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TWB Announcements
1. Email updates: thanks for your patience!
2. Scream at TWB Again! Mon July 5
3. BBQ at TWB Sat July 24
4. July 2004 New Arrivals

Community Announcement
5. Screening of Touch of Pink: Win a free Double Pass!

TWB Announcements
1. Okay, so we’ve been having some problems with our email system for the past few weeks. Sometimes our mass email list sent multiple copies to everyone. Other times, starting around June 18, our individual email addresses kept bouncing back emails, and it’s possible that emails sent to us were not bounced back, but we still didn’t get them. If you sent any of the staff an email after June 18 and have not yet been replied to, please resend! We apologize for all this administrative difficulty. We have a new email distribution system now and expect that it will be wonderful and lovely. All our email addresses are the same, so please keep those inquiries, comments and compliments coming! Have a great weekend everyone!
May Lui, Staff Manager

2. Scream at TWB Again! An evening with Scream in High Park Alumni Elizabeth Ruth, Shyam Selvadurai and M.NourbeSe Philip
With special musical guest Rose Kazi of Lal
Monday, July 5 at 7pm
Toronto Women’s Bookstore
73 Harbord St, south of Bloor, West of Spadina
$5 to $7 suggested donation at the door

3. Come out to our Second Annual Customer Appreciation Day, BBQ and Book Sale!
Saturday July 24
2pm to 6pm at TWB
FREE food and drinks! Fun for everyone! 20% off all books in the store (with some exceptions).
Meet the staff! Have a burger! Enjoy live music!

4. July 2004 New Arrivals
The following four books are 20% off in July:

Persepolis: The Story of Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. Pantheon, $16.95
Persepolis is Marjane Satrapis’s memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. Marjane bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country.

Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold. $19.95

Development, Women, and War Feminist Perspectives edited by Haleh Afshar and Deborah Eade. Oxfam, $27.95
This selection of essays presents an overview of different feminist approaches to peace building and conflict resolution, and puts forward concrete policy measures to achieve these ends. Contributors argue for the need to move beyond the myriad projects that involve women to consider the factors that contribute to the relatively poor overall impact of such projects.

The Heiress VS The Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice by Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse. UBC Press, $45.00.
The extraordinary story of a woman raised in the elite society of Ontario who represented herself in a bitter legal battle and became the first woman to argue before the Privy Council in London.

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New magazines and music!

Desire: Another Reason to Love Women. $5.95.
The summer issue of this new magazine looks at Canadian Dykons-celebrating fabulous lesbians in the arts, same-sex marriage, women at work, married with children- coming out with a husband in tow, and much more.

Una Sangre One Blood by Lila Downs. Narada, $20.00.
This amazing new cd by LilaDowns is dedicated to women, who inhabit past and present times, the ones who have given birth to their ideals: one blood.

The Other Side by Melissa Ferrick. Right On, $20.00.
Melissa Ferrick’s exciting new cd features ‘beijing’, ‘bad bad girl’, and many more inspiring tunes.

Make Yr Life by the Butchies.Yep Rock Records, $21.95
They’re back! Full of fun tunes, as expected, the butchies will make you move as never before.

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New books for July. All are available for view and purchase on www.womensbookstore.com

Sisters of Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Frances Swyripa. University of Toronto Press, $29.95
The essays in this collection bring to light the gendered aspects of migration and experiences of immigrant and racialized women in ways that raise important questions about the formation of the Canadian nation, including current debates on border-crossing and immigration policy.

Women and Media: International Perspectives edited by Karen Ross and Carolyn M. Byerly. Blackwell Publishing, $38.95.
Bringing together original essays by international scholars this book explores the key concerns between gender and media. Women and Media convey the dynamism of this issues.

Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement edited by Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton-Rose, and George Karsiaficas. Soft Skull Press, $26.95.
This new collection - which includes contributions from Noam Chomsky, Arundati Roy, Dorothy Kidd and many other notable theorists - is a dynamic, comprehensive, and scholarly document of the key debates emerging within the antiglobalization movement.

Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization by Janet M. Conway. Fernwood, $24.95.
A close look at the knowledge that arises from activist practice and its significance for enacting new, democratic politics.

Helene Cixous: The Writing Notebooks edited and translated by Susan Sellers. Continuum, $25.95.
Helene Cixous is among the most influential and original literary critics and feminist thinkers of our time. This collection of pages from her original writing notebook offers a unique insight into her radical thought and work.

M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A by A. Van Jordan. W.W. Norton & Company, $36.00
Inspired by the life of MacNolia Cox, the first African American to reach the final round of the National Spelling Bee, this collection of poems explores the worlds of love, work, and music. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A is a poignant commentary on one life and on the social and racial attitudes of the Depression thirties.

Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson. Firebrand Books, $21.95.
Take the trip of a lifetime with Carline, a home economist and woman-of-size, Tucker, a bus driver, and Mel, a retiree, as they journey from Massachusetts to Texas to unload an old city bus. In the process, these friends also leave behind their preconceived notions about one other, drop their inhibitions and become fully who they were meant to be.

Intimate Journal by Nicole Brossard. The Mercury Press, $17.95.
Intimate Journal is a trip around the world, a journey through time, and an exploration of the consistency of the individual. Love, Japan, Paris, exhilarating moments of epiphany and adventure are combined in this vivid portrait of existence lived in search for ecstasy.

Liars and Saints by Maile Meloy. Scribner, $19.00.
This richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. Set in California, Liars and Saints follows four generations of the Catholic Santerre family from WWII to the present. When tragedy shatters their precarious domestic lives, it takes astonishing courage and compassion to bring them back together.

The Lottery by Beth Goobie, Orca Book Publishers, $9.95
Canadian author Goobie takes Shirley Jackson's classic short story, The Lottery, and transposes it to a young adult problem ; The result is an intriguing story about Sal, a feisty 15-year-girl who has enough problems without the Shadow Council, a small group of popular students who control the student body through mind games. Follow Sal as she discovers she can stand up for herself and in reject her status as victim and bravely defy the Council.

Goddess for Hire by Sonia Singh. Avon Trade, $21.95
This is the story of Maya Mehra, a hip woman from Newport Beach, California, who’s just turned thirty, discovered she’s the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali, and happens to be unemployed and still living with her parents. Follow Maya as she discovers saving the world may prove to be a breeze compared to dealing with her extended family.

Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood, $12.95
The children in this book talk about how the choices other people have made have affected their lives. Learning Joy from

Dogs without Collars by Lauralee Summer. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, $19.00
Learning Joy from Dogs without Collars is a memoir about growing up homeless. Lauralee Summer is a girl coming into her own, learning and understanding her place in the world. This memoir is about the innocence and resiliency of childhood - the space of joy that poverty is unable to demolish or diminish.

Off Our Rockers and Into Trouble: The Raging Grannies by Alison Acker and Betty Brightwell. TouchWood Editions, $19.95.
The Raging Grannies never planned to start a worldwide movement but their actions have proved an inspiration to modern activists everywhere. This book recounts many of their most dramatic conflicts and tells the story of creative older women challenging the powers that be and having a lot of fun along the way.

The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs, and Witty Actions for a Better World by Carole Roy. Black Rose Books, $24.99.
This is the tale of the Raging Grannies. Their beginning and growth, the invention of their identity, the educational and bold potential of their activism, the values expressed in their actions and songs, and their impact on issues , stereotypes, media, and people.

Canada's Promises to Keep: The Charter and Violence Against Women, by Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres. $20.00.

Community Announcements
5. Win a FREE double pass to a special screening of Touch of Pink (Canada, 2003) by director Ian Iqbal Rashid.
A comic clash of cultures, values, and sexuality, Touch of Pink cleverly borrows from several cinematic traditions to concoct this romantic romp. Alim is an Ismaili Canadian who lives in London, thousands of miles from his family, for one very good reason--he has a boyfriend. His ideal gay life begins to unravel when his mother shows up to find him a proper Muslim girlfriend and convince him to return to Canada for his cousin's extravagant wedding. As orchestrated by Rashid, this classic cast of characters perform marvelously, creating opposing worlds that begin to collide--the judgmental mother, crazy relatives, a bevy of trendy Londoners, and especially Jimi Mistry as the confused Alim. But the most ingenious device is the Topper-esque ghost of Cary Grant who appears in Alim's fantasy world. Touch of Pink is distributed by Mongrel Media www.mongrelmedia.com On July 14th, at 7pm there is a screening at Silvercity (Yonge and Eglinton). To win one of 10 free double passes to see Touch of Pink, be the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13, 15th, 17th or 19th correct email response to the following query: Name a course or workshop hosted by TWB that is upcoming. Contest closes Monday July 5 at noon. Email responses only please! One entry per email address.