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Jesse Finkelstein, rights and contract manager at Raincoast Books, has sold French-language rights to Jan Lars Jensen’s Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature to Editions Intervalles in France.Marilyn Biderman, director of rights and ... Read More »

May 25, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

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Canada’s children’s literature community is mourning the passing of one its earliest advocates this week. Sheila Egoff, a librarian, professor, and literary critic, died Sunday at the age of 88.Egoff began her career as a ... Read More »

May 24, 2005 | Filed under: Book news

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The shortlist for the 2004 First Novel Award – Canada's largest monetary prize specifically for a debut novelist – has been announced. The award, which is co-sponsored by Amazon.ca and Books in Canada, is now ... Read More »

May 24, 2005

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With the March publication of Ruth Morris’s Transcending Trauma, a publishing veteran has launched a new side project called Winding Trail Press. And its creation has followed something of a winding trail itself. Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr ... Read More »

May 24, 2005

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This year, over 600 groups of up to 30 readers each in grades 4 through 7 voted for their favourite books in the B.C.-based Red Cedar Book Awards. Deborah Ellis's Parvana's Journey (Groundwood Books) took ... Read More »

May 19, 2005