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Author Talks & Lectures

Icon of the event James Bartleman Book Launch
Wed Jun 19, 2013 | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Spadina Road

Bestselling author and former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, James Bartleman, will be at the Spadina Road Branch to launch his latest novel "The Redemption of Oscar Wolf."

Icon of the event Kamal Al-Solaylee: Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes
Thu Jun 13, 2013 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Parliament Street

Author and journalism professor Kamal Al-Solaylee talks about his family's movements from Yemen to Egypt and back amid the tumultuous political events of the 1960s and his own struggle to find a way to live as a gay man. Prid...

Icon of the event Author Talk: Marguerite Pigeon
Mon May 27, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Parliament Street

Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of poetry and fiction....

Icon of the event Meet Author Eric Walters!
Wed May 22, 2013 | 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Parliament Street

Meet 2013 Silver Birch Express and Red Maple nominee Eric Walters as he talks about his amazing books, experiences, and about being a writer....

Icon of the event Dr. Donald Smith's Mississauga Portraits
Thu Jun 27, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Spadina Road

Meet Dr. Donald Smith, Professor Emeritus at University of Calgary. Smith's newest book brings to life some of the Mississauga's most important and interesting community leaders from the mid-nineteenth century. Each portrait...

Icon of the event Author Talk: Joy Fielding
Tue May 21, 2013 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Parliament Street

Joy Fielding is the author of the New York Times bestsellers...

Icon of the event Author Reading. Don Gillmor discusses his novel  Mount  Pleasant
Thu May 30, 2013 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Deer Park

In this tragicomic social novel,Gillmor examines the anxieties of the once confident baby boomers caught in the recent global recession - the downsizing of lifestyles,ambitions and rosy dreams of easy retirement.