The Neat Little Bookshop Wishes to Express Our Thanks

 

Customer Appreciation Days ~  Bookshop Specials

  

Customer Appreciation Days

Customer Appreciation Days

Hobbies For Everyone

Special for Customer Appreciation Days

The Piece Bag

A square of chintz ~ what memories it brings
Of golden dawns; of pleasant country things;
A moonlit scented garden after rain,
And glimpse of beechwoods through a latticed pane.


Serge and grey flannel, eloquent of boys,
Recall past days of jollity and noise;
Of chestnuts roasting in the fire's red glow,
And thrilling stories told when lights were low.

Organdie, muslin, dainty ends of lace
And silk, bridge for my eager mind time's space,
And waken sliver echoes, silent long,
Of girlish voices gay with mirth and song.

O remnants treasured here for future need,
You've been to loneliness a boon indeed;
For in my odd-piece bag, 'twixt smiles and tears,
I read the happy story of the years.

~ Ellen Elliott  [Yellowed clipping from THE GLOBE, TORONTO, FRIDAY OCTOBER 12 - year unknown.]

Gift that Lasts All Year

Old Books

  

Haldimand Loves Horses

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't see it, ask!

 

 

Go little book,
     and wish to all
Flowers in the garden,
     meat in the hall.
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it.
A living river by the door
A nightingale in the sycamore.

~ Poet unknown

 

 

 

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes." ~ Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) American playwrite, novelist, three-time winner of Pulitzer Prize.

 

 

 

Kirk Du Guid interviewed soldiers in the Haldimand area and in their own words published for posterity their stories.

"[Soldiers]  hope by telling their stories they will leave a legacy, so that our youth can understand what happens in conflict, and why people go to 'serve'."
~ Kirk Du Guid.

Other books by Kirk Du Guid THE FIRST COLD CASE, THE FIRST DRUG SQUAD, Du Guid's Anthology and To the Last Round.

The Neat Little Bookshop is pleased to make available a limited quantity of Soldiers' Stories.  We also have limited quantities of THE FIRST DRUG SQUAD and Du Guid's Anthology.  Books by local authors make thoughtful gifts.

The second printing of Soldiers' Stories includes additional special soldier stories.

Favourite Love Stories

The Avro Arrow

The story of the great Canadian Cold War Combat Jet in Pictures and Documents by Lawrence Miller.

Lawrence's 2011 book, THE AVRO ARROW A PICTURE HISTORY / DRAMATIC IMAGES sold out -- it is out of print.

On order now -- and with our fingers crossed, -- Lawrence's 2014 book, The Avro Arrow.  We hope to make it available at The Neat Little Bookshop. Soft cover $19.95 no tax

~ Canadian Publisher, James Lorimer & Company Ltd.

 

25 1/2  x 20 cm, 111 pages

Update:  Available now in The Neat L'l Bookshop $19.95

When David J. Forsyth began researching the lives of his ancestors and filling filing cabinets with his findings, he committed to providing his descendants with a record of his own life growing up in rural Ontario in the forties.  Dafydd is that book.

We are pleased to have David in The Neat Little Bookshop on Thursday, May 15 for the Third Thursday or for what we call our Cayuga Literary Circle.

Please drop in ~ "The coffee pot's always on..."

www.freedompress.ca

Thank you Tristan of Freedom Press and Gary McHale for a fun and informative afternoon ~ and for hanging around in the bookshop long after scheduled hours.

Available in The Neat Little Bookshop, VICTORY IN THE NO-GO ZONE.  $19.95, Gary McHale.  Freedom Press Canada Inc., 2013.

Only in a used bookshop ~

Purchased in The Neat L'l Bookshop BIG MAN COMING DOWN THE ROAD, Penguin Canada, 2007. "UNCORRECTED AND UNPUBLISHED PROOFS - CONFIDENTIAL"   Unpublished proofs are the preliminary copies sent out to select critics and media ~ not distributed to the public.

There are often changes in text and/or graphics in the finished product.  For example, the cover of BIG MAN, does not include the lady with the whip!

The true story of Alfred Kienitz ~ his escape from Germany ~ risking his life to assist family, friends and even strangers to escape the clutches of Communism.
Written by his daughter, Doris Kienitz, East Germany and the Escape, Kitchen Table Memoirs.

A Memoir Available at The Neat Little Bookshop in both soft cover and hard. Please call or email to reserve your copy. 905-577-5635, lbwalker@shaw.ca

~ FriesenPress, First Edition, November, 2011

"The Cayuga Bridge Company was incorporated in 1836 and the bridge was completed soon afterward. A bridge was also built at Seneca. The Cayuga company was a joint stock operation, financed by shareholders, who profited from the tolls which were collected. The government set limits on the tolls: total annual amount collected could not be more than 20 per cent of the total cost of the bridge."
In 2011, as the plans for a new bridge to replace the old in Cayuga are revised and revealed, we read with interest the chapter on the history of roads and bridges in Haldimand County.
Available at The Neat Little Bookshop The Early Years by Cheryl MacDonald, author and historian. $20.

Here Comes Santa Claus ~ excerpts from CHRISTMAS IN ONTARIO*
In Ontario, the tradition of visiting Santa at a store goes back to the late 1800's. In some cases, he was an invisible presence ~ one Toronto bookstore billed itself as Santa's depository for gifts. But stores that featured a real live Santa had a definite edge, especially if his arrival was marked by a special event.
The most special event of all was Eaton's annual Santa Claus parade, which started in 1905. Prior to that time, Santa was enthroned in the Toronto department store's Toyland.

"This compilation brings to life the very best holiday stories from across Ontario." ~ Cheryl MacDonald

Cheryl has been writing about Canadian history for nearly thirty years. A long-time resident of Nanticoke, she is a full-time writer and historian.

*Available in The Neat Little Bookshop $9.95

THE AVRO ARROW
A PICTURE HISTORY ~ "When the magnificent new Avro Arrow fighter jet thundered into the sky over Malton, Ontario on a cold March morning in 1958, Canada became a world leader in the aviation industry. Less than a year later, the Arrow project was dead. What happened?
The story of the Avro Arrow has been told, retold, and analyzed so often it is fading into myth. This book brings the Arrow, and the people who made it, back to life through over 100 historical images cataloguing every step of the Arrow's development ~ and its shocking demise."
~ Local author, Lawrence Miller, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2011.

NEW ~ Autographed copies available at The Neat Little Bookshop $9.95 (Limited quantity)

Cheryl MacDonald has written extensively on the history of Haldimand and Norfolk, Ontario. One of her most recent books, Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes ~ Tales of Courage ~ and Cowardice, provides a tantalizing look at a few of the 6,000 ships that have gone to their watery graves on the Great Lakes, Canada.

2010, Amazing Stories, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., http://www.lorimer.ca/

Available at The Neat Little Bookshop $9.95

Also, click on Cheryl MacDonald's blog in The Neat Little Bookshop Followers. (See Colonel in red dress coat.)

Soldiers' Stories

Saturday, December 19,

10:30 - 1:00.

Retired O.P.P., author Kirk Du Guid, will be signing books at The Neat Little Bookshop.

In his most recent book, Soldiers' Stories, Du Guid tells the stories of twenty-five Canadian veterans most of whom are from the Town of Haldimand.

First Cold Case is a tale of true crime in which the author and his officer partner take on a horrific unsolved murder in small-town Ontario.

Photo: by Lorna. Click on for enlarged Image

New-Book Promotion

Book stores don't sell books. Authors sell books. Customers buy books that people are talking about.

Too often, would-be writers miss the obvious: a successful book does not just happen. There is a laborious followup of promotion and marketing.

The reader needs to relate to or bond in some way with the author.

If you are James Patterson, YouTube helps. Video clips of various famous interviews allow potential fans a glimpse into the personality behind the stories. When Patterson reveals that he grew up surrounded by women ~even his cats were female ~ with that "buzz and purr" still in his head, it becomes clear that the success of his women's murder club series is no accident.

If you are not James Patterson, it takes more than simply putting the book out there on a bookstore shelf.

Photo of The Neat Little Bookshop window sent to us by Carol O'Handley of Kingston. Thanks, Carol.