Upcoming Author Visits at Constance Rulka Library

Two popular authors will be visiting Constance Rulka Library in the coming weeks.

Carrie Mac will be making an appearance on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 (12:15 p.m.).

At age 25, Carrie Mac was awarded a Canada Council for the Arts grant for her first novel, The Beckoners, which won the 2006/2007 Stellar Book Award and has been optioned for film.  Mac's writing often draws on her personal experiences, including her work as a staff in group homes and a paramedic on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.  She describes herself as being "equally fascinating by disaster and grace."  The initial inspiration for The Droughtlanders, the first book in Mac's Triskelia trilogy, was a recurring dream of a Triskelia-like world.  The storyline was also inspired by Cirque du Soileil and post 9/11 events.  Feedback on The Droughtlanders from two Vancouver teen book clubs has influenced the second and third books, Retribution and Storm.  Carrie's latest science fiction book The Gryphon Project, is the winner of the 2010 Sheila A. Egoff Literature Prize.

Sylvia Olsen will be visiting on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 (1:45 p.m.).

Sylvia Olsen is a writer and public speaker living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.  She is the author of several picture books, a number of first readers and novels for young adults and one nonfiction--so far.
Sylvia has spent most of her life living in Tsartlip First Nation, where her children and grandchildren now live.  Because Sylvia is non-native and her children are of mixed heritage most of her stories are about the place--the time--the experience of where different sorts of people come together.  That's one of the things that interests her the most.  It's one of the things she knows the most about--and like many authors--Sylvia writes about what she knows.
Her newest books are a historical fiction set in the Gulf Islands called Counting on Hope and A Different Game.  Some of her other books are The Girl With the Baby, White Girl, Middle Row, and Yellow Line.

Teen Book Club Meeting, Squamish Public Library, February 29, 2012

The Teen Book Club will be meeting at the Squamish Public Library on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 4 p.m.  This month's selection is A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.

For more information contact Kate at the Squamish Public Library at 

http://squamish.bclibrary.ca/

Publishers Put the Squeeze on Library E-Book Lending

Check out the article "Publishers Put the Squeeze on Library E-Book Lending"  from the February 5, 2012 edition of the Victoria Times-Colonist.  In the article is a list of sites where you can download free e-books.

http://www.timescolonist.com/news/Publishers+squeeze+library+ebook+lending/6104574/story.html

A Rapper With a Rep Decides to Change His Tune

Check out the review of rapper 50 Cent's first novel Playground from the February 7, 2012, edition of The Globe and Mail.  Available at Constance Rulka Library.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/playground-by-curtis-jackson-aka-50-cent/article2328591/