We are so happy to announce that we will be having authors Claire Tacon & Tanis MacDonald in store on Tuesday October 2nd at 7pm! They will be discussing their respective books, In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo & Out of Line, and reading passages.
2 for 1 Author Meet & Greet!
We have a very special treat for you with two wonderful authors on one night!
Please welcome with acclaimed author of The Last Namsara, and former Words Worth staffer, Kristen Ciccarelli as she talks about her follow up, the highly anticipated The Caged Queen!
As if that weren't enough, we will also be featuring local author Heather Smith and her wonderful book Angus All Aglow!
Two authors, one evening! You don't want to miss it!
August Digital Sale
We're closed for a day?!
Well, don't you worry because we're making it up to you with a sale.
But oh, no, this isn't just something for a couple days, or a week, no, we're running it for the ENTIRE MONTH!
That's right, order online through our digital store between now and August 31st, and you will get 15% off your order!
The sale excludes magazines, newspapers, or items already on sale.
Enjoy your long weekend!
Summer Gift Card Special!
It has been so hot outside!!
Come in out of the hot streets to our air conditioned store, and while you're at it, take advantage of our gift card sale!
I know what you're thinking, a sale on gift cards?? And yes! It's completely true!
From now until the end of July, when you purchase a gift card valued at $50 or more, we will take 20% off the cost of it! Get a $50 gift card for just $40, $100 card for just $80, and so on!
Too hot to leave your house just yet? Busy schedule? Never fear, give us a call or email: hello@wordsworthbooks.com abd we can set your gift cards up and have them ready for when you want them.
Perfect for birthday presents, getting a jump on...shudder...Christmas shopping (it's less than 6 months away) or just to treat someone.
Remember, the sale ends July 31!
Author Event: Sarah Selecky
"The best book I've read this year." ~David
We are very excited to announce that Giller nominee Sarah Selecky will in be in-store on Wednesday, June 6 at 7pm signing copies of her new book, Radiant Shimmering Light!
A sharply funny and wise debut novel about female friendship, the face we show the world online and letting your own light shine, from the Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted author of This Cake Is for the Party
"Lilian Quick has looked up to her cousin Florence her whole life. Florence is everything Lilian is not—brave, confident, quick to find adventure and American. The women have been out of touch for years due to a family rift, but Lilian, childless, single and self-employed as a pet portraitist, has been watching Florence for years. Florence is now Internet-famous as Eleven Novak, the face of a compelling new feminine lifestyle empowerment brand.
When Eleven comes to town as part of her sales tour, she offers Lilian a place at the Temple, her Manhattan office. Despite twenty years of silence, Eleven welcomes her long-lost cousin with open arms, and the two women begin a new relationship. Lilian quickly enrols in the Ascendency, Eleven’s signature program: an expensive three-month training seminar on empowered leadership, spiritual awakening, and sales and marketing. Eleven is going to help her cousin rise up to be her highest self: confident, affluent and self-actualized.
Lilian’s sensitive, artistic nature is stretched by the work she does in the Ascendency, and pushed even further by her cousin’s careful life coaching. In just three months, Lilian’s life changes drastically and becomes everything she’s dreamed of. But is it everything she wants? And can she trust everything Eleven says?"
SARAH SELECKY’s breakout debut collection, This Cake Is for the Party, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book, and was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her stories have been published in The Walrus, Elle Canada, The New Quarterly, and The Journey Prize anthology, among other publications. She is also the creator of the beloved online creative writing school (and MFA alternative) Story Is a State of Mind.
Book Launch: The Deserters
Words Worth Books and Vehicule Press are pleased to invite you to celebrate the launching of The Deserters by Pamela Mulloy on Wednesday, May 23 at 7pm
Shifting across three continents, The Deserters explores themes of trust, isolation, abandonment, and emotional disconnection in a world dramatically altered by the experience of war.
Eugenie is trying--and mostly failing--to restore an inherited old farm in New Brunswick while her husband, a master carpenter, is away in Spain. The work involved overwhelms her, so she hires Dean to help bring the farm back to working order. The only problem is that Dean is a deserter from the US Army suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and he happens to be living deep in the backwoods of her property, where he's hiding out from immigration officials. To complicate matters further, Eugenie and Dean fall into a relationship, even as he is tormented by flashbacks, nightmares, and flickering memories of his wartime experiences in Iraq.
Pamela Mulloy's short fiction has been published in the UK and Canada, most recently in Polish(ed) (Guernica, 2017), an anthology of Polish-Canadian writing. She is the editor of The New Quarterly. Pamela Mulloy grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick and now lives in Kitchener, Ontario with her husband and daughter.