This Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 we are so very excited to welcome Robert Herjavec to the store. This event is co-presented by our friends at HarperCollins Canada and CBC Manitoba. Marcy Markusa of Information Radio 89.3 FM/990 AM will be on hand to host.
In his bestselling business book Driven: How to Succeed in Business and in Life, Robert Herjavec, the former co-star of CBC TV's Dragons' Den and current co-star of ABC TV's Shark Tank, urged his readers to take risks, take control of their lives, and stay true to their own visions. Now, in this inspirational follow-up, Herjavec wants to push his readers even further towards greatness.
Whether you are seeking to build the next big company in communications technology, to become the most respected teacher in your educational system, or to make a lasting impact as an artist in your field, the most important decision you can make, according to Herjavec, is to reject mediocrity. In the long run, "good enough" is never good enough, whether in our personal lives or in our careers.
Drawing on anecdotes from his own life and from the lives of celebrity friends such as Oprah, Georges St-Pierre and Celine Dion, Herjavec delivers valuable life lessons that promise to guide readers to greater happiness and success.
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Robin and Arlene Karpan's The Great Saskatchewan Bucket List was recently nominated for a Saskatchewan Tourism Award of Excellence in the category of Travel Media.
The Great Saskatchewan Bucket List takes you to almost every corner of Saskatchewan, from the deep south to the far north, revealing the province's most amazing-and sometimes most puzzling-natural wonders.
The Saskatchewan Tourism Awards of Excellence recognize significant contributions to the province's tourism sector across fifteen categories. The 24th annual Saskatchewan Tourism Awards of Excellence Gala will take place at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina on April 25, 2013.
Categories: Awards, Authors, Saskatoon
Written by Julie E. Czerneda.
Maps. Ah, maps. I'll confess at the onset I'm not one of those readers who pour over maps and consult them as they read -- unless I'm confused. Even then, it's been my experience that if the written description of a place confuses me, the map's not going to help much.
As a writer, however, I constantly doodle little sketches to keep me honest, from remembering who sits where around a boardroom table, to ensuring a chase scene doesn't have everyone crash into a wall. Unless I intended that. For A Turn of Light I intended a very strong sense of place, both around my characters and in the world outside the story setting. That meant knowing it myself.
Which meant committing maps. Oh my. Hadn't done that before.
Categories: Authors, SciFi & Fantasy, Saskatoon, Winnipeg
Sad news around the world as legendary Nigerian author Chinua Achebe passed away Thursday, March 21st. Achebe was 82 years old, and according to his agent died following a short illness.
Achebe was a revolutionary and prolific author, having penned dozens of stories, essays, and several novels. He is most well known for his magnus opum, Things Fall Apart, which has been translated into 50 languages and has sold over 8 million copies worldwide. The novel, the first in a trilogy that includes the titles No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God, was originally published in 1958 and is considered to be the archetypal modern African novel.
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"It's important to get somehow into the mind and make it move somewhere it has never moved before."
"Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who was red and had wings and fell in love with Herakles. Recently I began to wonder what happened to them in later life. Red Doc> continues their adventures in a very different style and with changed names. To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing."
- Anne Carson
A literary event: a follow-up to the internationally acclaimed poetry bestseller Autobiography of Red ("Amazing" - Alice Munro) that takes its mythic boy-hero into the twenty-first century to tell a story all its own of love, loss, and the power of memory.
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