Near our fireplace, we enjoy an environment that encourages learning and interaction.
Everyone is welcome to attend our events, whether to actively speak with our presenters or to just sit, listen and absorb what they have to say.
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David & Ben's Charity Event Saturday March 15th 2008

Help David & Ben MacLean on their crusade to raise funds for charities and non profit organizations. These charities include Hope For The Nations, Raincoast Conservation Society and The Mountainview Conservation and Breeding Centre. The MacLean boys have written Jeffy's World Safari and Goodbye Zoo. The proceeds from both titles will go towards their chosen charities. Join us in store between 11am-3pm to meet and chat with David and Ben about their experiences and why they decided to take on this endeavor.

Tuesday March 11


COWS

Central Okanagan Writer's Society
6:30pm



Come read with us. You don't have to be published, you just have to love to write. This is an information group gathering, where writers exchange information on upcoming contests, conferences, etc. Each member receives 10 minutes to read their work, followed by a critique by other members. No criticism allowed. Come join this group of eclectic individuals.

Don't have a cow, be a COW


Wednesday January 23rd


7:00pm
Law of Attraction Seminar
With Karen Luniw

Local wealth coach Karen Luniw will be speaking about “Kicking it Up a Notch – How to Attract the Next Level of Success in Your Life”

This information is based on a program developed by Karen through the Law of Attraction Center. You will learn how to use the Law of Attraction (as discussed in the hit movie “The Secret” to make this the best year of your life!

You won’t want to miss this world-renown speaker and author as she shares her most powerful tips so you can kick up your life a notch!

Wednesday January 30th





Book Club 7pm

This months' Selection:
"Pillars of the Earth"
by Ken Follet


The bookclub meets the last Wednesday of every month. This group is open to anyone wanting to share ideas and take part in interesting conversation!

Bookclub members are entitled to 20% off the month's bookclub selection. Ask staff for details.

Carole Thibault

"Ogopogo and the Heart Stone"
by Carole Thibault

This is the story of Ogi who lives in the magical, mystical land known as the lost valley. This land is protected by "The Heart Stone" which only allows those of pure heart to enter. Ogi has been chosen to become the new OGOPOGO, the new guardian and protector of this lost valley. He sets off past the Heart Stone to find someone who is pure and innocent. The story tells of his journey through the land of man until he finds and rescues a young child. Together they return to the lost valley - when the Heart Stone illumates as the two pass by, Ogi knows he has been successful in his quest.

Lee Fodi


"Kendra Kandlestar Chronicles"
by Lee Fodi

Liz Mitten Ryan


"One with the Herd"
by Liz Mitten Ryan

In the pages of "One with the Herd: A Spiritual Journey", author, artist, and horse breeder Liz Mitten Ryan draws upon her years of experience with her herd of eleven horses to share her reflections on our relationship to the planet upon which we live, the animals we share our planet with, and how we can best achieve peace, freedom joy and an appreciation for life and for living. Her engaging and thoughtful text is nicely illustrated with her own paintings, as well as occasional color photographs.

"One With the Herd" is the deeply personal story of a woman who lives with a herd of 'wild' horses with whom she communicates, plays with, and rides without use of tack on a remote 320-acre ranch in the high country of Canada. Within the context of a natural setting, Liz Mitten Ryan discovered profound spiritual truths rich in emotional texture and intellectual acumen through her interactions of her horses roaming freely over the grasslands, forests, meadows, and lakes of her ranch, only to return on their own to her barn where they benefit from a loving, open, supportive interaction with humans.

"One with the Herd" is highly recommended for community library collections and will prove of very special interest to non-specialist general readers with an interest in horses, wildlife, spirituality, and metaphysical meditation.

David Korinetz


"FireDrakes"
by David Korinetz

The task of freeing a race of Firedrakes from the grip of an evil sorceress has fallen upon the shoulders of a young untried Daemon Knight. The job seems simple enough; just retrieve a magical amulet she is using to hold them in thrall, but most of the FireDrakes don't want his help, and he has fallen in love with the beautiful sorceress. The question is: will love or duty prevail?

Vernon Outdoors Club


"Hiking Trails"
by Vernon Outdoors Club

The Outdoors Club is pleased to announce the release of the new edition of the always-popular hiking book that includes 9 new hikes as well as many others from the previous editions.

New hikes in this 6th edition are:

Blackwell Lake / Blue Gross MountainCougar Canyon / Dewdrop RangeHayman Lake / High Rim Trail / Little WhiteMara Mountain / Oyama Lookout

Heidi McLaughlin


Heidi McLaughlin


Heidi loves to write. Her candid stories are sometimes humorous, sometimes heart wrenching, but always full of profound truths about God, relationships, and human nature. Heidi's writing resonates deeply in women's hearts.

Her life-changing book Beauty Unleashed: Transforming a Woman's Soul was released in June 2007. Heidi believes, "The secret desire of every woman is to be more beautiful, both inside and out, and yet we can’t seem to find the magic formula. We are bombarded with solutions, but nothing seems to satiate our longing for value and significance. The fact is that you and I are beautiful because we are created in the image of God, who is the essence of beauty. It's all right there inside of us; we just need to allow God to reveal it to us and unleash it."

Ernie Tadla


"How to Live and Do Business in China"
by Ernie Tadla
Ernie has been seen in our local paper a number of times for his book "How to Live and Do Business in China."

Margaret Hayes



"Safarini...Many Journeys"
by Margaret Hayes


Safarini will take readers to remote safari destinations around East Africa, including the underground churches of Ethiopia via mule, The Jade Sea (Lake Turkana) in northern Kenya, and hosting the Tourism Minister of France to the top of Mount Longonot.

Valerie Stetson


"The Year I Got Impatient"
by Valerie Stetson


A tragic accident leads to a disastrous love affair. A midlife crisis leads a man to trespass in a private pool. A marriage is torn apart when the husband becomes manic depressive. This collection of stories follows men and women in different walks of life while they cope with the events, good and bad, that shape them. In many ways, these stories look at how people bridge the differences between them, whether their differences are of race, culture, age or sensibility. These are stories of people in transition and an account of how they face everything from unlucky twists of fate to their own personal demons.

Alan Bradley


"The Shoebox Bible"
by Alan Bradley


Alan Bradley’s “Shoebox Bible” has been compared with “Tuesdays with Morrie”, “Angela’s Ashes”, and “Mister God, It’s Anna.”

Jerrine Weigand

"Knowing Miss Chen"
by Jerrine Weigand


"Knowing Miss Chen" is Jerrine Weigand's tale of two worlds; a memoir filled with fascinating experiences of a foreign couple working in China. It is also the personal life story of Chen Yu Hua, their young interpreter, growing up in Chairman Mao's China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.

Layton Park

"Get Out of Your Way"
by Layton Park

"Get Out of Your Way," is about how the mental laws including the law of attraction are related to hypnosis and how they help remove our road blocks and achieve our goals.


Wally Dennison


"For the Love of God's Kids"
by Wally Dennison


Kelowna writer Wally Dennison with Sara Esther Luna Cezar as his Jesus teammate and translator detail a Christian Ministry that towers as unique. That word "Unique" most certainly fits the CHAIN of Love in Campo Bom, Brazil. This book is packed throughout with real-life stories of riveting human interest stories. Proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the CHAIN of Love.

Evelyn Mulders

"Western Herbs"
by Evelyn Mulders

Evelyn has published a herbal manual called Western Herbs for Eastern Meridians and Five Element Theory. The book is unique in that it addresses the physical emotional and spiritual aspect of the herb for balancing the body and also that it organizes the western herbs into the eastern meridians and hence the five element theory. The book is designed to be a working herbal manual for any busy practitioner in the healing arts. It is also very practical for anyone wanting to know how the herb is supporting their body while they are taking it to maintain health and vitality.

June & Emile Simon



June provides fantastic entertainment the whole family can enjoy – turning a dull evening into a very pleasurable moment in time.

Just Make It Easy Emergency Planner



Just Make It Easy Emergency Planner
by AntHillPress

The "Just Make It Easy Emergency Planner" is designed for any type of emergency and is made up of 3 parts: Preparation, Evacuation Planning and Wrapping Things Up.

Each chapter in the planner is designed with your busy schedule in mind. You will read to the point information, print and fill out the action forms. That's all there is to it.

AntHillPress is a Kelowna based ebook publisher.
This product is available in .PDF format only. For more information, visit www.anthillpress.com

Dave Phillips


"Three Big Questions"
by Dave Phillips


It doesn't matter where you are in life; there are three essential questions the human race has asked since the beginning of time.
1. What is my purpose for living? (why am I here?)
2. What is my mission in life? (what am I best designed to do)
3. What is my personal life vision? (where am I going in my life?)

Darryl Funk



"Skunky Lunky and Weasel Beasel at Sleepy Hollow Farm"
Illustrated by Darryl Funk

A wonderful children's book with 2 animal friends that go on an adventure.

Rev. Malcolm Smith



"Thou Shalt Not Kill: Genocide in Central Africa"
by Rev. Malcolm Smith

Excerpt:

“Yesterday, near Ruhaha, I noticed a group of people had gathered. Two policemen and two soldiers had caught some young men and were yelling at them and beating them, because they had scars in their hairlines, that made them part of the plot to overthrow the government last Saturday. They took them away and shot them two by two. There were thirty-nine men and boys killed.”

Expounder

"Bring Back the Paddle" by 'Expounder'

This book will show how our justice system will receive a much needed shot in the arm by administering a whack across the backside of offenders, in appropriate cases – serious cases. It will show the need for, and the practical intelligence of Corporal Punishment.

Wishing to remain anonymous, the author signs this book ‘Expounder.’ He has 30 years of varied police experience.