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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Roughling
DESCRIPTION:Join Linda Leith Publishing and author Alex Costa for the Montreal launch of THE ROUGHLING\, a fantasy adventure for 8 to 12 year olds!\nAbout the Book\n“You must find the Key. You are the only one who can.”\nWith these words\, Ambrose Peters learns that the bedtime stories his parents told him are real. \nOn his twelfth birthday\, he and his friends Stan and Aurora discover a curious note in the library of his home\, an old estate in the heart of Toronto. When peculiar creatures start turning up\, the three of them stumble on a mysterious world hidden in the wild spaces of their once-familiar city. \nBut Ambrose’s time is running out. With an ancient menace closing in on him\, Ambrose must find the key to save himself\, his friends\, and the extraordinary––and dangerous––new world they only just discovered. \nThe Roughling is an epic adventure teeming with mystery\, friendship\, action\, unforgettable characters and perilous secrets. \nAbout the Author\nAlex Costa has degrees in biology and dentistry from McGill University. Born and raised in the neighbourhood of North Toronto\, she grew up near the ravines that inspired this story. She now lives in Montreal with her husband Mark\, also a dentist\, her two sons\, and a big shaggy dog named Rookie who has excellent teeth. The first in a planned trilogy\, The Roughling is her first novel.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-the-roughling/
LOCATION:WILLS Brewery\, 6729 Avenue de l’Esplanade\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2V 4P9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Everclear by Jennifer DeLeskie
DESCRIPTION:On October 8 at 7 pm\, join Jennifer DeLeskie for the launch of her debut novel\, Everclear\, at Montreal’s Pulp Books & Café\, in conversation with author Su J. Sokol. \nEverclear\, a YA near-future thriller set in Eeyou Istchee\, northern Québec\, follows 16-year-old Kai Mendelsohn\, a girl raised inside an extractive\, homogenizing system. When her father disappears\, she is forced out of the compound and into the wider world\, where she begins to confront the consequences of the society that shaped her—and the possibility of another way. \nLibrairie Pulp Books & Café\n3952 Rue Wellington\n Verdun\, Montréal\, QC \nPulp is wheelchair accessible\, including an accessible washroom\, and is a short walk from de l’Église metro station.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-everclear-by-jennifer-deleskie/
LOCATION:Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe\, 3952 Wellington Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H4G1V3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Fragile Like a Bomb\, translated by Natalia Hero
DESCRIPTION:Not fragile like a flower\, fragile like a bomb.” \nJoin us for the launch of Fragile Like a Bomb by Catherine Fred Lavarenne\, translated by Natalia Hero. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nStéphanie is recruited by a left-wing provincial party to run in their upcoming elections. After a surprise victory she is\, despite her inexperience\, appointed Québec’s Minister of Culture. As she navigates her new role\, a wave of #MeToo denunciations erupts in the literary world. Stéphanie begins to make connections between her own experiences and those of the survivors daring to speak out. Fragile Like a Bomb is a powerful\, illuminating novel that reveals how men’s violence against women is both intimate and institutional\, shaping everything from personal memory to public culture. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR & TRANSLATOR\nCatherine Fred Lavarenne has worked as a college instructor\, a political attaché for the City of Montréal\, and a project manager for rights advocacy at the Québec LGBT Council. Her first novel\, Quelques lieux de Constance\, was published by Héliotrope in 2018. Fragile Like a Bomb is her second novel. She lives in Montreal. \nNatalia Hero is a Montreal-based writer and literary translator. Her debut novella\, Hum\, was published in 2018 by Metatron Press. Her translations include Valid: Dystopian Autofiction by Chris Bergeron\, Thirty by Marie Darsigny\, In the End They Told Them All to Get Lost by Laurence Leduc-Primeau\, and God’s Zoo by Pablo Urbanyi.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-fragile-like-a-bomb-translated-by-natalia-hero/
LOCATION:L’Euguélionne Bookstore\, 1426 Rue Beaudry\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2L 3E5\, Canada
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