McNally Robinson Independent Bookstores holds a reading and signing of Richard J. Gwyn's Nation Maker, Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, the second volume of the bestselling, award-winning John A: The Man who Made Us.

John A. Macdonald, Canada's first and most important prime minister, is the man who made Confederation happen, who built this country over the next quarter century, and who shaped what it is today. From Confederation Day in 1867, where this volume picks up, Macdonald finessed a reluctant union of four provinces in central and eastern Canada into a strong nation, despite indifference from Britain and annexationist sentiment in the United States.

McNally Robinson Independent Bookstore invites readers to enjoy a reading and signing by Jeff Park of his latest collection of poems: The Cellophane Sky. 

The Cellophane Sky delves deeply into the remarkable world of jazz and effortlessly draws the reader in, exhaling the vitality of music greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie and Miles Davis among others. His book is for both jazz fans and poetry readers as it pays tribute to great musicians, with poems that throb with the vivid rythm and energy of the jazz tradition. 

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Jim Pankiw is running in his old riding of Saskatoon-Humboldt. As an independent.