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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books to launch new fantastical novels by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson!! \nHolly Ringland’s new novel\, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding\, is a haunting\, magical novel about joy\, grief\, courage and transformation that follows from the international bestselling\, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. \n‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast\, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared\, the light was painfully golden.’ \nThe last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen\, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance\, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death\, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania\, to Copenhagen\, and then to the Faroe Islands\, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies\, swans and women\, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping\, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love\, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy. \nHolly Ringland is the author of the award-winning international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\, adapted into a seven-part TV series on Amazon Prime\, starring Sigourney Weaver. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years\, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020\, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her “office\,” a vintage caravan named Frenchie. \nTamara Goranson’s Oath of Bjorn is Book 3 of her Vinland Viking Saga. Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved\, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge\, swearing to spill Viking blood. And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets their world ablaze. The Oath of Bjorn is an epic historical novel of gripping adventure and love everlasting – perfect for fans of Vikings and Outlander. \nTamara Goranson holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology as well as Adjunct Professor status at the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. She published several academic pieces before she turned to writing short stories\, creative non-fiction\, and historical fiction\, winning 3rd prize in the 2019 Vancouver Island Writers’ Association annual general contest for her nonfiction piece\, ‘A Voice in Time’. She lives in Victoria with her husband and two daughters. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, March 13th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria.\nWHAT: Readings by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-holly-ringland-and-tamara-goranson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Mysterious Book Launch: Susan Juby\, Kate Hilton\, and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of two new mysteries: A Meditation on Murder by Susan Juby and Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti!! \nIn A Meditation on Murder\, Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby.\nWhen Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order\, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgment. One of Cartier’s fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives\, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit\, where neither of them is particularly welcome. Then comes the terrible incident at the EDM nightclub that turns Cartier into a global pariah\, at least according to social media. Helen hopes a period of simplicity and reflection and an internet detox will help Cartier find her true nature and maybe acquire some social graces. But Helen’s job gets much harder when Cartier’s friends show up at the lavish ranch where Cartier and Helen have retreated. Soon\, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murderer. \nIn Bury the Lead\, a big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. \nCat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood\, famous for its butter tarts\, theatre\, and a century-old feud. One of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser\, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined\, the ex-wife he betrayed\, the women he abused\, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis\, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect\, and the murderer wants to kill the story-and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nSusan Juby is the award-winning\, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder\, which debuted at number one on the independent bookstores’ bestseller list and was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Getting the Girl\, Another Kind of Cowboy and The Woefield Poultry Collective\, as well as the bestselling Alice series (Alice\, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod\, Realist at Last). Her novel Republic of Dirt won the Leacock Medal in 2016. Susan Juby lives on Vancouver Island with her husband\, James\, and their dogs\, who are convinced they could have lucrative careers as social media stars. \nKate Hilton is the bestselling author of three novels: The Hole in the Middle\, Just like Family and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing\, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area of transformational change. \nElizabeth Renzetti is the author of the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. In 2020\, she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\nWHAT: Readings from the authors of Bury the Lead and A Meditation on Murder\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/mysterious-book-launch-susan-juby-kate-hilton-and-elizabeth-renzetti/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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