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Ottawa Valley Authors
The LoonsNest Book and
Gift store is an independent Bookstore in Deep River which
carries a diverse selection of books and specializing in books
Renfrew County and Ottawa Valley History.
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D.A. Adams, Proprietor
Champlain St. P.O. Box 1469
Deep River, Ontario K0J 1P0
Phone: 613-584-9532
Fax: 613-584-9531
Email:
loonsnestbooks@hotmail.com |
Ottawa Valley Authors
| Their new book "Making the Grade" is the
third book in the "Sharing the Secret" Series, aimed at
spreading a positive message to children 4-12. Earlier
books are:
Making Friends and Playing Sports |
http://sharingthesecretseries.com/index.php
Books available in English and French |
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Collection of funny stories that Dave has written over the
years as a columnist for the North Renfrew Times newspaper.
Proceeds of the sales (after costs are covered) is being
donated to Habitat for Humanity, building projects for poor
in Hungary.
Book available at Loonsnest Books & Gifts in Deep
River. |
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"If you've ever wondered how
military families survive in the turbulent world we live in,
then look no further..."
 To contact Dianne or for
more information, please e-mail
info@mylovemylife.ca
www.renc.igs.net/~tcollier/
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While life as a military spouse can be rewarding, it can
also be frightening, frustrating and lonely. A military wife
for over 35 years, author and columnist Dianne Collier has
experienced first-hand the unique challenges faced by the
families who dedicate their lives to a military career. In
"My Love, My Life" Dianne turns, once again, to military
spouses from across Canada, the US and overseas to tell
their stories.
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The Occupied Garden
by
Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski
Recovering the Story of a Family in the War-Torn
Netherlands
www.theoccupiedgarden.com
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The Occupied
Garden, released March 2008 by McClelland
and Stewart, was written by sisters Kristen
den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski. Chronicling
the lives of their father’s family in The
Netherlands during the Second World War, and
continuing beyond that time to tell of the
immigrant experience in Ontario of the
1950s, the book has received excellent
reviews. Kristen is an acclaimed novelist,
and lives in Toronto. Tracy resides in Deep
River, and looks forward to continuing with
a writing career. The book is available in
stores now, and has a complementary website
www.theoccupiedgarden.com
where the sisters invite readers to
contribute their own family stories and
memories from the First and Second World
War.
Please visit
their website to find out more. |
A darkly comic and
startlingly honest novel,
A Week of This
follows the lives of an
extended family over one increasingly
desperate week. At the centre of the novel
is 38-year-old Manda, a tough, sarcastic
woman who has yet to make peace with the
town she was brought to as a teenager after
her parents’ messy divorce. Her estranged
mother is crazy, her father is ill and in
retreat, her damaged older brother is
growing restless and distant, her
stepbrother is a grown-up teenager without
any real friends, and her husband is a
tight-lipped, depressed store-owner who has
been pressing Manda to have a baby.
Full of barbed dialogue
and hilariously deadpan descriptions of
family dynamics and the kind of awkward
social dances that get performed every day,
A Week of
This is a book for
people who always feel a little out of
place, right where they are. People who are
smart enough to know something has gone
wrong, but can’t figure out how to fix it.
People who know they aren’t kids anymore,
but are not quite ready to grow up.
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Available at the Loon's
Nest in Deep River or through
www.Amazon.ca
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"With his first novel
Nathan Whitlock has definitely found his voice ... any
of the characters could be any one of us on any day of
the week." –
The Ottawa Citizen
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Nathan Whitlock
grew up in the Ottawa
Valley. He was the winner of the
inaugural Emerging Artist in Creative
Writing Award and the Short Prose for
Developing Writers Award, as well as
runner-up for the Bronwen Wallace Memorial
Award.
He is
the review editor of Quill &
Quire magazine.
http://www.nathanwhitlock.com/ |
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