Upcoming Events
📖 Author Book Signing with Lauren Flynn - Saturday January 17th from 12-2pm
Lauren is the author of In My Heart romance novella. Description Sloan Sterling didn't sign up for snow-covered trees, twinkling lights, or falling for Jonah Holly, the Christmas tree farmer.
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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. Jan 20th, Feb 17th, Mar 17th.
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Sign up is required as space is limited!
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📖 Romance Book Club ​​​​​​​​January 24, 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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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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Send an email to sign up for this event as space and books are limited.
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​Romance Book Club February - Saturday 28th, 2026 - 4-5pm - Western Heat by Caroline Richardson
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Book Description:
A fish-out-of-water story about a New York City chef who inherits a ranch, discovers a family he never knew, and finds unexpected love with a fiercely loyal woman.
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New York City chef Jake West had it all, but a few strokes of a pen meant no more marriage. No more restaurant. No more big city lifestyle. Then he receives a letter explaining that his long-estranged father, Brett, has died, and he needs to return to the Canadian ranch he left as a child. Jake expects to go, sign more papers, and return to the city and rebuild his future.
Instead Jake learns that Brett’s left the ranch to him—and only him. Things might have been hot in his restaurant’s kitchen, but that’s nothing compared to what he faces now: a family he didn’t know existed, and a property he doesn’t want. Tanner and Brady, his half-brothers, don’t want him around. And while his stepmother, Peony, welcomes him, there’s Liz, Peony’s daughter. She’s not a West, but her loyalties lie with the family, not an outsider.
However, as Jake settles into the rhythms of the ranch, he wonders if he’s finally found something that’s been missing in his life—especially as he and Liz grow closer. At first, it’s just attraction, but when a sudden kiss ignites a heat in both of them, they can’t ignore this raging inferno. Maybe Brett West knew what he was doing when he summoned his eldest son back home–and gave him a chance to change his life forever.
Readers who love a spicy “enemies-to-lovers” romance combined with family drama will want to add this to their “to be read” shelves.
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We have two new Book Club genres coming up! Who loves Mystery & Sci-Fi?
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Mystery Book Club February - Saturday 21st,2026 - 4-5pm We will be reading Ottawa author Brenda Chapman's Cold Mourning. We are excited to have Brenda at our book club meeting to sign & discuss her book, which has been recently picked up to become a tv series!
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Book Description:
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When murder stalks a family over Christmas, Detective Kala Stonechild trusts her intuition to get results.
It’s a week before Christmas when wealthy businessman Tom Underwood disappears into thin air — with more than enough people wanting him dead.
Officer Kala Stonechild, who has left her Northern Ontario detachment to join a specialized Ottawa crime unit, is tasked with returning Underwood home in time for the holidays. Stonechild is a lone wolf who is used to surviving by her wits. Her new boss, Detective Jacques Rouleau, has his hands full controlling her, his team, and an investigation that keeps threatening to go off track.
Old betrayals and complicated family relationships brutally collide when love turns to hate and murder stalks a family.
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Book setting: Ottawa, Ontario
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