November 2019

Bee Funeral

Sandy McCarney

In fifth grade Crybaby and Almost- Boobs hoarded curios in a Kleenex box: hunks of rock shaped like pizza slices, gel pens’ worn-out tips. Crud....

Hitched

David Weale

Hitched is a collection of short stories and impudent, sometimes scurrilous, quips that Island author David Weale has harvested from Island conversati...

Beyond the Asylum

The Evolution of Mental Health Care in Prince Edward Island 1846-2017

How Prince Edward Islanders have historically cared for those people with mental illness has gone through a cycle starting with sheltering them at hom...

Killings at Little Rose

Finley Martin

Finley Martin has launched his new book, Killings at Little Rose. It takes place in a coastal village where what’s been buried doesn’t stay buri...

Two Talents, One Book

Astrid Johnson, Windsor Arsenault

Astrid Johnson and husband Windsor Arsenault have launched a new book, Two Talents, One Book. It is comprised of poetry by Johnson and artwork by Arse...

Soldier Girl Blue

James Knights

Soldier Girl Blue, by James Knights, is a fictionalized account of the true story of Sarah Emma Edmonds of New Brunswick who, disguised as a man, foug...

Pivot Point

Bren Simmers

Local author Bren Simmers will launch her new book Pivot Point on November 15 at the Beaconsfield Carriage House in Charlottetown. Doors will open at ...

Pleasant Valley: Our Community History and Stories

Pleasant Valley History Committee

Everyone is invited to the launch of the new history of Pleasant Valley, Queens Co., on November 17 at 2 pm at the Pleasant Valley Memorial Church. P...

A Time To Remember

Patricia Stanyer

Retired Island teacher and publisher Patricia Stanyer has written a book entitled A Time To Remember looking back at her life. In this memoir Patricia...

GIFt Horse Volume 2: Re-GIFted

Editors Katie Mac, Chris Wilson, Ryan Gallant

The official launch of GIFt Horse Vol 2: ReGIFted will take place October 19 from 4 to 6 pm at bar1911, St. Avard’s, Charlottetown. From killer co...

Avril’s Phoenix

Michelle Harris-Genge

Avril’s Phoenix is Michelle Harris-Genge’s first solo effort. In Avril’s Phoenix, Harris-Genge’s takes the reader on the uplifting, emotional ...

the wither poems

Catherine Edward

Catherine Edward will launch the wither poems on November 1 at 6:30 pm at Beaconsfield Carriage House, Charlottetown. the whither poems is a first p...

Mercy, Mercy

Marlene Stanton

Former CBC reporter Marlene Stanton launches her new political thriller Mercy, Mercy on October 25 at 6:30 pm at Beaconsfield Carriage House, 2 Kent S...

Mrs. Beaton’s Question

Robert Mercer

Robert Mercer will launch his new book Mrs. Beaton’s Question at Indigo in Charlottetown on October 26 from 1 to 3 pm. Robert Mercer’s life coul...

Yesterday, Today

A Portrait of Summerside

Yesterday, Today: A Portrait of Summerside features artwork of older Summerside buildings with paintings, illustrations and commentary by Eddy Schwar...

Money Smarts for Teens & Twenties

Understanding why financial planning works, makes it easy!

Island financial planner Gordon Hughes has published a new book entitled Money Smarts for Teens & Twenties: Understanding why financial planning w...

The Wereduck Code

Dave Atkinson

Join author Dave Atkinson for the launch of The Wereduck Code October 20 at 2 pm at the Confederation Centre Public Library in Charlottetown. This is ...

Genealogy of the Acadian Families of Prince Edward Island c. 1764–c. 1921

Volume 1 Arsenault Book 1 Jean Bernard

The Volume 1–Arsenault from the popular series on the genealogy of the Acadian families of Prince Edward Island was first published in 2009. Author ...

Giller nomination for Adam Foulds

Dream Sequence (Biblioasis) by Adam Foulds is nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Adam is the son-in-law of the late founder of The Bookmark in...

Search for truth

Pages From the Book of Light: Photography by Paul Vreeland

Pages from the Book of Light, an exhibition of photography by Paul Vreeland, will be displayed in Memorial Hall of the Confederation Centre of the Art...

Tanya Davis

Change of climate

“I don’t know exactly where I’m living right now,” Tanya Davis says when we meet during her artist residency with this town is small at Upstre...

my mother

Judy Gaudet

she survives and smiles no the hail has not struck there that danced and crashed our party and the sun has reappeared chased cumulus to blue sky ...

Takako

Live Ones

Sadie McCarney

Charlottetown poet Sadie McCarney’s forthcoming debut collection, Live Ones (University of Regina Press), will be launched at Bookmark in Charlottet...

The Bygone Days

Folklore, Traditions & Toenails

Reginald “Dutch” Thompson will launch The Bygone Days: Folklore, Traditions & Toenails (Acorn Press) at the Charlottetown Hotel’s Victorian ...

Listening for the Dead Bells

Marian Bruce

Marian Bruce will launch her new book Listening for the Dead Bells on September 22 from 2 to 4 pm at the Sir Andrew Macphail Homestead in Orwell. This...

Welcome Inn

Cindy Lapeña

Art ‘n’ Words Studio celebrated its 6th year in August 2019 with the release of two new books. Owner Cindy Lapeña, artist and award-winning aut...

Fiona and Alexa and the Time Machine

Fiona Ha

Fiona and Alexa and the Time Machine is a story by Fiona Ha, a 7-year-old student at Glen Steward Elementary School. Fiona met Cindy Lapeña through...

Ancient Fall

Jaime Lee Mann

Do you believe children have the power to change the world? Bestselling middle-grade fantasy author Jaime Lee Mann does. She is now preparing for the ...

Prince Edward Island: Images of the Night Sky

Stephen DesRoches

Stephen DesRoches will launch his new book Prince Edward Island: Images of the Night Sky (Acorn Press) at the PEI Preserve Company in New Glasgow Sept...

Mom’s books

One visitor who passed through our lives this summer was a young chef with an interest in edible wild plants. I lent him Mom’s collection of books o...

Bren Simmers

Leaps of life

The first time poet and publisher Bren Simmers visited Prince Edward Island, she was on a cross-country road trip, “in a van that broke down in all ...

A Gift of Blueberries

Lobie Daughton

This secret place. This juice that blooms upon my lips, that coats my fingertips. This purple harvest that I search for on the briny bank beneat...

National award

Portrait of a Prospector by Bruce Craig

University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) history department professor Bruce Craig has been awarded the 2019 Mary Lee Spence Documentary Book Award pr...

Takako

A gift of Island poetry

Bren Simmers

Strollers stake out shady maples    while kids ride noodles       in the wading pool, bob in water wings. Moms up to their    knees cool o...