The Triumphant: Book launch (Toronto, ON)

It's finally here!

The final book in

The Valiant Trilogy

Fallon's story began in

The Valiant

and her fight continued in

 The Defiant

Now

author

Lesley Livingston

completes Fallon's story with

the launch 

of

The Triumphant

Written by Lesley Livingston

Razorbill

9780451480682

416 pp.

Ages 12+

February 2019

on 

Thursday, March 7, 2019

(sorry for the short notice!)

7 -10 p.m. 

at

Dominion Pub and Kitchen

500 Queen St. E.

Toronto, ON

The event is open to all ages! 

(Don't let the pub in the venue name dissuade you from taking in this event.)

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The following blurb about the book comes from Penguin Random House Canada at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/577072/the-triumphant-by-lesley-livingston/9780451480682:

The final book in the Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world: Alexandria, Egypt.

In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators.

Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger.

Fallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's homeland, Alexandria, Egypt. Once there, the gladiatrices are promised a place of honor in the queen's elite guard, but is that what any of them really want? 

The Defiant: Book launch (Toronto, ON)

It's almost here!

The sequel to
The Valiant

 Written by Lesley Livingston

HarperCollins

978-1-44344-628-0

372 pp.

Ages 13+

February 2017

Reviewed here

is launching next month!

Book 2 in Lesley Livingston's historical fantasy

 about a female gladiator 

The Defiant

Written by Lesley Livingston

HarperCollins

978-1-44344-631-0

384 pp.

Ages 13+

Out January 23, 2018

launches

on

Thursday, February 8, 2018

at

7:00 pm 

at 

Dominion Pub and Kitchen

500 Queen Street East

Toronto, ON


This event is open to all ages. 

There will be:
live music
light refreshments
and
books on sale courtesy of Bakka-Phoenix Books.

The promotional synopsis on HarperCollins Canada's website tells this of The Defiant's story:

Fallon was warned.

Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar’s victorious gladiatrix.

Fallon thought she’d won her freedom, but choosing to stay comes at a cost. She and her warrior sisters are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy. In the middle of the night, the Ludus Achillea falls under siege and only Fallon and a lucky few are able to flee.

Together, they embark on a mission to take back the home Fallon has fought so hard for, and to free their fellow gladiatrices. But dark conspiracies and vicious power struggles confront Fallon at every turn, threatening not just her honor and her love for Roman soldier Cai, but the very heart of the ancient Roman empire.

On the journey that will define her future, the only people who might possibly help the girl known as Victrix and her sisters are a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.

The only trouble is, they might just kill her first.

The Valiant: Book launch (Toronto, ON)

Join fantasy young adult author

Lesley Livingston

author of

Wondrous Strange series

and

Starling series

for the launch of her newest young adult novel

The Valiant

by Lesley Livingston

HarperCollins Canada

9781443446280

384 pp.

Ages 12-16

February 2017

on

Thursday, February 23, 2017

7-11 p.m.

Dominion Pub

500 Queen St. E.

Toronto, ON

There will be:

• live entertainment

• a reading from The Valiant

• books available for sale and 

• author book signing.

The book is described as following:
The youngest daughter of a proud Celtic king, Fallon has always lived in the shadow of her older sister Sorcha’s legendary reputation as a warrior. But when Fallon was a young child, the armies of Julius Caesar invaded the island of Britain and her beloved older sister was killed in battle.

On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is excited to follow in her sister’s footsteps and earn her rightful place in her father’s royal war band. But she never gets the chance. Instead, Fallon is captured by a band of ruthless brigands who sell her to an exclusive training school for female gladiators—and its most influential patron is none other than Julius Caesar himself. In a cruel twist of fate, Fallon’s worst enemy, the man who destroyed her family, might be her only hope of survival.

Now, Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries, chilling threats and the dangerous attention of Caesar himself to survive the deadly fights that take place both in and out of the arena—and claim her place in history among the Valiant.

Retrieved from 

The Valiant Launch Party Facebook page 

at https://www.facebook.com/events/1871513563083242/ 

on January 14, 2017.

Now and For Never: Book Launch (Toronto)

First there was 

Once Every Never

by Lesley Livingston
Puffin Canada
978-0-14-317795-1
302 pp.
Ages 12+
2011

Reviewed here

 

Then came

 Every Never After

by Lesley Livingston

Razorbill

978-0-14-318208-5

242 pp.

Ages 12+

2013

 Reviewed here

Now

join author Lesley Livingston

on

 

Thursday, May 29, 2014

7:30 p.m.
at 
The Dominion on Queen

500 Queen St. East 
Toronto

for the launch of the final book in her time travel series

starring Clare Reid and Allie McAllister

Now and For Never

by Lesley Livingston
Razorbill
978-0143182108
  280 pp.
Ages 12+
2014

 
There will be 

food, drink, reading, signing, live music,
lots of Time Monkey Shenanigans fun
and
books available for purchase from Bakka Phoenix!

Maybe I'll see you there!

How to Curse in Hieroglyphics: Book Launch (Toronto)

How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

is coming!

Authors 

Lesley Livingston & Jonathan Llyr

and

illustrator

Steven Burley

will be launching

 How to Curse in Hieroglyphics

Puffin Canada
978-0143184249

248 pp.

Ages 8-12

Book 1 in a new middle-grade series

The Wiggins Weird

on 

Saturday, October 19, 2013

3 p.m.

at

 The Dominion Pub

The Dominion on Queen

500 Queen St. East

Toronto, ON

There will be:

•  readings
• signings
• popcorn
• a special Drive-In themed menu
•  music from John Stuart Campbell 
•  fun for the whole family (kids are encouraged to come!)

Sounds like lots of fun!

See you there

Descendant: Book Launch (Toronto)

Join

author Lesley Livingston

for the launch of the sequel
to Starling

HarperTrophy Canada

978-1-44340-764-9

341 pp.

Ages 12+

2012 

Reviewed here



DESCENDANT 

 HarperTeen
978-0-062063106
336 pp.
Ages 13+

on

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

at

7:00 p.m.

The Dominion on Queen

500 Queen St. E.

Toronto

Time to learn the fate of Mason Starling and the Fennrys Wolf.  Or is it time for Ragnarok?

We'll only know once we're reading Descendant.

                   

Book Launch: Outcast by Adrienne Kress (Toronto)

Get your best 1950's gear on

and head to

The Dominion Pub

500 Queen Street East

Toronto

on June 6, 2013

for 7 p.m.

to help launch

the newest young adult book

Outcast

Diversion Books

978-1-62681061-7

283 pp.

June, 2013

from

author Adrienne Kress

whose other books include

The Friday Society (Dial, 2012)

Alex and the Ironic Gentleman (Scholastic Canada, 2007)

Timothy and the Dragon's Gate (Scholastic Canada, 2010)

Outcast focuses on 16-year-old Riley Carver whose community has been living in fear for six years since "angels" starting coming down from the skies and taking people.  When one shows up in her backyard, she shoots him with her mother's shotgun.  But, instead of a dead body, she gets a really hot, living guy who thinks it's 1956. (Details courtesy of goodreads.com)

Dress up, 

go to the Launch, 

have some great Fun

 and 

get the Book!