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Cover image for Downfall
Downfall
Robert Rotenberg
Paperback | Feb 2021
in store $22.00
Cover image for Push
The Push
Ashley Audrain
Paperback | Jan 2021
in store $24.95
Cover image for Last Days of John Lennon
The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson
Hardcover | Dec 2020
in store $38.00
Cover image for All Creatures Great And Small
All Creatures Great And Small
James Herriot
Paperback | Jan 2013
sold out $20.99
(on order)
Cover image for Ice Walker
Ice Walker
James Raffan
Hardcover | Oct 2020
not in store $25.00
(available for order)
Cover image for Promised Land
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Hardcover | Nov 2020
in store $55.00
Cover image for All Together Now
All Together Now
Alan Doyle
Hardcover | Nov 2020
not in store $27.00
(available for order)

COVID-19 UPDATE APRIL 7, 2021

Back in Lockdown again but I'm still here!
I am at the store Monday to Saturday from 9-4
for curbside pick up or home delivery where possible.

While you can't browse in store during the provincial COVID Lockdown, you can browse
Happenstance Books & Yarns webstore

happenstancebooksandyarns.ca

It’s easy to create an account and send in orders.

Please call 705-652-7535 for assistance or
email happenstance@bellnet.ca

Stay safe everyone, Susan






 
 

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Penguin Random House is sponsoring a few events over the coming months.
 
To Participate, purchase a copy of the author's book
from Happenstance Books & Yarns to receive a 
complimentary ticket &
information on how to access the event.

NEXT EVENT
 
 Tuesday, April 20, 6:30pm
   How to Change Everything
    author Naomi Klein in
   conversation with
  Youth Climate Justice Organizers
 Rebecca Hamilton & Naia Lee
 
 

 
 
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 The Convert By Stefan Hertmans
Reviewed by Barry Mutter


 

This is a story about an eleventh century noblewoman who as a young woman chose to leave her comfortable life and follow her heart. She chose love over status. She chose the life of a fugitive over the life of prestige. Her love for a man tore her from her God and her people. This is also a story about a twenty-first century author obsessed with the mystery of a medieval girl who converted from Christianity to Judaism and suffered the perils of that decision. Both characters, Medieval and Modern, paid a price for their obsession.


The book is brilliantly written. It moves back and forth in time and captures the reader with each move. The story is a love story and a tragedy. You cannot read this book without suffering an overwhelming emotional connection to a young mother on the run. Her courage, her resilience, her maternal instincts draw her, and the reader, further into a life fraught with danger and violence. This is a true story. Through diligent research, and a contemporary trip replicating the journey of the young Norman Jewess, Stefan Hertmans reimagines her life. This book will have an impact on you.
 

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