EVENT - Losing the Signal: Thursday, July 16, 6pm at Princess Twin

Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff with Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Blackberry

Thursday, July 16, 6pm at Princess Twin Cinema

Tickets: $5.00 or FREE when you purchase the book from Words Worth Books

It was a classic modern business story: two Canadian entrepreneurs build an iconic brand that would forever change the way we communicate. From its humble beginnings in an office above a bagel store in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry outsmarted the global giants with an addictive smartphone that generated billions of dollars. Its devices were so ubiquitous that even President Barack Obama favoured them above all others. But just as it was emerging as the dominant global player, BlackBerry took a dramatic turn.

Losing the Signal is the riveting, never-before-told story of one of the most spectacular technological upsets of the 21st century.

Seating is limited. Tickets are $5.00 or FREE when you purchase the book from us!

FREE Little Lending Library

The Words Worth Books Little Lending Library is located at the back of the store, just past the Children's section.  We have a selection of fiction, non-fiction and young-adult books for  your borrowing pleasure -- over 100 titles in stock with more being added every few weeks! Select your book and sign it out with one of our delightful and charming staff.  It's due back in one week.

We don't take reservations so you'll just have to keep checking back.  But that's part of the fun, isn't it?  Take a chance!  Try something new!  Expand your horizons!

Happy Reading!

Sabletine Cookbook Club

Sablétine will be featuring some of their favourite recipies from their favourite cookbooks!

Each month a different cookbook will be the inspiration for fresh new flavours for eat-in or take-out.

Books are available for purchase at

Sablétine - 203 King St. S., Waterloo  519-568-7373

Words Worth Books - 96 King St. S., Waterloo  519-884-2665

AUTHORS FOR INDIES - Saturday, May 2 from noon to 4:00pm

On Saturday, May 2, 2015 from noon to 4:00pm, Tasneem Jamal, Carrie Snyder, Andrew Kolb, David Waltner-Toews and R.J. Anderson will volunteer at Words Worth Books as part of Authors for Indies Day.  Throughout the day the authors will greet customers, recommend books, and highlight the importance of supporting independent bookshops in Canada. Inspired by the hugely successful Indies First campaign in the United States, Authors for Indies started out as a BC-based initiative.  With help from publishers, the B.C. Booksellers Association, the Vancouver Writers' Festival and the Retail Council of Canada, the celebration has spread across Canada with m ore than 400 authors and 100 bookstores signed up.

Visit Words Worth Books to chat with authors, get a book signed, listen to a reading, get a recommendation, and show your support for Canadian Indies on Saturday, May 2 between noon and 4:00pm.

Our Featured Authors:

Tasneem Jamal is the author of Where the Air is Sweet, a story of the chaos and struggle that followed Idi Amin's 1972 expulsion of 80,000 South Asians from Uganda.  CBC names Tasneem Jamal one of 12 rising CanLit stars on its annual list of Writers to Watch.

Tasneem recommends:

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Carrie Snyder is the acclaimed author of three books for adults. Her 2014 novel, Girl Runner, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and has been translated into several languages. The Juliet Stories was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award, and her debut short story collection, Hair Hat, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction. The Candy Conspiracy is her first book for children.

Carrie Recommends:

In the Town All Year 'Round by Rotraut Susanne Berner

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Smartest Giant in Town by Julie Donaldson

Author, illustrator Andrew Kolb is the creator of Edmund Unravels, a story about a plucky ball of  yarn that goes on an adventure.  No matter how far he goes, he will always feel that tug at the end of his string to remind him that his friends and family are there to pull him home and wind him back up again.  He has been heralded as the "millennial Robert Munsch" by Record contributor Joel Rubinoff

Andrew Recommends:

Johannes Cabal series by Jonathan L. Howard

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

The Magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman

Called "funny and occasionally eccentric," by Quill & Quire magazine, David Waltner-Toews is a veterinarian, epidemologist, scientist, and popular author.  His books include: The Chickens Fight Back; Food, Sex and Salmonella; and The Origin of Feces.

David Recommends:

The Bear by Claire Cameron

North of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person

The Road is How by Trevor Herriot

Bestselling fantasy and sci-fi novelist for children and young adults, R.J. Anderson is best-known for her Knife trilogy which chronicles the delicate allegiance formed between humans and the Oakenfolk as they fight to save the faeires from extinction.  Coming this autumn: A Pocket Full of Murder.

Rebecca Recommends:

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex

Andrew Pyper - Tuesday, April 28, 7pm at Waterloo Public Library

David Worsley reviews:

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     Ever since the publication of Lost Girls about fifteen years ago, I've dropped on the spot-whatever I was reading-for a new Andrew Pyper novel.

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     His  tales of literate, tightly plotted creepiness just get better and better, and his new one, The Damned, is among the best.

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     When Ashleigh Orchard dies in a house fire near their Detroit home, her servile brother Danny pens a bestselling "back from heaven" memoir telling of his surviving the fire and for a moment, dying.

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     The Damned picks up their lives about a couple decades later.  Danny is tormented by periodic "visits" from his deceased sister and her malevolence comes to the fore as Danny finds love for the first time.

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     Set against a wholly denuded suburban Detroit, The Damned is rich with metaphor, setting and tension.  ...And it moves like a cat.

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     This is wonderfully potent storytelling, and he's always great to talk with.

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     The event is at the Waterloo Public Library and Words Worth Books is very pleased to bring Andrew back to Waterloo with the co-operation of the WPL and the Canadian Authors Association.

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Tuesday, April 28, 7 pm

FREE EVENT - Seating is limited

MARGARET TRUDEAU - Tuesday, April 14, 7pm at Knox Presbyterian

Words Worth Books is pleased to announce that cultural luminary and mental-health advocate, Margaret Trudeau, will launch her new book The Time of Your Life on Tuesday, April 14, 7pm at Knox Presbyterian Church in Uptown Waterloo. TICKETS: $5.00 OR TWO FREE WHEN YOU PRE-PURCHASE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE.

As wife to the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and mother to Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau, she has never been far from the public spotlight. In 2010 she came forward with her book Changing My Mind-- a candid memoir about her struggles to endure public scrutiny as the young wife to Canada's most chronicled leader, and her lifelong battle with depression and mental illness.

In The Time of Your Life is found the distillation of her hard-earned wisdom.  She offers women an inspirational and practical approach to creating a healthy, happy, secure and satisfying future life. From dating and online romance to health practices and financial planning, The Time of Your Life explores the fundamentals needed for the best future by discussing cornerstone issues such as housing, money, sex, friendship and children.

Always a rebel at heart, Margaret looks at what the experts have to say and weaves through her own point of view, culling insightful and funny anecdotes from her early marriage to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau when she was a twenty-two-year-old hippie from the west coast of Canada, to her life as a single mom raising three young boys in the often hostile glare of the media spotlight. Margaret's mental health challenges, her decision to leave her second marriage, the devastating loss of her son Michel and first husband Pierre, and her re-invention as a coveted spokesperson and fundraiser make her uniquely qualified to offer her own perspective on the choices women face in their fifties and beyond.

Practical, straightforward and filled with tips and ideas for living a rich life, The Time of Your Life is the perfect book for women of all ages.