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Dr. Jarol Boan Launching The Medicine Chest (In-Person + Streaming)

Thursday Apr 04 2024 7:00 pm - Saskatoon

Join DR. JAROL BOAN for the Saskatoon launch of THE MEDICINE CHEST (UNIVERSITY OF REGINA PRESS).

The event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove, and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.  Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

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Nora Decter Book Launch

Friday Apr 05 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Nora Decter for the launch of her new novel What's Not Mine (ECW Press). The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Nora Decter has written a wrenching, knowing, and wry novel about coming of age into a rough world.” — Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion

The summer Bria Powers turns 16 is sinister. Waves of insects plague her hometown of Beauchamp, where fentanyl has recently infiltrated the drug stream. Forest fires muddy the normally wide-open skies, and everything smells like a barbecue all the time. It’s also the summer Bria goes from having saved a life to ruining her own. Steeped in tragicomedy and written in starkly observed prose, What’s Not Mine explores inheritance, addiction, and survival when the odds are against you.

Nora Decter is a writer from Treaty 1 Territory. She studied creative writing at York University and Stony Brook University, and in 2019 received the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction for her YA novel How Far We Go and How Fast. Nora lives in Winnipeg with her partner and their two cats, near the foot of Garbage Hill.

Adam Pottle Launching Butterfly on the Wind (In-Person + Streaming)

Saturday Apr 06 2024 2:00 pm - Saskatoon

Join ADAM POTTLE for the Saskatoon launch of BUTTERFLY ON THE WIND (ROARING BROOK PRESS).

This event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube Stream. Live ASL interpretation and CNS transcription will be provided by SDHHS. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

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Owen Schalk Launching Canada's Long Fight Against Democracy (In-Person + Streaming)

Thursday Apr 11 2024 7:00 pm - Saskatoon

Join OWEN SCHALK for the Saskatoon launch of CANADA'S LONG FIGHT AGAINST DEMOCRACY (BARAKA BOOKS). ETHAN KLEIN joins us as host for the evening. 

This event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube Stream

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Laura Forsythe Book Launch

Thursday Apr 11 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Laura Forsythe, UW Assistant Professor and Bison Local Chairperson of the Manitoba Métis Federation for the launch of Around the Kitchen Table: Métis Aunties' Scholarship (University of Manitoba Press). Laura and her panel of contributors Lucy Fowler, Chantal Fiola, and Nicki Ferland, will celebrate the teachings, scholarship, and research created by Métis women.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Noticing a distinct lack of Metis women’s voices in academic texts, Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides set out to bring together work by new and established scholars, artists, storytellers, and community leaders that reflects the diversity of research created by Métis women as it is lived, considered, conceptualized, and re-imagined.

Around the Kitchen Table looks beyond the patriarchy to document and celebrate the scholarship of Métis women. Focusing on experiences in post-secondary environments, this collection necessarily traverses a range of methodologies. The result is an expansive, heartfelt, and accessible community of Métis thought. Reverent and revelatory, this collection centres the strong aunties and grandmothers who have shaped Métis communities, culture, and identities with teachings shared in classrooms, auditoriums, and around the kitchen table.

Cassidy McFadzean Launching Crying Dress (In Person)

Friday Apr 12 2024 7:00 pm - Saskatoon

Join CASSIDY MCFADZEAN and special guest LEAH HORLICK for the launch of CRYING DRESS (HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS).

This event will be hosted live in the Travel Alcove. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

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Heather Plett Book Launch

Saturday Apr 13 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Heather Plett for the Winnipeg launch of Where Tenderness Lives: On healing, liberation and holding space for oneself (Page Two) featuring a conversation hosted by Saleha Alsheri. The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. Each chapter in this heartfelt and honest book contains a revelation about how to move from shades of fear and doubt to freedom and joy. Through stories that range from what it meant to grow up Mennonite to surviving a horrific assault; from leaving a marriage that no longer worked to the poignant moment her grown daughters leave home, Plett provides a vocabulary of understanding how we grew into the people we are and how to move on from what no longer serves us.

By reflecting on her own life with vulnerability and self-compassion, Plett provides a springboard for your own self-exploration, as well as a path to individual and collective healing.

Heather Plett is an international speaker, facilitator, and author of the acclaimed book The Art of Holding Space . She is also the co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space and has trained people from all over the world in her Holding Space Practitioner Program. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and the Globe and Mail and has been referenced in curriculum for nurses, hospice care workers, yoga teachers, and military chaplains. Learn more online.

Born and raised in Saudi Arabia for the first half of her life, host Saleha Alsheri came to Winnipeg as an international student in 2007. She finished her second B.A. in Psychology in Canada, then pursued her Masters in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Netherlands, and returned to Canada for a Masters of Counselling Psychology. Saleha is now a licensed psychotherapist working with various communities and providing culturally adjusted therapy to visible minorities in two different languages. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her three kids and she thrives on deep and meaningful conversations with her friends.

Chimwemwe Undi Book Launch

Tuesday Apr 16 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Chimwemwe Undi for the launch of Scientific Marvel: Poems (House of Anansi Press). Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Charlene Diehl, followed by a book signing.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Firmly grounded in the local, the arresting poems in Chimwemwe Undi’s debut collection, Scientific Marvel, are preoccupied with Winnipeg in the way a Winnipegger is preoccupied with Winnipeg, the way a poet might be preoccupied with herself: through history and immigration; race and gender; anxieties and observation. Marked by rhythmic drive, humour and surprise, Undi’s poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the west.

This is poetry that touches on challenging topics—from queerness and colonialism to racism, climate rage, and decolonization, while never straying far from specific lived experience, the so-called ‘smaller’ questions: about self, art, dance parties and pop culture, relationships and love.

Chimwemwe Undi is a poet, editor, and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her work has appeared in Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature and BBC World, among others. She was the recipient of the 2022 John Hirsch Emerging Writer Award from the Manitoba Book Awards, and she is the Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024.

Host Charlene Diehl is a writer, editor, performer, former English professor, and the long-time Director of the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. She has published poetry, essays, reviews, and a memoir, Out of Grief, Singing: a memoir of motherhood and loss. She co-edited a jazz magazine for a dozen years, and is the producer of the Izzy Asper Jazz Performances. In 2019, she was honoured with the Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making a Difference Award for her contributions to the local arts community.

An Evening with Tessa Bailey & Yulin Kuang

Wednesday Apr 17 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Get ready to FANGIRL DOWN while you learn HOW TO END A LOVE STORY as two powerhouse romance authors come to McNally Robinson Booksellers. 

#1 New York Times bestselling author and spicy booktok fav, Tessa Bailey (dubbed the Michaelangelo of dirty talk by Entertainment Weekly) will be in-conversation for her new book Fangirl Down with Yulin Kuang, the screenwriter of two upcoming Emily Henry adaptations (Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation) and novelist celebrating her debut How to End a Love Story. Co-presented by HarperCollins Canada.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

In Fangirl Down, Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan... New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey aspires to three things. Writing hot and unforgettable, character-driven romance, being a good mother and eventually sneaking onto the judging panel on a reality show baking competition. She lives on Long Island, New York with her husband and daughter, writing all day and rewarding herself with a cheese plate and Netflix binges in the evening. If you want sexy, heartfelt, humorous romance with a guaranteed happy ending, you’ve come to the right place.

How to End a Love Story is a sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull on your heartstrings and give you a book hangover from brilliant new voice Yulin Kuang. Kuang is a screenwriter and director, whose credits include The CW’s I Ship It and Hulu’s Dollface. She was once fired from a Hallmark movie for being ‘too hip for Hallmark’ and is the adapting screenwriter of Emily Henry’s People We Meet On Vacation, as well as the writer/director of the forthcoming Beach Read film for 20th Century Studios. She lives in Pasadena with her husband Zack and their orange cat, Eloise.

Lorri Neilsen Glenn Winnipeg Book Launch

Thursday Apr 18 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Lorri Neilsen Glenn for the Winnipeg launch of The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Known and Been (Nimbus Publishing). Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Shelagh Rogers, followed by a book signing.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

The Old Moon in Her Arms is a powerful, lyrical collection of essays exploring the pivotal moments in Lorri Neilsen Glenn's life, and how art and nature have shaped her. Like both memory and the moon, what's written here aims to shed what light it can, bringing it home to now. How does a woman compose a life? The Old Moon in Her Arms is a hybrid book of fragments, pivotal moments and images in the phases of a woman's life, turning points rendered in Lorri Neilsen Glenn's lyrical prose. Guiding her exploration are the Cree concept of wahkohtowin, the kinship in all of creation, and the elliptical path of the moon. This hybrid collection of singular moments celebrates connection, wonder and endless curiosity.

Lorri Neilsen Glenn's most recent book is Following the River: Traces of Red River Women (Wolsak and Wynn), an award-winning work about her Ininiwak and Métis grandmothers and their contemporaries. Lorri is the author and contributing editor of fourteen titles of nonfiction and poetry, Halifax's first Métis Poet Laureate, and Professor Emerita at Mount Saint Vincent University. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Lorri has served on juries for the Canada Council, CBC literary awards and numerous provincial and national book prizes. Neilsen Glenn's poetry has been adapted several times for libretti and her essays and poems appear in numerous anthologies and literary journals. She was a recipient of Halifax's Women of Excellence award, has had appointments as Writer in Residence across Canada and served as President of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. Lorri has mentored writers across Canada and in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Greece, and Chile. She divides her time between Halifax and Rose Bay, Nova Scotia.

Host Shelagh Rogers is a veteran broadcast-journalist who made a home at CBC Radio for 43 years. For the last 15 of those, she was host and co-producer of The Next Chapter, an award-winning program devoted to writing in Canada. In June of 2023, she stepped down from CBC Radio to pursue other adventures of her own devising. In 2011, she became an Honorary Witness for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and she was named to the Order of Canada in recognition of her advocacy for adult literacy, mental health, writing in Canada and truth and reconciliation. Shelagh is UVic Chancellor Emerita and a proud member of the Métis Nation of Greater Victoria. She is delighted to be back at McNally Robinson and thrilled to speak with her dear friend Lorri Nielsen Glenn about The Old Moon in Her Arms, and about anything, really!

An Evening With Sylvia Legris & Chuqiao Yang (In Person)

Thursday Apr 18 2024 7:00 pm - Saskatoon

Join us for the joint launch of THE PRINCIPLE OF RAPID PEERING (NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING), the latest collection of poetry by SYLVIA LEGRIS, and THE LAST TO THE PARTY (GOOSE LANE EDITIONS), a debut collection from poet CHUQIAO YANG

This event will be hosted in person in the Travel Alcove.

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Prairie Fire Press: SPRING TO SPRING

Friday Apr 19 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Prairie Fire Press launches BURNING UP, BURNING DOWN, a response to 2023 being the hottest year on record. This special issue was guest edited by Sue Goyette. In addition, the four previous issues dating back to spring of 2023 will also be celebrated with readings by local writers.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Hosted by Kristian Enright, this event will feature readings from Jody Baltessen, Will Fawley, Zilla Jones, Evan J, Rowan McCandless, Alex Merrill, Cale Plett, Jennifer Robinson, Kerry Ryan, Deborah Schnitzer, and Margaret Sweatman.

Kendall Wicks Launching A Harvest Story - CANCELLED

Friday Apr 19 2024 7:00 pm - Saskatoon

Due to unforseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

*POSTPONED* An Afternoon with General Roméo Dallaire

Saturday Apr 20 2024 2:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Regrettably, our afternoon with General Roméo Dallaire in support of his new book The Peace: A Warrior's Journey (Random House of Canada) has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We hope to reschedule in the future and regret any disappointment this might cause.

Gerald Friesen Book Launch

Wednesday Apr 24 2024 7:00 pm - Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube, Winnipeg

Join Gerald Friesen for the launch of The Honourable John Norquay: Indigenous Premier, Canadian Statesman (University of Manitoba Press). Gerald will be joined in conversation by Don Norquay, former deputy minister in the Manitoba government, to discuss the family’s history, the famous premier, and this new biography of a Canadian statesman.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

John Norquay, orphan and prodigy, was a leader among the Scots Cree peoples of western Canada. Born in the Red River Settlement, he farmed, hunted, traded, and taught school before becoming a legislator, cabinet minister, and, from 1878 to 1887, premier of Manitoba.

Once described as Louis Riel’s alter ego, he skirmished with prime minister John A. Macdonald, clashed with railway baron George Stephen, and endured racist taunts while championing the interests of the Prairie West in battles with investment bankers, Ottawa politicians, and the CPR. His contributions to the development of Canada’s federal system and his dealings with issues of race and racism deserve attention today.

This biography of the Premier from Red River sheds welcome light on a neglected historical figure and a tumultuous time for Canada and Manitoba.

Gerald Friesen taught Canadian history at the University of Manitoba from 1970–2011. He has written several books, including The Canadian Prairies: A History and Citizens and Nation, and is co-author of Immigrants in Prairie Cities. Former president of the Canadian Historical Association, he was an advisor on CBC-Radio Canada’s television series Canada: A People’s History. He lives in Winnipeg.

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