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Lois Hole digital library

Two years after the death of Lieutenant Governor Lois Hole, Alberta’s best-known education and books proponent, a virtual library bearing her name has been launched by a group of 35 post-secondary institutions in Alberta. Administered ... Read More »

October 15, 2007

Brian Mulroney book-signing

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Former prime minister Brian Mulroney signed books at an event hosted by A Different Drummer Books and Bryan Prince, Bookseller, at Burlington's Royal Botanical Gardens. (Photo courtesy of McClelland & Stewart) Former P.M. Brian Mulroney ... Read More »

October 15, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Finalists for the Acorn-Plantos Award announced

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Six books are in the running for the 2007 Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry:• Take Us Quietly by Tammy Armstrong (Goose Lane Editions)• Night Echoes by Ronnie R. Brown (Black Moss Press)• Running In Darkness ... Read More »

October 15, 2007

Manguel, Pinker, Sudan memoir hot at Frankfurt

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Among the hot Canadian properties at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair is Six Months in Sudan, a memoir by doctor James Maskalyk about his sojourn in the troubled African country. On Friday and Saturday, Jennifer ... Read More »

October 14, 2007

Aboriginal Book Awards finalists named

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The nskohk Aboriginal Literature Festival has announced the following shortlist of nominees for the annual Aboriginal Book Awards: Poetry Book of the Year • Mother Time: Poems New and Selected by Joanne Arnott (Ronsdale Press)• ... Read More »

October 12, 2007

M&S plans online game to promote Helen Humphreys’ book

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Publishers are still trying to figure out how best to leverage the web for book promotion, and McClelland & Stewart may have come up with the next development on that front. In preparation for the ... Read More »

October 11, 2007

Kevin Williams’ new life at Talonbooks

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Kevin Williams, the former executive vice-president of Raincoast Books who left the company last November, has joined Vancouver’s Talonbooks as sales and marketing manager. There has been speculation that Williams is looking to buy the ... Read More »

October 11, 2007

Winners of Scholastic Canada's Kids Are Authors competition

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Students at Highfield Junior School in Toronto won Scholastic Canada's Kids Are Authors competition with their book Counting on Zero. The prize is normally worth $1,000, but for the tenth anniversary of the competition the ... Read More »

October 11, 2007 | Filed under: Events

Canadians get a strong start at Frankfurt

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A Montreal author’s book about gender roles has become a hot seller in the early days of this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, selling to four new territories in the first two days of the fair. ... Read More »

October 11, 2007

Toronto lawyer’s debut thriller gets international buzz

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A Toronto criminal lawyer publishing his first legal thriller in spring of 2009 could be set to follow in U.S. novelist and practising lawyer Scott Turow’s footsteps. Over the Labour Day weekend, several top New ... Read More »

October 10, 2007

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Lois Hole digital library

Brian Mulroney book-signing

Finalists for the Acorn-Plantos Award announced

Manguel, Pinker, Sudan memoir hot at Frankfurt

Aboriginal Book Awards finalists named

M&S plans online game to promote Helen Humphreys’ book

Kevin Williams’ new life at Talonbooks

Winners of Scholastic Canada's Kids Are Authors competition

Canadians get a strong start at Frankfurt

Toronto lawyer’s debut thriller gets international buzz

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