Upcoming Events
📖 Author Signing Event with Ian Henderson - Ian will be at the bookshop on October 11th from 12-3pm signing his books and chatting with customers about his new book Life is An Adventure.​​
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About the Author:
In addition to forging his own adventures in personal growth, Ian has dedicated more than 50 years to educating others. He taught continuing and corporate education at Algonquin College for more than 45 years while maintaining his own training and development company: Ian Henderson & Associates. He is also a certified grief educator, life transition coach, and pet loss counselor. What’s Your Life Trying to Teach You? is his first book.
Ian lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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🎨 October 25, 2025 - TBA - Art workshop
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📖 Silent Book Club (third Tuesday of the month from 6-8 PM)
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Unwind with a good book in a cozy, quiet space. Sign up required. Sept 16th, Oct 21st, Nov 18th & Dec 16th.
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📖 Romance Book Club - ​The Book's Better is launching a Romance Book Club!
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Join us to meet fellow romance readers and talk about romance books. Sign up here! ​
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October 18, 2025
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Let's chat about Out of the Woods by Canadian author Hannah Bonam-Young.
To receive a copy of the book by mid-September, please place your order in store or on our website by September 4.
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Book Description:
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High school sweethearts Sarah and Caleb Linwood have always been a sure thing. For the past seventeen years, they have had each other’s backs through all of life’s ups and downs, achievements, losses, stages, and phases.
But Sarah has begun to wonder... Who is she without her other half?
When she decides to take on a project of her own, a fundraising gala in memoriam of her late mother, Sarah wants nothing more than to prove to herself—and to everyone else—that she doesn’t need Caleb’s help to succeed. She’s still her mother’s daughter, after all. Independent and capable.
That is until the event fails and Caleb uninvitedly steps in to save the day.
The rift that follows unearths a decade of grievances between them and doubts begin to grow. Are they truly the same people they were when they got married at nineteen? Are they supposed to be?
In a desperate attempt to fix what they fear is near breaking, Sarah and Caleb make the spontaneous decision to join a grueling hiking trip intended to guide couples through rough patches.
What follows is a life-affirming comedy of errors as two nature-averse people fight their way out of the woods in order to find their way back to their roots.
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November 15, 2025
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The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett - another Canadian author and from Ottawa!
To receive a copy of the book by mid-October please place your order in store or on our website by October 2.
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Book Description:
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Amy Chambers: restaurant owner, micromanager, control freak.
Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane…
Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets, took thirty years to figure out she was queer.
Sophie just wants to cook. She doesn’t want to constantly post on social media for her dead-in-the-water reality TV career, she doesn’t want to deal with Amy’s take-charge personality and she doesn’t want to think about what her attraction to her boss might mean…
Then, an opportunity: a new foodie TV show might provide the exposure they need. An uneasy truce is fine for starters, but making their dreams come true means making some personal and painful sacrifices and soon, there’s more than just the restaurant at stake.
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December 13, 2025
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Get into the holiday spirit with B.K. Borison's Good Spirits!
Pre-order now to have your copy for release day on October 21, 2025
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Book Description:
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He’s the Ghost of Christmas Past. She’s not exactly Scrooge.
Ghost of Christmas Past Nolan Callahan intends to spend this holiday haunting like every other—get in, get out, return to his otherwise aimless existence as a ghost awaiting the afterlife. But when he’s faced with Harriet York, the sweetest assignment he’s ever had, he suddenly finds himself wishing for a future.
Harriet York has no idea why she’s being haunted. She’s a good person—or, at least, she tries to be. A people pleaser to her core, she always does what’s expected of her. But as she and Nolan begin to examine her past, they discover there are threads that bind them together— and realize there might be more to moving on than expected.
With the deadline of Christmas Eve fast approaching, will they find the key to their futures in each other’s pasts? Or will they stay firmly in the present, indulging in their unexpected, spirited connection?
Filled with magic, mayhem, and cozy holiday charm, this swoony romance is B.K. Borison’s best yet!
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January 17, 2025
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A romance set in Ottawa??? Yes, please!! Amy Lea's upcoming book The Bodyguard Affair will be our January read.
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This book publishes December 2, 2025, so pre-order now!
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Book Description:
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Andi Zeigler lives a double life. By day, she’s the no-nonsense, steadfast personal assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. By night, she slips out of her heels and writes romance novels under a top-secret pen name. But when her steamiest book, The Prime Minister & Me,unexpectedly becomes a bestseller, rumors of a real-life affair between her and the PM start swirling out of control.
Enter Nolan Crosby, the PM’s new close protection officer (aka bodyguard) – and Andi’s failed one-night stand from three years ago. Nolan’s in town very temporarily to care for his mother, who’s battling early-onset Alzheimer’s. But when the scandal erupts, Andi ropes him into a fake-dating plan.
As loyal employees, they’ll pretend to date for the summer, just long enough to put the scandal to bed and save their boss’s reputation. In an unexpected plot twist, Andi and Nolan discover that keeping their romance strictly fictional might be easier said than done.
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We look forward to seeing you at book club!
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