Book Launch
Book Launch and Journaling for Self-Love Workshop
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin Lynda Monk to celebrate the launch of Affirmations for Self-Love: A Motivational Journal with Prompts for Self-Worth, Self-Acceptance, & Positive Self-Talk. Be inspired to go to the page to Journal for Self-Love in this one hour mini-workshop. Bring your journal and favourite pen to this nourishing and creative time together. Take time to go […]
William Deverell
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin us for an evening with bestselling author William Deverell. His new book The Log-Shot Trial will soon be in bookstores. Arthur Beauchamp is mortified. A revised biography of his early career as a lawyer paints him as a dissolute womanizer. So he decides to write a memoir to set the record straight as he […]
Maggie Squires
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaMaggie Squires launches her book A Wild Life and a Dog Called Brown with a spectacular slide show of the Yukon Mountains where the story unfolds. A heartfelt tribute to a puppy, adopted with hesitation, who became a faithful, loving, supportive companion to a group of strong, independent ‘sisters’ bonded by a love of mountains, […]
Margaret Sullivan
Book Launch of "Jacinta's Orderly World" by Margaret Sullivan. Margaret Sullivan is a much published author and poet who lives on Salt Spring Island, where she edits The Journal of Undiscovered Poets. There will be copies available for purchase. A wonderful event for families, great for kids aged 5-9.
Sheila Harrington
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaJoin Sheila Harrington for her book launch Voices for the Islands: Thirty Years of Nature Conservation on the Salish Sea. Everyone welcome. Books for sale.
Maria Coffey
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaMaria, the author of Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life and her husband Dag Goering will talk about “Living Your Choice”. They choose a life of adventure over raising a family.
Brian Day
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaBook Launch with Brian Day: The Making Join Brian Day on a poetic odyssey where science, folktales, myths, and world religions are braided seamlessly into a new and vibrant retelling of the story of the universe – an epic tale for our troubled times. Library Community Program Room.
Chris Arnett
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaChris Arnett talks about his new book Signs of the Time: Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art. Drawing on a unique blend of Indigenous and Western sources, Signs of the Time explores Nłeʔkepmx rock art making to reveal the historical and cultural meaning beneath its beguiling imagery. Chris Arnett is an independent archaeologist who lives on […]
Maia Caron
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaMaia Caron is an Indigenous author, reading from her latest novel, The Last Secret. Her first novel, Song of Batoche, is a historical novel that was a CBC must-read book for 2018. The Toronto Star described the novel as a “tale of love, betrayal and obsession,” and Shelagh Rogers of CBC’s The Last Chapter said […]
Raven Chapbooks Book Launch
Community Program Room 129 McPhillips Avenue, Salt Spring Island, BC, CanadaRaven Chapbooks launches two new titles for their Indigo Series, Fall 2024: Susan Alexander’s Berberitzen and Lorraine Gane’s If I Have Known Beauty Emcee for the evening is poet, Brian Day. Books and refreshments will be available.