Quill and Quire

by Q&Q Staff

Abebooks adds Spanish-language page

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After expanding its reach into Britain, France, and Germany in recent years, Abebooks is looking to bolster its Spanish-language presence. The Victoria-based used-books site has launched a new page dedicated to Spanish-language books. Spokesperson Marci ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Macmillan reissues Mitchell

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Fifty years after Who Has Seen the Wind was first published, Macmillan is issuing a special commemorative edition of the W.O. Mitchell novel that restores a number of edited passages left out of almost every ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

For the week of Feb. 1, 2004

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Hardcover fiction1. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (Doubleday, $37.95, 0-385-50420-9) 2. Absolute Friends, John le Carré (Viking Canada, $38, 0-670-04489-X)3. The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom (Disney Books/H.B. Fenn, $29.95, 0-7868-6871-6)4. The Curious Incident ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Award file: TWUC names short-story winner

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An unpublished Vancouver writer has won The Writers’ Union of Canada’s Short Prose Competition for Developing Writers. Jocelyne Figueiredo’s short story “Taking Flight” has taken this year’s award, which includes a $2,500 cash prize.Figueiredo told ... Read More »

February 25, 2004

Libraries pool electronic resources

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As libraries scramble to meet the surge in demand for electronic information – served up via costly high-tech hardware – a growing number of institutions are crossing jurisdictional, regional, and political boundaries to make their ... Read More »

February 25, 2004