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With a New Year comes a whole blank slate of opportunity for Books n Beer. (Already! I'm still working on it...) First up
local Professor and Author (from Appleton) Emma Anderson talking on her book The Betrayal of Faith: the tragic journey of a Colonial Native Convert.
Thursday, January 31st - 7:30 pm
back room of The Ironworks Pub
SPECIAL TIME: due to Mr. Phillips tight schedule, (we have to get him to the airport by 9:00pm) tonight's BONUS Books n Beer will start at 7pm. As always, in the back room of the Ironworks Pub.
The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar celebrates its twentieth year in Canadian homes, schools, and offices.
Being Canada's favourite calendar for twenty years is no mean feat, as Phillips says, It's the most popular calendar in Canada. And there's no cleavage or cats - it's all about the weather. At the same time, he acknowledges, that we're known as the weather people of the world, and we have a lot of tough weather in this country.
Having collected at least 25,000 weather stories during his career, Phillips should know! The calendar showcases Canada's craziest weather conditions, giving all of its readers a piece of the Phillips weather archive and leaving them wanting more.
At its inception, The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar began a wave, with similar weather trivia calendars springing up in countries as far away as Singapore and Australia. But Canadians know that few countries experience the wacky, weird, and woeful weather that we submit ourselves to in Canada. As Phillips says, We scoff at blizzards and sneeze at frostbite. Not to mention that we are tickled by tornados, delighted by downdrafts, charmed by Chinooks. . . We complain about our weather, but we love it - and not secretly.
Always a bestseller, written with the bold humour and sound science that Canadians have come to expect from David Phillips, The Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar continues to be a year-long weather adventure for all ages.
Author Bio
David Phillips,acknowledged as Canada's foremost weather expert, a genuine Canadian legend, and our unofficial weather guru,would rather think of himself as a weather ambassador for Canada.As a senior climatologist at Environment Canada, Phillips's work involves activities related to the study and understanding of the Canadian climate and the promotion of weather awareness.
Nov. 29
as always in the back room of The Ironworks Pub.
10th Anniversary Party to follow.
Culled from years of conversations with the famous, the powerful and the influential, Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews features a wide range of intriguing and fascinating people - from Sandra Oh, Matthew Good, Rick Mercer and Ian Tyson to Lewis Lapham, Hans Blix, Jane Jacobs and Tom Hayden.
This book gives you Maher Arar's first-hand account of his torture at the hands of his Syrian captors; shows you what urban visionary Jane Jacobs has in common with artist, political activist and former rock star Mendelson Joe; lets you read about cartoonist Terry Mosher's fight against the drug abuse that almost finished his career; and offers up the candid words of beloved Canadian broadcaster Peter Gzowski in one of his last interviews.
Rockburn: The CPAC Interviews is an entertaining smorgasbord of thoughts and opinions from some of the most recognizable people in the worlds of politics, culture and entertainment today.
Appearing tonight (Nov. 22) is Dane Lanken in support of his book Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Songs and Stories/33 Songs and possibly appearing in support of Dane is Anna. penny rose, who was the producer of the CD and book Songs of Wade Hemsworth will be in attendance. And of course, no night is a success without bagpipes, so Hugh Macpherson will appear in support of his book A Piper's American Odyssey.
November 22 - 7:30 pm
as always, back room of The Ironworks Pub
and go to Penumbra's web site for more info on individual books.
http://www.penumbrapress.ca/new.php
Music!
Yes come hear Bob talk and sing on his two books On Performing and On Songwriting.
This will be a treat.
November 15 - 7:30 pm
as always, back room of The IronworksPub
Doug Hunter is part of our Doug & Doug Evening.
join both Dougs for Books n Beer #7
November 8 - 7:30 pm
as lawyas, in the back room of the Ironworks Pub
Doug Clark is part of our Doug & Doug Evening at Books n Beer!
Thursday, november 8th - 7:30 pm
as always, at The Ironworks Pub
come here Ralph Mellanby talk on his life at HNiC in support of his book Walking with Legends: Real Stories of Hockey Night in Canada
Thrusday, November 1.
7:30 pm @ The Ironworks Pub
The Miller's Tale is set to celebrate our TENTH Anniversary!
And to celebrate we have expanded Thursday night's Books n Beer Programme to run for TEN consecutive weeks. (See 10 4 10). And, we have a bonus night Wednesday October 3rd.
The list is (please see individual entries for more details)
All events start at 7:30 PM
September 27:
Phil Jenkins and his book Beneath my Feet, The Memoirs of George Mercer Dawson
WEDNESDAY, October 3rd (BONUS!!!)
Katherine Barber will be making her THIRD appearance in Almonte in support of her books
Only in Canada, you Say and Six words You Never Knew Had Something To Do With Pigs
October 4
Barbara Fradkin & Mary Jane Maffini appearing in support of their new mystery novels Dream Chasers & Too Hot to Handle
October 11
Laura Byrne Paquet appearing in support of her book Wanderlust: A social History of Travel
October 18
Claudia Smith and Glenda Jones will be appearing is support of their respective books Country School Days 1830s-1960s and A Month of Sundays
October 25
Roy MacSkimming is support of his novel MacDonald
November 1
Ralph Mellanby (father of NHLer Scott) in support of his book Walking with Legends: The Real Stories of Hockey Night in Canada
November 8
Doug Clark in support of his book The Roaring Game: A sweeping history of Curling
and
Doug Hunter author of God's Mercies: Rivalry and Betrayal in the Age of Discovery
November 15
Bob Snider will be appearing, performing, reading from his books On Songwriting and On Performing
November 22
Penumbra Press Night
line up to be announced. (But, if things come about as we've talked about ... look out Almonte this will be fun!)
November 29
Ken Rockburn will be appearing at our last 10 4 10 to promote his book
Party to follow, as this is the ACTUAL day of our Anniversary.
Our third guest in our second serving of Books n Beer will be Oni The Haitian Sensation, the grand dame of Ottawa's Slam Poetry scene.
She will be appearing in the backroom of the Ironworks http://www.ironworkspub.ca/
Thursday, May 10th at 7:30 pm
She will be reading from Ghettostocracy
for more info try loggin on to her site (under construction when I wrote this, Feb. 9)
http://www.mesooni.com/
Charles Gordon will be our second guest in our second serving of Books n Beer.
He will be appearing Thursday, April 12th at 7:30 pm in the backroom of the Ironworks Pub.
http://www.ironworkspub.ca/
His newest book is Still at the Cottage
We are exremely pleased to offer a second glass of Books n Beer, and to start the season off we have Charlotte Gray author of the recent Reluctant Genius: The passionate life and inventive mind of Alexander Graham Bell joining us in the backroom of the Ironworks Pub, Thursday, March 29th at 7:30 pm
for more details on the Ironworks please seehttp://www.ironworkspub.ca/
for more on Charlotte Gray see http://www.charlottegray.ca/
CBC Radio movie critic Robert Fontain will join us in the backroom of The Ironworks for movie trivia.
With The Famished Lover, Ottawa's Alan Cumyn has written an extraordinary novel about the nature of love and longing.
Author Brent Robillard will launch our series by reading from his new novel, Houdini's Shadow at the Ironworks.