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Words Worth On-Line features the
best in selection, the latest
news in the world of books and the lives of their
authors.
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Remember all the books Mom read to you?
Mother's Day this Sunday May 11th
book suggestions |
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Words
Worth Hearing: our 24th year! |
Tues May
13
Knox Church
7:30pm $8 |
James Orbinski
An Imperfect Offe ring
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Humanitarian
Action
in the 21st Century
Nobel winning past president of Doctors Without Borders |
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recent authors in Waterloo |
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Tues Feb
19 |
Chris Turner
The
Geography of Hope |
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Wed Feb
20 |
James Raffan
Emperor of the North - George Simpson |
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Tues Feb
26 |
Gabor Maté
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Close Encounters
with Addictions |
Thur Feb
28
*Signed
books available |
Karolyn
Smardz Frost
I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Lorna Goodison*,
From Harvey River
Carol Duncan,
Black Church Studies |
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Mon Mar
3 |
Sandra Gulland
Mistress of the
Sun
Mary Swan
The Boys in the
Tree |
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Wed Mar
12 |
Raj
Patel
Stuffed and Starved |
Wed
Apr
9
Signed
books available |
Alison Pick
Dream World
Tim Lilburn
Orphic Politics
James Gordon The Highway and I |
Mon Apr
14
Signed
books available |
Carl Honoré
Under Pressure - Rescuing
Childhood from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting |
Fri May
2
Signed
books available |
Barrie Wilson
How
Jesus Became Christian |
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community events
where we have book tables |
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first
Wed. of the month, WCI, 7pm |
Perimeter
Institute
lectures
May 7
Gerard 't Hooft Science Fiction and
Reality |
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Words Worth Reading |
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The book chosen for Waterloo Region's 2008 One Book One
Community program is The 100-Mile Diet
by Alisa Smith
and J B MacKinnon.
The authors will be in the
region September
16-18 for various readings.
Check out The Record's
website for more details. The 2008 book
was announced
April 19th at the Kitchener Farmers Market.
This is the seventh year of One Book One Community, founded
by Words Worth's co-owner, Tricia Siemens. The previous
selections are: Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief,
Jane Urquhart's Stone Carvers, Nino Ricci's
Lives of the Saints, Robert Sawyer's Hominids, Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road,
and Elizabeth Ruth's Smoke.
We offer 20% off the Globe & Mail new
release bestsellers and, as a
Book Club member (it’s free to join) you get a $5.00
coupon after $150 in purchases.
Words Worth Books has a BLOG at
http://howtofurnisharoom.blogspot.com
where two of our staff, Mandy and David, have been
recording their book reviews. Check it out and don’t leave
without scribbling something in response—it’s lonely out
there in cyberspace.
In
early 2007we switched our
electricity provider to
Bullfrog Power,
Ontario’s first 100% green electricity retailer. Our
electricity is still from the existing grid, but Words
Worth Books is now carbon neutral. With Bullfrog, the
electricity mix is made up of wind and low-impact
hydroelectric power, rather than coal or nuclear. This
means that there are no greenhouse gas emissions resulting
from the day to day running of the store.
Words Worth Gives Back:
The Ishmael Beah event on April 19th,2007 raised proceeds of
$2500 which was presented to Project Ploughshares. Thanks
to The Record for co-sponsoring this event.
One dollar is donated for each ticket sold at most of our author
events. In December '07, $350 for the fall events was sent
to The Record's Literacy Fund, part of the KW Community
Foundation.
We donate $1 per copy sold of Stephen Lewis's Race
Against Time, to the Stephen Lewis Foundation
= $292.
donated for 2007. $150 was donated to the KW Food Bank in
Dec.2007, $250 to KW Art Gallery, $163 to Grand River
Hospital, $100 to Lisaard House, and $5000 to Supportive
Housing of Waterloo.($8993 total for 2007).
The Raj Patel event raised $250 for Beyond Borders.
Proudly She Marched
by Ruth Russell is available for mail
order, and in the store, from Words Worth Books Te first
volume on the CWAC training in
Kitchener is $35; the second volume, about the WRCNS in Galt, is $30.
Shipping within Ontario &
Quebec is $12 ($14 elsewhere in Canada) for 1 to 3 copies. To order, use the Book
Request menu, or call us at 1-888-241-7546.
MORE BOOKS?
Our spring 2008 catalogue, Books for
Everybody, is now available. Ask for your copy at the
store.
Award winners
The 2007
Scotiabank Giller Prize
was awarded Nov.6th. Our favourite,
Elizabeth
Hay, was also the winner! Other finalists were MG Vassanji, Michael Ondaatje, Alissa York and
Daniel Poliquin.
The
Governor
General's Awards shortlist was announced
October 16th - the final choices were announced
Nov.27th. Nonfiction nominees included
Stephanie Nolen and John English. The nonfiction
winner was
Karolyn Smardz Frost. Poetry nominees
included
Brian Henderson.
 The nominees for the 2008
Charles Taylor Prize for Literary
Nonfiction
award includd recent Words Worth authors, Lorna Goodison, David
Gilmour and Richard Gwyn. The award was presented March 3
to
Richard Gwyn
for John A.: The Man Who Made Us. In 2007
the winner was
Rudy Wiebe for his childhood memoir, Of This
Earth.
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Publishers' Overstocks* |
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Caroline Myss |
Entering the Castle |
$31.99 |
$8.99 |
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Will Beall |
L.A. Rex (mystery) |
$31.00 |
$8.99 |
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Richard Florida |
The
Flight of the Creative Class |
$19.95
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$8.99 |
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Veronica
Ross |
To
Experience Wonder
Edna Staeber –a life |
$35.00
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$15.99 |
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Louise
Penney |
Still Life
(mystery) |
$24.95
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$6.99 |
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Leonard Cohen |
Let
Us Compare Mythologies |
$21.99
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$6.99 |
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Edward
Hallowell |
Driven to
Distraction (ADD) |
$22.00
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$7.99 |
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Katherine Govier |
Three Views of Crystal Water (novel) |
$21.95 |
$7.99 |
* while stock lasts - please order by e-mail |
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past events
Fall 2007 |
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Frances Westley, Richard Gwyn, Elizabeth Hay, Gail
Anderson-Dargatz, Bernice Morgan, Stephanie Nolen,
Frances Itani, Gil Adamson, David Gilmour, Richard
B. Wright, Jean Chrétien and more |
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Spring 2007 events |
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Afua Cooper, Lawrence Hill, Dr. Vincent Lam, Ishmael Beah,
Linda McQuaig, Heather Mallick,
David Waltner-Toews and more.
Harry Potter Party
July
20
photos
here
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Fall 2006 events |
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Diane Setterfield, Mary Lawson, David Adams
Richards, Trevor Cole, Wayne Johnston, Anita Rau
Badami, Carol Off, Linden MacIntrye, John English,
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Noah Richler, Margaret
Macmillan, Charlotte Gray, Dennis Bock, Rosemary
Sullivan... |
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Spring
2006 events |
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Devyani
Saltzman, Ross King, Lynn Coady, Leah
McLaren, Karen Armstrong, Rudy Wiebe, John Lorinc
and more |
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life beyond life."
- John Milton
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