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Tim
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Terry O'Reilly
Mike Tennant
Buzz Hargrove
Linwood Barclay
Robert Rotenberg
John
McFetridge
Lucy Waverman
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Upcoming Events
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Tim Tentcher
- What a Wonderful World Cookbook - Feb 13'10 |
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On Saturday (Feb 13) Tim Tentcher came
to the store to promote his wonderful vegetarian cookbook,
What a Wonderful World. Tim has travelled around
the world with his family, learning local food and recipes. His
photos and stories add to a wonderful cookbook. Tim shared
incredible shortbread cookies and roti with us. Check out our
BLOG to see a video of the event. |
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Stuart
Mclean - Extreme Vinyl Cafe - Dec 17'09 |
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Stuart
Mclean came to the bookstore to sign books for a packed store of
fans. He was lovely and gracious and took the time to speak at
length with each person waiting. Stuart even offered to call one
woman's husband who couldn't come because he was ill!
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Terry O'Reilly & Mike Tennant -
The Age of Persuasion - Dec 2'09 |
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Princess Cinema was packed full of
excited fans for an evening with CBC's Terry O'Reilly and Mike
Tennant. Terry and Mike spoke about their favorite commercials -
Terry's is one that was created for a "man-shaver". Tricia enjoyed
hearing the pair's wonderful answers to the audience's great
questions and how it made radio come alive. When Terry and Mike were
first approached by Random House to write the book, Random House was
excited to find out that Mike lives in Kitchener. The publishing
house said that they must do an event at Words Worth - this was
before the book was even written!
Read more on Qatalyst's
BLOG. |
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John English
- Nov 5'09 |
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 John English presented the second
volume of his Pierre Trudeau biography, Just Watch Me, to a packed
crowd at Knox Church.
John English is the Executive Director of
CIGI. His first book about Trudeau, Citizen of the World, was a multi-award
winner. English has had exclusive access
to Trudeau's private and family papers, and the
cooperation of the whole family (without any liens).
He has also researched the entire published record
of the period, the archival records, and has
interviewed hundreds of people associated with
Trudeau both publicly and privately. As such, these
two volumes are the definitive story. Read more
about the event on our
BLOG |
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Buzz
Hargrove- Nov 21'09 |
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Buzz Hargrove entertained fans and
CAW members in the store for a few hours as he signed his new book,
Laying it on the Line.
He was the national president of
the CAW from 1992 until his retirement in September
2008. Born and raised in Bath, New Brunswick, the
former Windsor, Ontario autoworker, along with UAW
Canadian Director Bob White, helped found the CAW. A former VP of
the executive committee of the Canadian Labour Congress, Hargrove
has also written an autobiography entitled Labour of Love. |
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Linwood
Barclay, Robert Rotenberg & John McFeteridge - Nov 10'09 |
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Words Worth hosted
three fine crime writers at the Princess Cinema last night, and a
fine time was had by all. Torontonian’s John McFetridge and Robert
Rotenberg walked everyone through the high rises and lowlifes of the
Big Smoke with flair and élan. The internationally renowned Linwood
Barclay read from an upcoming work, Never Look Away due in March.
Perhaps the highlight of the evening came when all three authors
teed off on the process of having each of their books going to film
or series television. They all have development deals or
screenwriting credits with their respective novels, and were given
to strong and jovial observation on the subject. |
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Barbara Reid
- Nov 8'09 |
Canada's favorite children's author
stopped by on Sunday to present her latest book, A Perfect Snow.
Barbara did a great job entertaining children, parents and teachers
with her snow costumes and artwork. The store was packed with more
than sixty people to meet the famous illustrator and author. It was
a great afternoon!
Click
HERE to watch a video about Barbara Reid.
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Words Worth Eating - Lucy Waverman
- Oct 28'09 |
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Uptown 21 was crowded for our night with
Lucy Waverman. Copies of her new cookbook, A Year in Lucy's Kitchen
were given to all the guests and Lucy was delighted to meet her fans
in Waterloo and sign copies of their book. The menu featured Smoked
Trout Pate (pg 257), Beet and Greens Soup (pg 224), Scallops with
Chorizo (pg 235), an entree of Brisket and Potato Celeriac Mash (pg
247, 285) and a dessert of Cranberry and Pear Galette (pg 261). The
event was filmed for an episode of CTV's Provincewide which will be
airing on November 8th at 6:30pm. |
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Words Worth Hearing - 26 Years of our Author Event Series |
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Words Worth is proud to have a strong
history of bringing outstanding authors to Kitchener-Waterloo. Since
1984 we have been honoured to bring some of the best authors in the
world to our events. Some of the stellar writers that have graced our
stage include: W.O. Mitchell, Peter Gzowski, Timothy Findley, Jane
Urquhart, David Suzuki, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Nino Ricci,
Robertson Davies, M.G. Vassanji, Rohinton Mistry, Malcolm Gladwell,
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Wayne Johnston, Richard Wright, Diana Gabaldon,
Andrew Pyper, Anne-Marie McDonald, Dr. Gabor Maté,
Jane Jacobs, Karen Armstrong, Louis de Bernieres, Wayson Choy, Jon
Kabat-Zinn, Joseph Boyden, Naomi Duguid, David Adams Richards, Jean
Chrétien, Anne
Michaels and Daniel
Levitin. This is by no means the
complete list of authors that we have had the joy of hosting. For more
names, take a look at the list of authors that wraps around the
bookstore.
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Words Worth Eating - Our Newest Event Series! |
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Words
Worth Books began collaborating with local restaurants on a culinary
series that offers an evening of food, flavors, authors and words in
2007. Each
event features a notable cookbook author and a menu from their latest
cookbook. So
far the series has featured Naomi Duguid & Jeffrey Alford, Bonnie Stern
and Rose Murray and Lucy Waverman. Each ticket includes a signed copy of the featured
cookbook. |
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Community Book Tables |
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We supply book displays to conferences
and workshops as well as Perimeter Institute, St. Jeromes, C.I.G.I. and other lecture series. Please
contact us if you would like books
supplied at your conference or event. |
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