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Welcome to our first newsletter! We are thrilled to be finally get this up and running! With our newsletter, we are hoping to include in each issue at least some of the following.
Exciting upcoming new releases
Some of our and other customers favourite books currently on the shelves
Upcoming events
If you like this, maybe you will like ….
Promos and discounts
Who freakin’ knows what else we might do, any ideas, let us know.
This issue will be a little shorter as we are spending more time figuring out the new program than writing thrilling and compelling articles.
So let us begin….
WHO WE ARE
This is us! Janet & Tim! These are our cats Dot & Django. We spend most of our days at our bookstore, The City & The City Books. The cats stay at home patiently (?) waiting for us to come home and feed them.
UPCOMING & EXCITING NEW RELEASES Oct/Nov
 A rally cry for a better future for all women Oct 1 |  Teenage love triangle, sugar beets, complicated relationships. Classic Erdrich. Oct 1 |
 White Lotus Pasha Malla style Oct 8 |  Backpacking through Europe/punk band bio together at last Oct 8 |
 The beginning of the weirdness Oct 22 |  People in space communicate Oct 29 |
 How to live a life of gratitude, reciprocity, and community by examining the serviceberry . Nov 19th |  There better be cats and simple meals. Nov 19th |
TOP PICKS OF OUR SUMMER
The Utopian Generation - Pepetela (Biblioasis) A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation by Pepetela a former guerilla fighter and Angolan minister.
The Siege of Burning Grass - Premee Mohamed (Solaris) A dystopian novel with a stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre.
The Heart in Winter - Kevin Barry (Knopf Canada) A savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana, from award-winning writer Kevin Barry.
Thyme Travellers - edited by Sonia Sulaiman (Fernwood) A collection of 14 short stories by Palestinian writers from around the world. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures.
State of Paradise - Laura van den Berg (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A wonderfully strange story involving a pandemic, a virtual reality device, ominous cats, torrential rains, and family dynamics set in Florida. Plus there may be cult.
Time of the Flies - Claudia Pineiro (Charco Press) A woman, fresh out of prison for killing her husbands mistress and obsessed with flies, opens a pest control and detective agency gets a new client who is more interested in what she did in her past than about killing bugs.
EVENTS
October
 | October 9 Way Out East Book Series with Geoffrey W Cole Wednesday October 9th, 2024 @ 7:00PM - 9:00 PM Come join us at our Way Out East Book Series at Jordan's Pub. This month we will have Geoffrey W Cole reading from his newly released book of short stories Zebra Meridian & Other Stories published by Hamilton's own Stelliform Press. |
October 22 The City & The City Books presents the Hamilton book launch of Northern Nights. It is a terrifying and exhilarating new collection of Canadian horror! Readings By:
Tuesday, Oct 22 7-9 The Casbah (306 King St West |  |
 | October 24 A new book from Liz Worth is always a celebration! She will be launching her new book of poems Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea at The Casbah on Thursday, Oct 24. There will be surprize guests and more info to follow. |
October 29 We are beyond thrilled to be hosting the Hamilton launch for Pasha Malla’s All You Can Kill at The Casbah on Tuesday, Oct 29th from 7-9. Pasha will be joined by Andrew Battershill (author of Pet, Pet, Slap) and they are planning a big night of mayhem. | |
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