News week of 5 December

Last night’s snowfall has it looking a lot more like winter, reminding us that Santa is indeed on his way!

Santa will greeting children in the Beatty Building on

Wednesday 7 December  11am-1pm

Saturday 10 December 11am-1pm

Saturday 17 December 11am-1pm

Parry Sound Books is now open

Sundays 11 – 4 until 24 December

The week of 19 December we will be open each evening until 7 pm

The late Tom Clancy has his name on yet another new book – a Jack Ryan novel – True Faith and Allegiance by Mark Greaney

Christmas is really all about the children – we have several book & toy combinations to offer.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Goodnight Moon & Bunny

The Gruffalo

Biscuit

Treetops Community Forest Fundraiser

Many of you will be familiar with the story of Treetops Community Forest. Alan Stein has created a limited edition wood engraving to raise funds for this very important project. Please support the Treetops Community Forest with the purchase of this wood engraving. 

ALL PROCEEDS ARE DONATED TO

THE TREETOPS COMMUNITY FOREST

If you are not able to purchase the wood engraving in person please call Parry Sound Books and we will arrange to send it to you.

Buy it as a gift for a loved one - and know that you are giving twice!

News week of 30 November 2016

Reading a ghost story on Christmas Eve was once as much a part of traditional Christmas celebrations as turkey, eggnog, and Santa Claus.

Halloween might seem like the scariest time of year – but Charles Dickens, M.R. James, Edith Wharton, Marjorie Brown and A.M. Burrage felt otherwise. They were among the many authors who set their most bone-chilling stories during the dark and shivering days of – yes, Christmas.

World famous cartoonist Seth has selected and illustrated these stories. They are beautiful little books just the right size for Christmas stockings and sure to be a hit on Christmas Day.

Christmas Shopping Hours

Monday – Saturday 9 – 5:30

Sundays 11 – 4

December 19 – 23 open until 7 pm       

News week of 21 November

Is it really only just over a month until Christmas?!

Yes it is – and this morning’s cold wind feels like the harbinger of winter weather to come.

All the more reason to find a good book and put on a fire.

New this past week –

No Man’s Land by David Baldacci features Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army’s most tenacious investigator, back in an action packed thriller for this author’s many fans.

Pushing Up Daisies by M C Beaton is another in a long line of Agatha Raisin Mystery novels. As always there is a murder and village intrigue that keeps readers laughing as Agatha is yet again entangled in the investigation.

Jamie Oliver’s Christmas Cookbook is chock full of great recipes for Christmas and all winter long. The cook in my house has already tried a few and they will all become family favourites. A truly delicious cookbook even if you only read it and look at the gorgeous photographs.

As Close To Us As Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner is a novel that will captivate you with a story of a close knit Jewish family in New York City who spend summers at the family cottage on the Connecticut shore. A story of tragedy and joy – a really good read.  

Stuart Mclean’s most recent Vinyl Café CD collections are now in stock – Up & Away, Seasons and of course the Christmas Pack that includes the classic Dave Cooks the Turkey – a Canadian Christmas essential.

Shop early – shop often. Everyone need a book for Christmas.

News week of 14 November 2016

Mostly Mysteries this past week –

Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich

Stephanie Plum finds a freezer truck full of ice cream – and a dead body.

The Critic by Peter May

Now in paperback, forensic expert Enzo Macleod investigates the murder of a wine expert.

Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves

DI Jimmy Perez finds the body of a woman in an abandoned croft, the only clues a few photographs and a letter.

The Wrong Side of Goodbye by Michael Connelly

Detective Harry Bosch must track down someone who may never have existed.

Night School by Lee Child

Jack Reacher returns in a story of double crosses, faked identities and new and terrible enemies.

Frantumaglia by Elena Ferrante

Her identity may or may not have been uncovered. This volume is a collection of letters, essays, reflections and interviews.

Home Ward Bound – The Life of Paul Simon by Peter Ames Carlin

The first major biography of American Music Icon Paul Simon.

For the kids

 Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Double Duty

The most recent in this very popular series – Greg Heffley’s Mom is trying to reduce his screen time but he has a scheme he thinks will change her mind – perhaps creating even more trouble.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

The second in the new illustrated edition – providing both story and illustration in what is now considered a modern children’s classic, as the original readers of this series are now reading them to their own children.