnston, Dec. 3
Lynn Johnston will be here to sign copies of her latest treasury In the Beginning There was Chaos. Copies of the first treasury Something Old, Something New and the two Farley storybooks will also be available for purchase. Meet Lynn and have your books signed in time for Christmas gifts Saturday, December 3, from 1-3pm.
Book Signing: Come On Over, Dec. 9
The boys are back in town! If you missed them last time they were here or if you’d like to see them again, then “Come On Over”, Friday December 9, from 7:30-9pm and learn your Northeastern Ontario A to Z’s. The book features anecdotes and histories from over 100 Northeastern Ontario communities. Graeme Mount and Dieter Buse capture both the allure and the survivor tenacity of the northeast’s single-industry towns that either are breaking out of, or are still caught in, the boom and bust cycles punctuating the resource industries Canada’s wealth relies on. For 12 weeks, from September through November 2010, the authors were featured twice weekly on CBC Northern Ontario Radio’s “Morning North” program discussing communities from their book. CBC listeners were invited to comment, and selected anecdotes appear in the book. We’re thrilled to have them back in North Bay!
Book Signing: Noreen Kruzich, Dec. 10
Join Noreen along her seven year journey to follow an Algonkin Trail in a quest to flesh out two Algonkin Chiefs, who have escaped the history books even though they lived at the height of colonization, hear their words and the words of their people, see the land through their eyes and listen in on the fireside chat with today’s descendents as the author unravels the story of the Algonkin people in the greater Ottawa Valley.
Meet Noreen Saturday, December 10, from 1-3pm.
When one truth is unraveled…sometimes a larger truth is revealed.
Book Launch: Northern Shores, Nov. 25
Planned as a coffee table book of canoeing and outdoor photography, the images and stories in “Northern Shores” have all come from within the same area as served by One Kids Place, the Childrens Treatment Centre for Northeastern Ontario. North Bay, Temagami, Bracebridge, Huntsville, Parry Sound – essentially the same areas that encompass two of the worlds most popular canoeing parks – Algonquin and Temagami, are all featured in the book.
With appreciation to the books sponsors, the cost of printing this book have been paid before the book has gone on sale – all monies raised from sales of this book will be going to One Kids Place.
Get your copy Friday, November 25, 4:30-9:00pm and Saturday, November 26, from 9:30-3:00pm
Book Launch: Tina Pecore Bagordo, Nov. 26
The heart-warming and personal account of Don Pecore’s life is beautifully illustrated in the newly published book Booyah: Memories Of An Old Rink Rat.
Partially written by Don Pecore in his own words, before his passing in March 1993, the book was finished by his daughter Tina, who made the 10-year project a tribute to her late father.
It all began one Christmas in 1983, when the family was out for an evening walk in South Porcupine.
“He said to me, ‘Do you know where I was at Christmas in 1944?’ And he proceeded to tell me this story of spending Christmas during the war, in a farmer’s field just outside the German border. That’s how it all started,” said Pecore-Bagordo.
The book chronicles the history, struggles and life of Don Pecore of South Porcupine. From his childhood, to the hardships he suffered during and after the Second World War, his repatriation back to Canada in 1946 and his celebrated career a recreation director and arena manager in North Bay.
Have your copy signed Saturday, November 26, 1-3pm.
Book Signing: George Walters, Nov. 19
We had a great day with George and Ruth. We have copies of his books in stock for your Christmas gift giving. Thanks to those who came and had their books signed.
George Walters stories are read today by realists and dreamers alike. His philosophy is all about life and how to live it, escaping to an era that one would call refreshing.
His stories are filled with sentiments that stir your soul… Words that bring back the fondest memories. Back to the fields, gardens, barns and kitchens of yesteryear. A time when things of importance were discussed around the kitchen table.
So… Let George now take you down memory lane, to that most wonderful of childhood places, a place where we all at one time or another found the common roots of our heritage.
Meet George and have your book signed Saturday, November 19 from 1-3pm.
George’s other books and greeting cards will also be available.
