Unconditional Love: The Human-Canine Relationship is a charming book full of facts and great dog stories, with coloured photos to match. The author conducted her own survey of dog owners and offers some insights into why we adopt a dog, feelings about our canine companions and our perceptions about their personalities. The human-canine bond is explored with sensitivity and humour.

Catherine Kierans will be signing copies of her book at the ICN 2005 Book & Creative Arts Conference, on Sept 10

Celestine and the Magical Geranium

“Celestine and the Magical Geranium” is a picture story book for children age 5 years and up. It is an enchanting story of a seed that grows into a gorgeous geranium flower and of a gentle love that flourishes between Celestine and her new flower friend. Within a short text and twenty-one illuminated naïve paintings, Barbara Sala takes the child through a magical journey of wonder and discovery.

Barbara Sala will be signing copies of her book at the ICN 2005 Book & Creative Arts Conference, Sept 10.

To find out more please visit: http://www.salanaiveart.com

SUN THROUGH THE BLINDS, Haiku Today

Editors:
Maxianne Berger,
Angela Leuck

Poetry, 190 pp., 2003

Haiku Montreal collected the poems for this haiku anthology from Japanese, French and English poets of Montreal, and assisted with the English translation. It includes the first Satsuki Kukai haiku to be published in English. A first for Montreal and a landmark anthology, bringing together haiku of the three cultures.

ISBN 1-896754-32-5, $19.95

Visit Shoreline's web site: http://www3.sympatico.ca/shoreline

Dylan Spevack-Willcock
Storyteller, Pterodactales Productions
Co-publisher of

"You Don’t Know Jack” Book and CD

Email: pterodactales at vif.com

Pat Camozzi is a children's singer, song writer and author. Please visit: http://www.lpkids.ca

Two couples, tenuously linked to each other by classroom acquaintance, are fraught with anxiety and uncertainty about their futures—and lovers—as they enter their last semester of university. Describing the lives of four Montrealers over a tumultuous period of mere weeks, Juggernaut gives us leave to watch them interact, live, love and grow, as they prepare to graduate from university and tear into the “real” world."

Published by Sweet Baby Jenkins Press.

Review

Fresh, rich, and strikingly creative in style, Juggernaut is a rare feast of a novel from an emerging author of uncommon talent. Through a painstakingly developed aesthetic, Michel Semienchuk has created a novel placed firmly and unmistakably in the urban culture and ambiance of Montreal. His gift for dialogue, ability to impart complex emotions and feeling, and charming knack for showing us the beautiful nooks and crannies of Canada’s European city all help to make Juggernaut an incredible read."

http://www.sweetbabyjenkinspress.com.

BOOKS BY KEN KALMAN

JESUS LOVES ME a novel
Xlibris Press 2003 $12
available from Amazon.ca, Barnes&Noble.com

BEWITCHING a play
COPCAT Press 2004 $10

CRISIS of HEART a poetry chapbook SOULMATE Press 2004 $5

SAVING JESUS a children’s picture book
SOULMATE Press 2004 $7

These books are available from
SOULMATE Press soulmatepress at yahoo.ca

Meet Thomas Holmes of Classic Quest at the ICN Conference on September 10, 2005!

Elaina Zucker will be exhibiting some of her books at the 2005 ICN Conference, on September 10.

Visit: http://www.ezinfluence.com

This internationally acclaimed duo have toured Europe, United States and Canada, reflecting their love for life and each other through their musical performances.

They will be performing at the ICN 2005 Book and Creative Arts Conference, September 10, 2005

Visit: http://www.loveandmagic.net

Tamra Steen’s life changed overnight when she was severely injured in a car accident. Her acting career in film was more than interrupted. Tamra found herself faced with one of the greatest challenges of her adult life. This was no laughing matter.

Free trial class...

Communiqué; Inviting artistes to participate in the Peace Festival, Plateau Mont-Royal, sponsored by the Maison de l'amitié. co-sponsored by La Galerie Fôkus...

Crime Writers of Canada invites you to celebrate National Crime Writing Week, June 6-12. Seven of Quebec’s coolest crime writers will be hanging out, talking, and reading from their latest works...

Don’t miss the chance to catch another rising star…
Dynamic Theater Factory presents

Do they bring us together or tear us apart?

June 1-4 ONLY
Directed by Anik Matern

Playwrights Guild of Canada invites Montreal’s theatre community to an opening night reception...

A night of poetry, performance and tunes at Cafe Esperanza
Featuring Talya Rubin, Catherine Kidd, Alex Haber, Talleen Hacikyan, Elise Moser

I prayed for Inspiration and for time.
The Universe presented me with Serpents...

The Award-Winning Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre proudly presents
Tuesdays with Morrie
By Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom
Directed by Marcia Kash, Starring Bernie Passeltiner and Marcel Jeannin

Bozena Happach, sculptor, will participate in a Group Exhibition in Centre d’Art Ste-Rose

INHOUSEPRESS presents the Best of the Month, Short Story LOVERS, by Stan I.S. Law. To read and comment please enter http://inhousepress.netfirms.com

POETRY AND PROSE READING
www.yellowdoor.org/coffeehouse/Spoken_Word/spoken_word.html