Jennie's Book Garden

Jennie's Book Garden Founded in 1985 by Jennie Ash.

Come visit the beautiful Slocan Valley and find a hand-picked selection of books covering philosophy, politics, gardening, building, crime fiction, children’s books and more.

12/04/2012

“Writing a novel is like buttering warm toast,” novelist Thomas King says in the prologue to his latest work of non-fiction, “while writing a history is herding porcupines with your elbows.” It’s a curious disclaimer. Bread is easier to find than porcupines, certainly at the University of Guelph, wh...

09/27/2012

The readers read, they considered—and they voted. Author Rita Moir’sThe Third Crop: A personal and historical journey into the photo albums and shoeboxes of the Slocan Valley 1800s to early 1940s(Sono Nis Press 2011) is the book to read in 2012 according to Kootenay book-lovers who took part in the ...

09/26/2012

The Slocan Valley is quirky and isolated, and its past can be told in many ways. The valley has been a site of conflict between capital and labour on an industrial mining frontier, a haven for refugees from Czarist Russia, a locus of family life on semi-subsistent farms, a set of camps during World ...

09/15/2012

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore fue seleccionado la noche del domingo 26/02/12, en la ceremonia de los Óscar como el mejor cortometraje de animación. El…

09/09/2012

This is a YA cross-over novel set in a future after Wreckers (our current civilization) have destroyed the earth and left the majority of it a dusty wasteland. Yes, it’s another dystopian fantasy.

09/04/2012

While investigating the reported drowning of his father John Osvald during WWII in Scotland, Axel Osvald vanishes. In Gothenburg, Axel’s two offspring (Erik and Johanna) report to the police their father disappeared in they believe Scotland. Police Chief Inspector Erik Winter, who dated Johanna at o...

09/03/2012

For someone who reads as many dystopian future novels as I do, Divergent has a lot to live up to (‘cough’ The Hunger Games ‘cough’). However, I was most definitely hooked by this superb work of fiction. It had everything a dystopian novel needs: a feisty heroine, an unyielding government, love inter...

08/25/2012

The premise of The Hangman’s Daughter, that a seventeenth-century executioner might be one of the more compassionate men in town, may be irresistible for readers who like historical mysteries spiced with unconventional characters and just a touch of the gruesome. (I’ve read much more gruesome myster...

08/24/2012

It’s not easy being Ben Kella. As a sergeant in the Solomon Islands Police Force, as well as an aofia, a hereditary spiritual peacekeeper of the Lau people, he is viewed with distrust by both the indigenous islanders and the British colonial authorities.

08/21/2012

Normally I would steer clear of a book with the word ‘enigma’ in it’s title. It suggests sub-Dan Brown conspiracies and implausible codes embedded in ancient manuscripts. However it came by way of recommendation (and a hard copy) from Maxine at Petrona , was by a Scandinavian author I hadn’t read be...

08/11/2012

Judging from the bestseller lists of late, the appetite for Scandinavian crime fiction shows no signs of abating. Three years after his Millennium trilogy unfurled its first volume, Stieg Larsson still sells a few thousand copies a week; Jo Nesbo keeps building on past successes, and Lars Kepler’s Th...

08/02/2012

For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following the path of duty takes precedence over personal desires. For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessman in a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed world of the Sang household – a place of public ceremony and pri...

Address

Highway 6
Slocan, BC
V0G2J0

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Jennie's Book Garden posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Shortcuts

Share