Book launches in Toronto, Mississauga

Toronto Reading

Edeet Ravel will be reading from her poignant new novel, The Cat, at the Northern District library on Thursday, Sept. 27 at 2 pm. The Cat is the story of a grieving mother whose  11-year-old son was killed. Her depression and thoughts of suicide are blocked as she realizes that she is the only one left to take care of her boy’s cat.  It’s a story of the fragile journey back to life from loneliness and isolation. Edeet is a GIller Award nominee.

She was also part of a panel in 2006 that protested the banning of Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak (written by Deborah Ellis) from a reading list intended to encourage children in grades four to six to read. The list was developed by the Ontario Library Association. Five District School Boards had banned the book in response to a demand by the Canadian Jewish Congress to remove the book from the school reading list.

The Northern District Library is located at 40 Orchard View Boulevard in North York.

Mississauga Reading

Terry  Fallis will offer a talk, reading, and signing of his latest book, Up and Down, at the Lorne Park Library in Mississauga on Oct. 29.

Terry’s first book, The Best Laid Plans, won the Stephen Leacock humour award. It was a tale of a retiring professor who is asked to run in a national Canadian election, wins despite all odds and shows himself to be an honest politician who pits himself against both the “loyal” opposition and his own party.

Based on the reviews, it sounds like Up and Down takes Terry’s humourous send-up of the political landscape one giant step further as his hero, David Stewart, moves from the world of politics into the bizarre landscape of international public relations. Stewart creates international furor when his first assignment, to revitalize North America’s interest in the space program, vaults him into the unknown frontiers of corporate politics and Canada-US relations.

He’ll be reading at the  at the Lorne Park Library on Monday, Oct. 29 starting at 7:00 p.m. The Library’s at 1474 Truscott Drive. (Same place as the Sept. 29 launch of  Extraordinary Lives: Inspiring Women of Peel that was highlighted in my blog on Sept. 16.)